Understandable. So you also put cotton in the build-in mic?

I definitely hope that nobody is treating children like this.

Excellent news for Android users. I guess that Apple would never accept a similar App for the iPhone - it might disturb the user experience.

1) Wrong. Membership in Facebook is voluntary, but (at least those who care) users do not share their status updates and wall entries with government agencies. The issue is that Facebook can very easily be convinced with mild pressure to share those data with those agencies.
2) Wrong. Not sharing with everyone (i.e. privacy) has nothing to do with being a criminal.

In summary: FAIL

I agree with you in principle. But as I said in my original posting: A full outbreak happened in our corporate environment despite the existence of AV on all desktops. I doubt that it would had happened multiple more times, if we had no AV at all (but who knows for sure?). So, AV on all machines cannot prevent outbreaks of well crafted worms and viruses. My math: AV costs money and might not stop outbreaks. Your math: AV costs money and may stop outbreaks.

Which math do you apply for non Windows machines? Which one is the more economic model over time?

This is too true. On our Windows machines is a self-updating AV installed. From time to time it deletes an email with a virus (or suspicious) attachment - we would never opened it in any case (you know those lame emails, where you can smell the virus already in the subject line). Nevertheless, over ten years in corporation, we had two outbreaks: one was the slammer worm brought in from an executive with a laptop and a bad firewall config (in the Windows 2000 days), the other was a very well crafted social engineered email with a PDF attachment that was not yet known by the AV. So, in both cases, the AV did not help and I assume that all the other viruses would not have the chance to run either, since the humans would not execute them (opening rotten attachments).

On the other hand the AV got multiple times in the way of the business by disabling remote login software, network analyzers, etc.

I think that it make sense to have an AV software on the email server to filter all those typical attacks, but I am not convinced about the need of an AV on each desktop, laptop etc. It makes sense to have AN AV to test each downloaded file or USB stick when connected, but to have it always running might be overkill.

And, btw: we also had Linux machines, which were successfully attacked. However, those were network attacks against security holes in Internet servers. Maybe an intrusion detection system would have helped, but clearly not a typical anti-virus.

SlashJot?

A PhD is very often only relevant for academia. It might help also a carreer outside of academia, but in essence the work of a PhD should advance the research in the field of study - therefore advancing "academia".

(Some) Americans pay nearly $100/month for TV??? As a continental European, this is completely beyond my comprehension ...

And this would be OK, then?

He was joking. Just that the "irony" tags were subtle enough to get you trapped...

Maybe I did not get it - and it's not explicit in the linked article either.

But, assuming that her friend did not illegally got the music tracks (but e.g. owns the CDs), where is here the copyright infringement? At least in the US and most Europe countries, copying music that you "own" for a friend is OK under "fair use" or "private copy" exceptions of the copyright law.

I would like to have two worlds. One powered by nuclear - you can have it and deal with the local-ish problems. I take the other world.