did you hear about the free laptops in USA schools, they were found to have spy ware on them, installed by the school, they were able to see what they were doing using webcam, record convos everything, the FBI is investigating.
guys nothing is free, I would bet these have spyware or some other monitoring stuff on it
new link to fbi investigation
http://infowars.net/articles/february2010/220210Students.htm

they say broadband can help with information flow and help kids etc learn, but we have senators and cyber security czars saying hate speech, and sites that are critical of government needs to be censored, thats the tip of the iceberg really. the rest is yet to come, the pentagon is building net 2.0 with all their hubs etc to control whats what, in the event of "alCIAida aka Al-Qaeda running a terrorist drill, err i mean terrorist plot they want to shut down alternative news so that the gov CONTROLS the FLOW OF INFO, this is just PR for net 2.0, they sugar coat it so the people get behind it thinking (insert redneck voice) I am in full suppooort for the net teow (2) 2.0, everyone just supports without reading the legislation attached and then when its turned on your 1st amendment gets turned off

Considering that 10 years ago I was on a 56k connection, and now I have 100 times that bandwidth, 100MB in 10 years doesn't seem very far fetched.

Awesome. I've had a job since graduation and have managed to keep my head above water, but I and many like me don't have 'laptops and broadband' because our 6 year old desktop is still working.

Some alcoholic deadbeat who blows his wad at the tracks is gonna get a laptop and broadband, paid for by my taxes. Now he can bet on the races from home. Dillwads.

Kick off ambitious bill... increase taxes to pay for it... create federal gov't jobs to "oversee" it... raise taxes to pay the people to oversee it.
Isn't socialism, ummm....democracy, great - change is great?

Stick in RIAA/MPAA clauses in as kickback for campaign contributions and support, heck maybe Pelosi can get more funding for STD education thrown in? (It was part of the "emergency" stimulus act)

Change to what? Don't worry about it - it's just important to vote for change!

Who again needs 100Mbps?

Maybe we can increase the size of the water pipe to every household... granted not really an issue, but mo' is better, right? We can make highways and roads 12 feet wide for future proofing... Why is 100Mbps the target other than it's a round #? Heck why not 1000Mbps? 200Mbps?

Labour are planning effectively to buy votes using taxpayers money, and all you idiots can do is argue about what CPU it has?

You DESERVE another 5 years of these clowns. Seriously.

Of course, this laptop powered will be powered by Intel Processors. Even, Gordon Bown acknowledges that ARM is underpowered processor architecture. I believe the poor families are happy using this laptop because it is more powerful than ARM.