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Kenya To Use Alphabet's Balloons For Rural Internet (reuters.com)
Kenya will reportedly use Alphabet's system of internet balloons to connect its rural population to the web. The balloons, known as Project Loon, were developed by Alphabet's X, the company's innovation lab. It was recently used by U.S. telecom operators to provide connectivity to people in Puerto Rico after a hurricane last year. Reuters reports: Joe Mucheru, the information, communication and technology minister, told Reuters on Wednesday that project representatives were holding talks with local telecom operators on the deployment of the technology. "The Loon team are still working out contracts and hopefully once that is done, we can be able to see almost every part of the country covered," he said. With more than 45 million people, Kenya's major cities and towns are covered by operator networks, but vast swathes of rural Kenya are not covered. "Loon is another technology that is being introduced that the licensed operators hopefully can be able to use," Mucheru said, adding it would help the government meet its goal of reaching everyone. "Connectivity is critical. If you are not online, you are left out."
ANY technology that can start spreading internet access to more people at less cost is unequivocally a GoodThing(TM).
Heck, even here in North Georgia, USA, I'd LOVE to have this as an option. You see, I'm at the mercy of sole-provider Windstream.
Nuff said.
Everybody has personal tastes. Some individuals adore Brussels Sprouts. Other detest them. Some people like rap music others detest it. Each person's personal tastes in as unique as their DNA.
But it goes even deeper. Take race for instance. There are many various racial groups. Some groups get along, others don't .
When it comes to races, people tend to have preferences. It's not different than Brussels sprouts. When someone says "I hate Brussels Sprouts", he doesn't actually hate them, but it's not a food that he enjoys eating. When someone says "I hate Negroes", it doesn't necessarily mean that person hates Negroes, but that they'd rather be around another race instead. It's just a personal preference like tea or coffee, merely a matter personal taste.
Myself, I don't like to be around Negroes. I don't hate them. But there is nothing about them that appeals to me. I don't like the way they talk. I don't like the way they look. I don't like the way they groom themselves. I don't like their music. I don't like what they call their "literature". It's just my personal preference.
For example, the intricacies and art of a Bach fugue are sublime. In my opinion no Negro music even remotely rises to that level. Negro music mostly deals with base, animalistic things. It does not inspire the soul. Of course that is my opinion. If you like Negro music, knock yourself out. I won't stop you.
Let's celebrate true diversity. Associate with races you enjoy being around and enjoy the music you prefer. But don't force your tastes on others. That's not the American way!
It had no groove, no rhythm. It was just math in musical notation.
And played with the bassless screeching and weak instruments of the classic.
Entirely missing the point of music in favor of snobbery.
As a child of the children of immigrant "negroes", you are a disgrace, and as a child of these white children, you insult them too.
Now go ponder how you failed so much at life, that you will cling to this scapegoat for the rest of your life, even if that very act is what keeps it ruined.
news for nerds ... and people who care about iPhone colors ... and email theme colors ...
... and Google gets to track and log all their online activities from day one. It’s a win win!
#DeleteChrome
Kenya is not uninteresting to the paranoid psychopaths running the U.S. Don't underestimate the effects of manipulation of networks, data, and information, now that a U.S-governed commercial and political entity controls your internet.
Nothing helps the schools better than the Internet being litterally supported by a 'stable genius'.
But I guess they are a bunch of loons!
Think it was a typo. It was supossed to be project COON.
I know even today some places have no real effective sanitation systems, or even reliable source of electricity or even running water. But let's focus on getting them up to speed on YouTube, Facebook, and install some balloons that can provide them with internet. Which on the surface seems a bit unstable and not sustainable in the long run. Sometimes you wonder if companies like Google are simply clueless on what is really needed. They think providing internet will save the world and yet for thousands of years nobody had it and did just fine.
HE FROM KENYA TOO
I wonder what effect all that black on white porn viewing is going to have
Really crappy technology, they use it in Puerto Rico, and the wind, fuck the ballons. Please dont give them that shitty tech.
Reminds me of a time when Google "do no evil". Of the things they do these days, only colab still has that tradition.
That is a good thing, more internet with less costly infrastructure ----
alphabet had a balloon over the black rock desert about 9 months ago cruising at 60,000 feet.. picked it up on flightradar24.com -- thought it was for a better burning man event in 2018... who knows..
most of those balloons too were over south america in the Ande's doing some testing and across western US until some lawsuit in the US caused them to pause for station identification....
great stuff...
Put cameras on the Kenyan balloons and use them to search for Obama's birthplace
(ducks)