A Month of Surveillance by GPS Is up to 6,875 Times Cheaper Than Using People
businessweek.com2 pointsby bonemachine0 comments
Some of the blows have been self-inflicted,
like venture capitalists who compare progressivism
to Nazism or who block access to public beaches.
I mean, I know that libertarian types (in SV and elsewhere) don't seem to put much stock in this "public property" concept, generally, but is there some particular local controversy they're alluding to here? When drivers accept a call, furthermore, they need to
interface with the app. The suit goes on to note that
under California law, it is illegal to use a “wireless
telephone” while driving unless it is specifically
configured to be hands-free — which the app is not. In
essence, the suit argues that Uber was negligent in the
“development, implementation and use of the app” so as
to cause the driver to be distracted and inattentive. In December 2012, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Lanny
Breuer suggested that the U.S. government might resist
criminal prosecution of HSBC which could lead to the loss
of the bank's U.S. charter. He stated, "Our goal here
is not to bring HSBC down, it's not to cause a systemic
effect on the economy, it's not for people to lose
thousands of jobs."
Source: http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/12/news/companies/hsbc-money-la... http://www.kpcb.com/teams/partners-emeriti http://www.kpcb.com/partner/tom-perkins
To quote from KPCB's own linking page to the above: