I agree, if it is a real scam without functionality, vs a knockoff or fake with the same or similar functionality, there could be real issues. $100 is still quite a bit of money. in my mind this $100 appliance is just a reification or concretization of the have vs the have nots. it isn't built to scale, to progress, to become more than it is. you can't link 10000 together and have a supercomputer unless you get some hackers. my main concern thus is that this device constructions an ideal type of user that does not exist and isn't really into the market to be 'created' in economic terms. thus a $100 pc is in the end perhaps a fantasy for a non-existent group of people that will pay that for it. On Sep 28, 2005, at 8:13 PM, Joanne Jacobs wrote: jeremy hunsinger jhuns@vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu jeremy.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Associatiion of Internet Researchers