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> On 2009-01-21 04:05, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> Unlike a normal laptop, my pug can move this one and force her way into my
>> lap anyway.
>>
>> Anyway. enjoying the XO! An ebook reader with streaming audio. A Sun
>> workstation in the palm of my hand. I'm even getting faster on this tiny
>> keyboard. The fast suspend/unsuspend is nice.
>>
>> Cool.
>>
>> I really wish they'd make a slightly more commercial version of the XO and
>> sell it all year around.
>>
>
> One problem is the security for poor a child that own a laptop.
> They can even be killed by hardware pirates when they do raids in the
> villages after anything that can be sold for a few dollars.
>
> Negroponte once told us that this was like taking a post car, nobody own a
> post car private, so everyone will see it's stolen and the black market value
> is zero. But the buy 2 give one and all the things to push out XO made them
> available for others then the poor kids, and they will even have expensive
> SD-cards in them, so now there is possible for gangsters to attack a village,
> take all XO's and sell them to the black market, and they do not care a bit
> how many is killed or hurt in the process.
>
> The smart idea with XP was really the lack of commercial value, so there was
> a small chance the kids could keep them as theirs without big fear of thefts.
/s/XP/XO/
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