First Photos of MIT $100 Laptop

An anonymous reader noted that MITs $100 laptop was unveiled at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting. It runs a special version of the Fedora linux and it comes with native wireless lan support. You can see the photo album, and you can pledge to buy one at triple price... in order to donate 2 of them to children.

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Window into the future of spam

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When you look at that machine, imagine a little kid in a third world country using it... to spam and scam the crap out of us! After all, with the spam/scam market so lucrative, putting a machine like this in the hands of someone desperate for money is like handing a book of matches to a pyromaniac. Sure, matches aren't dangerous by themselves, but what are the circumstances here? If I can't afford a 100 dollar computer, I probably have trouble affording much of anything... and likely would be desperate enough to scam/spam if I knew I'd get some cash for it.