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In my mind, Eric was the inventor. I paid him in 2000 to add some uClinux / Busybox code to the Coldfire project for my Blabbermouth product at airlib.com.
I would probe the uClinux guys, Lineo, Greg Ungerer, Phil Wilshire...

Sometimes its the guy who "ran with it" who assumes ownership....
After the fact, that is tough to swallow. And the Busybox name and concept is genius whoever did it.
Merry Christmas

I agree with you, but let me share a story.
Friend of mine had 4 girl daughters, me, I had no kids.
I was blathering on about no-government, yadda, let parents decide if kids smoke dope, etc, when my friend with 4 daughters looked at me and said,
"I hear you, but when you become a parent, and your kids become teens, you will be thankful for any help from the government in this area".

I know now what he meant....

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Unfortunately if you have read the description for Chrome-OS, Chrome will probably be our future! It is simplier, no bios, yadda, but relies on 100% connectivity which is hard to believe and pay for....
So, go-Chrome or go-home I guess....

35mph

Whats wierd is it claims a "weather sensor". eg a small spinner catching wind I guess...
BTW, wheres the SDK? I cant find it?

Merry Christmas

Heres a wall projector/camera idea my son and I built.
Its going in our church after Christmas.
It shows shapes on the wall that dance around if you smack them.
So its good for non-readers.
It was designed for "take away" messages at the exit of a science center. Eg, a quiz with A-B multiple choice, scoring, takes your picture if you win and keeps it on the wall.
But for 3 graders, I had an app that shows animals. If you smack the wall over the animal, it moved to a different square. Its all written in Hornetseye which you can find on the web. Let me know if I can help. Source code, whatever, you are welcomed to it.
how to build a wallthing

Hey, help us out at 10 seconds can save a life -jim

I truly believe that about a year ago, something changed. I can't put my finger on it, but there has to be an internal memo somewhere that specified putting-the-brakes on edits. A year ago you could put your rock-band on wikipedia, but now you can't.

Q: Where can I download all of wikipedia?
Yes, remain under the license-of-the-day, but perhaps I want to filter it a bit for my kids.
Where is the wikipedia.zip file?

Not allowed on wikipedia

I tried to get our speed limit site called Wikispeedia under the wikimedia umbrella, sort of a way to introduce our open-government stuff.
They said I need to join OSM which is a possibility.
Out of spike, I put our speed limits in the Firefox side-wiki since they wouldn't let me put any edits on their speed limit page..

What I really detest is their SF stance on porn. Thats what will kill them, once the high schools wise up to this hole in their knowledge dyke!

Cum shot

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.

Do you think the nhtsa is afraid of Wikispeedia ?
Doubtful, they will ultimately compete and win...

I cant click on the links because my company block tpb.
Can someone repost the article on csmonitor or somewhere, pretty please.....
Give me more cow bell

One answer. Waiting List. Your students [and teachers] are only as good as the waiting list.
Item 2: Certification is over-rated, its just a way for U of [fill in the blank] to make money. If you can't read, you should sue the University that forced the certification, [but don't get me started on that].
BTW. years ago I tried to raise money to build what I called a datadesk. [I did teach] Its a way to make an uncheatable hard test that is easy to grade. Take a look, I uploaded a crude example I just conjured up.... Datadesk

Save lives. No registration, no cost, two minutes of your time.
jim

One answer. Waiting List. Your students [and teachers] are only as good as the waiting list.
Item 2: Certification is over-rated, its just a way for U of [fill in the blank] to make money. If you can't read, you should sue the University that forced the certification, [but don't get me started on that].
BTW. years ago I tried to raise money to build what I called a datadesk. [I did teach] Its a way to make an uncheatable hard test that is easy to grade. Take a look, I uploaded a crude example I just conjured up.... Datadesk

Save lives. No registration, no cost, two minutes of your time.
jim

Agreed. I tell my 12 year old to question all news, and more importantly, to realize that "to yell is to sell", [fear that is]. I turned my TV off after the Nov election. I watch movies and foxnews.com. The only reason I choose Fox is because I don't like the lock CNN has in the airports. I travel every week and it isn't fair that I am forced to watch CNN. Hey slashdot, someone write a map app showing "quiet" spots in airports. Thats where I sit.

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So you resent that the owners of the airport have the ability to control the stations on the TV's they bought and provide on their property? Interesting...

Agreed. I tell my 12 year old to question all news, and more importantly, to realize that "to yell is to sell", [fear that is]. I turned my TV off after the Nov election. I watch movies and foxnews.com. The only reason I choose Fox is because I don't like the lock CNN has in the airports. I travel every week and it isn't fair that I am forced to watch CNN. Hey slashdot, someone write a map app showing "quiet" spots in airports. Thats where I sit.

