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  1. It takes a village or 1 private school by cellurl · · Score: 1 · on Obama Kicks Off Massive Science Education Effort

    Many things in education just won't happen, so I don't fight that. If you are a parent fighting for education, you will give up once your kids leave. Its the half-life of the eduma-fight, about 10 years....

    Here is a picture I drew to explain the expense in the system

    I taught for a year. That drawing is correct down to the name on the door in Memphis TN, The office reads "Certificated teachers".

    Heres my solution and a little background. In Scuba their is NAUI and PADDI. In politics their is Red/Blue. In testing their is the SAT / ACT.
    In teacher certification their needs competition, lets call them Scert [state] and Pcert [parent]. I just made that name up, Parent certification is my name.

    Competition in certification would bring this lopsided system back in check.

    -jim Save a life for free.

  2. Buy the Land Behind Walmart by cellurl · · Score: 1 · on Is Sat-Nav Destroying Local Knowledge?

    The land behind Walmart will soon become valuable.

    After you buy at walmart, ask your netbook where you can buy some fresh berries, and it will show a 50% off coupon for the next 10 minutes along with reviews so you know the mechant is real and open for biz. Then you will discover hes located in a iff-ey neighborhood behind your Walmart, but its daytime so what the heck, you give it a go. If it went ok, you write a review which is published in 1 minute and others join you. Its a beautiful migration out of the big stores, a risky endeavour, but an exciting hunting expedition.

    This will jumpstart mom and pops and give the feds new people to tax. ;-).

    BTW, I use a Speederaser to avoid speeding. I also contribute to an open source speed limit database called Wikispeedia. I hope you will contribute there.

    -jim

    Blog

  3. Re:Speed Limits Change by cellurl · · Score: 1 · on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices

    My wife uses a speederaser and hasn't gotten a speeding ticket in years.
    http://www.gpscruise.com/
    It lets you change the speed and share it with others, not realtime but nightly-ish.

  4. Re:GPS needs to know road directions by cellurl · · Score: 1 · on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices

    These guys sell a gps cruise control called the speederaser.
    http://www.gpscruise.com/



    As far as content, we have some of that at wiki-speedia.
    http://www.wikispeedia.org/
    Open source speed limit database.
    -jim

  5. Get a Speederaser-I by cellurl · · Score: 1 · on Auto Safety Tech May Encourage Dangerous Driving

    I use a Speederaser-I that helps me use my cruise control more often, even off-highway.
    If I turn the cruise off, it goes away.
    Cheap and handy. http://www.gpscruise.com/

  6. Re:Too Many Traps by cellurl · · Score: 1 · on New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps

    I don't know where crowd-data does more than give you busywork.

    While busywork is fun, you might also consider an advanced cruise-control (ACC)

    I use a Speederaser. Cheap, universal. Everyone hates it until they try it. It helps you relax, trust me, you won't miss your rage...

    It is nice to see Microsoft doing something that I suspected Google was doing. Competition is good. -cellurl

  7. Re:The privacy post by cellurl · · Score: 1 · on Project Turns GPS Phones Into Traffic Reporters

    I put it on a webpage below for you.
    http://www.gpscruise.com/press_release_to_general_public.html
    Hopefully that will let your proxy be happy. Let me know what you think! -jp

  8. Re:The privacy post by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 1 · on Project Turns GPS Phones Into Traffic Reporters

    http://www.wikispeedia.org/ [wikispeedia.org] Here's another item I am promoting. Its not free but useful. Slashdot won't cover it. http://www.gpscruise.com/ [gpscruise.com] What do you think? -jim

    I look at the first and I think "um, okaaaay... what's the point? I can see speed limit signs for myself as I drive...". Alas, I can't look at the second because it redirects to a google doc, which my company's proxy blocks.

  9. Re:The privacy post by cellurl · · Score: 2 · on Project Turns GPS Phones Into Traffic Reporters

    I completely agree. I also question slashdot's motives at promoting Nokia. Ok, here goes: I am promoting this: Its free now, but probably not later. I suck! http://www.wikispeedia.org/ Here's another item I am promoting. Its not free but useful. Slashdot won't cover it. http://www.gpscruise.com/ What do you think? -jim

  10. Re:open street map? by carterson2 · · Score: 1 · on Open US GPS Data?

    We have an open map project. We map the location of speed limit signs. Its to prevent speeding and hook to your cruise control. Its called the Open-Speed-Limit-Database. Tampa, CedarRapids, Memphis (even a guy in UK) has started submitting signs. You can help, its open source. To make money, I sell collection-kits to make gathering gps data easier. Take a look! http://www.osldb.org/ http://www.gpscruise.com/