OLPC To Be Distributed To US Students 338

Posted by kdawson on Saturday January 12, 2008 @08:19PM from the seizing-the-initiative dept.

eldavojohn writes "The One Laptop Per Child Project plans to launch OLPC America in 2008 , to distribute the low-cost laptop computers originally intended for developing nations to needy students here in the United States. Nicholas Negroponte is quoted as saying, 'We are doing something patriotic, if you will, after all we are and there are poor children in America. The second thing we're doing is building a critical mass. The numbers are going to go up, people will make more software, it will steer a larger development community.'"

Former OLPC CTO Aims to Create $75 Laptop 207

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 10, 2008 @03:03PM from the go-go-mary-lou dept.

theodp writes "Mary Lou Jepsen, who left her One Laptop Per Child CTO gig on Dec. 31st, has reemerged with her sights set on a $75 laptop that will be designed by her new company, Pixel Qi, which is described as a 'spin-out' from OLPC. In a Groklaw interview, Jepsen calls for 'a $50-75 laptop in the next 2-3 years' and says it's time to go Crazy-Eddie on touchscreen prices as well." This is probably good news to Bruce Perens, who thinks that the recent report of Microsoft's dual-boot XO project (with Windows as well as the Linux-based Sugar OS) is a feint driven by Microsoft's fear of "the entire third world learning Linux as children." Update: 01/10 21:22 GMT by T : ChelleChelle adds a link to an excellent interview with Jepsen in the ACM Queue, in which she discusses OLPC and some of the technologies it contains.

Submission + - Death threats or freedom of speech?

Submitted by magman on Tuesday March 27, 2007 @03:59AM

magman writes: Kathy Sierra, author of several java books, posted on her blog about death threats and sexual harassment from several named "prominent" bloggers. Is it easier to cross the line between freedom of speech and harassment online than it is in real life?

"For the last four weeks, I've been getting death threat comments on this blog. But that's not what pushed me over the edge. What finally did it was some disturbing threats of violence and sex posted on two other blogs... blogs authored and/or owned by a group that includes prominent bloggers. People you've probably heard of. People like respected Cluetrain Manifesto co-author Chris Locke (aka Rageboy)."

Comment Web 3.11 for Workgroups (Score 1) 174

by Uninen on Monday June 05, 2006 @12:23AM (#15470124) Attached to: Web 2.0 As A New Wave of Innovation?

Web 2.x is soo yesterday. You really should opt for Web 3.11 for Workgroups: Blink-attributes for headings, Matrix-style marquee for paragraphs, and of course, all images automatically converted to animated gifs. And NO SHITTY CSS, just pretty font tags and lots of nice nested tables. It's like, well, Wheee!

PS. This new CSS on /. is awesome :)

Comment Disactivate it, and it does not send data (Score 1) 779

by giaguara on Wednesday January 11, 2006 @06:39PM (#14449676) Attached to: iTunes is Malware?

Just disactivate it, from the button on right lower corner or from the menus, and nothing is sent of what you listen to.
And if you doubt, use little snitch to verify it.

Comment Votes database (Score 3, Interesting) 519

by holovaty on Thursday December 22, 2005 @03:55PM (#14320946) Attached to: Senate Proposes Patriot Act Extension

The Washington Post recently launched a comprehensive votes database that lets you browse every vote in the U.S. Congress since 1991 and is updated several times daily.

Here, for instance, is the House vote mentioned in this Slashdot blurb.

Disclaimer: I'm the Web developer who worked on this database.

Journal Journal: New locations

Journal by giaguara on Sunday January 16, 2005 @03:31PM

My new(er than ./) locations. Update your bookmarks.
Keeping up to date in these locations, not in ./

Journal Journal: Apple Soap Box

Journal by giaguara on Tuesday November 04, 2003 @10:36PM

Ever since I saw the Apple Mouse ash tray I wanted a soap box. Today I finally have one.

This is the "before" picture.

It took nearly 15 minutes to take the parts apart. The mouse has glue that keeps it together, and taking the holding parts away, even with a good knife, took some time. This is after the mess.

Journal Journal: Fight for peace... 2

Journal by giaguara on Tuesday March 18, 2003 @11:22AM

Fighting for peace makes as much sense as f*©king for viriginity.

Journal Journal: The day... 1

Journal by giaguara on Saturday March 08, 2003 @12:14AM

The day you will quit dreaming you could as well wake up dead.

Journal Journal: Rant # 2

Journal by giaguara on Friday March 07, 2003 @01:05AM

Cities .. why with some of them you feel in balance and with some of them not? When you are obligued to stay in the cities that you don't feel are for you or where you feel good ... it feels bad luck, and if the imbalance between you and city is too high ... you slowly start to inexist. In this city I exist less and less... I can't blame only the city, but it affects my humor. And maybe the humor affects everything else that changes... lik

Journal Journal: Alpha release

Journal by giaguara on Monday December 09, 2002 @11:05PM

Alpha ...

GUI under project.

Journal Journal: Man woman 10

Journal by giaguara on Monday December 09, 2002 @06:55AM

man woman.

No manual entry for woman.

geekzh. no manual for woman. :O

*rant*

Journal Journal: A fraud of Apples getting hot

Journal by giaguara on Sunday December 08, 2002 @02:53PM

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=134279

An interesting story of frauds

Journal Journal: Revenge spam maillists

Journal by giaguara on Saturday December 07, 2002 @07:04PM

I want to create a newsletter type of revenge spam system. Get bored of spam? Or someone needs a spam revenge? so why not to create a newsletter that pays back .. = a subscription that would make automatic subscriptions to the worst spam newsletters etc that exist on earth? So, starting a list of some really bad *rant rant* spam services.. i mean, maillists.
Add yours. These are only few.

ediets.com
matchmaker.com
doyma.es
tripod.com
libero.it

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