In Germany, if they carry less than 8 passengers and if their vehicles are below a certain weight, then they don't need to take a different driving test. That is incorrect. This is only valid if you don't commercially transport passengers. If you actually do transport passengers comercially, you need an extra driving license, and you need the same extra license if you transport more than 7 or 8 people _non_ commercially (in one vehicle) like e.g. if you bring boy scouts into a camp. Every bus driver bringing kids to school has such a license!
I mentioned the term "driving test", not driver license. Also, I provided a source. You didn't. And I did mention that you needed a taxi license in my following paragraph.
outdated local geography test that has been rendered completely useless by mobile applications such as Google Maps Navigation and Waze. Well, I usualy have trips that are not longer than 15 minutes, and I appreciate it if the driver does not need 2 mins to set up the navigation first, especially if the spelling of the target is odd.
Then you should use Uber then, because you confirm the address on your own mobile phone, everything after that is fully automated, and the Uber driver doesn't have to set up anything.
In the US, Uber covers you for up to one million dollars. Erm, do you actually own a car? I guess not.
I do, but only in California. The minimum mandatory coverage in California is actually crazy small. $15,000 for injury/death to one person $30,000 for injury/death to more than one person $5,000 for damage to property
Not only that, but unlike most European countries where the system of stickers makes driving without insurance almost impossible. In the US, it's actually quite easy to do so.
I don't know why Uber is complaining. All they need to do, after all, is to recruit drivers with a commercial license;
In Germany, if they carry less than 8 passengers and if their vehicles are below a certain weight, then they don't need to take a different driving test.
What they do need however is a license to operate a taxi, and that's determined locally, with a criminal background/medical/eyes check, and a very stringent but outdated local geography test that has been rendered completely useless by mobile applications such as Google Maps Navigation and Waze.
For my part as a potential user, liability is the real issue. I would never risk taking a car service where I'm not fully covered in the case of an accident.
In the US, Uber covers you for up to one million dollars. For other countries, just check the relevant Uber web site for the country you're in, and see how much insurance they have. My bet is that you'll probably have better coverage when you travel as a passenger/driver with Uber than if you were to drive yourself personally.
And "defamed" or called out on something questionable? Genuinely asking, I never heard of this British journalist until today...
There is nothing really wrong with him. He's mostly known for his talk radio show, not his articles.
On his radio show, he has people calling in, but he frequently cuts people off (as most good radio show hosts do).
Here is what I found through the wikipedia revision history:
James is in very vocal support of continued mass immigration into the UK, sees no negatives to it, and labels anybody who questions the desirability of this as 'racist' or 'bigoted'.
If any white Anglo Saxon caller to his show should dare to say that they feel even slightly threatened by the influence of new 'cultures' forced on the neighbourhood that they, and generations of their family, were born and brought up in, James will bully them before cutting them off, normally using an ad break or the travel news as an excuse. Women often get this treatment too. He is clearly more comfortable bullying them.
However, James also regularly offends many new immigrants to the UK by mocking religion in a very offensive manner, and it could therefore be argued that he causes far greater offence to these new immigrants, on an almost daily basis, than any BNP supporter ever has. His frequent mockery of religion has also demonstrated his hypocrisy as James has admitted that he had his daughter baptised.This will probably be a 'Get the kid into the successful local Catholic School' ploy. Luckily the priests involved at his local Catholic school, St Mary's in Chiswick are aware of James, his views on religion and his lack of practice. He may be shocked when he finds that having attended Ampleforth will not be enough.
To be fair, I haven't looked at everything, but if this is the only kind of content he's complaining about, then he had it easy. Anyone with half a brain would see the bias in these unsourced comments.
In the book, Wade suggests that such genetic differences may help explain why some people live in tribal societies and some in advanced civilizations, why African-Americans are allegedly more violent than whites, and why the Chinese may be good at business.
To be fair, what you're quoting is what a journalist said about the author. It's not even a quote of the author, it's an interpretation by the journalist of what the author supposedly wrote. If second-hand paraphrasing is enough to condemn someone absolutely, then President Barack Obama must be the devil himself according to right-wing talk show hosts and Fox News reporters.
I can't pick up private friends using public stops. Nobody but the tech scum bro grammars have that type of access to public resources for private gain.
