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what about the thugs?what about the thugs?Posted May 30, 2006 7:55 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753)In reply to: what about the thugs? by filteredperception Parent article: OLPC hardware details posted training materials and recruitment propoganda, Do these conflicts even involve training materials and propaganda? The impressions I have got from various accounts is that these childs soldiers with kalashnikovs are "recruited" by being stolen from their homes or collected from streets, then brainwashed in brutal camps. As to the uses of the device, it has a WLAN, which is not a long-range radio. It would reach other units inside a school or maybe a village, but certainly not over several kilometers of jungle or hilly terrain. So it would be useless for organizing guerrilla units. Inexpensive walkie-talkies that are already readily available all over the world work much better for that, they are more rugged and do not require their user's to be literate.
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