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6 posts tagged technology
Randall Stross of NYT looks at the growing trend of police officers wearing tiny cameras to record all of their interactions with civilians. It may sound intimidating, but at least one study shows this is a very good thing:
THE Rialto study began in February 2012 and will run until this July. The results from the first 12 months are striking. Even with only half of the 54 uniformed patrol officers wearing cameras at any given time, the department over all had an 88 percent decline in the number of complaints filed against officers, compared with the 12 months before the study, to 3 from 24.
Rialto’s police officers also used force nearly 60 percent less often…
Part of this reminds me of Google Glass. Part of it reminds me of End of Watch. Also interesting: Taser makes these cameras — yes, that Taser.
[via @cdixon]
More evidence that Google Glass will go the same way as Segways. Cool tech for mall cops.
Click, Print, Gun: The Inside Story of the 3D-Printed Gun Movement
Snip from youtube:
Cody R Wilson has figured out how to print a semi-automatic rifle from the comfort of his own home. Now he’s putting all the information online so that others will join him.
This is a story about the rapid evolution of a technology that has forced the American legal system to play catch up. Cody Wilson, a 24 year old University of Texas Law student, is an advocate for the open source production of firearms using 3D printing technology. This makes him a highly controversial figure on both sides of the gun control issue. MOTHERBOARD sat down with Cody in Austin, Texas to talk about the constitution, the legal system, and to watch him make and test-fire a 3D-printed gun.
[via nerdcore] [more @motherboard]
Scary.
John Gruber absolutely eviscerates this article by Tim Wu of The New Yorker.
Wu made the all-too-common mistake of reaching a conclusion first and then trying to contort facts to make his thesis work. It does not. In any way. The “open” vs. “closed” nonsense Wu is trying to sell falls almost immediately with the very existence of Linux and well, even the history of Apple itself — Gruber:
Even more telling, and more damning to Wu’s use of this as a case study, is that soon after Windows 95, Apple radically opened up the Mac OS, in a use of the word “open” that Wu expressly states is what he means by the term: they licensed the OS to other PC makers to produce Mac clones. This was the most open decision — in Wu’s sense of the word open — in the entire history of Apple Computer Inc.
And it nearly bankrupted the company.
That’s about 700 words in, the next 3,000 words simply ad insult to injury and should embarrass The New Yorker.
Gruber even gives Wu what should have been the correct thesis for this story:
Companies run by geniuses should generally do better than those which are not. That sounds about right.
Further, good products tend to trump not-as-good products — “open” vs. “closed” has very little to do with that. Shocking, I know.
I was surprised the New Yorker would run such a dumbed down article that oversimplifies why certain tech companies are successful. Open vs. close is only one of many, many factors.
Terrence O’Brien for Engadget:
We’ve caught glimpses of Mozilla’s smartphone offspring before, but Mobile World Congress 2013 was really the proper coming out party. Finally we’ve been given a chance to touch it, see it action and peek at the hardware it’ll be running on. Unfortunately, at this cotillion, Mozilla failed to make a good case for anyone to court its debutante.
Firefox OS continues to intrigue me in some ways, but overall, I’m getting the sense that O’Brien will be right here. Because, well, history.
I agree, don’t have much expectation for the Firefox phone.
The TB of free cloud storage is awesome! Hope that’s the way these ultralight SSD laptops all go. The 4G option also makes the husband’s prediction that laptops will make a comeback more likely.
Looks like Twitter’s about to launch a video service called Vine
Steak tartare in six seconds. vine.co/v/bOIqn6rLeIDvia @dhof
Above is Dick Costolo testing it out. It looks freaking awesome. Not a ton is known about it yet, though.
I don’t think it looks “freaking awesome” but if it leads to more gif file creation then I’m all for it. :)
