Goooood aftanoon maddam

[Jack]

Caught a bit on the BBC news yesterday about the ?100 laptop (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7094695.stm) farce (or disgrace, idiocy, stupidity, pick your descriptor), and they were covering its implementation in Africa.

What part of Africa?

Nigeria.

Oh how I did LOL at that. How long til we see an exponential rise in the "hallo my father has left me $1,000,000,000 which i would like to send you" emails, as they've now provided every schoolkid with the means to become a fully fledged official Nigerian 419 scammer lol

[craig green]

Good point. Tinternet is doomed forever.

[Matt2107]

What an unfortunate name

"Walter Bender of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) said"

[bump]

OLPC was started in 2002 by Nicholas Negroponte, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Think he comes off worse.

[Philsutton]

the pie chart makes a welcome return, proof they know what they are talking about

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44135000/gif/_44135023_breakdown_costs_.gif

[Jack]

Balls, Administration should be 164% of that lol