So instead of having 20 to 30 people in a Google bus during rush hour, you want those 20 to 30 tech scum brogrammers on the road driving their own car?
I'm sorry, but these types of agreements are nothing new. Private car pools often get preferential treatment. For a couple of hours they can get their own lanes and their own pick up/drop off areas (areas which are usually public parking spaces the rest of the time). Not to mention, school buses, university shuttles, and even private university shuttles, often share bus stops with city buses when there is a need and the city agrees to it.
If you ask me, getting as many idiot drivers off the road during rush hours is a good idea (it's not like they don't have the money, so if they don't go by shuttle, they won't have trouble buying their own cars, increasing car congestion, and driving up the rent of private garages in the city).
I want it totally private. Has the concept of privacy gotten so totally lost that people seem okay to settle for relative privacy?
By the way, the best way to keep your data private is to keep it out of your untrusted phone/computer/whatnot, and use bogus data when you need to enter something.
Exemples: use "Acme inc." as your home phone number's name in your addressbook, and nicknames for your contacts. Don't enter your full address as your home in your satnav's app but someone's address in a street close-by, etc.
If you want privacy, don't use an address book, memorize your friends numbers. On that topic of friends, don't have more than two friends. That will minimize your exposure. The first one can be called Mr. White and the second one Mr. Black, and again, don't be lazy, do not enter their nickname into the address book.
Do not use gps navigation, get yourself an old fashion magnetic compass. Magnetic compasses have worked for centuries. And they'll keep on being useful for many centuries to come. Turn on your phone only at specific hours on certain dates. The rest of the time, keep your phone turned off, battery removed, and the phone tucked away in a Tesla envelope (along with some extra sim cards). And if someone ever comes knocking on your door, or calls you by mistake, you're a Jehova's Witness and you're into Multi-Level-Marketing.
That's what I would call total privacy, and even then it wouldn't be completely total.
I think in some regards being able to send an SMS in an emergency, with important details like the exact address(including quadrant in cities like Washington DC).
They should just let users send direct Facebook/Google+/Twitter messages to 911.
This way, they'll know what you had for breakfast this morning and who to call in case the initial gps address isn't enough.
gmail.ru (or its equivalent) will find a way to support cyrillic gmail.qc.ca and gmail.fr will find ways to support French accents (otherwise, Google will get sued or blocked by Quebec or France) These details will get worked out at the local level. It will take time, but they'll get there eventually.
Available user bandwidth = total tower bandwidth / number of users. Given that total tower bandwidth is limited by spectrum allocation the easiest way to increase user bandwidth is to reduce the service radius of the towers (by having more towers, each cell smaller) so that the number of users per tower is smaller. The cheapest way is to throttle users.
Along the same lines, when a cell phone network knows a tower is at full capacity, it should reject new customers that reside or work near such a tower.
Well with radio transmission, this becomes something you really have to think about.
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So the more grabby people get with that bandwidth, the less there is to go around. If someone is using as much as they can because they have their phone hooked to their computer doing torrents, that slows everyone else down, even if you are are just using it in small spurts to check your e-mail.
Unfortunately, that's not how this works in real life.
My so-called 4G "unlimited" plan from T-Mobile gives me 2.5 gigs per month of data (initially it was a 5 gigs cap), and then after that, it's supposed to give me 3G speed. But it doesn't, after my initial "unlimited" cap is reached, only Facebook works anymore, my email doesn't, google maps doesn't, and my web browser doesn't. And the 3G speed it gives Facebook is actually pretty good, it's good enough to download and upload many pictures, but that 3G speed actually works for nothing else.
Just take a look at this article which is not really very clear, I'll grant you that, but this will have to do because I couldn't find another corroborating source no matter how much I googled for it.
Facebook [...] is placing its own servers inside points of presence owned by ISPs to speed to delivery of its content to users in places around the world.
Unfortunately, the Facebook executive doesn't come right out and say it, because otherwise he would have said that Facebook is placing its own servers inside points of presence owned by ISPs, including the premises of cell phone network providers (those last words are my words, not his).
And of course, placing servers inside points of presence owned by cell phone networks should have very little to do with radio bandwidth. At best, it should only improve the latency and the speed a little. So I would argue that it's the money given to the cell phone networks that encourages the cell phone networks to assign higher priority to Facebook traffic after that initial cap is reached, and to slow down traffic to a standstill for any other kind of traffic at the same time that same cap is reached (despite what T-Mobile is claiming in its advertisements and in its plans).
