Symantec's corporate antivirus is atrocious (Ghost is fine, if a bit expensive). Not only is it a resource hog, it can cause problems for months after it's been removed. The consumer version is even worse, the thing is like a virus. For a free antivirus, AVG is pretty damn good as a set and forget bit. However, if you're already recommending they pay for it, Kaspersky, NOD32, and Malwarebytes are all better options than Norton.

You lost all credibility with this sentence...

Huh... So, I was picturing it right the whole time. Weird.

Ok, I'll get downmodded for this, but it has to be said. Whenever you use the word "dwelling" I picture a Hobbit dugout. Is that weird?

So, if I use iCloud/Google Drive/Skydrive/Dropbox it's not really mine? That's news to me...

Not trying to be patronizing or sarcastic here, but have you thought about Linux? Throw Lubuntu on it and it'll run at least twice as fast. For the small amount of things you say they do on it, there really shouldn't be many migration pains.

I think you may have confused "satanist" for "atheist". They are not the same. The first group purports to believe in the Lord Satan. Whether they actually do or not is a question for another day and most likely varies from person to person. The second group purports to believe in no god at all. I'm sure there are a certain number of atheists who claim to be satanists but the group as a whole is not atheistic.

MS is what's wrong with IE. Every new version they break things in new and interesting ways. If I can't rely on the new version not breaking compatibility for important sites, why use it at all?

Don't worry, I read the whole thing and now I want my time back. The entire comment is full of crap he either made up on the spot or "read somewhere". The end result is an almost-coherent mess that somehow got modded "interesting".

It does, but it uses the Tegra line which is Nvidia's mobile solution. So, it'd be an ARM chip in there, not x86.

Although there doesn't seem to be a perfect real world example (a sit in seems to be the closest) I think I've come up with something better. A DDoS usually works by sending enough seemingly legitimate requests to a server that it can't handle any new ones. So, the closest you can get in the real world would be to get enough people to fill a business to legal capacity and have them pretend to shop, making it so the business couldn't allow actual customers in. The key here is, as the attacker, you're not the one keeping people out, the people you're attacking are.

True, but the analogy for what's happening in this case is, you left your door unlocked during the day while you were home. A bunch of random smartasses walked in and sat around for awhile, pushing you outside. One got caught and the Judge tells him he has to pay for an all new security system for you.

Actually, if the defense lawyer isn't retarded, a murder/manslaughter wouldn't stick. If what you did isn't the thing that killed him, murder and manslaughter aren't really the correct charges and won't hold up against a jury. Attempted murder maybe, or accessory to murder, but not murder itself.

Usually I just use "trans people". Nobody seems to have much of an issue with that.