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Apple Says Macs Are Safe, No Antivirus Needed
lobridge writes "Over the last two days multiple news feeds (and Slashdot) have been reporting that Apple has been quietly recommending antivirus software for their machines. It appears now that Apple has deleted an entry on their forums that suggested this and are saying that Mac computers are 'safe out of the box.'"
Should we also be vaccinating our bodies against theoretical illnesses that haven't even been discovered yet?
According to Executive order 13295, yes, we should! But only if the government says so!
Ex. Ord. No. 13295. Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases
Ex. Ord. No. 13295, Apr. 4, 2003, 68 F.R. 17255, as amended by Ex. Ord. No. 13375, 1, Apr. 1, 2005, 70 F.R. 17299, provided:
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264 (b)), it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Based upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the "Secretary"), in consultation with the Surgeon General, and for the purpose of specifying certain communicable diseases for regulations providing for the apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases, the following communicable diseases are hereby specified pursuant to section 361(b) of the Public Health Service Act:
(a) Cholera; Diphtheria; infectious Tuberculosis; Plague; Smallpox; Yellow Fever; and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (Lassa, Marburg, Ebola, Crimean-Congo, South American, and others not yet isolated or named).
(b) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which is a disease associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, is transmitted from person to person predominantly by the aerosolized or droplet route, and, if spread in the population, would have severe public health consequences.
(c) Influenza caused by novel or reemergent influenza viruses that are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic.
Sec. 2. The Secretary, in the Secretary's discretion, shall determine whether a particular condition constitutes a communicable disease of the type specified in section 1 of this order.
Sec. 3. The functions of the President under sections 362 and 364(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 265 and 267 (a)) are assigned to the Secretary.
Sec. 4. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit enforceable at law or equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or any other person.
Sec. 5. Executive Order 12452 of December 22, 1983, is hereby revoked.
George W. Bush.
If you have something that you dont want anyone to know, maybe you shouldnt be doing it in the first place -Eric Schmidt
I've been meaning to ask, this is as good a time and place as any - where did you get this quote for your sig?
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. ~ Lao Tzu
I have studied The Old Man for 35 years and have no idea where he said this. It's not in the Tao Te Ching. Neither are these quotes:
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." http://www.whatquote.com/quotes/Lao-Tzu/1399-Being-deeply-loved-b.htm
"Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens." http://www.whatquote.com/quotes/Lao-Tzu/24946-Ambition-has-one-hee.htm
It would be ludicrous to attribute either of the above to Lao Tse.
Your quote is more akin to this passage from the Hagakure:
Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's wall there was this one: ''Matters of great concern should be treated lightly.''
Master lttei commented, "Matters of small concern should be treated seriously."
http://www.rosenoire.org/archives/Hagakure.pdf
In fact, I dispute virtually all of these quotes attributed to The Old Man - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/lao_tzu.html - cleverly, there are a few of his actual quotes there - not very many.
In keeping with the spirit of the Hagakure - GirlInTraining wrote that if you have to scroll a comment, chances are good it's a religious/fanboy posting. To which EarlyMon commented that if you believe ahead of time that long comments are religious/fanboy ones, you will scroll them.
Pathological kinda promises Path + Logical - but instead, you get stuck with pathetic.