into the lives of people. Really? There is no need for this type if idiotic legislature. If people can't curb their calories, eat, drink, and live responsibly, then they deserve whatever health problems they get as a result. We need less nanny-ism from the government and more commonsense from the public.

AMEN! Just throw a slab of meat on the grill and light it up, this type of cooking is mostly intuition anyway, no need to geek/nerd it up.

I have a 2008 MacBook, the first Aluminum unibody model. Still runs great, but tossing in a new SSD drive and upping the RAM to 8 GB makes this machine faster than my bosses 2011 pro model...it also saved me a lot of money and the need to get a new computer anytime soon. While not "needed" a SSD drive made my machine like new.

What does this mean, if anything, for UK owned sites hosted outside of the Queen's reach?

then there's hope for American politicians...yay!

I think a lot of this is "provable" with anecdotal evidence, but I think there is something about allowing people to get sick or exposed to germs...we live in a world where people are afraid of germs and sickness and want to drop an antibiotic at the first sign of illness, bacterial or not. I currently live in a country where antibiotics can be gotten at pharmacies without a prescription. When people start to cough or otherwise display symptoms of being sick the first recourse is an antibiotic; doctors even will prescribe antibiotics when the symptoms point towards virus, just to make induce a placebo effect and make sure their patient feels cared for.

Anecdotal evidence...I grew up in the country and was exposed to a lot of "pathogens". My mother was a school nurse (likely bringing some of her work home with her) and just being outside in the woods, going to the bathroom, climbing trees, swimming, stick fighting, making forts, etc...all without washing hands. I never had allergies as a child and the only time I get sick in Beirut is when I am exposed to an extreme amount of pollution or the strange pollen from the pine trees here that plagues nearly everyone about once a year. I am even tolerant of something called the spring worm (caterpillar) that has feces and body hairs that are extremely irritating.

Our bodies are stronger than we give them credit for and we need to stop being a nation/world of hypochondriacs. Its nice that there seems to be some serious study on this issue. From personal experience I seem to see that the people who are the sickest are those that were sheltered the most growing up.

being forwarded in an email or on removable media are the most obvious ways that malware is being passed along. For the most part it is not very likely for an infected/malicious file (unless intentional) to be passed from a Mac to Windows machine, but I've scanned my email folders occasionally and found a file that is harmless on my MacBook but would compromise a Windows system if opened. So it can happen, its not BS.

semantics. I haven't read the article, but based on the summary they're talking about the Mac being a carrier, being able to pass along the "infection" but not adversely impacted by it itself.

tablets like Adderall, Ritalin, Concerta, and Strattera have been helping children learn for decades!

oh, you mean like...iPad. My bad!!!

and slap the label, "on a phone" or "for a mobile device", and PRESTO! You have a new, patentable use for the obvious.

is actually unsecured and improperly managed networks run by corporations that collection too much information on us. There, fixed that...

+1 Troll...most of the people getting their iPhones are getting them on contract and they are around the same cost as other devices...and if you take into consideration the contract prices the value of the iPhone is less than $500, the limit for a felony.

I live where the iProducts and other high quality electronic devices also cost significantly more than in the US, but it isn't because the manufacturers are raising prices, its due to the taxes, VAT, import, customs, duty, and such that raise the selling price of the devices.