My second hand experience is not from Hertz, but another rental company.
The company bought a mixture of Teslas and misc. other EVs. In addition, they ignored installing any charging infrastructure at their smaller locations. The EV can't be rented below 80%, and the operator does not have the ability to charge the EV onsite. This takes the EV out of the fleet until either the company sends a driver to pick up the EV or the local operator takes the car somewhere to charge it. The location that I am very familiar with just let most returned EVs just sat unused.
At one point this local operator had 10 EVs waiting to be charged. Eventually the company sent a driver to pick most of them up.
This isn't the only problem with rental EVs, but the lack of forethought in deployment cost this rental company a fortune.
A C&D will not get anyone's attention, outside of the recipient.
Someone being charged with a felony carrying up to 5 years in jail, will hopefully deter some of the con artists from coming in after a storm. The hordes of "helpers" that come into the state after a storm is ridiculously large. Any deterrence is a good thing.
Apple should allow to do this in Software.
Make the lockdown mentioned in the link happen immediately when USB is disconnected, forcing you to retype the PIN every time.
Could be a cool feature for the privacy concerned crowd.
Unless I'm mistaken, this is the way that Android already works. If you plug in a locked phone, you must unlock it to get any USB data connection to the phone. When a phone with a data connection is unplugged, the permissions immediately reset and you have to unlock the phone again to restart a data connection.
Not only that, on my Nexus 5x, I have to manually switch from charging mode to data transfer mode every time (the setting doesn't stick).
Unless I've misunderstood the significance of this change, Android actually provides much more security since you can't download files off a locked phone, not even within 7 days.
Yes, the iPhone is the same. You get a ‘Trust this computer?’ prompt which forces you to unlock the phone first.
The trouble is, this is still a data path that has been opened via USB. This new change disables the data path altogether and just allows charging via the USB power pins only - like its a USB battery or USB fan, simply power and nothing else. Which is pretty neat.
Because then you can’t plug in the device and have it sync automatically. It’s a security/convenience trade off.
By the way they don’t use the same pins as USB of course because they have their own connectors. And disabling access to the audio dongle while the device is locked wouldn’t make sense.
We might be talking about different types of epoxy... I have two part "high temperature" putty epoxy at home that is stopping a loose bracket from rattling on my furnace. Significantly hotter than a hair dryer in that spot. It was $5 at Home Depot.
That's where stock instead of cash makes sense. If you are solely responsible for the direction of the company and overseeing the execution of that direction like a c-level executive, you should get paid in stock. If you do your job right, your stock value goes up and you become richer as a reward for doing a good job. If you do poorly, you lose money as a punishment.
If a CEO is making $100m per year in cash, there is no incentive to do a good job. Especially if they do so poorly they get fired, which means they get a $500m bonus as a reward for being fired.
Yeah, so CEO just single-handedly drove company from $100M business to $4B and the rest of company workers had nothing to do with it? Or did they all received multi-million compensation for that? Nobody denies that CEOs have huge impact on company as they make strategical decisions, but their compensation is vastly exaggerated just because they are first in the line after money, can see how much company really makes and accurately measure their actions in monetary value imho. The last part is especially important, because every time I've asked for a raise the first question is: "what did you do for a company and what positive impact it has had?". Answering that question in lines of: "oh, I made that decision which increased every worker's efficiency by 300% doing this operation thus saving company X millions, here's a chart to prove it" is much stronger than saying: "I wrote a tool that saves my co-workers extra few clicks, nothing fancy actually", even though when talking about the same thing.
There are exceptions, but even then they're not only few and far between, but also occupy a vague area where it's all one big counterfactual argument about whether someone else could've done the same thing and whether the die was largely cast anyway.
Part of helping underserved communities would be to move some of the business outside the Valley and major metro areas. Find the mid to small cities and spread the wealth.
...well, the line between spreading the wealth and gentrification is a bit fuzzy.
I'm not convinced what's happening in SF, and starting to happen in Oakland, is actually desirable by the residence that were there before tech people showed up.
I think it's much better that Jack donates to help public schools, libraries, arts & crafts, other recreational activities in underserved communities.... without sending the gentrification catalyst into them.
This is quite true, the way companies hyper-concentrate is not really given much thought it seems. There are obviously benefits to concentration when it comes to fostering innovation but like everything I imagine there is a point of diminishing returns beyond which the benefits turn to negative.
A similar phenomenon can be seen in the DC area, all the companies are hyper-concentrated in NoVa creating a miserable commuting situation for hundreds of thousands of area residents, meanwhile a city like Baltimore a mere 40 miles away is completely ignored when it comes to locating offices.
Turing only acquired the US marketing rights. Someone else is making the drug. So that doesn't change the FDA licensing, but they get to increase the price in the US.
The company bought a mixture of Teslas and misc. other EVs. In addition, they ignored installing any charging infrastructure at their smaller locations. The EV can't be rented below 80%, and the operator does not have the ability to charge the EV onsite. This takes the EV out of the fleet until either the company sends a driver to pick up the EV or the local operator takes the car somewhere to charge it. The location that I am very familiar with just let most returned EVs just sat unused.
At one point this local operator had 10 EVs waiting to be charged. Eventually the company sent a driver to pick most of them up.
This isn't the only problem with rental EVs, but the lack of forethought in deployment cost this rental company a fortune.