Because multiple cars don't share the same license plate.

That's a pretty stupid statement given anyone with a screwdriver can render it false in about a minute.

If you ever want to frame someone, go to a mall and find a vehicle with similar make and color... I leave the rest to your imagination.

That is a good point, I just figured that would all be streamed up and removed but it could easily impact disk space.

Yes, if there's one thing professional programmers (and their PHBs) love, it's code that's almost certain to work.

The reason that's OK for everyone is that it's also "Almost Certain" to work in the original place also...

It's just that each placement has different values and flavors of "Almost". :-)

Since it's so easy to replace the drive in the first place, this seem like kind of non-news... it will be helpful for some non-technical people but most people are probably not coming close to filling up the drives Sony currently ships with.

And people do in fact need to CARE about the earth and the future of humanity if this is to be solved.

I have done more real good for the Earth than most posters here will in a lifetime.

I am also strongly against the AGW madness to "do something", because I can see how none of it is based on science, only the "truthiness" flavor or science.

I can see the direction it is heading with terrible ideas that basically end in terraforming our own perfectly working Earth ecosystem.

I can also see everyone ignoring the only real danger there is to humanity, and that is an ice age - not a mild warming that improves agriculture and does little else.

I can see people distort natural changes in climate over time into terrible dangers for personal and political gain. In the end I suppose that matters little, it's just a slightly different monkey on the top of the hill at the end of the day, but the part of me that dislikes con men is unhappy to see such a large con fool so many rubes until they loose much before catching on.

If people actually cared, they would wake up and call out the charlatans. If the Pope's paper has that effect truly, it will be good though not the direction he intended.

It's main point is that AGW, true or not, is evil and must be stopped

Since millions will suffer in some way needlessly if it is not true (due to terrible misallocation of resources), why MUST it be stopped regardless?

If that's the main point, then the whole paper means nothing in reality. It is simply the clearest sign yet that the "something must be done" cry around AGW is ONLY a religious matter, rather than scientific.

This isn't going to affect the majority of books. It's strictly for the Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Online Lending Library portions, where customers can read the book without buying it. Simply don't make your books available through those programs

If you don't make your books available for the program, you get zero.

If you do, and they read even a few pages, you get something...

Frankly I'd really want to know if people were or were not reading all the way through books I wrote.

As a reader it would be great to have incentive for authors not to spend time on boring filler such that you are tempted to skip to the ending. So I'm all for it.

The problem with Apple gear is that it isn't compatible with Apple gear

You have already failed in several ways from the outset.

1) Apple Music is not "gear". it's a service.
2) Apple Music will be available for Android, not just "Apple Gear".
3) The Airport case you bring up is annoying but pretty unique, mostly Apple Gear works fine with other Apple Gear (including iTunes supporting the very oldest iPods still).

For iOS, the current main programming language not a different programming language for the one heavily used for OS X desktop applications. (And the language Apple would like to see be a main programming language is also intended both for iOS and OS X.)

For Android, you have an OS with a different history; it uses a different language from the ones heavily used for applications on desktop operating systems, and, as they didn't try to make it into a desktop operating system (not many very open niches in that ecosystem), that didn't turn it into a popular language for desktop platforms. As for why they chose Java, well, maybe Andy Rubin liked it for some reason.

For Windows Phone/Windows RT/whatever, Microsoft didn't go for a different language from one of the languages for the desktop. Why they went .NET-only, I don't know.

So phones and tablets don't need different languages from laptops and desktops; the mix of languages is different for historical reasons.

More precisely, they try their best to return the results they infer that the user would really want, based on the syntax of the query.

Yes, it's never going to be perfect at inferring what the user wants. The original poster is complaining that Google has been getting worse at inferring what he wants, especially for particular narrow queries.

I've seen the same problems he has. Perhaps that's an unfortunate side-effect of trying to do a better job of handling most users' queries.

Yes, the original poster is quite aware of quoting; as he says, "Searching for exact strings is an option with Google". What he wants is a search engine that doesn't try as hard to infer what the user really wants, rather than one that has to be forced, with more use of quotes, to just look for the damn string. Perhaps that's a sufficiently small niche that no search engine would bother to offer that, and he'll just have to live with typing more double-quote characters.

In order to totally eliminate this as a concern, going forward Uber may require drivers to belong to more than one service - as a programming consultant I face the same issue with some clients were they demand to know I have other recent clients also so I cannot claim to be an employee, and there are often hard limits on length of work.

Whatever the next version of Android is they just talked about at IO, Google decided to copy iOS permission model entirely so finally, people will be able to only grant access to contacts to the app it makes sense for when it makes sense.

If you do find a bug no need to report it, Google will already know you found it, and additionally will automatically deposit the reward into whatever bank account Google determines you most need the cash.

Therefore, if you are not yet rich, you have not yet found a valid bug.

What you have to understand in all this is motivation.

Google has ALWAYS has a significant monetary motivation to collect and analyze as much data as possible about you.

Apple has NEVER had that motivation. They just have never had a need to collect information about you because it doesn't do them any good, therefore collecting it is only an added expense with no return.

Now it turns out that no only does Apple not gain by collecting user data, in fact they have figured out how to PROFIT from not collecting user data - witness the current marketing push that makes the argument you should buy Apple gear because Apple values your privacy. That is a very clear, and very powerful message.

I don't think people here (or really anywhere) understand just what it means to the world that Apple is firing up its ginormous marketing engine to make privacy desirable...

But you are assuming the data from the article is correct, which as the other AC to responded pointed out seems not to be.