Technically, Morgan Stanley has a vested interest in staying on the good side of Tesla, and the Gartner Group doesn't.
And yes, I am aware that there is supposedly a firewall between the analysts group and the investment banking services of Morgan Stanley, but such a firewall is only for appearances. If an analyst really knows what's good for him, he'll publish positive recommendations about the clients that keep his employer in business.
And this is with t-mobiles software installed. With a clean phone, the T-mobile "my account" software is the highest usage bit of software on the phone. Disabling it was worth hours of runtime.
I have real trouble believing you.
Here are the "Battery Use Details" stats from my T-Mobile LG G3: 23% Screen 13% Android OS 11% Cell standby 11% Phone idle 8% Android System 7% Google Play Services 6% Wi-fi 5% YourBus AC Transit 2% GUNSHIP BATTLE 2% Mediaserver 1% System Manager Application
Granted, mine is not a clean phone. And it does seem like the ugly purple "my account" application is running all the time because it's always shown when you pull down the notification bar. But I'm really surprised that the "my account" application would consume more battery than even your screen, or the Android OS. In my case, the "my account" application isn't even listed as one of the top 11 (although, admittedly I did increase the timeout of my screen, so that could be one explanation the screen is deemed the #1 app that consumes the most battery). And I did disable the Lookout Mobile trial that usually comes pre-loaded on T-Mobile phones.
Which is to say, if you find a USB drive in your company's parking lot, toss it in the trash if you can't find the original owner.
Actually, you should immediately tell the security people to look for suspicious usb thumb drives in the parking lot. And the next chance you get, you should hand the thumb drive to a person in IT who understands the potential threat of what you're giving him.
Worst case scenario, it will just be a false alert.
Oh, and block apps from writing to most of the external SD card, but they can do whatever they want to the internal one. Guess Google doesn't like privacy or SD cards.
That's just incorrect. For the internal memory, an app can't overwrite another app's private data, it can't even read it without special interfaces (assuming a non-rooted device). An external SD card on the other hand is deemed insecure by definition since it can easily be pulled out and placed into another device. So an external SD card was chosen as an easy way to store, share, and manage media files between different applications.
Googling usually works for me, but I browse the results with the image tab. This way, I only take a look at open source projects with actual screenshots.
In any case, the original question seems to be asked from the point of view of a marketer. A developer will often know where to advertise his open source project for the type of community he's catering for. That's the key. Know your community of users. Know where they hang out and what they read. And once you have a couple of users that recommend your open source project (assuming they like it), then your project will start to gain page rank in Google, and other indexes.
Just to give you a personal example. As an Android developer, I often hear of relevant open source Android projects I can use on DevAppsDirect, Android-related meetups, StackOverflow questions, and through Google searches. And obviously, if I was a different kind of developer, or if I was a different kind of project manager with a different kind of community/user focus, my sources could be very different.
He could have done both. d tweet4me +4h This way, he doesn't lose out on the rage of the moment, and he'll confuse Kimberly when she tries to yank him and his two kids from the wrong plane that's about to depart.
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Thats 15 to 30 times Uber gives you...
...gives you in the US.
Like I said in my other post, the existing insurance system in the US, and especially in California, is actually very pathetic.
In Germany, if they carry less than 8 passengers and if their vehicles are below a certain weight, then they don't need to take a different driving test.
That is incorrect. This is only valid if you don't commercially transport passengers.
If you actually do transport passengers comercially, you need an extra driving license, and you need the same extra license if you transport more than 7 or 8 people _non_ commercially (in one vehicle) like e.g. if you bring boy scouts into a camp. Every bus driver bringing kids to school has such a license!
I mentioned the term "driving test", not driver license. Also, I provided a source. You didn't. And I did mention that you needed a taxi license in my following paragraph.
outdated local geography test that has been rendered completely useless by mobile applications such as Google Maps Navigation and Waze.
Well, I usualy have trips that are not longer than 15 minutes, and I appreciate it if the driver does not need 2 mins to set up the navigation first, especially if the spelling of the target is odd.