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Heres some code you can start with. You could make it use mysql locally and not rely on cellular-data which that one does.

Add one using the DONATE(W) button on the website if you want so I know what area you live in.

-jim

Hey Steve,

Fight back by adding some speed limits at Wikispeedia

Its us fighting back.

I am holding out for Whitespace data in a year or so.

Submit a speed limit here

I designed an Android App. I am pretty sure you can run the GPS with the SIM card out, or w/o a voiceplan. Thats what I want also... Then I will run VoIP and never need a voiceplan. Thats the future and the carriers hate it.

The day will come when you say, "hmmm, wonder if my phone will do that", [aka maps], probably while in line at BestBuy buying a TomTom.

You are correct, the Android must be cheap, but also, I think they should come bundled with a dashboard-mount. I hate determining which "mount" to buy..

Give me more speed limit...

put up a picture/link of your shop.

Donate time, not money

Until I see a graph from consumer reports, I don't believe anything.

Donate time, not money

There needs to be a 5 year "promise" of service by Amazon. I for one wouldn't move my junk to them without a 5 year "community pledge" or something. When a big company starts providing everything, it scares me. The only way I would sleep at night using them is if/when my servers were burning up.

wikispeedia

why, is "pee" trademarked ;-)

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"I need more speedlimit"

tragic, horrible, I agree and I too want it stopped. Its just an argument of how.
So here we are, you and I, arguing on how... I wonder if you really want to help or are just venting. Heres what I have done. What have you done. I mean that to provoke goodness in you, not to continue our argument. You and I are close to agreement I imagine....
Founder
blog
I founded a facebook group on "gizmo to keep kids from dying in hot cars", but I dumped facebook so I cant find it.

Thomas Edison spent his last 30 years in court. Patents suck. BTW, I have 6 of them...
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Add a speed limit human.

Until wireless is more-open, cloud computing will not reign.
Everytime the wireless breaks, people will want a ground-based-app.
Cloud computing will have to come after routers that are more sophistocated.
Eg a router like dd-wrt where mere mortals don't instantly turn on WPA locks.
Lets have some factory open unrestricted bandwidth, or idle-open-bandwidth and help seed the cloud.



Add a speedlimit here, its a cloud.
http://www.wikispeedia.org/

I disagree. (BTW, you gotta read these funny things on wired.)
Reading your past articles I assumed your were "in the biz", but perhaps I was wrong.
IMHO, police are human. They profile every time they blink. Racial, men/women, bias, looking for work, spotty coverage. Where the police go, white flight ensues.

They[police] need to stay put and let us call them. Have an anonymous iPhone app that citizens use to record crime and submit as evidence. What we do is none of their business. If it ain't bothering someone, it ain't a crime. The police never witness anything except speeding, and that will soon be covered by smart-road technology.

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Heres a positive step. Submit a speedlimit.
Open speedlimits

Are you kidding. GPS is just wreaking of bells-and-whistles that GM/Toyota will never satisfy. Until they put a hole in the dash for 3rd party engine rewiring, then the accessory market will thrive, especially in GPS evolution.

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Speedlimits
New Android app needs your help.
The Future.

This is gps-evolution. Heres a cloud you might want to fly into. Its a speedlimit cloud.

Android App to alert speeding.

Wikispeedia

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

I have a simple solution.
  Increase speedlimits after hours.
  Isn't that simple? The truckers will grab it quick. Problem solved.

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Donate 1 minute to add a speedlimit on Open speedlimit database

I have seen the Internet from the 70's. TPB are visionaries. They have families, and to hold on as long as they did is downright martyrdom. My wife would have left me years ago for such a cause...

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http://www.wikispeedia.org/
Open Speedlimit Database.
My wife is about to leave me.

The poster will never see this, but you are exactly right. Old-school GPS's will be replaced by Android-app's any day now... Wikispeedia

I agree. Copyright-prohibition is just like whiskey-prohibition. My prediction is an ISP tax benefiting Hollywood. I say fight, don't cave. I did. I started http://www.wikispeedia.org/ before they did! Perhaps I can save a couple billion!

I feel your pain. Find something to do. I started a speed limit campaign http://www.wikispeedia.org/ It helps medicate me.

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

I agree. How did Robin go from zipcar to mesh?
I had an MBA friend who wanted to market a cordless hairdryer. I just shook my head.


Robin, I have a good cause, help me out. Its called wikispeeedia . It helps people be safe if they want to.


We need to take back OUR roads.

I own wikispeedia
What me worry.....

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