And yet everyone and his dog is calling for Uber to be banned and NOT for Uber sticking to the laws. Which would be simpler and more in line with markets and fair competition. Calling for a ban and not even discussing if Uber drivers are licensced/insured according to the laws sounds like a FUD spin to me. Heck they make it even sound as if Uber would FORBID you to get proper insurance.

Somehow I'd still like to call BS on those stories.

There shouldn't be anything easier than catching and putting into jail a rapist driver if you have the (electronic) paper trail of who got into whose car, where was the ride booked, where was the destination. Aren't they automatically checking the GPS logs that the driver ist taking you from A to B on the shortest route? And I'd bet that Uper is checking meticulously that you're not cutting into Ubers share by booking only the first half of your ride by Uber and pay the driver cash for the rest of the trip.

So if you live in a country where rape is not normal and the police actively is trying to catch rapists, Uber should be safer than being anywhere else without GPS tracking. Sounds like cab company FUD to me.

provide anyone with a fake backstory first.

Fun and teambuilding for the whole office crew and training in deductive thinking and the general process of securing evidence for the IT crew.

Lots of sense in shutting the barn door after only half of your horses ran out. Probably still enough sense in shutting it, as long as more than one hrse is still in.

And DEFINITLY more sense in shutting it immedeatly and not wasting any time by counting horses first.

everyone who ever had to give estimations for some software development task will be able to confirm that.

Which begs the question. Have we agreed on a definition for "intelligence"? The most agreeable definition I know was "it's what you can measure with your flavour of IQ test".

Add talent and sheer luck to every factor for academic and general success named in the summary.

You won't get far if one of them is missing. If you have a minimum of all these, that's probably 30% of success. The missing 70% can be provided by any of those factors. IMHO.

I doubt that as the usual advance patch notes (and the patch notes themselves) were never more specific than a general "this patch fixes some errors" - specifically to avoid tipping of the bad guys.

On the other hand: the lock screen is now giving more information about waiting messages/notifications so that you need to do an actual unlock less often. And simple, brightly colored, large buttons aren't a bad thing either when you're in a mobile environment like a train.

After getting over the first shock, I kinda like the new look. (But might be a slight Google fanboiism, too, as I'm using their other products, too.)

I bought my Nexus4 specifically as it is NOT tied to a carrier.

The easiest way to guarantee that is NOT to provide any updates after launch and instead of "upgrades" start completly new lines of mobile OS. Remember? Windows CE, Windows Phone, Windows Mobile.... I have a GPS with CE lying in a drawer somewhere. It STILL has the most recent version of WinCE.

But good luck bringing your own soda.

I had those effects with both a (I guess also cheap chinese) qi-compliant and a high-end apple mouse charger.

I had one of those wireless chargers on my desk, but that completly broke FM radio reception. (streaming is no option due to company security policies)

23:59:60 is well defined for decades and shouldn't be unexpected to anyone.