While I agree that you should allow the government or anyone else to take the place of the parent your statement is too simplistic. It is not feasible to sit down with your child/children every time they want to access the Internet. What if you have more than one child? One child falls down and skins a knee. You obviously need to go help that child get cleaned up and a band aid. Do then tell the child on the computer to stop what they are doing while you take care of it? What if you have several children requiring your help at once? As I said I agree that the parent shouldn't just used the Internet as a babysitter, but saying that the solution is sitting down with them every time is way too simplistic and does not really solve the problem.

Hmm. Well, I would like to believe you, but I couldn't find your data anywhere. Oh wait that is because you don't have any. All you have is your own experience with gaming. People tend to associate with others with like interests and (age ranges). So basically your personal experience may seem like most gamers are younger, but you are only comparing it your frame of reference. While I do not completely believe this report because they do not show how they collected the data I believe yours less. At least they had something to show other than stories.

There is a difference in being in IT and doing one specific aspect of IT called help desk. I can relate. The poster is seems to be tired of dealing with the same thing over and over from people who make the same mistakes. IT is a much broader field than just help desk.

I am very excited about the new foundation. I have used many distros and ubuntu was by far the easiest to install, configure, and maintain. Redhat, Fedora, Suse all have similar features, but were not as easy to configure. The sudo feature took a little to get used to, but I can see the benefit of doing so. (Especially if they were targeting windows users who think using the administatror user is good.) All in all the ubuntu foundation is a very GOOD thing.