What is Digg?50 Comments
- Shiftgood, on 12/25/2007, -2/+32Donate 200 for a child you dont know. Its like getting a sparkling high five from a rainbow unicorn for the soul. (not kidding).
- EarlOfLade, on 12/25/2007, -3/+27OLPC - Candidate for a Nobel Peace Prize?
- inactive, on 12/25/2007, -0/+18I'm pretty sure he meant $200
- harlowsmonkeys, on 12/25/2007, -0/+17Uhm...those to links are to the same article the submitter cites, just reprinted in different papers. It's an AP article, and so will be printed in a large number of papers, in essentially the same form (some may edit it down if they would like a smaller article).
- schestowitz, on 12/25/2007, -8/+21Heaps of articles about the success of OLPC are being published today. See for example:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/24/technolo ...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/services/newspaper/p ...
You can buy one before the end of the year. it's a no-profit establishment. - DeFex, on 12/25/2007, -2/+12imagine if people could have wimax mesh like that in cities. that would be the end of comccast etc and all the censorship crap.
- fkr3, on 12/25/2007, -0/+9"Why can't they?"
Because it'd be instantly crippled by a select few people using BitTorrent. - Shiftgood, on 12/25/2007, -0/+838 k (designer). It'll come back to you in some form. give it a shot.
- twinklyJesus, on 12/25/2007, -0/+7Peruvian helmets are cool! I want one now!~
- Chaoticfist, on 12/25/2007, -1/+8This is pretty sweet. Think of all the good that will come of this. And ya like DeFox said imagine if we had the wimax mesh in cities. Internet Service providers would be dead.
- browwiw, on 12/25/2007, -6/+12Mac zombies are almost as pathetic as Ron Paul zombies.
http://www.ronpaulexposed.com/ - kenvsryu, on 12/25/2007, -1/+7Right, cause before the laptop no one ever jacked off.
- shadus, on 12/25/2007, -1/+6My son demonstrated the primary reason for the keyboard being like that... when he dumped a coke on his within 30m of getting it.
- loconet, on 12/25/2007, -3/+8but of course you are from the USA and so your comment about it not being your primary portable is irrelevant. You are not the target audience for this.
- waynetheman, on 12/26/2007, -0/+4No, but it is a tool that, when paired with a few simple skills (such as how to search online) grants incredible power to people. That power is useful, and granting it to the underprivileged is the entire point of the project.
As an aside... few people seem to believe that with such few simple skills, people--including children--can learn to teach themselves. I hope to see THAT be one of the biggest success stories of the project. - kyrre, on 12/26/2007, -0/+4How about using the reply button?
- harlowsmonkeys, on 12/25/2007, -0/+4How does the mesh get to the internet?
- kai05yang, on 12/25/2007, -1/+5Mac zombies are more like Branch Davidians.
- theuniversal, on 12/26/2007, -0/+4"Computers and IT is not some magic wand that can instaneously remove poverty and bad education"
The people who started this project and the people who support it would agree with you 100%. Nobody thinks it's a magic solution to anything. It's just giving them a push in the right direction. A certain number of the kids getting these computers will be engineers 10 years from now, when they otherwise would not have been. People underestimate the value of information and what people can do for themselves when given tools. - inactive, on 12/26/2007, -0/+3One centrally located node in the mesh has to be defined as a gateway. All of the clients have that same gateway and for any packets that where there is no default route known...send the packets to the gateway, and route the packets through an uplink. Cisco: ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 next-hop-address
- HouseCentipede, on 12/26/2007, -0/+3The problem is the crap-heavy website you're reading, not a deficiency in the machine. Sites like this with overkill JS and AJAX and buzzwords need to be crippled.
- cerealjynx, on 12/25/2007, -1/+4...and then, some smart sneaky twerp goes and installs WoW
End of a civilization. - VilaysackT, on 12/25/2007, -2/+5There are so many people out there who don't realize what impact this will have. I believe that is the beginning of a new universal direction. Maybe the threshold of digital information will become obsolete one day.
- acudoc, on 12/25/2007, -2/+5It wasn't a government program that brought this project into being, but a few entrepeneurs who saw the opportunity to help others while helping themselves. Government foreign aid programs are often disasters, benefiting a chain of middle-men and corrupt state officials. I wonder if the world wouldn't be better off under anarcho-capitalism. We spend billions on arms and jet fighters and weapons while blithely hiding behind sloganeering about spreading democracy. You know, what I really want to say is this----I can't stomach politicians! I feel better now.
- comexpert01, on 12/25/2007, -1/+4Scientists taking us in a totally different world ....
- Stevethegreat, on 12/26/2007, -0/+3But it IS the future. I think you'd be surprised to see how much more it will grow in the future. In fact it is the first community that people built after some 150000 years (the society). From an evolutionary perspective the Internet is the greatest breakthrough of our era. Wait for real time 3d graphics and in no time you'll see people actually living there, with only short pauses for they primal needs, it is even possible to simulate sex (not in the SL way, rather in a "sex suit" variation), so not only it would not be the sex-deprived medium like it is today, but it would be quite the opposite, same for socialization. Just because you think that the 70s' way of living is better than anything it would be in the future, it does not mean that you should bare those people from THE future.
