If I had to guess, it was an internal job from a disgruntled employee with access to hijack users’ email address. Change their email address, reset password, open the email and then you can login. They might also need access to change the 2FA phone number if it was set.
> I gather that these are beginning to come into existence for taxi companies
There is a lot of value in having only one or two major players in this space. I often travel and use Lyft or Uber to get around. If you have to Google 3 companies every time your plane lands in a new city and create a new account and add your credit card, that is a tremendous hassle.
Only if their parents hadn't taken their phones away from either of them, and the SMS went through immediately without fail. It's rare, but the latter still happens to me sometimes even when the network appears to be working fine otherwise.
I believe this will be the first iteration of autonomous truck driving.
> Then, truckers could go to work 9-5 and be home for dinner with their families every night.
You seem to indicate this will be good for the drivers, but it won't be. The bad news is you couldn't take all of the current drivers and consolidate them into "last mile" drivers. There will be A LOT more physical work involved since drivers will no longer be sitting and driving 99% of the time. And there will be fewer hours driven by humans, so it will truly be survival of the fittest.
Old and less able-bodied drivers will be forced to retire or switch careers. It will probably be impossible for someone new to get into the industry and to be honest, it would be a poor career move to try to get into the industry at this point. The drivers that remain will continue to fight tooth and nail to block full autonomous driving, but every hour they spend fighting is an hour less that they will be earning money in a career that will eventually be extinct.
It sucks that so many people will lose their livelihoods, but it really is inevitable. And big retail stores will die, too, unless they are automate the whole "last mile" delivery. Loading docks and warehouses will have to adapt or the retailers/shippers will die, too.
> to be honest, it would be a poor career move to try to get into the industry at this point.
... Isn't that sort of the point? Should we be designing our society around people getting into an industry for its own sake? Bare minimum, for jobs that are going to go away or be depleted, it seems like pretty solid market economics (and I'm not into capitalism) that reduced demand for labor in a job should most affect the people least committed to that job.
I'm American and I learned to drive in a stick shift. My first 13 years of driving was with a stick. But it got to a point where it was just too difficult to find a stick version of the cars I wanted to get, so now I drive automatics.
I get the reason why some people insist driving sticks. You feel more "in tune" and "in control" with your car. But for the vast majority, this is completely unnecessary. Most people just want to get from point A to point B in one piece. For these people, feeling more in control of your car is as unnecessary as feeling more in control of a hand-cranked window over a power window.
Eventually we'll all be in self-driving cars and this whole debate will seem silly and trivial. "Automatics" will eventually include automatic turning and automatic braking and all things automatic.
> First by forcing them to use Windows Mobile (or Windows Phone, or whatever it was called) when it was clear to all they needed to go with Android
There's no way that Microsoft bought Nokia to concentrate on making that tiny hardware subdivision profitable (MSFT's market cap is $700B+ and they bought Nokia for $7.6B). They wanted a hardware platform to promote Windows Phone. For Microsoft, the dying entity in need of a Hail Mary was Windows Phone, not Nokia.
Are you talking about people adjusting their clocks and their bodies to accommodate the change in time? Very few people have a big problem with that.
The problems arise when accommodating the change programmatically in code. How many times did Apple fuck this up with the first few versions of the iPhone with alarms not going off at the right time?
Never had this issue. And again, at least in Central Europe they do the change from Saturday to Sunday when it’s understood that most people have less constraints with tight times and alarms.
Considering that heart attacks rise right after the time change, and other people have sleep issues, I would guess a lot of people have a problem with adjusting their internal clicks.