Then you should use Uber then, because you confirm the address on your own mobile phone, everything after that is fully automated, and the Uber driver doesn't have to set up anything.
In the US, Uber covers you for up to one million dollars.
Erm, do you actually own a car? I guess not.
I do, but only in California. The minimum mandatory coverage in California is actually crazy small.
$15,000 for injury/death to one person
$30,000 for injury/death to more than one person
$5,000 for damage to property
Not only that, but unlike most European countries where the system of stickers makes driving without insurance almost impossible. In the US, it's actually quite easy to do so.
I don't know why Uber is complaining. All they need to do, after all, is to recruit drivers with a commercial license;
In Germany, if they carry less than 8 passengers and if their vehicles are below a certain weight, then they don't need to take a different driving test.
What they do need however is a license to operate a taxi, and that's determined locally, with a criminal background/medical/eyes check, and a very stringent but outdated local geography test that has been rendered completely useless by mobile applications such as Google Maps Navigation and Waze.
For my part as a potential user, liability is the real issue. I would never risk taking a car service where I'm not fully covered in the case of an accident.
In the US, Uber covers you for up to one million dollars. For other countries, just check the relevant Uber web site for the country you're in, and see how much insurance they have. My bet is that you'll probably have better coverage when you travel as a passenger/driver with Uber than if you were to drive yourself personally.
And "defamed" or called out on something questionable? Genuinely asking, I never heard of this British journalist until today...
There is nothing really wrong with him. He's mostly known for his talk radio show, not his articles.
On his radio show, he has people calling in, but he frequently cuts people off (as most good radio show hosts do).
Here is what I found through the wikipedia revision history:
James is in very vocal support of continued mass immigration into the UK, sees no negatives to it, and labels anybody who questions the desirability of this as 'racist' or 'bigoted'.
If any white Anglo Saxon caller to his show should dare to say that they feel even slightly threatened by the influence of new 'cultures' forced on the neighbourhood that they, and generations of their family, were born and brought up in, James will bully them before cutting them off, normally using an ad break or the travel news as an excuse. Women often get this treatment too. He is clearly more comfortable bullying them.
However, James also regularly offends many new immigrants to the UK by mocking religion in a very offensive manner, and it could therefore be argued that he causes far greater offence to these new immigrants, on an almost daily basis, than any BNP supporter ever has. His frequent mockery of religion has also demonstrated his hypocrisy as James has admitted that he had his daughter baptised.This will probably be a 'Get the kid into the successful local Catholic School' ploy. Luckily the priests involved at his local Catholic school, St Mary's in Chiswick are aware of James, his views on religion and his lack of practice. He may be shocked when he finds that having attended Ampleforth will not be enough.
To be fair, I haven't looked at everything, but if this is the only kind of content he's complaining about, then he had it easy. Anyone with half a brain would see the bias in these unsourced comments.
In the book, Wade suggests that such genetic differences may help explain why some people live in tribal societies and some in advanced civilizations, why African-Americans are allegedly more violent than whites, and why the Chinese may be good at business.
To be fair, what you're quoting is what a journalist said about the author. It's not even a quote of the author, it's an interpretation by the journalist of what the author supposedly wrote. If second-hand paraphrasing is enough to condemn someone absolutely, then President Barack Obama must be the devil himself according to right-wing talk show hosts and Fox News reporters.
I can't pick up private friends using public stops. Nobody but the tech scum bro grammars have that type of access to public resources for private gain.
So instead of having 20 to 30 people in a Google bus during rush hour, you want those 20 to 30 tech scum brogrammers on the road driving their own car?
I'm sorry, but these types of agreements are nothing new. Private car pools often get preferential treatment. For a couple of hours they can get their own lanes and their own pick up/drop off areas (areas which are usually public parking spaces the rest of the time). Not to mention, school buses, university shuttles, and even private university shuttles, often share bus stops with city buses when there is a need and the city agrees to it.
If you ask me, getting as many idiot drivers off the road during rush hours is a good idea (it's not like they don't have the money, so if they don't go by shuttle, they won't have trouble buying their own cars, increasing car congestion, and driving up the rent of private garages in the city).
I want it totally private. Has the concept of privacy gotten so totally lost that people seem okay to settle for relative privacy?
By the way, the best way to keep your data private is to keep it out of your untrusted phone/computer/whatnot, and use bogus data when you need to enter something.
Exemples: use "Acme inc." as your home phone number's name in your addressbook, and nicknames for your contacts. Don't enter your full address as your home in your satnav's app but someone's address in a street close-by, etc.
If you want privacy, don't use an address book, memorize your friends numbers. On that topic of friends, don't have more than two friends. That will minimize your exposure. The first one can be called Mr. White and the second one Mr. Black, and again, don't be lazy, do not enter their nickname into the address book.
Do not use gps navigation, get yourself an old fashion magnetic compass. Magnetic compasses have worked for centuries. And they'll keep on being useful for many centuries to come. Turn on your phone only at specific hours on certain dates. The rest of the time, keep your phone turned off, battery removed, and the phone tucked away in a Tesla envelope (along with some extra sim cards). And if someone ever comes knocking on your door, or calls you by mistake, you're a Jehova's Witness and you're into Multi-Level-Marketing.
That's what I would call total privacy, and even then it wouldn't be completely total.
BTW- as far as I am aware, no distro includes or supports Chrome, anyway... only Chromium (which is open source).
What do you mean by support?
On my linux box, I have both Chromium and Chrome installed. Chrome makes it easier to switch google apps profiles than Chromium.
I think in some regards being able to send an SMS in an emergency, with important details like the exact address(including quadrant in cities like Washington DC).
They should just let users send direct Facebook/Google+/Twitter messages to 911.
This way, they'll know what you had for breakfast this morning and who to call in case the initial gps address isn't enough.
Given the high quality of pulic broadcasting in .uk I think the money is at least well spent.
If you're into birdwatching and watching open heart surgery at dinner time, then yes, the BBC is the best money can buy.
I don't feel a lot of workaholism in that story
Speak for yourself! I do all my best coding on my yatch with a prostitute between my legs.
Why should they get sympathy? No one told them they had to get addicted. In fact they're constantly warned by society not to take them.
It sounds to me like what killed him was his addiction to call girls, not his addiction to drugs.
When Hayes began to overdose, Tichelman allegedly consumed a glass of wine and left the scene without calling 911.
Most email names could be spoofed using Cyrillic characters which look exactly the same as latin ones. How could you tell if the "c" in chrisq@gmal.com really was a latin 'c' or a cyrillic Es?
gmail.ru (or its equivalent) will find a way to support cyrillic
gmail.qc.ca and gmail.fr will find ways to support French accents (otherwise, Google will get sued or blocked by Quebec or France)
These details will get worked out at the local level. It will take time, but they'll get there eventually.
Available user bandwidth = total tower bandwidth / number of users. Given that total tower bandwidth is limited by spectrum allocation the easiest way to increase user bandwidth is to reduce the service radius of the towers (by having more towers, each cell smaller) so that the number of users per tower is smaller. The cheapest way is to throttle users.
Along the same lines, when a cell phone network knows a tower is at full capacity, it should reject new customers that reside or work near such a tower.
Well with radio transmission, this becomes something you really have to think about.
[...]
So the more grabby people get with that bandwidth, the less there is to go around. If someone is using as much as they can because they have their phone hooked to their computer doing torrents, that slows everyone else down, even if you are are just using it in small spurts to check your e-mail.
Unfortunately, that's not how this works in real life.
My so-called 4G "unlimited" plan from T-Mobile gives me 2.5 gigs per month of data (initially it was a 5 gigs cap), and then after that, it's supposed to give me 3G speed. But it doesn't, after my initial "unlimited" cap is reached, only Facebook works anymore, my email doesn't, google maps doesn't, and my web browser doesn't. And the 3G speed it gives Facebook is actually pretty good, it's good enough to download and upload many pictures, but that 3G speed actually works for nothing else.
Just take a look at this article which is not really very clear, I'll grant you that, but this will have to do because I couldn't find another corroborating source no matter how much I googled for it.
Facebook [...] is placing its own servers inside points of presence owned by ISPs to speed to delivery of its content to users in places around the world.
Unfortunately, the Facebook executive doesn't come right out and say it, because otherwise he would have said that Facebook is placing its own servers inside points of presence owned by ISPs, including the premises of cell phone network providers (those last words are my words, not his).
