Er, aren't criminals and crime one of humanity's biggest problems?

My honest advice, is to get a fucking life. Seriously, get away from the computer this whole summer and meet new people, socialise, have some fun, do some normal teenage things, drink beer, get laid, go travelling, teach English, whatever. Just stay away from the fucking computer and other geeks and nerds. In twenty years' time, you'll either thank me for this, or regret the day you signed up for summer camp 2012.

I couldn't agree with you more!

OTOH, if everyone donated $5 to Danica Patrick to get her to take her clothes off...

I do.

Outsourced programmers don't always come from India, they commonly come from Eastern Europe too. And we'll all no doubt feel the same about outsourcing to programmers from these countries as we do to Indian programmers. So if you mean classic colour-of-skin racism then you're wrong, there's no racist subtext here.

Anyone remember Sex Invaders for the BBC? I think it was in the public domain, not something you'd find in a shop.

It was like Space Invaders, but the aliens were actually women's legs opening and closing, and the player controlled a penis shooting up at them!

Because very few countries don't suck?

You've actually had a very good idea, and I'd mod you up if I had points, even though you're an AC.

Really? So servers running Linux aren't likely to contain information such as credit card details, usernames, passwords, emails...?

I thought the proliferation of viruses on Windows is simply because most Windows user accounts are administrators. Imagine what would happen if all Linux users ran as root all the time.

The problem with this is that most employers aren't interested in what you do in your spare time, it's only what you've done at work that matters. (This is my experience though, it might not be the norm.)

IDE yes, compiler no.

Until the robots start designing new robots...

But how many of the "unwashed masses" do actually flash their BIOS?

It used to be that a developer paid for his software to be listed on download.com. Either that's no longer the case (so they now raise money via advertising) or they're just not earning enough money from paid listings any more?