There's no delay, in fact on the west coast we get shows usually 2 hours before they air locally because they've already aired on the east coast and get posted on usenet nearly instantly.

This sounds obsurd, but the guy needs to install video cameras pointed at all this computers. If its truly educating his family that is his goal, the sheer obtrusiveness of this idea will prove a point and make family members careful. And if they truly are ignorant of possible threats and do something that compromises security, then they can go over the footage together. Should be easy to install, fairly cheap and get the point across. How did this make front page?

Came for the Star Trek jokes, got nothing...

... cough cough... Star Wars Galaxies..cough cough... I will hold a grudge forever against SOE because of the CU and NGE.

It should have been named "The Crazy Eddie Probe", Motie technology FTW!

Last I looked there was no sound, no wirelses, no modem, no touchscreen, no acceleromater, no sound... It's probably a little more than a breaths away. However, it's inevitable that it will happen and when it does Android will be the "open" ver of the iPhone. Simple as that, no need to open up the Apple variant of OSX for the iPhone. Just like if I wanted to I can run OS X on my Mac or Linux if I wanted something else. The choice will be there.

Boo, I'd say that's wrong, 10.1 -> 10.2 > 10.3 were all huge updates. You could equate them to 98 -> 2000 -> XP (sorta) Heck you even had to pay for them each separately.

With those 3 items, you should be able to do almost ANYTHING remotely.