Would it be possible for one of you experts (no sarcasm intended) to run a Windows VM and spend all the time you're talking to them tracing back to their machine?
Change a few settings ... find out where they are ... trace their server and cause it to reboot??
Or even just have "BOO!!" appear on their screen?

Hack the Hackers FTW!

Instead of trying to force the ability to undo all child-hood indiscretions on Google/Microsoft et al., why don't they simply make a refusal to hire on the basis of "unsuitable internet postings" as a minor an act of discrimination equivalent to the usual race, gender, religion/creed issues.
It could even fit under "age discrimination" which is unlawful in Australia.

... how it could be so quickly forgotten.
Windows8 RT was an attempt to cash in on the cheap end of the tablet market, and failed on price and over-supply.

When the "all new, all singing, all dancing" netbooks came out, supplied with Windows 7 Starter, you were supposed to pay for a upgrade to "real Windows 7".
RT is suffering the same fate ... nobody wants it, because nobody wants to pay more just to be able to run some limited software on it.
Android on Arm would be the smartest thing manufacturers could do, if they can "shoe-horn" Android onto those megalithic M$ tablets.

Me? I installed OpenSuSE with xfce on the two netbooks I got cheap at the "end of model" sales. I dual-booted the first one I bought : it had WinXP, and I was keeping that.

The power over preferences should be returned to the voters.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-11/green-hand-the-power-of-preferences-back-to-the-people/4951020
He suggests that optional preferential voting should be made possible both "above the line" and "below the line", an either/or option in the Senate ballot that made the situation, as originally posted, possible.
Being able to mark one or more preferences, either as to parties, or as to individual candidates, would wipe out the "preference swap" vote rigging.

I'm running Comodo Internet Security on a AMD Sempron 1.75ghz chipped PC, admittedly with 2GB of DDR2 RAM.
In fact I'm running it on every Windows PC in the house, including Windows 8 laptops!
It runs fine, I've never noticed any slowing ... and it's free for personal use.

Anyone I've talked to about their use of Windows 8 has them telling me they've "... fixed it by installing [program name] to restore the Start Menu and boot direct to the desktop ..." so Micro$oft returning the Start Button is just a bit of window dressing.

And yes, I've installed Win8 on a PC, and recently bought two laptops (one with a touch-screen) so I can learn it and help people use it.
I'm sure Windows 8 Tile Start screen is great on a tablet / smart phone ... it's painful on a PC, especially a non-touch screen.

I read it as "Oracle Database : price 12 cents".
You'd get two for a quarter and a penny change!

It'll be summer here in Australia!
Trouble is our summers have turned into monsoon season over the last couple of years ... rain, rain, go away!