Ethiopian Kids Hacked Their Donated Tablets In Just Five Months
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#2Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4724660
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#3Considering the OLPC (as pictured) is a dedicated i386 hardware without touchscreen, and that OLPCs runs on a customized RedHat, while the article refers to hacking Android (?) and a Motorola Xoom tablet, I wonder what kind of huge mix up this is and what it is supposed to mean.
EDIT: thanks for the helpful explanation in the comment. I read the article twice and still couldn't figure that out. My first idea was the journalist mixed this up. My mistake
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#4Considering the OLPC (as pictured) is a dedicated i386 hardware without touchscreen, and that OLPCs runs on a customized RedHat, while the article refers to hacking Android (?) and a Motorola Xoom tablet, I wonder what kind of huge mix up this is and what it is supposed to mean. EDIT: thanks for the helpful explanation in the comment. I read the article twice and still couldn't figure that out. My first idea was the…
You could always just read the (admittedly not that great) piece which precisely explained all of that.
In a sentence:
Nicholas Negroponte, who started OLPC, dropped off a bunch of Xooms that run Android in a couple of villages where the kids figured out how to enable the tablet's camera without any instruction or even literacy.
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#5Why is the in-text photo that of an Indian girl with a hindi vowel?
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#6I don't understand... they don't have electricity, yet they have wifi? Where are they getting the apps?
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#7Why is the in-text photo that of an Indian girl with a hindi vowel?
... and Ghandi hanging in the back of the rural Indian school, he he.
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#8Why is the in-text photo that of an Indian girl with a hindi vowel?
MIT is trying to crack the wicked problem of teaching literacy and other skills to 100 million or so first-grade-age kids in the developing world with no teachers or infrastructure.
I guess it's relevant.
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#9I don't understand... they don't have electricity, yet they have wifi? Where are they getting the apps?
The internet connection is Ad-hoc IIRC, but of course one member still needs access to the internet.
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#10Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch
Wow, found a blemish on an unusually featureless, smooth object and poked at it. Amazing.
As for 'hacking android', it's kinda scary that OLPC is so bereft of talent that their security can't stand up to illiterate first-graders. I mean, if we're going to go with 'hacking android' and not 're-enabling the camera'.