I was surprised the other day when helping another friend prepare for a test on English speaking proficiency (for foreigners to join the U.S. government). One of the applicable tests is Versant, which does this. It is a verbal test. You call a phone number, enter your ID and then do tasks including: read sentences, give one or two word answers, create sentences by reordering and linking three phrases, retell a story with as many as possible of the characters, actions and situation; and finally give your opinion about a concept (like, "Do you think children should be able to decide when and how much to study?"). The system grades you not on individual questions but gives you a general score in areas like vocabulary, pronunciation, and fluency. The problem is it is very rapid-fire so you can't really pass it unless you are close to a native. The grades can be viewed on the web in a few minutes.
On one practice test I typed what he should say live during the test, which gave him an idea of how much work he has cut out for himself to achieve a passing score.
http://www.versant.jp/e_about.html

I was wondering about whether computing resources could be donated and you get a tax break. Found this related thread.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=7201
Key is as others have mentioned that your resources are most likely using minimum power when idle and increasing use will increase electrical fees, air conditioning fees, and might I suppose also wear them out sooner if it uses disk space.
Also imagined you might have enough scale to sell elastic computing services but there is a competitive market for that too.

The post just lifts the first four paragraphs of TFA and randomly adds in misspellings of its subject.
Personally I feel uncomfortable with the lack of even a slight attempt to summarize, unless you count deleting carriage returns.

Make a third-party, augmented reality platform for driving, platform independent so it drives competition to quickly improve.
Will improve safety, driver wakefulness, driver awareness of environment, and so on. Also may provide an open platform on which to develop smart systems (like following other cars or warning about road conditions in the next mile that other cars have seen) that work on any brand of car.
Components:

- Imaging sensors such as infrared, microwave or something else distributed mostly in front of the car, some behind, a little on the sides. Use something that cuts through mist, snow, rain, smog so you can see the sides of the road in freezing mist or see a deer in the road far away at night. Also some low light sensors might be good to pick up where the taillights of cars in front of you are.

- Displays: Google Glass might be perfect. HUD might be useful or something else. I like the idea of being able to take glasses off but an HUD that always will tell any driver what is standing in the road waiting for you to hit it at night would be a very good idea.

- Processing hardware: competition among 3rd party manufacturers. Best if not tied to a certain model car, though BMW or Mercedes can certainly add more expensive sensors, etc.

- Processing software framework: Open platform

- Processing algorithms and engine: Similar competition, though if Google can't win this they better send their guys back to Carnegie Mellon
I am willing to bet the insurance companies will love you to death and then get that stupid law deleted, all you need to do is disable messaging and go into a drive mode as someone else mentioned when you are in motion. Though reading text aloud or letting you send voice messages via voice controlled functionality sounds like it would be not as bad as talking to someone in the car who is with you.

Ignorant troll, I'll feed you. If you are in space you want to get the materials from space, i.e. somewhere with a gravity well that is not as bad as Earth. Maybe the moon is good. Asteroids will be useful due to Zero-G which may allow much lower cost exploitation, and many are nearer outer destinations. Plus we will spend more time on mapping asteroids that come near Earth which is a good side benefit spaceguard-wise. There exist ideas for exploitation of space resources that once started can be self-fulfilling and allow Man's leap into space. Yes, it started with Science Fiction. With Capitals. Or didn't you know satellites as communication relays is an idea first promoted by a Science Fiction writer? (Many of whom have scientific or technological backgrounds of their own)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke

I know nothing about Guatemala except that my best friend in college lived there and he introduced me to masa which is delicious. Wouldn't surprise me if Guatemalan food is a really healthy alternative to ordinary Western cuisine, I wonder if they grow that non-sweet corn in the U.S.? (google guatemala masa). See below some of this may not be useful since it seems you are not so much in the boondocks.

I have a friend who did this in Cambodia. I remember he got Apple to donate computers (this is one reason why not using open source hardware may have a good point, it counts as CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) for a manufacturer to do so). It was for an orphanage he created, and the idea was to educate the next generation of leaders. Also he started a newspaper, probably also had Macs I forget.This was over a decade ago. Point being, they had to hire two armed guards so things wouldn't be stolen and I believe one guard was killed. FYI.

Getting locals who will carry it on, and talking to (global) missionary group as other posters mentioned are good ideas. I believe Hope Worldwide was a group he worked with for this charity.

Using open source may be cheaper and may help jump start an industry even if you had a university (need to connect them to the Net possibly) and local people who are enthusiastic.

