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Wozniak Unveils WozNet
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.""
Those kids know how to use tinfoil, right?
1) this is really, really evil and scary. i'm terrified by the idea of parents implanting these in their kids feet or something when they're tiny and knowing everything they do from that point forward. i'm even more terrified by the idea of corporations requiring the same of their employees, since that's something that could concievably, in an imperfect world, happen to me. i'm scared of vigilantes and criminals and government agencies secretly doing this to people they are targetting, leading to scenes like the one in the elevator in Enemy of the State.
2) But Steve Wozniak did this! Steve Wozniak is really cool and non-evil!
**head explodes**
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
You can know when your respective spouse leaves the house (for the paranoid) ...or you can know when your respective spouse approaches the house (for the paranoid)
Keys are a fairly common thing to lose... but I lose everything else too. If I got one of these it would just mean that I'd have to have a tag for the base station.
Maybe I should just forgo material possessions so I can get all my stuff back. It would be easier... and cheaper.
*bork*
This is my sig. It's prescription, I swear. I need it for reading things... on the other side of things
Activate shock collar? Yes/No
You have chosen Yes. Spot has returned to the yard.
Your son Scott has driven the car to a remote location with Susie L. (Ref. # 1098345723) and has entered the back seat with her, probably to screw her brains out.
Administer punishment? Yes/"HELL yes!"
There's no wrong way, to eat a Rhesus...
my ETrex Vista GPS unit will track things down to 3 ft or so.
I wish I'd had one of these things for tracking my eTrex Vista GPS unit, which I lost last week.
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I'm gonna tag all my socks before I dry them. Now I can finally find out where they go when the dryer eats them!
Oh sure, then everyone will think I just sit around the house all day... Oh, wait...
You know what?
I'll prove it!
W = 23
O = 15
Z = 26
Total = 64
The original Apples used 6502 processors.
Number of years past since his last professional beard trim : 5
We remove the 5 from 6502 and that leaves us with 602.
602 + 64 = 666 !
So how much is the surgery?
Can you put it in a kid, or do you need to wait for them to stop growing first?
ALERT!! ALERT!! Your daughter is back at that lowlife-she-calls-a-boyfriends house again!!
Computer, locate shotgun...
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
Yeah, we have no choice about RFID tags! Next thing you know, those privacy-destroying stores will be printing BARCODES on EVERYTHING! And the government will be assigning each citizen a distinct number so they can use their DATABASES on us!
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