"amicus_curious" <ACDC@xxxxxxx> wrote in
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> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> OLPC's XO laptop comes with anti-theft kill-switch in select
>> countries
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>> | OLPC has responded to such concerns by developing an anti-theft
>> | daemon that the project claims cannot be disabled, even by a user
>> | with root access.
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>> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070218-8872.html
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> It seems rather curious that the same people who seemed so concerned
> that WGA could be used to disable machines found to be running pirated
> copies of Windows in spite of assurances to the contrary would applaud
> a much more Draconian measure with regard to the OLPC. I guess it
> mostly matters whether or not you hate Microsoft.
>
Or whether or not you understand why the two situations are different.
Basicly, whether or not you have a clue.
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