hmmmmm
Technology – Keepod
Criticism levelled at Keepod personal computer USB sticks –
Bah! It’s like Dawson wrote the article, I can’t take it seriously.
It’s by no means perfect but the “criticism” seems to be only taking selective parts of the plan in. If they can come up with replicable model for something resembling an internet cafe, using cheaply refurbished out-of-date hardware for the computer stations it could be a real game changer. In terms of technology access and keeping all of that nasty, dangerously toxic shit that comes along with technology-trash out of the ground/water.
The marketing or whatever is over the top but I think that says more about current societal patterns than their business plan.
I like it.
Technology – Keepod
Keepod: Can a $7 stick provide billions computer access?
Slow down there. Let’s see if it creates a sustainable model (i.e can be recreated again and again) in rural areas with limited electricity that can be first.
Technology – Keepod
Keepod: Wasting $40,000 to Reinvent Linux on a Stick
So you’re not enabling billions to have a computer, you’re enabling billions to boot from a USB stick and save their own desktop settings versus using a shared computer and just saving files to/from the USB stick (if they had a computer), which they could already do before with a bootable USB Ubuntu/Android/whatever.
Unfortunately I think you, the author, are missing out on part of what’s going on here. ..And it’s taking away from any credible points you may be making. Let me walk you through it.
Accessibility means something very different to uninitiated computer users than it does to someone who knows how to save their setting files, etc. on a usb stick. Gasp, I know it is a shock but a large group of contemporary technology users would know how to do that.
..That, BTW, is partially the fault of the technology industry and computer geeks like yourself. Between planned obsolesce and pushing out new versions of things constantly you all move things around, a lot. I can see lots of way this habit can work out in your favor. For example, it keeps repair and upgrade and additional revenue streams. But it does mean you all need to shut the fuck up about computers being so easy. The foreground apps are totally easy to use. The background stuff is designed not to be. So sit down and shut the fuck. Your solution is not the right one for people who have used a computer before.
While we’re clearing obvious shit up, you don’t ask someone who has never used a computer to use Linux. That’s like asking someone to freaking ballroom dance before they can walk.
Sigh… Computer geeks are in a bubble. Things that are obvious and commonplace to them are actually not really so common among the non-coding, non techie public.
Rikers – Police
Officer Is Charged With Lying in Rikers Inmate’s Death
Ten months later they file charges for lying? I guess something is better than nothing….
Police
Tamir Rice’s Mother Wants Charges Against Police And Says Son Had ‘A Promising Future’
The mother of a 12-year-old Cleveland boy fatally shot by police last month broke her silence on Monday, saying the officers involved should be criminally convicted.
“I’m looking for a conviction for both of the officers,” Samaria Rice, the mother of Tamir Rice, said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” program.
Me too, Mam. Me too.
Aghhhhh! This country!!!
Police
Police Face a Long and Complex Task to Mend Distrust Deepened by Killings
What a coincidence. It was a long a complex road for the people to become more afraid of the cops than the criminals too!
Police
Conor Friedersdorf for the The Atlantic: Applying ‘Broken Windows’ to the Police
“In poorer neighborhoods, overly aggressive officers are too often a source of community anxiety. Their misbehavior contributes to disorder.”
This is absolutely brilliant.
Police
Unarmed People of Color Killed by Police, 1999-2014
Oh, the unbelievably intense humanity….
Police
Philly Mayor: ‘You Have Some Police Officers Who are Increasingly Afraid of the Community’
Gosh, that is crazy. Especially since the community is increasingly afraid of them. What a freaking coincidence. Now, let’s break this down. Who works for who? Whose job is it to protect who again?
Sigh….
Police
Santa Clara: Police expected to address video of cops’ clash with fan at Pac-12 title game
Jim Dudley, a former San Francisco police commander who lectures in criminal justice at San Francisco State University, said it’s difficult to gauge from the video how much resistance officers are encountering.
“To the third party, someone might look like a passive resister. But once you put hands on and they stiffen up, pull away, or try to walk away, then that changes into active resisting, and you can ramp up use of force in those situations,” he said. “But it still looks passive to a third party, and to them it doesn’t appear that the force is justified.”
Nah, it ain’t that hard. Like for example, what you just said. That is not a level of resistance that justifies putting someone in a headlock and beating them with a baton. See? Easy peasy.
