doubtful, Seattle really fucked up their broadband deployment. "Gigabit Seattle" apparently was a horrible failure. Part of the problem was the law made "right a way" too hard to get for many condo units, apartment buildings, etc to the point the telco's had to track down owners overseas, big corps that just ignored them, etc. They never secured enough $$$ to roll-out piecemeal, the city eventually canceled the project. Why they ever thought they could have a privately backed "public partnership" roll-out without some serious bonds is beyond me. And letting it drag on for 10 years was ridiculous. "Gigabir Squared" is now getting sued by the City of Seattle over $52K+ unpaid bills.

I don't think Uber will really have a huge impact on over-all traffic, especially for people driving to work every day. Unless Uber starts doing multi-stop / multi-passenger trips (which will require far better software to do that) their not going to significantly cut the number of cars on the road over-all. Subways, light rail, Hyper Loop, flying drone cabs (?), is required to effectively cut the traffic.

The rest of the planet pays less for healthcare because they aren't also funding the massive amount of medical research the USA is either. I'm not saying other countries don't do their own research, but almost every major surgery has been developed in a hospital inside the US. We also (for better or worse) do most of the pharma research and development, or at least used to until quite recently. So we're paying more to fund all this research, it's all amortized into the cost of the hospitals. Everyone else doesn't have similar level of facilities in their hospitals, and they just don't have the same level of associated costs. Much of this is changing / shifting, but for the last 100 years the US is the place most surgeries have been developed. Until Bush came along, we where on the forefront of most medical research, but his laws against stem cells have really hurt the over-all basic research and pushed this into other countries.

I'd actually buy that book, that's absolutely brilliant. A 1001 might be too many, maybe 101 unless your book is going to be huge. Still, this might be a best seller if done in a comedic way.

I have to agree, without specifics no one can give real advice. To use a car analogy, I can tell a mechanic "it's making a noise like NEP NEP NEP" but until they plug in the code reader and actually get their hand dirty they can't give an estimate for the work. We have to know both the terms, the ACTUAL WORDS. Even then, perhaps filing a claim himself in the Google ecosystem might shake it up a bit, at least for the first claim. The second sounds more serious. Anyway, I have these questions:

We need a time frame, how long has it been since he contacted the second person? There's a big difference if it's been a few business days, a week, half a month, etc. How many times has he attempted contact with them?
What are Google's stipulations to NOT have apps pulled. "Work it out", does that mean the complainant must withdraw their complaint? Does Google even vet these before sending them out?
What are the actual words? Names of the apps?
Names of the people complaining against you. There may be people who have been attacked in the past by these two who might be able to "help", look in forums for people with similar charges brought against them (especially on the second guy.)

But you need to trademark these terms as your own, in your market, ASAP. Since you know what their trademarks are, register your own with those words but make it even more specific so it only covers you. Get a copywrite on them too. If this is too $$$, well, then probably give up since this is "the cost of doing business".

Your state might have people who can help with this, even Oklahoma has a small business agency with "free" lawyers who do trademark and copywrite. At this point, your apps have taken a life of their own. You'll probably need to form some type of LLC, register all this in it's name...and I don't know how trademarks, their dates, etc work in the law since IANAL. If you get one too, even if it is after the initial complaints, if you file your own complaint...might have to play hardball.

I did a bit of research on it, the "SpiritWORLD" media system was written by (from what I can tell) five Indian contractors. It's some SAP / Oracle media DB app and it was part of the initial breach in Brazil that they ignored. Well, they didn't totally ignore it...part of their IT noticed something, they told someone else, and then whomever the escalated it to ignored it. I'd guess someone managed to get some video on it that called out to a pre-infected codec, probably by spoofing an email address and sending a video to someone in Brazil. I'll also bet that the GOP knew that Brazil has no laws regarding security breaches and was a major reason they chose this country (as opposed to the other 22 countries SpiritWORLD serves for Sony).

Something similar happened to my dad. Not a school bus, but a city vehicle who ran a stop sign. Cost the insurance over 5k to get it fixed, the city paid nothing. They didn't have to carry any insurance at all; must be nice to be above the law like that.

his infamous bath salts.

I'd take a single rape over a lifetime of slavery any day...although that would qualify as "the worst day of my life" lol

No cable? Just wifi for your broadband connection? I can see that in countries that have yet to build a physical infrastructure, but I find it hard to believe countries in Europe have no cable, coaxial, phone, fiber cable, or otherwise.

even more perfect, a remote with glow-in-the-dark buttons, so even in the dark you can still find it and use it.

whomever put the cables in my desk tied them all down way too short, and I'm too lazy to fix it. Corporate just did a re-model, and all the desk in our new Enterprise Command Center are all "stand-able". Corporate apparently sank millions into remodeling the old SABRE building, we're all thinking we're being setup for another "sale" once the HP Enterprise company is spun off. Luckily for us the mainframes can't really move overseas, and the real-time systems require constant watching by people in the same building!

just a few days ago there where MANY stories on here about Solaris networking costing businesses thousands of dollars from all these...bugs...

IF tax > 0 DROP TABLE "politician"

I totally agree, "local" welfare has far less over-all costs that take $ out of the over-all amount, plus local agencies know what groups are more vulnerable in that area. People are far more likely to not complain as much if the "welfare" money taken out of the tax base was only going to other people in a limited geographical region as well...

And universal conscription would stop elites from being such war hawks, if their kids had the same chance to go off and die like us peasants.