Caprica was a terrible show.
Cylons are spoiled teenaged girls, deep down, where it counts...

Pthththt...

Good riddance.

Make more episodes of Stargate Universe...

You are not going to hold the attention of a ninth grader with tech that they will never see in use outside your classroom.

Then this person should not work in IT.
And won't need the training the OP is talking about.

If they don't work in IT, they only need to learn how to use a mouse and keyboard.

Heh...

My two mutts were 8 weeks old.
One Lab and Spaniel mix, one generic retriever.

Sweetest damn dogs you'd ever want to meet.

But their barks were fearsome... :)

Came to say this ---^

Lived in Miami and had many things stolen from my fenced in yard and many "false alarms" on my alarm system whenever I was out of the house after dark.

Got 2 puppies from the local animal shelter and voila, problems stopped...

Barking PUPPIES stopped it all...And when they got bigger and their barks were deeper, it was just a bonus that kept solicitors away as well...

Now, they're both 15 years old and sleep all the time and they deserve it.

Be a mensch. Rescue a puppy and save yourself a lot of hassle and get a buddy to hang out with as well...

One of the best decisions I ever made.

Just because material goods are free does not mean services will be free. To get medical treatment, you would need money.

Replicate yourself a doctor and have him treat you...

Or, replicate yourself as an earlier, non-sick, you...Just like they did with the Doctor in STTNG...

Seconded...This is a great book and convinced me to get back into astonomy after a 25 year break...

Last thing I did before this was photograph Halley's Comet back in '85/'86, with my 6" reflector and Minolta 35mm SLR...

Now, I've got a 150mm Mak-Cass and a Canon 20Da...Gonna do me some Variable Star Asronomy...

My first computer was an Atari 800 and my first game was Star Raiders...

The day I got it, my friends and I stayed in all night drinking beer and playing Star raiders until dawn...

Awesome...

Unfortunately, most of us are not "engineers" any more, we're factory workers on a production line...

Unless you're working for the company making the tools, you're using someone else's wrench to build that "truck".

I wonder how that will work out?

...Got a bit of a man-crush going...

IMHO, don't chase only COMPUTER geek chicks...

I was married to a total babe who was not a geek, but turned out to be not a fantastic match in the long run
  and another who was not a babe, but was a wonderful person and a Fabric/Knitting geek. We were together for 7 years until she unfortunately fell to Colon cancer last year...

Learn some real world social skills...Wash your clothes once in awhile...Read a non-computer, non-sci-fi book now and then...

Oh, and stop using "meatspace" to describe the real world...It sounds condescending and stupid.

Yup. Modded as a Troll.

...gadgets that don't so much provide access to the internet as smear the internet all over the meatspace world around their owners

Using the term "meatspace", automatically identifies you a hipster doofus in my book...

...it seems to fail catastrophically.

The company I work for makes systems which use CF as a boot device.

I've yet to see a "partial" failure. It's usually all or nothing...During system upgrades we write new a boot kernel to the CF card and usually, I have found when that fails, the system will not boot either.

On the message board of our podcast website, we put in a very simple question, which has stopped spam posts completely when Captcha definitely was not working.

"What's the name of the movie character in the picture in the upper right hand corner of the page?"

Stopped it 100%.