Ganesan does not appear to have actually said "proactive" twice, or even once. "New submitter Chewbacon" is apparently a marketing droid.

Not so much a matter of your structured essays as your lack of ability to write in English, I suspect. Perhaps she had a crush on you.

I'm not sure what country you're living in? In the U.S., only one in 20,000 eggs contains salmonella. http://www.cdc.gov/nczved/divisions/dfbmd/diseases/salmonella_enteritidis/

Apparently, you've never heard of Constitutional amendments, there, Thogg.

Bad moderator. Look, you can barely get a virus or trojan without willingly inviting one in. It's theoretically possible, yes, but I've been up and running online since 1980 or so, and I only almost picked up one virus from a CompuServe mail before I knew any better. It was a cruddy Microsoft Word macro. Probably still got it zipped up here, somewhere, but the code didn't interest me. Anyway, this is not flamebait, this is information.

Let's put it in topical perspective, all right? I know y'all want things measured in Libraries of Congress, cars, or football fields. Not today. Today, let's talk vampires. Can't get into your house unless you invite them in. Vampires, viruses, same deal, pretty much. And have some garlic, it's good for what ails you.

> You cannot run Windows without antivirus/antimalware now

News to me. Have you been surfing deviant porn sites again? You pretty much have to be a moron to need AV code on your machine. I recommend it for my step-mom, of course, the old darling is barely qualified to run a toaster. It's just lucky that she can't fit her head into one. But for most of us, AV software is more dangerous than getting a virus. You can be pretty sure you won't get a virus. You can be fairly sure the AV software will slow down your machine drastically, and occasionally decide to delete the operating system.

Well, I'll grant you that there are snazzier options, but where are you going to get the 1.21 Gigawatts to power a DeLorean?

Larry Niven, one of the Gil Hamilton "Long Arm of the Law" stories. Far from his best work.

>Management is being more proactive...

Ok, you're a marketing person. I'll forgive you. But never say proactive again.

>We already have cake day, corporate massage day

Your company obviously has too much turnover and you're trying desperately to reduce it. The problem is not going to be that you don't have enough cake days. The problem is going to be that it apparently sucks to work at your company. Cut down on the number of mandatory meetings, make sure everybody has a decent computer, get the damned boss to stop subverting the code check-in system, and... your programmers don't actually need to wear suits, do they? Stop that.

The Three Laws are completely irrelevant here.

could they stop naming the operating system to appeal to six-year-old girls? That is probably not their best target demographic.

"Hewlett-Packard Co. used to be known as a place where innovative thinkers flocked to work on great ideas that opened new frontiers in technology."

When was this, exactly? They were dinosaurs in the 1980s, best known for products such as keyboards that you could readily kill someone with (if you could lift one), which would last forever... although you needed to use a hammer to type on one. And the infamous RPN calculators, because they were too cheap to put in a few more chips to handle algebraic order-of-precedence. (You will probably still find HP apologists arguing for the "more natural" design of this inverted math format to this day.)

"But as a parent, you could require your child to have something like this on their cellphone as a way to protect them..."

I can have no sympathy for people who are wasting grandmas. A grandma is not a thing to waste.

That's MISTER Wonderful, thank you. I didn't not spend six years in evil medical school to be called DOCTOR.