- kweeky, on 12/26/2007, -1/+3JVD: "If our children can buy pornography on any street corner for five dollars, isn't that too high a price to pay for free speech?"
JB: "No."
JVD: "Really?"
JB: "On the other hand, I do think that five dollars is too high a price to pay for pornography." - Fathom, on 12/25/2007, -2/+4 A heartwarming story to be sure, but it seems like these people are beginning to believe that the internet holds all their solutions and salvations. It's really easy to imagine this society acting like a social tide pool of the United States. Soon they'll all be on diet pills, buying Magic Bullet blenders and convinced prosaic is the solution to their problems.
Apparently they haven't found any forums yet.
(lol above me) Or WoW thankfully. - ultrasur1, on 12/25/2007, -0/+2this is a great thing for a lot of truly underprivileged people. most people in the usa don't really know the meaning and the impact a program like this can have on people throughout the world. i did the buy one give one thing and gave the one that i was supposed to keep to a family in south america as well. it made me feel better about not taking things for granted so much since i've been granted opportunities that many others haven't been so lucky to take part in. not to sound overly preachy, but this is a great program despite the various detractors who only serve to criticize while doing very little to make a difference in the lives of others. get up, get into it, get involved.
- geezas, on 12/28/2007, -0/+1jack off they did...
...I'm just talking about ....fine, next generation - HouseCentipede, on 12/26/2007, -0/+1No.
- Waiting2awake, on 12/25/2007, -0/+1Why can't they? What would be needed? How fast would they put you in jail if you tried?
- waynetheman, on 12/26/2007, -0/+1In theory, if enough people can setup nodes to expand the mesh... we won't NEED the internet.
So much for censorship. The political control freaks are slipping further behind the curve. - Aidenf77, on 12/25/2007, -2/+3Creators of the laptop had the good intentions of providing young people with a tool for eduction. That tool, it seems, is being used for other purposes as well.
http://shortlynx.com/0146
That doesn't mean that the laptops are, by any means, a failure. But it's a humorous introspective on the different ways that people can "appreciate" technology. - Paneos, on 12/25/2007, -2/+3I just read the article on an XO. Good times indeed, but logging onto Digg to write this comment, and now typing on the small squishy keyboard is... less good. Overall I think the thing is really great, but it is weak ways that will keep it from being my primary portable.
- kenadamsmith, on 12/26/2007, -0/+1they don't give that to this kind of people...
- geezas, on 12/25/2007, -4/+4breeding a new generation of porn addicts
- floyd6, on 05/24/2008, -0/+0http://www.genericsmed.com
http://www.generics.ws - waynetheman, on 12/26/2007, -1/+1Strange that no one anticipated this. They're only just now thinking of filters? Sad.
- cynicist, on 12/26/2007, -2/+1That site is incredibly misleading. For example, RP has indeed served ten terms while voting for term limits. His reasoning is that until politicians with certain viewpoints have strict term limits, he must continue to serve, acting as a balance with his own viewpoints. Another example: RP isn't against having a central intelligence agency. He just wants it to be focused on intelligence gathering over interfering in the affairs of other nations. He clarifies much of this in the Meet the Press interview here.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Ron_Paul_on_Meet ... - waynetheman, on 12/26/2007, -2/+1Addressing the link above showing that Nigerian students are using the XO's to view porn:
I think many people underestimate the power of the internet. Leaving it totally unchecked in the hands of children seems a little unwise... some level of parental oversight, even if just instructions on proper use, seems as appropriate for a child with an XO as for a child with a BB gun or a child using a go cart in your driveway. - twinklyJesus, on 12/26/2007, -3/+1Breeding a new generation of "Nigerian scammers"... there I fixed it for you.
- thesoprano, on 12/26/2007, -3/+1Did anyone else think "embiggens" when they saw the title?
- MikeFallopian, on 12/26/2007, -4/+1I cracked up at the following paragraph:
'"Some tell me that they don't want to be like their parents, working in the fields," first-grade teacher Erica Velasco says of her pupils. She had just sent them to the Internet to seek out photos of invertebrates — animals without backbones.'
Sounds like the teacher was calling her students spineless for not wanting to farm like mom and dad. - Herostratos, on 12/25/2007, -5/+2The article read:
The children really liked playing on their computer
Therefore, "Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly"
I am still rather skeptical. Computers and IT is not some magic wand that can instaneously remove poverty and bad education, as policymakers usually want to believe. - kai05yang, on 12/25/2007, -5/+2Ron Paul and Mac zombies don't compare.
- browwiw, on 12/25/2007, -8/+5You're right, Ron Paul zombies are far, far worse. Instead of thirsting for brains, they thirst for *****.
- twinklyJesus, on 12/26/2007, -5/+1Of course, since you are not from the USA, everything anyone from the USA thinks is irrelevant. You think only what matters to you is relevant. How quaintly egocentric you are, for a pompous foreign person, posting on an American website. Ironic, isn't it?
- Zap2, on 12/25/2007, -9/+1How rich are you?
40K...sorry! - j1a1g1, on 12/25/2007, -19/+1I'd buy one of those laptops if:
1) they were truly $100
2) I had a use for it
3) 10 inch MacBooks weren't coming out at MacWorld!
Anyway its a great idea to give these to third world countries
Browsing Digg on your phone just got easier with our enhancements to the 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is