Uber announced in a blog post on Monday it would cut the prices of its UberX service in New York City by 20% — but it's only for a limited time

A limited time X; where X is infinitesimally greater than the time it takes to establish a critical mass which will lead to a monopoly? Just wondering :D

Is this the "think of the children" glass-killer ?

There's one technology that solves this problem, and that technology is genital recognition.

Presumably this involves some kind of nano-sensor for you? :P

Maybe you should re-think the last hundred years of artificially-selecting for success-oriented-behavior rather than empathy?

Just saying...

Someone within the circle of trust. Why bring the rest of us into it? If they had their own houses in order they wouldn't need to go down this route.

I forget, is extortion illegal in the US at the moment? I'm just wondering, as bribing politicians appears to be legal.

Surely they should be held at minimum partly responsible - I mean, how the hell did their stuff get all over the internet anyway?

"My dog is not in our house, it's on your lawn - therefore you deserve jail time."

Hello?

Also, they seem pretty ironically named; "rightscorp" ? how about people's right to internet? to access all human knowledge (well, at least that part of all human knowledge which hasn't been locked inside the walls of academia, despite being funded by society at large) ? surely that trumps whatever petty bullshit you are referring to - some mere business interest which everyone is trained to pretend is somehow damaged when rightsholders allow their stuff to leak all over the internet due to failing to use appropriate measures to prevent it.

Disclaimer: I didn't read the whole summary :S

I've seen a cab recently with an U-B-E-R sign in the back (Manchester UK).

Presumably his taxi-overlords don't know anything about it :D

It's all of them. Now move on.

People aren't smart enough to make difficult IQ tests.

Don't flame me :P

Maybe if we put a tax on stupid we could balance the budget

It's working for MENSA (, presumably.)

Ability to define success.

No, he's a traitor to his country's attempts to act dishonorably without widespread knowledge. Shame on him.

in the title.

I seriously don't think that's ever going to be on the cards. The question is how many of these does it take before someone allocates enough spin-budget to make this seem as though it's no longer a problem.

"These are not the privacy-invading droids you are looking for..."