http://thevoiceoftv.com/recaps-and-reviews/the-big-bang-theory-5-09-the-ornithophobia-diffusion/

That'd make for some interesting firewall logs. Also, from TFS:

I also would have expected that it wouldn't be that hard for the courts to find out what IPs TPB already own, so they can block them proactively?

I went to a Sophos event once (mostly because it was catered...), the only content I remember was one speaker who spent 10 minutes of his presentation time showing various screenshots of web sites and asking the audience whether they were phishing scams, or the real thing. Towards the end it was very difficult, and this was an audience of technical IT people.

I also don't trust an OS once it has been compromised, and I agree that actually thinking/paying attention is vital to complete security. For me it is a question of risk mitigation. I've had an AV signature update cause problems, more than once. I'm also aware that I'm basically a couple of unthinking mouse clicks away from running something malicious.

AV isn't that expensive to protect against brain fade.

The course I did was a predecessor to this:

http://www.open.edu.au/public/courses/it/swinburne-university-of-technology-master-of-technology-business-systems--swi-bsd-mas-2012#overview-tab

It's in Australia, not sure if that suits you.

You often don't need an undergraduate degree to do a post-graduate degree like an MBA - I didn't - if you can demonstrate long term, relevant experience. It would depend on the institution where you were doing the MBA, many offer this option.

The "work experience" option exists for a degree like an MBA, because the OP would have worked in a business environment for most of his career. There is an understanding that an undergraduate degree prepares you to a specific level and often work experience can teach the same level of preparedness to complete a post-graduate degree (note, that's your ability to study, not your preparedness to work in a specific job).

There are technology/management post-graduate degrees also, which is what I did, and I do not have an undergraduate degree, and that's never been an issue for me. For the most part it's been having a degree of some kind that gets the "tick" when applying for jobs, again at least in my experience.

You would often need to complete the initial graduate certificate (in my case, that was 4 subjects) with a specific grade point average to be able to continue on to the full degree.

And that was going to be my suggestion to the OP - not to do a full degree initially, look at post-graduate options that he may have access to as a mature-age student. Advantages include, there is an early exit point (graduate certificate, graduate diploma) and they are faster to complete, as there are less (but harder) subjects. In my case my degree was 12 subjects, the undergrad would have been 24... I finished it in 2 years, while working full time.

I completely agree - PMP or maybe CAPM if he doesn't have the PM experience to do the PMP straight away - and/or Prince2 (just do the foundations cert if you're short on cash). These are "quick wins" also, doing them is an instant line to add to your resume.

I was thinking along the lines of other posters that I'd spend the money on standard hardware instead of a OLPC device, until I read your comment.

I do agree with your comments (and others) who have said that simply handing out laptops to everyone isn't a magic cure, it does seem worth pointing out that going for OLPC rather than something you'd get at a local computer store will help mitigate the risk of the devices being sold off or disappearing because a OLPC device isn't going to be worth anything like $500 at the local pawn broker. And the low purchase price would make replacing lost devices (slightly) easier.

Yes, meth addicts would still pawn it for the $20 they'd get instead, but that scenario is very close to one end of the bell curve. Other struggling families that would pawn it for $500 (because that would feed them for a month) aren't going to pawn it for $20.

I was under the impression that the hash tag is used by twits (tweeters? twitterers?) to tag other users in posts/tweets/whatever they are called.

So you might be right that there are more # using programmers than # using twits, on a "unique users" basis, but I think they have you beat on frequency. For every time a programmer using the # symbol once, there are probably 1000 twitter users using the # symbol in a post talking about Ashton Kucher's bowel movements, or something else equally discussion-worthy.

(I'm not exactly sure when a # symbol is used by someone on twitter, I've used twitter even less than G+. They are all tools to achieve specific outcomes, so far I haven't had a need that either one met.)