Comment Re: Taxi licenses are crazy expensive (Score 1) 334
No. A mutually agreed upon price is fine too. It just has to be agreed upon before the trip. Don't be so knee-jerky.
No. A mutually agreed upon price is fine too. It just has to be agreed upon before the trip. Don't be so knee-jerky.
But things can go into the public domain after a time, which is what the post was referring to.
Well, I forgot to add that your Mickey Mouse Protection Act doesn't even apply here anyway. Unfortunately determining the details of what is/isn't public domain is still difficult: http://www.digitalnz.org/make-...
but none of that means that it's a myth.
Project Gutenburg would be a counter-proof.
[citation needed]
Well, in NZ the drivers have to have both a passenger license, and a private hire license, which is more than a taxi driver needs. The main issue is that you can either be paid by the hour, agreed before-hand, or you charge using a licensed meter. Uber does neither.
> Then users will slowly realize that the Google's search results are not trustworthy and they will move away from Google as the search engine. The market will correct itself.
And that's why we need people questioning what they're doing, so that people have more information available to determine whether they should trust Google or not.
The problems with a closed source blackbox system always show it's face. The string entered into a search bar is only a very small part of your search.
The rest happens by watching your browsing habbits when other sites install tracking code which phones home and keeps a running tab on you. Most of this tracking code by all accounts are trojan horses. Most web developers probably aren't even aware of what they are participating in when they install such things.
If we could see all the information Google uses to find our results, many would probably be appalled. If you wanted a giant Advanced Search page that let you tweak your settings such as age, gender, browing habits, then getting a job at Google as an analyst is probably what you want. Openness and transparency would make the clean and friendly homepage at Google look a lot uglier and intimidating to the end users.
We need to liberate search through open source. However, the framers of such must be careful to not create some monster like Bitcoin that allows all to see all transactions. I sometimes wonder where coders with no "feel" for security earn their wings.
and just like the X-files, the FBI agent is being jerked around and his progress closely followed.
It will be a good headline whenever the the inevitable celebrity love-child finds his or her father through this tool.
This made me wonder why this or similar voltage boosters aren't simply used in the circuitry of the devices that they are powering
What do you mean, no choice? Whenever I get one of those popups that says they want my cell phone number "for better security", I click the "no thanks, maybe later" option.
Of course, all that's for nothing if they can dig up phone numbers by any means necessary.
My cell number is also my business phone, so I had to provide it to create a merchant account.
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.
