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Five years after it was announced, mass production of the One Laptop Per Child/XO laptop/thisweeksnewname laptop has finally started. The laptop, which was originally promoted as a $100 computer that would change education in the developing world, now costs around $188. Uruguay purchased 100,000 laptops last month, much to the chagrin of its mortal enemy Swaziland.
Would you Give 1 [to] Get 1 for a free year of hotspot access? I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t, mainly because I can’t be bothered with charity work. It’s thankless.
Those third world kids are in for a real treat if they think the Internet is educational. It has devolved into a collection of lolcatz, porn and lolcatz porn.
‘$100 laptop’ begins production [BBC News]
I am excited to see the porn that will come out of the countries that will be exposed to computers for the first time because of these. You know these kids will look at educational stuff for like a minute before they find porn – give them a few years and some of them will make porn of their own – and I for one cannot wait to see it. If we think Japanese porn is odd wait until we get 3rd world made by a starving kid porn – that will be HOT! (kidding of course)