You may be able to get the World Bank to help you, I know they did a dollar matching program for building rural schools (villageleap) of which hundreds were built.

Power and telecommunications may be a big issue. I'm sorry I don't have data for you but you know it is not first world. Maybe there are no phones and power? I remember one original idea was to have a networked school be a hub for the community, don't know how it worked in the end but I do know one thing they did was have a wifi equipped motorbike travel among rural schools and pick up messages. Useful for medical care.. Also the geography etc. makes you wonder about can you get a line of site to an access point, can you get wind power, etc. Of course the top priority for a community might not be computer education. Maybe power to cleanse drinking water, or communications to notify a doctor they need to get a helicopter somewhere. Getting X-rays sent to a specialist hospital was one thing we did but you don't need that.

On the other hand if it is the Labor de Falla that is 17 nautical miles from Santiago, then it is just a suburb not in the boondocks over the horizon from wifi. Possibly you could even get support from some place like Microsoft or IBM, if you say you are going to start training locals in computer science from a young age. Apparently Google discovered a mother load of such talent in Viet Nam just the other day (on /. today). Maybe that is your goal.

Anyway, figure out what your goal is, and don't spend all your time on the technical side. The key to making these kind of projects happen is getting the parts together, putting your own time in to monitoring it daily with someone on the ground, and being extremely tenacious and single-minded about getting this goal achieved. But you need to listen to people there and if there is no enthusiasm or problems maybe you need to ask what they want. There probably are a lot of smart people within 1 hour of your Guatemala location and not clear that they even need you. So I would focus on fund raising, enabling it, setting a mission and making sure it happens.

Just my 0.02, I clearly know nothing about the area. Best to be sure you accept there may be things you also don't know about it, and try to set smaller achievable goals for yourself. Maybe you can get a manufacturer to get you new equipment for free, that would be best. Imagine you are the student there. As for linux, yeah it would be nice but depending on the age group if they need to get a job in the city will it really help them? If you can make a success maybe you can then scale it up and make that part of your timeline for phase II.

China AIrlines Flight 140. Software fighting humans. Software wins.

After I saw the video with audio note taking and lock screen widget (though I don't have a late enough android version darn it) it looked useful with the audio notetaking part. Never got into Evernote (though I have the app).
However my first gut reaction to the announcement was, yeah like I'm going to trust google not to trash it once I've gotten used to it.
Currently I use emailing myself, OnePunch (a memo app), and Circus Ponies Notebook (for Mac only). But I have found this to be insufficient like if I want to take a note immediately - yesterday someone told me a name to google and I forgot it, didn't have time to type it in, and stupidly didn't go for paper and pen that was probably in my pocket.
If I can do instant audio annotation without launching an app that might be useful. Don't know if Evernote can do that but if anything this conversation will push me closer to getting Evernote. No matter how many times I think it, I just don't trust google to do a half-assed launch, get me used to it, and then pull the plug.
The other option of course is just to use pen and paper. That works too, though I find I seldom go back to look at what I've written, it's like storing in a file on a separate hard disk. Whatever, the current situation is not optimal and when I am thinking about changing my notetaking application I think Google's behavior crystallizes my thinking.

Is Slashdot berating Schmidt or thanking him?

"We Didn't Need Google's Schmidt To Tell Us Android and Chrome Wouldn't Merge"
"Thankfully, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has announced"

Look at how others do it.

One of the few pieces of software I have bought, enjoyed and thanked myself for buying it many times is Circus Ponies Notebook.
http://www.circusponies.com/
They do a 30 day trial. I don't remember if there is any other DRM but I doubt it since I really don't like having DRM, phone home, etc.
I do use two other pieces of software that phone home on each launch without asking you (my firewall picks it up) which is extremely annoying. Don't do that.I tell people about them or consider buying more copies. The developer responds quickly and gives free updates.

I am also extremely happy with linode.com and they give free upgrades periodically. That is a different service, and I am quite against you forcing the user to be online or phoning home, but you can see the kind of enthusiasm and increased users you get from good service.

As for piracy, it happens. I would be against spending so much time on DRM that it jacks up the price. Figure it is free marketing and get on with it.

