OLPC promotes terrorism

[Brad Paulsen]

It's just about time for the moderator of this list to suggest we take this 
discussion elsewhere.  So, before than happens, I'm going to get my two 
cents in.

The blog post this thread is discussing has this to say about the XO:

"It's not just whether their Great Leap Forward is a good idea. It's the 
more basic problems with the computer. For example, it's extremely buggy. I 
was unable to do anything useful with it for any length of time without 
having to reboot it. It's painfully slow...The OLPC has a link to Gmail on 
its screen, but the system becomes slower and slower and eventually stops 
working if you attempt to use Gmail. I got a unit to fuzz test the WiFi 
stack, but the stack crashes often by itself even without me fuzzing it."

Then, just two or three paragraphs later it warns:

"The real danger with the OLPC is that it's like sending guns to terrorists 
to attack us with....it's...a computer than people can use to hack the 
United States. It is a weapon that can attack our nation's infrastructure 
much more effectively than a gun would."

First, the name of the computer is the XO.  The acronym for the organization 
responsible for its existence is OLPC.  Second, I guess this guy's "mommy" 
(that's what he calls her in another blog post referenced in this thread) 
never bothered to tell him, "You can't have it both ways, sonny." 
Personally, I'm all for sending guns that don't work ("buggy" guns?) to 
terrorists.

What an ignorant, paranoid jerk.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernardo Innocenti" <bernie at laptop.org>
To: "OLPC Devel" <devel at laptop.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:52 PM
Subject: OLPC promotes terrorism


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