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Natalie Matthews writes that a year ago, a friend of hers left her two roommates at a bar to walk the three blocks home to their apartment in a yuppie Boston neighborhood. "She wanted decent sleep before a Saturday morning exercise class; her friends wanted late night food. Instead, she was jumped by a stranger on the curb of her apartment building, brutally raped, and beaten in her living room while her roommates ate burritos, none the wiser," writes Matthews. " If she'd done something, anything, differently, would it have changed the outcome of her night? It's an unproductive exercise, both she and I know. And yet when I heard about Kitestring, she was the first thought that flashed in my mind, because maybe Kitestring would have helped her, had it existed then."
Kitestring is a new service that aims to make sure people get from point A to point B safely, notifying their emergency contacts if they don't. You tell Kitestring that you're in a dangerous place or situation, and give it a time frame of when to check in on you. If you don't reply back when it checks your status, it'll alert your emergency contacts with a custom message you set up. "Perfect for blind or online meet-up dates, walking home at night, or feeling safe in any dangerous situation, Kitestring is like the virtual mom I've always needed," writes Mary Rockcastle, "especially if your mom is like mine and is never awake past 8:30pm."
(Score: 1) by Jerry Smith on Monday April 28 2014, @09:43AM
Yes, disagreement equals troll. Slashdot all over again.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 28 2014, @10:11AM
I'm not the person who modded you down (but posting anon because I DO have mod points).
I saw your first message and considered downmodding it myself. I'm not sure I would have marked it "troll" but I can see why the other modder did - SN has no option for "-1 unintelligible".
Your first post made no sense at all, it was composed of unrelated sentence fragments that completely failed to make any kind of point.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 28 2014, @10:30AM
Yeah I guess I shouldn't have read the article.
(Score: 1) by http on Monday April 28 2014, @12:28PM
Hardly.
Your comment presents specious arguments in a plausible way but completely without the redeeming trait of humour - thus it meets the canonical definition of troll (not the modern useage, "abrasive or offensive.")
I browse at -1 when I have mod points. It's unsettling.