Keyboards can be up to five times dirtier than toilet seats, study found
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from:msnbc.comYour keyboard can give you food poisoning
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send a copy of this to Milpitas library where they have lots of computers larbaugh@library.sccgov.org
Yikes!!!!!!
Hell..this isn't new..I been using condoms on all my fingers when I type so I don't get online sex diseases when I'm on web sites!
This reminds me of the time, 20+ years ago, when I worked @ a restaurant. Me and a co-worker went to the restroom. I washed my hands and she didn't. I said, "aren't you gonna wash your hands?" And she replied, "No, I'm just going to lunch." YUCK! Blondie
Wow! Something new to get the willies about? We need to step back from the news cycle for one week to regain our American sense of guts. Is there anyone else completely sick of the constant stream of "scare" and negativity our media feeds us?
I'm sure that the Islamic fundamentalists are behind this, and somehow this will be Obama's fault. (Sorry for the political spin on this topic; just trying to get a jump on Limbaugh's and Beck's ensuing commentaries).
Again, Americans are a bunch of germophobic woosies. "Don't go in the ocean. You'll get a infection!" Or "I have to get the latest, greatest of the flu vaccines or I'll die!"
As I've stated before: Get some nads Americans or just be scaredy cats all your lives!
That is all.
This article is a waste of electric power.Summertime; news are slow and people don't give a $hit.
I agree if our bodies aren't exposed to some stuff we will never get amuned to them. Look at all the people living in Africa and Japan they eat things we would never think about and they are doing just fine. NOT everything is bad for you.
Been working with computers for over 30 years and never got sick from them. I bet Obama will want to spend money on Keyboards now, why not, he has on everything else.
it's obama's fault! he should have done something about this years ago!
Will this be the latest "crisis of the week?"
I get a lot of flak for my barefoot lifestyle. Most people think barefeet pick up disease or need protection. That couldn't be further from the truth and there is plenty of research to prove it. Yet here is another example of something our hands touch and then transmit bacteria to our food, eyes and mouth. Rather than wearing footwear, everyone should wear gloves. Research the top 10 places where we pick up bacteria and viruses. Hands are always the culprit. No gloves, no service!
It must be a slow night in MSNland.... nail polish remover, denatured alcohol, windex on a paper towel just to name few cleaners for keyboards.
How do I remove the keyboard from a laptop?
Or do I just put the whole thing in the dishwasher?
I think I have qwerty tummy right now UGH
To Steve: Your anal!! Obama is at fault; get a life and leave others alone
Oh, Dee. Dee, Dee, Dee.
1. Steve was joking.
2. It's "you're anal" (not "your anal"), and I don't think you know what the phrase "you're anal" means because it doesn't make sense in the context of Steve's comment.
3. Did you mean to say Obama was *not* at fault? Because, you know, your comment doesn't make any sense unless you wanted to refute Steve. But you didn't.
It's hard to imagine how 15 words could be so filled with fail, but bravo to you, Dee -- your comment has the distinction of being the most badly written thing I've seen on the internet today.
I have a mental image of you sitting quietly in the dark in a trailer somewhere, pounding away at your keyboard, weighing about 300 pounds and eating Doritos while American Idol plays on an old TV in the background.
AMIRITE??
Baaahahahahahahahahahahahaha touché
Thank you for the information!
ive actually done in a keyboard by spilling water in it! we went to best buy to get a wireless keyboard and mouse. they said that if you spill something in it, that it wont hurt the keyboard!
Unless the keyboard is specifically listed as being waterproof then spilling water in it will generally "do it in".
There isn't anything magic about wireless keyboards -- if you get water in there you'll damage the electronic components and you'll have a dead keyboard.
I have found that keyboards are best prepared sauteed and then simmered in mild garlic sauce. Whatever you do, do not eat your keyboard raw, you can get keyitis.
I bet if I shook out all the crumbs and food from my laptop, I could feed a third-world country for two years.
Rubbing alcohol with a q-tip and 10 minute whisps periodically should help. Consider it apart of virus control.
Oh, they mean computer keyboards! I thought I was going to have to go after the piano with Lysol!
A co-worker who sits next to me, eats at her desk, doesn't wash her hands, licks her fingers, talks with her mouth full (while food drops out of her mouth on to her keyboard). And in between bites, answers the phone, and types on her keyboard, with fingers that she doesn't wipe off, or she has just licked them. While she is on her break, another co-worker sits in her place and has to use her phone, and her keyboard. This co-worker always wipes down her monitor, phone, and keyboard, with a disinfectant wipe. VERY SMART. I think we should all keep this in mind.
Not surprised. What about laptop keyboards? Since those can't be unplugged/disconnected, what's the best way to clean them?
Blaming Obama (or any other leader) for this is ridiculous. The problem is that most of us do unsanitary things while working at our computers.