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Comment Re: Why isn't public transport 'free'? (Score 1) 198

When public transport is free or when people do not get fined for not paying you see more hooliganism from my experience of growing up in Paris. In the suburbs trains you see random young people hanging there going to random places to find targets to mug for money or phones. They also cut seats and pain graffitis.

Submission + - Mars One CEO Bas Lansdorp says project is not farce; lambasts bad press (techienews.co.uk)

hypnosec writes: Mars One CEO Bas Lansdorp has lambasted recent criticism of the project in a new interview, which have raised questions on almost each aspect of the project, stating that the reports are anything but the truth and pegged an article by journalist Elmo Keep as a sensational one that is devoid of actual facts. Lansdorp said in the interview that at Mars One they value ‘good criticism’ as it helps them to improve their mission. He said that the recent bad press was due to an article by Keep which contains quite a few things including details about the total applicants, and astronaut selection process which are ‘not true’

Submission + - FTC's internal memo on Google teaches companies a terrible lesson (washingtonpost.com)

schwit1 writes: FTC staffers spent enormous time pouring through Google's business practices and documents as well as interviewing executives and rivals. They came to the conclusion that Google was acting in anti-competitive ways, such as restricting advertisers' from working with rival search engines. But commissioners balked at the prospect of a lengthy and protracted legal fight.

For a big company, that process may have been enlightening. Agency staffers might find evidence of anti-competitive behavior. But that doesn't mean the firm will face the music in the end.

Previous attempts to go after big companies — such as the Justice Department's long-running antitrust case against Microsoft in the 1990s — loomed large in regulators’ minds at the time of the Google probe, according to a former official who worked at the agency then.

“Even if we were in the right and could win," said the former official, "it could take a lot of resources away from other enforcement.”

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