And of course, placing servers inside points of presence owned by cell phone networks should have very little to do with radio bandwidth. At best, it should only improve the latency and the speed a little. So I would argue that it's the money given to the cell phone networks that encourages the cell phone networks to assign higher priority to Facebook traffic after that initial cap is reached, and to slow down traffic to a standstill for any other kind of traffic at the same time that same cap is reached (despite what T-Mobile is claiming in its advertisements and in its plans).
Technically, Morgan Stanley has a vested interest in staying on the good side of Tesla, and the Gartner Group doesn't.
And yes, I am aware that there is supposedly a firewall between the analysts group and the investment banking services of Morgan Stanley, but such a firewall is only for appearances. If an analyst really knows what's good for him, he'll publish positive recommendations about the clients that keep his employer in business.
The iPhone would actually be a more effective test because iPhones tend to be identical regardless of what carrier you are on.
That's not true. The iPhone 5s itself has eight different models.
A1533 or A1457 or A1530: iPhone 5s (GSM model)
A1533 or A1453: iPhone 5s (CDMA model)
A1518 or A1528 or A1530: iPhone 5s (GSM model China)
And this is with t-mobiles software installed. With a clean phone, the T-mobile "my account" software is the highest usage bit of software on the phone. Disabling it was worth hours of runtime.
I have real trouble believing you.
Here are the "Battery Use Details" stats from my T-Mobile LG G3:
23% Screen
13% Android OS
11% Cell standby
11% Phone idle
8% Android System
7% Google Play Services
6% Wi-fi
5% YourBus AC Transit
2% GUNSHIP BATTLE
2% Mediaserver
1% System Manager Application
Granted, mine is not a clean phone. And it does seem like the ugly purple "my account" application is running all the time because it's always shown when you pull down the notification bar. But I'm really surprised that the "my account" application would consume more battery than even your screen, or the Android OS. In my case, the "my account" application isn't even listed as one of the top 11 (although, admittedly I did increase the timeout of my screen, so that could be one explanation the screen is deemed the #1 app that consumes the most battery). And I did disable the Lookout Mobile trial that usually comes pre-loaded on T-Mobile phones.
I mean, can Linux do this?
Pay 400 million dollars for the exposure? I doubt it. It was hard enough to pay for a single ad in the Wall Street Journal.
Which is to say, if you find a USB drive in your company's parking lot, toss it in the trash if you can't find the original owner.
Actually, you should immediately tell the security people to look for suspicious usb thumb drives in the parking lot. And the next chance you get, you should hand the thumb drive to a person in IT who understands the potential threat of what you're giving him.
Worst case scenario, it will just be a false alert.
Why does anyone install an app on Android that didn't come from F-Droid?
Aside from the fact that I don't like any of the games F-Droid has to offer.
It's because...
Wait for it, wait for it...
Oh, and block apps from writing to most of the external SD card, but they can do whatever they want to the internal one. Guess Google doesn't like privacy or SD cards.
That's just incorrect. For the internal memory, an app can't overwrite another app's private data, it can't even read it without special interfaces (assuming a non-rooted device). An external SD card on the other hand is deemed insecure by definition since it can easily be pulled out and placed into another device. So an external SD card was chosen as an easy way to store, share, and manage media files between different applications.
One reason that advertising is so confusing with Google is that they been gobbling up hundreds of different advertising companies in the online space.
What's wrong with just googling for stuff
Googling usually works for me, but I browse the results with the image tab. This way, I only take a look at open source projects with actual screenshots.
In any case, the original question seems to be asked from the point of view of a marketer. A developer will often know where to advertise his open source project for the type of community he's catering for. That's the key. Know your community of users. Know where they hang out and what they read. And once you have a couple of users that recommend your open source project (assuming they like it), then your project will start to gain page rank in Google, and other indexes.
Just to give you a personal example. As an Android developer, I often hear of relevant open source Android projects I can use on DevAppsDirect, Android-related meetups, StackOverflow questions, and through Google searches. And obviously, if I was a different kind of developer, or if I was a different kind of project manager with a different kind of community/user focus, my sources could be very different.
to tweet her rudeness after you land.
He could have done both.
d tweet4me +4h
This way, he doesn't lose out on the rage of the moment, and he'll confuse Kimberly when she tries to yank him and his two kids from the wrong plane that's about to depart.