Ummm, what viruses would it be looking for? There aren't any real, in the wild Mac viruses unless you count Mac Guard, which barely qualifies and is only delivered via trojan that happens to spawn a separate app at run time.

Windows malware.
Say your colleague gives you .zip archive full of files that he's worked with on a Windows machine and wants you to review some of the data for whatever reason (imagine they are some kind of self-extracting Powerpoint .exe files along with the source .ppt files).
One of the files is infected, but you would have no idea until you email your company CEO the archive and infect his machine...
Most machines in workplaces will share SMB drives between Mac and Windows machines - this is a good example of why you need an AV program for every computer no matter the OS.

Jobs has headed 3 companies to success: Apple (2 different occasions), Next and Pixar. Gates on the other hand is a one-trick pony.

Which "one trick" would that be?
Making his fortune at Microsoft or giving away half his money to solve real world problems?

I would choose a 'stable' distro though, so no Fedora, no Ubuntu (even their LTS isn't exactly enterprise grade compared to RedHat / Suse or even Debian stable

That would depend on if you mean stable = "ancient" or stable = "modern but secure".
Ubuntu LTS is in the latter category from my experience.

The outage* was over by the time Slashdot posted it.

* except that there never was any outage, just some clients that crashed when they updated their XML config from Skype servers.
Where I worked we speculated that they were updating the master IP/hostnames for the login servers when beta testing Azure or some other Microsoft datacenter and some clients received corrupted data.

It affected my company for a short time today from midday to around 14:00 when we became aware of the fix.
Not everyone was affected but we found it rather odd how this "shared.xml" file would become corrupted and crash Skype just because it was connected to the Internet - there's probably a serious bug waiting to be exploited by malware here.

As a further note, not all people use Skype for phone calls - we use it for secure IM between office workers.

So, when are the bad guys going to invent the "Mac Guard Cleaner" tool?

I believe the best way to approach the issue is to:

• Have a policy in place that wireless access is provided for everybody
• The wireless only gives access to the Internet
• The wireless network is on it's own subnet, and access to the main LAN subnet is blocked by the firewall
• Use VPN to provide access to the LAN subnet for those that require it (and only on company-bought devices)

Not sure why you'd run SSH over the standard port...

Pff, ALT + D is the old school way.

The subject is what the world really needs.

Hmm.. Kotaku - isn't that the site that was hacked recently?

This would be amazing if if had an eth0 interface with an SSH client.
That would mean that you could SSH to any of your servers from within Safari on an iPhone with no need for paid-for apps.

As an owner of a Chrome OS laptop, the only way I'd get one of these (or recommend it to a friend) is if they came with unlimited 3G. The 100mb cap is not nearly enough.

Is that per day?
I hope so.

He mostly likely deployed a development version of a script (by pressing Enter) that hadn't been tested properly and contained an error which only manifested itself on the live environment.

According to Apple, Thunderbolt can do 10Gbps * 2 on dual channels.
That's faster than any hard disk, raid or even an enterprise-level fibre channel SAN.
I fail to see why anybody would need a connection that fast - where do you think the data will be going?
And don't you think it's time to start looking at upgrading the slowest component of a computer instead? The hard disk.