Affective ad campaigns ever it. It was we try harder. It was for avis. It was behind hertz and not afraid to admit. That they went from a money lose tore profitable overnight and came close to overtaking hertz. I thought of this battle as a notice a marketing push from lyft, it is the second largest Ride Sharing Company behind uber but uber has a reputation as a bully. A company of tech pros. Watch this commercial from lyft. The guys in gray are from uber, even if the ad doesnt admit it. Miami, chicago, seattle, look at them in seattle. Why are all of the lyft drivers so happy. Because they let passengers [ inaudible ]. It is gross. I heard them paid over 100 million in tips to their drivers. Why would they do that . They use the extra money to g buy gifts for their family. [ laughter ] second place lyft is positioning itself as the good guys, the company you could trust. The company you could trust to take your dear grandmother to her hair appointment. In fact, lyft is doing just that
All right, welcome everyone. This is our Second Annual it is becoming an annual tradition what to do this close as possible following devcon, which is very popular for a lot of us. If you are out in las vegas, it would be for you. I am very happy to see so many people in the room, and i know there are more following us online, the internet, twitter, or on cspan. My name is bo woods, i am the director of the diversity initiative. I would like to welcome you to event hosted by the cyber cyber statecraft initiative. I would like to welcome those who are following on the webcast. I encourage you to join the conversation with the twitter hash tagged acccyber. Devcon two d. C. , we hope it will policy forayer of people to understand the significance, urgency and Response Options to the flood of Technical Information from the hacker conference that took place in las vegas. That is devcon, blac chyna black hat, and others. Joinedry pleased to be by a distinguished group of my colleagues and fr
Hipaa. Can you talk about that . There is this unpleasant reality that the internet is a global medium. Google implemented this on hundreds of specific sites where they say all but 5 of the search traffic occurs in the e. U. If you go to france or germany or whatever, you get the unfiltered results. Suppose they decide they do not like that. Do they say you can show those results to people outside the e. U. Proxy servers exist elsewhere. Suddenly you have this regime to stop people from being embarrassed. That seems excessive. This really strikes me as the law equivalent of an older the court kind of did not know how to edit. They said we know this could be exploited but we will figure it out in practice. Can i respond to the wikipedia stuff . Favorite cases when i was a general counsel for wikipedia was this. Two convicted german murderers who had served their time for having killed a german eventuallystar were they served their time and got out on good behavior. They were convicted i
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone. I would like to welcome you to this afternoons session of the washington history seminar and for those of you who dont know the seminar is a joint project of the Woodrow Wilson Centers History and Public Policy program and the american Historical Associations National history center. My name is eric arnesen and im from George Washington university. Im the cochair on behalf of the National History center of the seminar. As is our custom i want to thank two people whose behindthescenes effort makes the seminar possible on a weekly basis. At amanda monies and pete. Its their logistical work that allows us to pull this off. I would also like to express thanks to shafer the society of Foreign Relations whose generous contributions support the seminars activities. Todays speaker is Bartholomew Sparrow who is a professor of government at the university of texas. He is the author of multiple works including from the outside in, world war ii an
Where the sergeant at arms will soon introduce the president and i say soon as one of those sort of variable words because we already know from our producers who are monitoring the timeline sent to us earlier in the day they are by our producers calculations some eight to nine minutes behind schedule. On hand tonight both houses of congress, several Supreme Court justices, the joint chiefs and president s cabinet. One cabinet member will not be present in case of catastrophe and tonight the secretary of energy will not be here, so weve seen an advanced copy of the speech and president obama plans to call for 2014 to be a year of action as he puts it. He plans to ask congress to work with him to create opportunities for folks who are still struggling after the Great Recession but the president will also make clear, we are told, that he is willing to go around congress when he must. We expect him to outline a dozen or so executive actions, one of those in order to raise the minimum wage