If you think MS is in any danger, you haven't seen the backlog of expensive (thousands of $$$ is volume licensing), unmaintainable (no source code or documentation) and mission critical (only way to run a piece of equipment / interface with a system) applications that require a version of Windows to run. That alone will keep them going into the foreseeable future.

I forgot, all corporations are evil. Meanwhile in the real world people are calling in sick to go party, sleep in, or because they need more vacation time.

American insurance typically involves the patient paying part of the fee, usually 10-40 dollars depending on the service. It is to discourage us from going to the doctor when there's nothing wrong with us.

But you may still be infectious, best to limit exposure, even if you've already contaminated some people you can avoid contaminating others. Re-contamination is also a problem.

You act like everyone is really sick. Facts are there are morons who abuse the system because they don't want to go to work, and as a result everyone is punished for it. Those people force businesses to write Draconian sick day policies.

I'd also mandate them for public utility workers, public transit workers, and food service workers.

Fortunately one of the entities I work for forces all employees to be vaccinated (it's free), so I am covered. I also get free mandatory TB testing which is peace of mind. Personally I think more employers should mandate (but provide for free) flu vaccines every season. Would greatly improve productivity and popular health.

I am an American. By the way, many companies will punish you for coming to work sick now, especially in retail and food service positions where you might infect the customers.

Why do people wait for an epidemic to stay home when they are sick? If you are sick, don't go out! If you do, you are part of the problem.

It's just a low blow at Creative Commons authors.

Yep. This guy is going to make some serious money when he sues for wrongful prosecution.

All it's going to take to kill McAfee is Microsoft Security Essentials, to be honest.

Are you kidding? All the guy did was disable registry entries that locked you from doing dumb crap like overclocking an integrated chipset. He also removed the stuff that makes sure that your device is actually supported by the driver, so the omega drivers are basically the spray and pray version of hardware support.

Linux has EXCELLENT intrusion detection as long as you're running the SELinux tools. That thing is so paranoid out of the box that an application making a file in /tmp will throw a warning. You can set it up so that an application doing anything remotely suspicious is just killed immediately and a notification sent to the admin. If you don't trust SELinux there's more proprietary tools such as AppArmor that can do the same job and are a bit friendlier to configure.

Actually the android sandbox is quite sophisticated. Jellybean will randomize the location of an application's memory region in order to make buffer overflow attacks harder. Granular permissions allow a user to know exactly what an app wants to do before they even install it (it's written into the API that the app must ask for these permissions). Also Google does automated malware testing on their store in order to weed out undesirables. This thing is spread by installing an APK off of a warez site and ignoring all the scary warnings.