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What Is the Best Way To Disinfect Your Laptop?
akutz writes "I've had the flu since Tuesday afternoon. My wife picked me up from work with a temperature of 103.6 and it finally broke at 98.7 around 3am this morning. Yay. The problem is that I used my laptop during my periods of feverish deliriousness, contaminating my shiny 15" MacBook Pro with the icky influenza virus. I am asking my fellow Slashdotters if they have ever sought out a good way of disinfecting their lucky laptops after an illness. Do you use soap? A light acid bath? Just get the family dog to lick it until it looks clean?"
Maybe his wife has HIV or full blown AIDs? Not that it's any of our business. But if that's case, you would want to do all you can to prevent them from getting sick.
Life is not for the lazy.
Or rather, take everything. Every flu/cold/bug gets everybody. The only way you can miss a particular bug is to wait until it is extinct. You read that right. These viruses undergo continuous intensive drifts and shifts of their genome. The longer a person goes between flu infections, the worse they are (averaged over time).
When a wholly new flu comes along, it kills a lot of people, because they don't have any immunity even close to it... Nothing to even hold the flu off a bit while their immune system picks up the new antigens, much less the set of ready generic defenses that let us experience most of these infections as a bad day.
The only time it makes sense to act like one of those sissies(feel free to substitute the term "faggot") trying to avoid flu and cold infections is when you have contact with someone with a less-capable immune system... a child at the beginning of life, a transplant patient trying for a little more life, an AIDS sufferer trying to hold on the the last few weeks of life, or while a healthy adult is otherwise temporarily weakened... or when one is willing to accept a nasty upcoming infection to perform at optimal levels in the short term.
For those in the main stream of life, taking each cold or flu as it comes is the better course.
Don't let your newborn daughter use your laptop.
As well, keep off your 93 year-old grandmother, and your gay brother.
Your daughter will be ready to kick the virus' ass in a few more months, and maybe you can buy the other two a few more weeks. Now, to see this post instantly deleted.
This is the most retarded Ask Slashdot EVER.
You clean your laptop until it looks cosmetically clean. The number of microbes that can survive any length of time outside your body is so few as to be ignorable.
If you think you need to disinfect your laptop then you also need to disinfect your car, bed, sofa, TV remote, mobile phone, household phone etc etc. In that case flu isn't your biggest concern, that enormous OCD case you have is a far bigger problem.
I hate printers.
well at least someone is a man in your relationship. you fucking pussy. Lysol? are you fucking kidding me? You think germs, as in the germs scattered all around us throughout our history, are worse than fucking bleaching your shit? What a fucking psycho. give me your GFs number so I can jizz in her mouth and get her to dump your lame ass.