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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ B Gruff ] on Thursday 27 July 2006 11:42 \__
>
>> On Thursday 27 July 2006 06:09 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> __/ [ B Gruff ] on Wednesday 26 July 2006 22:28 \__
>>>
>>>> http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2161048/nigeria-orders-olpc-laptops
>>>>
>>>> Nigeria has just ordered the first 1,000,000 "$100 Laptops".
>>>
>>> What's sad is that many people everywhere use it as an
>>> opportunity to speak about increased SPAM (which is possibly
>>> true for the minority) while many children will, in fact,
>>> have better education. I wonder how/if theft will affect
>>> this. The impact of carrying portable media players and
>>> phones is dreadful enough, even in the UK.
>>
>> I hear what you say, and (for the moment) what flattie says as well.
>>
>> However, refresh my memory, would you?
>> Which country is responsible for most of the world's spam?
>
> America (as in the United States), but it's a large country with many
> Windows-based computers. It also has decent bandwidth.
>
Well, it's got a lot of spam filling a lot of bandwidth, anyway... I
can see theft being something of a problem, but if there are enough of
them around, then perhaps it won't be so much of an issue. My no2 son
has had one psion, one ericsson and one nokia phone stolen. He's
currently using an ancient prototype motorola (I don't think it was ever
released); it's so awful that nobody wants to nick it!
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
"A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a
perfectly good kitten."
-- Doug Larson
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