Re: XOs interacting with general computers (was: Devel Digest, Vol 17, Issue 52)

> I think a critical point is to make sure they get at least the chance to > learn responsible/safe behavior first. Yes - whatever that happens to be for their particular locale and sociocultural positioning. This is not something that I am particularly comfortable with the notion of us peop

Re: XOs interacting with general computers (was: Devel Digest, Vol 17, Issue 52)

I don't have a solution either but I have have been in touch with one organisation concerned by child abuse in France. What they told me is they would like to provide the children with an easy way to report abuse. The hard problem is that if an organisation go in an online forum with the nick lit

Re: XOs interacting with general computers (was: Devel Digest, Vol 17, Issue 52)

good. looking forward to seeing you write up your ideas w.r.t. it - I guess it really *is* somewhat related to the things you're doing. :-) --e > Precisely. > > Precisely. > > ... and precisely. > > Anyway, I'm pretty comfortable with my thinking about this set of > problems for FRS and ho

Re: XOs interacting with general computers (was: Devel Digest, Vol 17, Issue 52)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... thank you for your thoughtful answer! > > I'll say it again.. I think that it is important to protect kids, but > probably MORE important to make sure that 'protection' isn't cutting > them off from flexibility and the opportunity to gain new educational > experie

Re: XOs interacting with general computers (was: Devel Digest, Vol 17, Issue 52)

On Jul 25, 2007, at 9:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > this is made much more complex by the fact that XOs will end up in > countries with very different social taboos, different cultural > assumptions, and very different legal systems. Precisely. > hardwiring censorship/filtering/content-protec

Re: XOs interacting with general computers (was: Devel Digest, Vol 17, Issue 52)

>> does anyone see danger in letting nonXOs talk to XOs, these are >> handled by 8 year olders >> >> Yes, we recognize there are very real dangers. Various security >> settings and UI elements will likely be used to make it clear to the >> user, and > > You must be kidding me. We are tal

Re: XOs interacting with general computers (was: Devel Digest, Vol 17, Issue 52)

MBurns wrote: > On 7/23/07, *Nehemiah Dacres* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > does anyone see danger in letting nonXOs talk to XOs, these are > handled by 8 year olders > > > Yes, we recognize there are very real dangers. Various security settings > and UI e

XOs interacting with general computers (was: Devel Digest, Vol 17, Issue 52)

On 7/23/07, Nehemiah Dacres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: does anyone see danger in letting nonXOs talk to XOs, these are handled by 8 year olders Yes, we recognize there are very real dangers. Various security settings and UI elements will likely be used to make it clear to the user, and protec