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Comment Company info on personal iPhone (Score 0) 1307

by crowdert on Monday April 18, 2011 @03:30PM (#35859202) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Do I Give IT a Login On Our Dept. Server?

You also need to think about and have a plan for one of your coworkers lossing their iPhone with company data on it. What's your plan for disabling the phone? What if the employee leaves abruptly, can IT erase the company info on his personal phone? How does HIPPA view this risk?

As many have said before me, there are a lot of procedures, testing, approvals to work through before you can implement something like this; it's much more than just purchasing a server and plugging it into a port.

Kids Who Watch Popeye Cartoons Eat More Vegetables 119

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 09, 2010 @03:31PM from the I-yam-what-I-yam dept.

markmark57 writes "Popeye cartoons, tasting parties and junior cooking classes can help increase vegetable intake in kindergarten children, according to new research published in the journal Nutrition & Dietetics. Researchers at Mahidol University in Bangkok found the type and amount of vegetables children ate improved after they took part in a program using multimedia and role models to promote healthy food. Twenty six kindergarten children aged four to five participated in the eight-week study. The researchers recorded the kinds and amounts of fruit and vegetables eaten by the children before and after the program."

Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking 794

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 11, 2010 @03:22PM from the too-stupid-to-live-as-long-as-possible dept.

lord_rotorooter writes "Felix Ortiz, D-Brooklyn, introduced a bill that would ruin restaurant food and baked goods as we know them. The measure (if passed) would ban the use of all forms of salt in the preparation and cooking of food for all restaurants or bakeries. While the use of too much salt can contribute to health problems, the complete banning of salt would have negative impacts on food chemistry. Not only does salt enhance flavor, it controls bacteria, slows yeast activity and strengthens dough by tightening gluten. Salt also inhibits the growth of microbes that spoil cheese."

The 10 Most Absurd Scientific Papers 127

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 11, 2010 @03:14PM from the burning-potential-of-fire dept.

Lanxon writes "It's true: 'Effects of cocaine on honeybee dance behavior,' 'Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time,' and 'Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull?' are all genuine scientific research papers, and all were genuinely published in journals or similar publications. Wired's presentation of a collection of the most bizarrely-named research papers contains seven other gems, including one about naval fluff and another published in The Journal of Sex Research."

US Call-Center Jobs — That Pay $100K a Year 362

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 27, 2009 @01:50PM from the payment-for-the-gift-of-gab dept.

bheer writes "BusinessWeek profiles a call center company called iQor which has grown revenues 40% year-on-year by (shock) treating employees as critical assets. It's done this not by nickel-and-diming, but by expanding its US operations (13 centers across the US now), giving employees universal health insurance, and paying salaries and bonuses that are nearly 50% above industry norms. The article notes that outsourcing will continue and globalization will continue to change the world's economic landscape. 'But the US is hardly helpless. With smart processes and the proper incentives, US companies can keep jobs here in America, and do so in a way that is actually better for the company and its employees.' Now if only other companies get a clue as well."

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