The only result I can see from this guy's "research" is to announce to the world the existence of a low barrier to entry DDOS platform.
What could possibly go wrong...
I'm tired of seeing people jailed who are curious about security. But he needs a clue. Guys like this are why I expect Bill Joy wrote his treatise. One man's Epic h4ck is another man's Epic FAIL.
Of course his ethics are canted at an angle to reality, but if he had just gone a bit farther off the deep end and actually fixed all the password vulnerabilities he might have made history. Not that I am recommending anyone do it.

Unlocking does not damage the phone, which would be erased (restored to factory condition) if you returned it to the dealer.

Personally I have a major bug on my htc evo wimax phone that makes the mail program leak and use all available memory.
I can't erase just Mail.app since it is built-in.
I can't install another mail client due to lack of space.
I can't delete the bad file because it is hidden. (I did delete many attachments stored in sdcard/.Mail but that doesn't help.
So I have to reset my phone and lose everything (dealer can't copy it).

So I can try to copy with adb and hope, or by titanium backup etc. and hope, or just give up and delete everything.
My firmware version is not supported by solutions seen on the net to unlock it so if I did root, I might brick it or be unable to get future os updates.
The hardware cost is paid over 2 years with the phone bill, but it's mine, nobody else will ever use it and I have to pay the remainder at the end of contract.

What's the fuss about unlocking? Crazy file hiding bloatware and fud means I am fighting a device I own and worried about losing my apps or ability to use for work. What a pain.

Some idea could work but not this one.
As one comment notes, nobody can be bothered to click all the time.
Also, people cannot grasp the meaning of 1 cent per click, or the difference among 1,2 and 3 cent buttons. Instead those will translate to a 1,2 or 3 star "I like this" system which does not need to be arbitrarily connected to 1, 2 or 3 cents but would be used to divide a fixed pie among authors, which is a totally different system. And some not getting it will just give 1 star if they are cheap, or 3 stars if they just see it as popularity but not realizing it translates into money coming out of their account.
What is needed is a fixed monthly fee and the ability to pay for media from that at some very low rate (only sustainable if huge numbers of people download the media) so it is like a cheap cable tv subscription. The monthly fee should be collectable by ISPs or by some other method such as paypal or maybe bitcoins, or itunes type gift cards bought at the convenience store, bookstore or kiosk (would need some way to get credits through library terminals for free viewing in a sponsored library (possibly a virtual one).
People don't have a good handle usually on the monthly budget they have available when it is an impulse buy, so best is to create an extremely low friction ubiquitous service that can be used for any type of media purchase, withdrawing (manually or automatically) from this budget.
It is like the way SkypeOut withdraws from the money in your Skype account, but making the platform available to all services.

And yet... he's right! I did the exact same thing. I lusted after SGI workstations for a long time and ended up with someone giving me an Indy (no head, no power cord, just a box). I love the way it sounds and feels when you use it. But... I never actually had time to do something with it and it stayed, along with a very old tiny Sun workstation, in a heap in the corner and finally when I moved the second time I got rid of it and a bunch of old towers and crts that had been taking up living space. Where I live it can cost $40 per piece to take away but I found a place that would do it for nothing.

Relax. I am a developer and have no interest in destroying the software industry, even if I could.
All I am saying is that critical vulnerabilities can be patched without sliding 100s of mb of crap in with them, and without creating artificial barriers to adoption.
Your suggestion "I would be able to sue" is both incorrect and misunderstands my point (or I was unclear, if so sorry). I didn't mean "force a website to do x". I meant "provide guidelines" and if you want to stretch it, you can grade a site on whether it is delivering malware of old libraries that are known to be broken. Not that it would be useful to many people.
Also your statement "products become obsolete"? Sure. But if you continue to distribute them then what. I don't expect a small software company to commit resources enough to drive them into bankruptcy. But I am saying that if much of the country is running on hacked machines then a company as big as MS could do something about it, and if they can't then perhaps it would be a good use of tax dollars to ensure that they can. Also, the person who determines if a product is obsolete or not is the end-user. Not the vendor. If someone is using Windows XP without any problem for their purpose, why are you going to force them to scrap their computer and buy some more powerful one to run Windows 8 or whatever? Why not instead, if there are known vulnerabilities, at least provide patches to them? (There is at least one project which does this, for linux, I believe.)
Sorry if I was unclear. I do not support any draconian control of the industry by the government. But I do think that if a company grows as big as Microsoft or Oracle, that holding back patches until 50 have been accumulated, requiring 300MB of downloads or else a system is not "secure", and assigning a very short end of life instead of simply writing patches (only for security issues) is not in the realm of the fantastic.