OLPC brings porn to 3rd world kids

yikes, i believe a possible solution for this is to have the browsers in the laptops fitted with a forced proxy that pushes all their traffic only to sites that are WHITELISTED in the proxy. this was school administrators get to pre-select sites. i know … a lot of good sites will get blocked along the way… but, is this the price to pay for protection from smut?

i saw the OLPC program a few months ago in yahoo news. well, laptops are not used for it’s real purpose, (education). the kids actually use their laptops to light their homes. now that’s ingenious!
OLPC has a competition with intel, since i think they’re using AMD. I hope intel doesn’t commit the same mistake with their laptops.

jhay & jaypee,

I disagree.

A laptop IS in itself a learning facility.

Textbooks are so 19th century. Who needs textbooks when a) You can encode their content to digital media and devices such as laptops and b) the internet allows you to have tons and tons of such content that can be regularly updated for accuracy and veracity?

Given that veracity and accuracy is not completely guaranteed, but, an update to a website will allow everyone to see the corrections, as opposed to crappy errata sheets that the DepEd distributed in lieu of revisions to their currently used text books.

As for the porn, the problem with OLPC is that it is being implemented by a generation that didn’t grow up with computers, and therefore do not see the value of “teching up” children for a future that is obviously tech-dominated despite the existence of tribal wars.

Sure it will allow them to browse porn, or get addicted to online games, but that is in as much as a kitchen knife will allow you to murder your neighbor. Regulation, proper guidance, and adult care (parental or otherwise — if the parents are computer illiterate they won’t be able to perform this duty) will still need to come into play.

The olpc will make no sense anymore. Why? A certain “madison celebrity Laptop” has emerge.

CPU – Intel® Celeron® M Processor 370 (1.5 GHz, 90nm, FSB400, 1 MB L2 cache, uPGA478)
DISPLAY – 14.0″ WXGA (1280×768) TFT
HARD DRIVE – 40 GB
MEMORY – 64-bit wide DDR data channel, One 200-pin SODIMM socket, supporting DDR 333/400, 256 MB Expandable up to 1GB, based on SODIMM Modules
VIDEO CONTROLLER – VIA PN800 integration, Shared Memory Architecture up to 64MB, 128 bit 3D graphic engine, Support analog monitor pixel resolution up to 1920×1400,
SOUND SYSTEM – AC’97 2.2 Compliant Interface, 3D stereo enhanced sound system, Sound-Blaster PROTM Compatible, S/PDIF Digital output (5.1 CH), 1x Built-in Microphone, 2x Built-in Speakers
COMMUNICATION – 10/100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet on board, 802.11g MiniPCI Wireless LAN

you know how much? $150 USD compared to OLPC’s $175

more info: http://www.medisoncelebrity.com/product.html

Filipino kids need both laptops and books. But good books please not the error-filled textbook variety of deped. But above both of these, what pinoy kids are in dire need are good teachers! Failing in all three, the only hope lies in good parents… and that’s where I believe, the crux of the tragedy is. That’s just my off-hand, coffee time opinion, anyways.

Pinoy kids are mostly on their own. Give them laptops, please. They might make something good off it.

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