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PCs Use More Sick Days Than People

Posted by michael on from the pcs-need-nyquil-too dept.

lunarscape writes "ZDNet is running an article about the 'absentee' rate of PCs in various UK workplaces. According to the article, while the average employee was out sick seven days a year, the average PC was inoperable due to a virus nine days a year. The article also discusses junk e-mail's impact on productivity, with one business reporting that 99.84 percent of all incoming mail is spam."

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  1. Do Not Spam Lists Question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why is the proposal for a Do Not Spam list being based upon the cleartext version of the email address, rather than something reasonable like the MD5 checksum of the email address?

  2. Re:99.84% pure pork fat by Surt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your sig sounds more like a purposely than a randomly.

    Not that I disagree with your purpose.

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  3. Re:Traffic stress by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you ask the people who live there, every place in the world has the worst traffic, the worst weather, the worst crime, the worst government, the worst schools ... Every. Single. Place. In. The. World.

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  4. Re:99.84% pure pork fat by VertigoAce · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think he means randomly as in he'll do it sometimes and ignore it at other times. It's like a random security check at the airport. It's done for a particular reason, but not everyone gets picked, so it is done randomly.

  5. Re:Yeah its always taking sickies by proj_2501 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    do you exist to be humorless?

  6. Re:Yeah its always taking sickies by recursiv · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I occasionally serve a few other purposes also. Why? Do you also?

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  7. Re:Traffic stress by themusicgod1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    no way. as a canadian i know my government has done quite lot of wrong...but they are made of descent people with descent intentions, with a few exceptions. I think the american government is totalitarian and fascist, to a growing degree each year.

    a lot of americans say that they have the best government and that totalitarian places like china should adopt their form of government.

    a lot of the chinese(the only iranian) i've talked to about the situation seem to think the american government is a totalitarian government(the people being just honest folk), etc.
    some places think they have the best place to live in the world.

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