While it might not be the case in the UK (re the other replies), it's the case in Denmark. Buying a TV makes you elligeble for paying the license. Having a TV, even without antenna cable doesn't change anything; you still have to pay.
It also holds for internet connections above a certain speed (I think it's > 128/128 Kbit/s), even if it's on your cellphone.

Funnily, the Danish Broadcast Corporation doesn't have any way of checking if you are required to pay the license as they aren't allowed to look up any information on you except your postal address.

I'm not a native English speaker either, but it's past tense, so I believe it should be "dug". English is weird (but not any weirder than German with their unrecognizable genders or Danish with en/et)...

Now that you're here...

I tried it on this hunk of JavaScript: http://pastebin.com/miGDVkdf , but all I got was a parse error:

"// Error contacting the server...
parsererror
SyntaxError: Unexpected token :"

I experimented a bit with btrfs some months ago as part of my parttime job at my university. The departments file server had disk failures after a power glitch, so I decided to rebuild it and add in a UPS. I'm running Debian jessie on the system, which is just a small 2U SuperMicro rack case with 12 3 TB SATA drives and 16 GB ECC RAM. ZFSonLinux needs a fairly recent kernel, otherwise I'd probably have gone with stable.

I was initially pretty impressed with btrfs, but before the UPS arrived there was another power glitch (which is fairly unusual in these parts of the world; northern Europe) and it completely trashed btrfs. I was unable to mount, scrub or do anything productive to the FS. Absolutely no luck doing anything.

After that I've switched to ZFS. I'm really happy with ZFS, even though ZFS on Linux still has some bugs. For some reason zfs threads sometimes crash when doing zfs send | zfs receive, something I've noticed a few times. Performance is pretty good. For reference I'm using raidz3. My offline, off-site backup is done on a clone of the server (OS only) and uses zfs send and receive to transfer the ZFS snapshots which are done nightly.

What the parent said.

Besides that, do weekly scrubs (to catch hardware errors and ensure consistency) and nightly snapshots (to foil any accidental deletion, CryptoLocker etc.), depending on how IO the file system sees. I also regularly do a `zfs send | ssh server2 sudo zfs receive` to do an offsite backup.

If you liked that, you'll like to know that you can remove the ei.cfg file from the iso to convert it into a universal iso. There are multiple tools for it, but I've just used rm in the past (granted, the media I used was a USB stick). Here's one such tool: http://code.kliu.org/misc/winisoutils/

Note that your license still has to match the type you select during installation. I have no idea why Microsoft insists on having so many different isos when they could just have one universal iso...

Yeah, good luck trying to guess the sequence number needed to establish a TCP connection. This hasn't been an issue since, I don't know, the 90s?

lkcl has already been talking about the possibility of teaming with Bunnie on the arm-netbook mailing list.

Shit, I used to play a bit of WoW not too long after it came out. Performance was more or less on par with Windows -- FPS higher on Linux in some places, lower in other. Best thing was that with multiple desktops I was able to tab in and out in milliseconds, something that always seems to take ages on Windows.
Then again, I did it on Gentoo installed from stage1. Took me a few days to compile everything, and cost an hour when there was a WINE update, but it ran well.

If the submitter is still around, I'd second the advice given in other places. Give your kid the install disc, and let him handle it. Sure, he'll probably have to start from scratch a few times, but installing Windows has never been easier. If your kid has a few geeky friends that run Windows, even better -- they should be able to explain what are common signs of malware.
If he's used to Linux, he might be able to figure out how to run WoW with WINE when he tires of Windows.

I rarely use Windows (although more often than you seem to), and I'm starting to feel outdated, but I tend to go with Microsoft Security Essentials and Avast (they have a free edition). If not Avast, I've heard good things about ClamAV on Windows.

If I recall correctly, a WoW install has no real ties outside of the program folder, so it might be a good idea to make a backup of that folder once in a while. If the system goes down, just copy it and you're set.

Held og lykke fra en anden dansker

We had this same discussion last year, after PHK had an article on acm.org arguing for software liability laws: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/29/2045232/outlining-a-world-where-software-makers-are-liable-for-flaws .
The article is to be found at http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/11/138202-the-software-industry-is-the-problem/fulltext

CTRL to Caps lock is easy:
Add
XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,ctrl:nocaps"
to /etc/default/keyboard, or similar. Optionally you can pass it as an argument to setxkbmap.

And a link for the original: http://bl.ocks.org/1153292

Hey, that's no one bit. That's a UTF-16 character, which means it is (or rather, may be) a full 32 bits! Back to the drawing board, young lad.

Come on man. If they had written code that accounted correctly for leap years, they wouldn't have had an outage. Do you think it's just a coverup?
And what's that nonsense about date logic? Use tried-and-true library functions for date manipulation, that's it. If you're doing embedded systems, you might have an excuse. ..and these days, not even then, given the amount of memory and the clock speeds. Bah, in my days all we had was a wirewrapped system built from a Motorola 68k, and we liked it!

(except when one of the address bus wires got loose and we spent countless hours debugging it)