Ethiopian Kids Hacked Their Donated Tablets In Just Five Months • Hacker News Board

Re: Ethiopian Kids Hacked Their Donated Tablets In Just Five Months

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Post by randartie » Sat, Dec 08, 2012, 5:24 AM UTC

guylhem wrote: post #3

Considering 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…

The indian child in the photo was also a giveaway since this is an article about Ethiopia.

Re: Ethiopian Kids Hacked Their Donated Tablets In Just Five Months

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Post by sopooneo » Sat, Dec 08, 2012, 4:04 PM UTC

I am convinced that when computing comes in force to the third world, it will not be through donated/subsidized laptops, but through phones. I bet that in 100 years, the famous hacker that rose to great power from the slums will have cut his teeth on a mobile device that was purely the result of the free market. This is not a value judgement. Just a prediction.

Re: Ethiopian Kids Hacked Their Donated Tablets In Just Five Months

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Post by JulianMorrison » Sat, Dec 08, 2012, 4:37 PM UTC

See, professor, the Martians are intelligent after all!

Oh wait, those were human beings, and they're being treated like lab rats because they're poor and not European. Seriously does nobody else see the stark white-man's-burden arrogance in all of this?.