Charlie Brown ain't gonna be happy with this big brother shite.

Why doesn't Uber answer that question? It's not a taxi company. You take away the app, they own nothing. Cars are not theirs, the taxi drivers are not theirs to fire since they are already taxi drivers with their own cars, or would-be taxi drivers just looking for a quick buck. Then again, if they ARE indeed a taxi company, then they should pay a license like anyone else who wants to run a taxi service has to. I prefer a traditional cab. I would much rather support a traditional cab service then these guys who came storming on to the scene pissing off a whole load of people. Uber hired no end of "top notch" university people. Seems like they didn't bring much to the arena if Uber are continually in and out of courts, and being banned. Perhaps if they had looked at whose toes they would be treading on first, they might have gotten off to a better start. Uber and what they do or don't do = YAWN

There is no difference between what the Romans did and what trophy hunters/killers and poachers do today. Whether it's fox hunting, cock fighting, bull fighting, rhino poaching or simply killing animals because "it's fun". All humans are inhuman deep down. It's just that we have learned to be compassionate, and we bury our innate desire to be cruel.

This article so well written (in Italian, so use google translator) just about sums up what Uber really is http://www.huffingtonpost.it/g...

Noooo, it was Uber, as it whizzes into space to bring on board aliens among its taxi drivers

Trust yellow, white or black. Better with a big f-ing sign on the top that says TAXI. After all this time, they continue to be in the news for ALL the wrong reasons. So for me it's a traditional cab service. Thanks Uber, but no thanks!

Title says it all. Good riddance to Google+. Gmail, too. They made it so difficult to use on Android that really I have given up even trying to make sense of it.

How did terrorists communicate 50 years ago? Pen and paper? Morse code? The phone? You can shut down the internet and plunge everyone in to the 70's again, but it won't stop the terrorists. Where there is a will, there is a way. Allah said so....

Perhaps a nice canister of pepper spray in your handbag would be more appropriate. Oh wait mr taxi driver whilst i find my panic button in this Uber app that called me a taxi owned by a criminal. TAKE OFFICIAL TAXIS PEOPLE. I would say catch the BUS, but in Indian bus drivers seem to be rapists as well.

What are people doing with all this HW in the homes? Where are they putting it? In the garage? Me, well I have my good ol Mac and a couple of laptops running Windows, Linux, VMware. Traditional client to server technology NoMachine NX so when I am not at home I can still get access to what I need such as checking that my kids have done their homework, and aren't playing games on the computer.

You write:

In the past I tried to achieve similar functionality via cron jobs, login scripts, ssh and nx management

NX? But you are using x2go? THAT is not NX. Contact the experts I.E NoMachine http://nomachine.com/. Only the real authors of probably the most amazing remote access and management tool can you help you there.

If anyone wants to predict what technology we will be using, would have been using and have been using, then all you need to do is watch the original Captain Kirk series. All of the gadgets and tech used are more or less what we have adopted and are adopting. From the cell phone to the 3d laser printer. Listen to Gene Roddenberry, not Gartner

Nomachine offers better performance than logmein, and also Teamviewer.

Expensive failed projects!!

Quite agree. Android update: NoMachine have just released their Android app. In beta, and iOS is coming soon.