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  1. Thailand Government Cancels OLPC Participation

    Hardware · Portables · · posted by ScuttleMonkey · from the roll-a-hard-six dept. · 196 comments
    patiwat writes "Thailand's new junta-appointed Education Minister has cancelled Thailand's participation in the One Laptop Per Child project and scrapped a plan to give a 2B1 laptop to every primary school student. He has also cancelled plans to roll out computers and a broadband connection to every single school in Thailand. The cancellation of half a million scholarships for needy students is being studied. He cited the lack of readiness of teachers and the need to focus on basic education standards. "We will not focus too much on technology and materials. We will focus on substance," he said. This comes on the heels of the cancellation of the Thai government's open source policy."

  2. Thai IT Minister Slams Open Source

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the not-good-enough dept. · 520 comments
    patiwat writes "Thailand's newly appointed Information and Communications Technology Minister has slammed open source software as useless and full of bugs: 'With open source, there is no intellectual property. Anyone can use it and all your ideas become public domain. If nobody can make money from it, there will be no development and open source software quickly becomes outdated... As a programmer, if I can write good code, why should I give it away? Thailand can do good source code without open source.' This marks a sharp u-turn in policy from that of the previous government."

  3. Armed Robot Guards - Sorta

    Tech · Technology · · posted by Hemos · from the put-your-heads-in-the-air dept. · 281 comments
    jshirk writes "The Bankok Post is reporting that the Thailand Research Fund has unveiled the world's first armed robotic guard. The best part: it can be ordered to fire remotely over the Internet. Now, postal carriers have a lot more to worry about than the dog."

  4. Armed Robot Guards - Sorta

    Tech · Technology · · posted by Hemos · from the put-your-heads-in-the-air dept. · 281 comments
    jshirk writes "The Bankok Post is reporting that the Thailand Research Fund has unveiled the world's first armed robotic guard. The best part: it can be ordered to fire remotely over the Internet. Now, postal carriers have a lot more to worry about than the dog."