UK Telecommuters Risk Not Showering For Weeks
from the working-from-home-actually-means-you-can-never-leave-work dept
After the US government decreed that telecommuting is vital to national security, a UK study found that working at home poses a higher security risk. The survey found that telecommuters are more lax with computer security procedures, and therefore expose their companies to computer virus and hacker threats. The survey also found that employees working at home were distracted by television and lonely. Worker issues are nothing new, whether the workers are sitting in cubes or in their living room. Telecommuting provides a more flexible working arrangement enabled by today's technology. Supposedly, "the only way to protect against the growing security threat was for businesses to take the responsibility off home workers". Well, that just seems obvious. If you just sent your workers home and didn't take responsibility for their security, isn't it obvious why there is a security threat? This study seems like an alarmist exercise. Oh wait, the study was done by Novell, who just so happens to sell security software. If only they had a solution for the loneliness and showering problem (though maybe those two problems are actually related).
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The nuclear weapon of deodorants
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Deoderant, whether it be a soap, a stick, a roll-on or spray, is an anti-bacterial agent. It's purpose is to kill the bacteria that feed on sweat and produce odors.
An ANTIPERSPIRANT stops you from sweating, but doesn't kill the bacteria (although they may starve to death).
Keep spewing your comments about 3rd world countries that noone cares about, but at least get your facts straight first.
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"Professor Peter Vikesland, of Virginia Tech University, who carried out the research, said: "This is the first work that we know of that suggests that consumer products, such as antimicrobial soap, can produce significant quantities of chloroform." He has called for governments around the world to regulate the chemical more closely."
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While deoderants aren't the most effective solution, they usually don't contain aluminium-related compounds, which seem to be a likely factor in Alzheimer's disease.
Since the idea of losing my mind is to me about the worst scenario, I'd take possibly being a bit smelly over smelling like roses while I smear my own poo all over the walls because I'm so out of it mentally. Oops, sorry Dorkus, no offense to your personal situation was intended.
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The notion that aluminum causes Alzheimer's disease came from a single study in the 1980s, when researchers "found aluminum in the brains of Alzheimer's patients". The aluminum later turned out to come from the dye that had been injected into them in the first place.
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