Uttar Pradesh: Tamper-proof wallpapers

trofimov wrote:UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav distributed 10,000 laptops to students. Each laptop comes with a conveniently pre-loaded wallpaper that shows Yadav with his father Mulayam Singh Yadav. Students who received the laptops wanted a change of scenery and tried changing the wallpaper to something else. The laptops didn't like that and crashed. When they tried to troubleshoot that problem, the operating system got wiped.

I think UP has invented a technology that it can sell all around the world, with particular promise in places like Cuba, Venezuela, much of Africa, Central Asia, Belarus, Russia, much of the Middle East, China and North Korea.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Lucknow/Removing-Akhilesh-wallpaper-crashes-laptops/Article1-1026044.aspx

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

trofimov wrote:UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav distributed 10,000 laptops to students. Each laptop comes with a conveniently pre-loaded wallpaper that shows Yadav with his father Mulayam Singh Yadav. Students who received the laptops wanted a change of scenery and tried changing the wallpaper to something else. The laptops didn't like that and crashed. When they tried to troubleshoot that problem, the operating system got wiped.

I think UP has invented a technology that it can sell all around the world, with particular promise in places like Cuba, Venezuela, much of Africa, Central Asia, Belarus, Russia, much of the Middle East, China and North Korea.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Lucknow/Removing-Akhilesh-wallpaper-crashes-laptops/Article1-1026044.aspx

I thought that Akilesh being in the 30s and studied in Karnataka might be a little bit immune to this kind of personality culture. Guess, no amount pure water can clean the dirty pond.

Rashmun wrote:the objective of this was to ensure that these laptops don't end up getting sold by the students who received them. hope this clarifies your confusion.

Captain Bhankas wrote:

Rashmun wrote:the objective of this was to ensure that these laptops don't end up getting sold by the students who received them. hope this clarifies your confusion.

are you suggesting that nobody would like to buy a laptop that has these faces as a wallpaper?

they could have used the wallpaper that said "NOT FOR SALE".