Rants at a picnic…

The Good Stuff — Episode 1: Take THAT, plastic bags! « The Story of Stuff Project.

When I was little, we always had huge stacks of paper grocery bags around the house. They never got thrown away. I never even thought of it. When you took your groceries out, they just about folded themselves back up. All you had to do was put them in the stack. We used them for everything. You could ripen bananas in them. You could store potatoes in them. But they weren’t just limited to food! We covered all of our school books with brown paper from cut up grocery bags. The uses were limitless, and there were always bags at home when you wanted one. (more…)

Basically, she gets told she needs this tiny computer (It’s a pacemaker!) installed in her body, and she immediately wants to know what its running! And why not? How can you trust the creator of the software to create a perfect device? Is it reliable? Is it stable? Are there security issues? None of these questions can be answered without access to the source code. Well done, Karen Sandler! You’ve asked the right questions.

Running time: 42 minutes, 45 seconds

Cyborg lawyer demands software source – Software – News – ZDNet Australia.