One laptop per child give Ethiopian kids tablets, they learn to hack the tablets in 5 months without - Polidicks

[QUOTE=PyroCF;38265213]Wow, they're better than the average XDA-Developers Member![/QUOTE] You're making that sound like it's a accomplishment. I'm surprised they (XDA-Developers Members) can breathe on their own.

[QUOTE=shian;38264419] Nicholas Negroponte Negroponte [B]Negro[/B][/QUOTE]

This is pretty cool. The only thing that I question is what these guys classify as hacking. I only say this because the author of this article considers turning on the tablet within 4 minutes is some sort of feat. Granted these are Ethiopian children that have never seen technology before, but lets think for a second. On the motorolla xoom, there is only one indented button that "clicks" and 3 buttons on the entire device in all. It wouldn't take a chimp very long to figure out that one of these buttons makes the black screen light up. Does this mean chimps are worthy to become our next IT guys? lol So that leads me to question actually how hard it is to "hack" the governor software on the tablet as well. My guess is these guys that supplied the tablets didn't take into account the natural ingenuity of the human race to figure things out regardless of nationality. The fact that they are getting technology to those who have none is very cool though.

[QUOTE=redBadger;38264895]to be fair, these kids could barely read. them being able to get around the camera and getting around the software is amazing.[/QUOTE] I imagine it's only one of them that figured it out, though. Knowledge like that spreads pretty quickly. The article doesn't say if kids in both villages accomplished both feats independently of each other or at all. [editline]31st October 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=rusty trombone;38265488]negroponte[/QUOTE] It means something like "black bridge". Negro, as in black. Ponte, which is bridge in a few languages.

Goes to show that the kids in Africa are no less smart than those elsewhere in the world. They just don't have access to the same level of education, and people use that to stamp Africans as stupid.

The One Laptop Per Child Program here in my wealthy Australian high school has had laptops for two years and people havn't even figured out basic shit such as avoiding the web filter ._.

[QUOTE=Alcoholocaust;38264588]Oh why the hell did they give them compputers, why didnt they give them food and education? You cant hunt game with a laptop. Unless you install Deer Hunter, of course.[/QUOTE] [url]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glu.deerhuntnew&hl=en[/url] :v:

[QUOTE=koeniginator;38264442]I wonder how long it will be before we're outsourcing our IT departments to remote Ethiopian villages[/QUOTE] the ultimate solution to hunger in africa you solved it

Shove this in the faces of people who think Egyptians and other ancient civilizations must be aliens because of how clever they where. Just proves we are just as smart with or without technology, wherever and whenever.

[QUOTE=ironman17;38264493]These Ethiopian kids are learning computer tech quite well. Maybe this could result in a generation in Africa that possesses a large amount of tech savvy? Could be handy for the infrastructure and tech level of those countries. The continuation of this project will certainly benefit third-world countries by injecting tech-savvy into the younger generations.[/QUOTE] It's also somewhat depressing that here in the States, children are too pre-occupied with bullshit like Honey Booboo to give two shits about technology until their 360 or iPad breaks.

[QUOTE=Zero-Point;38268338]It's also somewhat depressing that here in the States, children are too pre-occupied with bullshit like Honey Booboo to give two shits about technology until their 360 breaks.[/QUOTE] Aye; in third-world countries such decadent luxuries don't seem as readily available, to say the least; whilst they are nice to have, they can be a distraction from important practical stuff. Maybe the future generation of tech-savvy Ethiopians will end up to be somewhat hard-working in regards to computing, if we teach them how to better use such technologies.

[QUOTE=ironman17;38268397]Aye; in third-world countries such decadent luxuries don't seem as readily available, to say the least; whilst they are nice to have, they can be a distraction from important practical stuff. Maybe the future generation of tech-savvy Ethiopians will end up to be somewhat hard-working in regards to computing, if we teach them how to better use such technologies.[/QUOTE] "Here, take these tablets. *cough hack* With them, you will be able to-*coughing up blood* to better your people for what lies ahead. *hard coughing* Now go... Become the nation we never could... *death rattle*"

[QUOTE=aznz888;38264445]This sounds very much like a scifi novel.[/QUOTE] One that you'd expect to be authored by Cory Doctorow or published by Angry Robot, no less.

So you're telling me someone gave something to human beings and they actually learned how to use it really well over a period of time? Who would have thought.

tonight on fox news ethiopia hackers on steroids

[QUOTE=Jookia;38264685]I think it's amazing if we can have kids learn things their own way. The current education system is undeniably shit. Learning itself needs to be something everybody can do. I know for a fact that everybody reading this thread doesn't understand why people type questions in to Google instead of keywords. [B]One thing I'd hate to see is if they locked it down. If the children are able to do this, this should be their victory.[/B] That and the one laptop per child program is amazing. Especially technology wise. They have the whole meaning of social computing done. Computers that connect together p2p rather than Wi-Fi, interactivity, etc. It's awesome.[/QUOTE]I don't think they interfere in the experiment beyond the initial setup and the monthly memory card change; unexpected results like these are something i'd imagine they welcome.

Without a measure of how much effort and expertise was put into blocking features, given that this isn't Google or Motorola or anyone really big in the industry, you can't really tell how much work had to be put into it. Could have been something as simple as uninstalling a control app. It's not like they wrote code to run the camera app, so the term "hacking" is very loosely used. While it was still impressive that some kids in Ethiopia managed to outsmart some shoddy software engineers, it likely wasn't that harsh of a block to begin with.

[QUOTE=latin_geek;38264533]enabling a camera or getting around parental control software is barely hacking[/QUOTE] psh illiterate ethiopian kids are such scrubs at hacking. get on my level

In my school, they gave out NB200 (Toshiba Netbooks). Half of the school has either Windows 7, or Ubuntu, due to the netbooks coming with a restricted debian version :v: