Education is exactly what you should do, I'm not denying that. But as it was with me (and most likely with you), these things will start to come up when you hit 14-16 years. I never had a talk about such things with my parents, but on the other hand we have those in schools at 7-9th grades. I never really made any big mistakes, I was with a same girl for my teenage years and little bit further and we did love each other, but it also meant things like sending those photos and whatever else.

But point being, you need to teach it before that age actually comes. It doesn't make any sense to interfere with it when it's happening, as that won't result in anything. Education on things before helps.

Unlike similar levels on blank media, at least an MP3 player is designed with a PRIMARY purpose of playing music, as opposed to the levy we currently pay on blank DVDs and the like.

With that said, I'm sure this won't make people who legally pay for music via iTunes and the like happy.

Another vote for Avira here.

You may wish to have a look at these sites to help you decide:

http://www.av-comparatives.org/

http://www.av-test.org/

This is the one I use and reccomend to my not so tech savvy friends. It's very simple to use, free (for the basic version, which includes everything but scheduled scanning), and doesn't require registration. Its the only thing that got rid of that annoying fake windows security virus, so I've been really happy with it. www.malwarebytes.org

The central limit theorem holds only when some strict conditions are met -- like finite variance of the contributing probability variables.

There are other stable distributions than the normal. Check this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_(probability)
"Important special cases of stable distributions are the normal distribution, the Cauchy distribution and the Levy distribution"

The Cauchy has neither variance neither expected value. Levy distributions also do not have higher moments.

AVG 8.5 installed on a co-worker's computer didn't catch a WONDERFUL webpage spoofing attack that asked for her pin number. Luckily she called me. I went to try Avast, but now it was harder to register and they took out the options to make the program operate silently (ie it forces you to use a dialog box for restart or force a restart, whereas in 4.8 there was an option for "Update on Next Restart", an awesome feature).

Just heard a good review the day prior of MSE and installed it, updated definitions, did a quick scan which found 3 other things, and then a full scan which found the main culprit. It also apparently cleaned (not deleted) a Windows Backup file with the virus on an external drive, ensuring that their backups are actually working properly. I've had Avast delete these on me in the past, losing vital backups.

It takes up little resources, is free for ANYONE (ie, most are only free for Home AND non-commercial use...which means non-profits are shit outta luck), and JUST WORKS.

I heart it. so. hard.

That would be why I dumped AVG, actually, which is what I used before trying Avast.

Spy-bot will throw up some cookie warnings once in a blue moon too, but nowhere near as often as AVG did.

I voted for "somewhere betweeen ..." It depends on the value of N and where the building is. I worked on floor 58 (of 60) in the John Hancock building in Boston, and it was very nice: great view out over the harbor and Dorchester Bay, lots of natural light. On the other hand, working on the top floor of 25 story building in downtown Manhattan won't buy you much, unless you just can't get enough of the front of that discount drug store and the windows across the street.

If I want to run a UNIX app, I can do it on Cygwin, MSYS, or any of the UNIX or UNIX-clone operating systems you mentioned. But what do I do if I want to run a UNIX driver? The point of ReactOS is that it runs not only NT 5 apps but also NT 5 drivers.

Especially when you consider that Windows NT is based on concepts that Dave Cutler brought with him from VMS.

And when Costa Rica becomes a state, sharing in the national debt and under the IP laws of the US, then they can sell their sugar to Montana.

It's not that difficult:
It's like living in Nevada and having an 80 mph speed limit on I-80 if you're going to California and a 40 mph limit if you're headed to Utah because California payed to have the speed limits changed to benefit themselves.

The iPhone doesn't do secure email because not enough people want that feature, not because Apple can't do it, or because Apple thinks they know better than you or I (which is the expected response to this post).

no, they can't make gold, because they don't move elementary particles, they move atoms. gold is an atom, hence they'd need gold to make gold, which isn't a very impressive feat. what would be cool is if they could take simple graphite (pencil lead), and assemble it into diamonds, and make the whole process significantly cheaper than diamonds are today. it could be a real game-changer, and i'd really enjoy seeing diamonds that now cost millions of dollars lose almost all their value, thus screwing over anyone who has made large investments into diamond jewelery. something like this happened with aluminium - it used to be a very expensive metal, because it was difficult to extract it from the ore, so there was a lot of aluminium jewelery. then some guy came up with a new way to extract it, and it became the cheap-ass metal we all know and love today.

You should get modded down, for being an idiot.

Solaris and BSD have linux binary compatibility layers, they work fine. Wine is coming along nicely and the pay for version supported LFD2 the night that game shipped. Bloat can come from many things but merely implementing another API ain't gonna be it.

That wouldn't help you make gold, since gold is an atom, not a compound.