There are likely more assaults in normal cabs then Uber.
1. You know the driver in uber. It's registered before they pick you up and send to your phone. Not so with a taxi
2. Uber tracks your GPS and the drivers. They know who's in the car (driver and passenger). Not so with Taxi
3. Drivers are rated on uber. A couple of bad ratings and they're out. Not so with taxi.
4. Uber requires no cash. Many taxi drivers don't except cards or will pressure for cash. No cash on you = less reason for assault.
So no, there is no proof that Uber has more assaults than normal taxis. So far there is only proof there are some assaults in uber and no records are kept about taxi assaults so we don't know. Searching for "cab driver assault" though brings up many many hits
1. You know the driver in uber. It's registered before they pick you up and send to your phone. Not so with a taxi
You notice that card with a number, usually carrying a photo of the driver, prominently placed in just about every official taxi, just about anywhere on the globe? There's usually also information, prominently posted, on how to file an official complaint if your cabbie does dodgy stuff. In addition you have accurate fare information posted, which doesn't suddenly jump by factor 6 because a company can make more money. (I know their argument and happen to think it's bullshit)
2. Uber tracks your GPS and the drivers. They know who's in the car (driver and passenger). Not so with Taxi
So that Uber can use this data for sleazy blog posts, or to strong arm journalists that they don't like? This alone is such a gross privacy violation that I will never, ever use this company.
3. Drivers are rated on uber. A couple of bad ratings and they're out. Not so with taxi.
Taxi drivers are vetted, licensed and insured. Good luck to reclaim potentially hundreds of thousands of Euros for hospital costs from your Uber driver. Because his insurance will sure as hell not pay. The drivers 5 star rating will help you exactly zilch if such a situation occurs.
4. Uber requires no cash.
We're taking about using Uber in Europe, which (depending on the country) is far less a credit card based society than the US. In addition the "less reason got assault" argument is spurious, at best. Apart from the fact that this very, very rarely happens in most European cities a potential assailant doesn't know if you carry cash or not.
While I agree that assaults by Uber drivers are rare (even though they are pretty poorly vetted unless it becomes a pr problem) the insurance argument and Uber's callous disregard for the privacy of their customers are deal killers for me.
Numerous? This article cites a few isolated cases among the 100+ million rides per year facilitated by Uber. Even if you assume incidents are under reported, assaults and rapes are clearly extremely rare outlier events here.
What a terrible name. So it is non-private private networking, great distinction there DO. I wonder why people are confused..?
What about "Shared Intranet" instead. Why has the word "intranet" fallen out of style? And why use the word private to describe something that is inherently non-private by design?
I actually think the addition of this free inter-droplet channel is amazing (and a potential massive cost saver), but the name sucks.
Technically, I think they're correct with their definition[1]. However, they should be more explicit with the "Shared" part and have some better documentation rather than an announcement blog post[2], a community guide[3], and a moderator comment on that community guide [4]. Especially in today's privacy-conscious world.
Having said that, people who are concerned about privacy should always be validating their setups themselves. The maxim of "trust but verify" comes to mind.
Couldn't you technically call the internet a non-private private network? It's all networks. The private/public part depends on the context you're talking about.
An example is that a network at starbucks is private to the people at the starbucks, but public in a sense that anyone there can connect.
Perhaps they should indicate "shared private" more clearly in the droplet settings. Their usage of private network seems to be just referring to RFC 1918 addresses an not much else but many people will infer more than that.
For the past two years we have been developing a commercial product that we consider to be a Jira replacement. It is much faster, as easy to use as Facebook, and profoundly more intuitive to work with and learn. Plus it provides full PSA capability (time, billing, expenses, forecasting/scheduling), and can be used for to model the entire business process, not just software development.
Like anything else, there are things we've chosen not to implement in a V1 release, that we will add in later releases. We focused on differentiating ourselves in the market, not just doing a better job of what Jira does.
So, there is hope. :) It's 'real'. It's awesome. And it's just a few months from Release.
100% this! I'm seeing more and more tweets that are entire pages of text in JPEG format. I can't really say it's a failed medium, because obviously Twitter has massive usage, but it doesn't really seem like progress.
Sadly, because tweetstorms are getting more and more popular. I think it gives people a superiority feeling ("aha, look at how much brilliance I can convey in so few characters!"), whereas the reader is just frustrated.
It's not "exploiting others' fears" when there is actual evidence that Uber has tracked journalists and other high profile figures, and top execs have brashly threatened to spend millions investigating journalists' personal lives. This is disgusting.
top execs have brashly threatened to spend millions investigating journalists' personal lives
Nope. ONE exec went on a rant at a party about what HE would hypothetically like to do to a self-declared enemy of the company. Have you ever been really frustrated with someone and said "Ugh sometimes I'd like to ring his/her neck" or similar? Now imagine someone overheard you, took it literally, and called the person you were frustrated with. Sensing an opportunity to exploit the situation, they call the police, contact Senators about you, and write a blog post about how you threatened to eradicate him/her and everyone they've ever spoken to from the planet in the most violent possible way - all in an effort to get clicks on ads on your blog. That is basically what happened here.
