Wozniak Unveils WozNet

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Posted by simoniker on Monday July 21, 2003 @06:19AM from the track-your-spare-tags-with-tags dept.

dki writes "Steve Wozniak's WozNet is covered in an article at the New York Times today. His company Wheels of Zeus, mentioned previously on Slashdot last year, plans to create wireless networks that use GPS to track clusters of electronic tags within a 1- or 2-mile radius of a base station. The tags "will be able to generate alerts, notifying the owner by phone or e-mail message when a child arrives at school, a dog leaves the yard or a car leaves the parking lot.""

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Too little, too late. by grub · 2003-07-21 06:20 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I lost that can of Guinness last weekend and I want it now, Woz!

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Just peachy by sulli · 2003-07-21 06:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

So the guy who helped bring us The Personal Computer is now making spy tools for meddling parents and divorce lawyers? Thanks a lot, bucko!

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Re:double standards at slashdot by JZ_Tonka · 2003-07-21 06:23 · Score: 0, Flamebait

You're new here, aren't you.
Who is that? Steve Wozniak? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-21 06:26 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I'm too lazy to yahoo it.
It's worse than we thought by Jonsey · 2003-07-21 06:27 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I have seen Big Brother. And he uses a Mac. :: Shudder ::

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Child owners will love them!!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-21 08:05 · Score: -1, Flamebait

# The tags "will be able to generate alerts,
# notifying the *owner* by phone or e-mail message
# when a *child* arrives at school, a dog leaves
# the yard or a car leaves the parking lot.
That's great! Owners of children will love them!
They can lock a steel-renforced dog collar with
around Jeremy's neck with one of these tags, so they
can be sure he isn't skipping school!
Re:Is this so bad? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-21 09:08 · Score: -1, Flamebait

"You clearly haven't spend much time around children so, maybe you should STFU.."
Well, you're clearly not a very good parent, so maybe you should suck a fart out of my ass. Anyone dumb enough to leave their kid alone unattended deserves to attend a premature funeral.
You must be a wop. They're your typical token family/kids should be seen and not heard types who can't be bothered to parent their children or take responsibility for their own stupidity and laziness. Instead, they would leave their kids unattended and then act surprised and shocked when their kid gets eaten by the neighbour's dog or hit by a car. The whole token family thing doesn't fly. If you don't care enough about your kids to use some common sense and implement some standard safeguards, you don't deserve the privilege of having kids in the first place.