Why is the in-text photo that of an Indian girl with a hindi vowel?
All poor people look the same.
Ethiopian Kids Hacked Their Donated Tablets In Just Five Months
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#12Within 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'.
OLPC is a tablet designed with the source code available to everything at the press of a button. So, there is no "security" so to speak.
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#13I don't understand... they don't have electricity, yet they have wifi? Where are they getting the apps?
They carry apps in buckets on their heads for miles.
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#14Why is the in-text photo that of an Indian girl with a hindi vowel?
All poor people look the same.
Oh boy, if you had said something like: "maybe the reason they didn't care about using the right picture is because there's this intrinsically wrong belief that poor people look the same".
Since you did not, let me tell you that it's very insulting and I hope it gets deleted soon.
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#15I don't understand... they don't have electricity, yet they have wifi? Where are they getting the apps?
In rural areas of certain developing countries is common to have cell phones access and/or Internet while not having electricity in their house. I've seen towns that have a central building that has some electricity (wind or solar) and small satellite dishes for Internet. In other places I've seen cell phone towers and the telecom company provides charging stations for individuals that do not have electricity within their homes.
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#16I've seen this article five or so times now, but what's always missing is what they did that counts as "hacking" the tablet. Was it changing a (hidden) setting in the camera preferences file? Disabling some sort of monitoring software (and if so, how)? Reverse engineering a preexisting binary on the device?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
All poor people look the same.
Oh boy, if you had said something like: "maybe the reason they didn't care about using the right picture is because there's this intrinsically wrong belief that poor people look the same". Since you did not, let me tell you that it's very insulting and I hope it gets deleted soon.
You took the parent post in completely the wrong way, it's my opinion that he was pointing out exactly what you wish he had said purposefully in the most offensive way possible to show how flawed the choice of photo was.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh boy, if you had said something like: "maybe the reason they didn't care about using the right picture is because there's this intrinsically wrong belief that poor people look the same". Since you did not, let me tell you that it's very insulting and I hope it gets deleted soon.
You took the parent post in completely the wrong way, it's my opinion that he was pointing out exactly what you wish he had said purposefully in the most offensive way possible to show how flawed the choice of photo was.
You're probably right, it just didn't occurred to me. Thanks.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
All poor people look the same.
Oh boy, if you had said something like: "maybe the reason they didn't care about using the right picture is because there's this intrinsically wrong belief that poor people look the same". Since you did not, let me tell you that it's very insulting and I hope it gets deleted soon.
Either you do not get sarcasm, or very, very good at it yourself.
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#20Within 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'.
Say what you will, it took me more than four minutes to find the power button on the Xoom.