>>Put simply, the scientific world deals with vasts amount of data This is so true. I work for a bioinformatics compute cluster and our users have no problem maxing out our infiniband infrastructure. Who needs load simulators when your users sometimes work with >1TB datasets?

And then one week later it will be full child porn and paranoid conspiracy theories and very little in the way of leaked documents. Such is the fate of all darknets I guess. (see Tor, Freenet, I2P, etc).

I usually use Linux, but occasionally I spin up a Win 7 vm when I need it. If you install using a SP1 disk, there are around 100 updates that need to be installed afterward. In my experience, this is comparable to the amount of updates needed after grabbing the latest Ubuntu LTS or a few month old Fedora release (Although Windows update can be slower that Apt or Yum). Sure its not super convenient, but if you are installing Windows enough for it to be a problem, then you aren't doing your deployments correctly. You should really look into WSUS and WAIK for updating and deploying windows, respectively. They are both Microsoft products, but there are also numerous 3rd party tools of variable quality. A proper WAIK install can actually do the patching process during the install, so that when the computer logs in for the first time, it is fully patched.

conservative, sex negative parents != conservative parents

>>Way to paint conservatives with a broad brush, you small-minded liberal bigot
1) Way to assume I am am a liberal. I am, in fact, very far to the right (though I a very different right than the religious right).

>>As a conservative parent, and someone who is friends with conservative parents, I can tell you that we have no problem teaching our children about sex, or the difference between girls and boys.
2) conservative, sex negative parents != conservative parents

Yeah but in the minds of conservative, sex negative parents (or non parents for that matter), acknowledging that sex exists, or even that there are differences between "boy parts" and "girl parts" is basically the same thing as showing the kids a full length interracial, midget, anal gang-bang.

>Google could use a similar method to automatically block such spam sites (there would need to be some checks but some of these sites are so obviously spam that even a simple program should be able to figure it out. Yeah we'll throw together a couple hand wavy "checks" and it will all work, just like that! Easy!

OP didn't say where he was from, but in community property states like California, anything one partner owns is also owned by the other spouse. Which means the "I bought it, so I own it" doesn't work, because as soon as you owned it, so did your partner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_property

But unless you are already up and running with Android development, that is kinda non trivial. And this question reeks of management coming to the IT department with a stack of tablets and saying, "Here, do magic, and we need this done by next Wednesday." Which usually rules out non-trivial development.

This pretty much. Unless you want to get down and dirty in Cyanogenmod or some other Android community release (and your tablets run Android), I don't know how you would do it. You might try stripping out everything you can from the tablet, locking down what you can with security and parent control settings, setting up a wireless network that doesn't hand out a gateway with DHCP, or doesn't even have an internet connection, would get you close to you want. Still won't keep people from exiting the browser and bumping around the system.

Heck, I'll even kick in for the shipping for the, ahem, samples.

You have obviously never been to Utah of Nevada. They are waste lands, quite literally.

Seriously, have you ever been to those places that are all in black? The population density is less than 1 person per square mile in a lot of them. A lot less in most places. Large portions of Nevada have population densities of 0 people per square mile. There is just no reason to build towers in the middle of no where.

No more than I have a hard time taking something called "Gingerbread" seriously.

So there are doing to same thing Apple has been doing for years with LLVM. Which is why LLVM is part of xcode.

Way to innovate Gnome.