Comment Re:It's about Profiles, not +; and what a ban does (Score 1) 417
Comment It's about Profiles, not +; and what a ban does (Score 5, Informative) 417
Statements from Google which are on record and verifiable, versus anecdotal evidence of what happened to some undefined person. I somehow think I'm going to choose to believe Google on this one.
The current side effects of a Google Profile suspension, with confirmations by Google staff in various G+ posts, are:
- The Profile is removed from public view.
- Existing Google+, Google Buzz, and Google Reader shared items/posts are removed from view (whether they were originally public or limited).
- Access to Google+ is blocked (more correctly, limited to only viewing public posts).
- Access to Google Buzz is blocked.
- Access to Google Reader (not just its sharing features) is blocked.
Any other side effects reported until now have been labeled bugs and were not experienced by everyone consistently. Of particular note, a Profile suspension currently does NOT (modulo reappearing bugs?):
- block access to Gmail, Google Voice, or any other top-level service;
- block or unsubscribe from Google Groups;
- force the use of Google 2-factor authentication (which would entail providing an identifiable phone number);
- prevent the use of Google Checkout (or by extension, prevent the purchase of Android apps);
- prevent the use of Android features unrelated to the three major services mentioned (+, Buzz, Reader).
So that's the state of the world today. Whether it stays that way is up to debate, and I posited that question in my post that clarified the name policies as being an artifact of Profiles (including a reference proving that users can be banned without even having access to Google+ to begin with).
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Sure, we know you love actually owning a car, but let's be honest -- in large cities with condensed layouts, your H3 doesn't make a lot of sense. A group of researchers at MIT have been hard at work developing a solution that's kind on the planet and your scrawny legs. A team called Smart Cities have designed a small, two-seat, electric vehicle -- which they call the City Car -- that can be "stacked" in convenient locations (say, just outside a subway stop), and then taken on short trips around urban areas. The cars -- which are based around an omnidirectional "robot wheel" that encases an electric motor, suspension, and steering -- can be "folded" and attached to a group of other cars for charging. The lineups of rentable vehicles would be accessible from various points around a city, with six or eight cars occupying just a single "regular" car space. Of course, you'll have to forgo your 24-inch rims... but that's life.[Via Technology Review]
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