Comments on: OLPCs Used to Browse for Porn http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4643 Independent Tech News and Product Reviews from former VP and head of CNET.com and Longtime Computer Shopper Columnist, Alice Hill author of the popular "Hard Edge" column. Originally named AliceandBill.com. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:13:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: » H.S. Students Use School-Issued Laptops to Create, Send Porn » Blog Archive   Alice Hill’s Real Tech News - Independent Tech http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4643#comment-343179 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:29:16 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4643#comment-343179 [...] Look, if the OLPC can be used to surf for porn, why would this surprise anyone? These are MacBooks, after all … built-in webcam … and as Apple likes to say, great for multimedia! [...] […] Look, if the OLPC can be used to surf for porn, why would this surprise anyone? These are MacBooks, after all … built-in webcam … and as Apple likes to say, great for multimedia! […]

]]> by: » “$100″ Laptop Production Ramps Up » Blog Archive   Alice Hill’s Real Tech News - Independent Tech http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4643#comment-236313 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:28:50 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4643#comment-236313 [...] First proposed in 2002, despite seeing its cost rise to $176 and its uses expand to, oh, porn, the OLPC (AKA the XO-1) is ready for mass production. Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines. Source: BBC News [...] […] First proposed in 2002, despite seeing its cost rise to $176 and its uses expand to, oh, porn, the OLPC (AKA the XO-1) is ready for mass production. Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines. Source: BBC News […]

]]> by: Jim http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4643#comment-235054 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:17:21 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4643#comment-235054 Hmmm... It is pretty much inevitable that without a filter you will eventually see porn. This enforces my "uneasiness" in this whole laptop per child initiative. I really don't see much educational value in the internet, it is more just another source of entertainment and advertising. The only way to do education well with a computer is to have a comprehensive educational system in which the computer can be a part. It could even have an internet component. The idea of giving a truckload of computers to a bunch of kids and expecting a positive outcome is awfully naive. Hmmm…

It is pretty much inevitable that without a filter you will eventually see porn. This enforces my “uneasiness” in this whole laptop per child initiative.

I really don’t see much educational value in the internet, it is more just another source of entertainment and advertising.

The only way to do education well with a computer is to have a comprehensive educational system in which the computer can be a part. It could even have an internet component.

The idea of giving a truckload of computers to a bunch of kids and expecting a positive outcome is awfully naive.

]]> by: ed3 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4643#comment-235027 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:12:24 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4643#comment-235027 Keeping in mind Nigeria is the home of the 419 scam, is it any wonder? If the statisics are correct, for being such a poor technologically backwards country, they seem to have suficient resources (and Internet cafes) to scam people out of millions of dollars over E-mail. Might want to install some Fedware on them too in the unlikely event the OLPC laptops end up part of a 419 scam ring. Keeping in mind Nigeria is the home of the 419 scam, is it any wonder? If the statisics are correct, for being such a poor technologically backwards country, they seem to have suficient resources (and Internet cafes) to scam people out of millions of dollars over E-mail.

Might want to install some Fedware on them too in the unlikely event the OLPC laptops end up part of a 419 scam ring.

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