Will beatdowns still be free of charge?

It also makes the site more difficult/expense to keep up to date [referring to using picts/pdfs/flash for content].

...and they spell worse.

uber isn't a taxi service

it's a ride-sharing service

by that, they mean, a person with a car, who doesn't have any interest in driving to point A or point B, drives to point A, picks up one or more people they don't know, and drives them to point B for money. But only can be paid by credit cards. And everything is arranged over the internet.

See. Completely different from a taxi service.

yes. they are just the middle-men. if they don't do it, somebody else will.

so we're all good now, right?

no, because they have to compete against someone who lives in a shack with a toilet they share with the 40 shacks around them..

Really? It's better to think you have some rights, only to find out later you don't, or to be told up front you don't have those rights....

flash = video drm for PCs now.

They know, but all that walking around, driving, following takes so much effort, while also being pretty boring and relatively high-risk [having to mingle with all the terrorists]. It is way easier to just sit in front of a screen and pretend to look for terrorists.

well, stop using my channels. I'm using channels 1-16 to stream 4k video from my computer to the TV next to it.

because if their fine was higher, they would close up shop and go into some other business. it's the only way they will keep on "serving" their customers.

yes!

Exactly. They REALLY like being able to watch everybody, automatically, from their desk. And that everybody else can't tell what they are doing.

You'll think they will go back to the 'old' ways they used to find terrorists. But no, they won't, because it 's not cool. Instead, they will go for hacking everyone's personal computers. Worldwide.

lipstick was 3 releases ago. now they are left with shoe polish.

Yeah. If you post on Slashdot you get picked up by men in white coats instead of black helicopters.

FTFY