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phenotypical

Apr 12 / 7:09am

Stop appending your emails with meaningless legal disclaimers.

E-mail disclaimers are one of the minor nuisances of modern office life, along with fire drills, annual appraisals and colleagues who keep sneezing loudly. Just think of all the extra waste paper generated when messages containing such waffle are printed. They are assumed to be a wise precaution. But they are mostly, legally speaking, pointless. Lawyers and experts on internet policy say no court case has ever turned on the presence or absence of such an automatic e-mail footer in America, the most litigious of rich countries.

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Oct 22 / 7:08am

A national ban on screensavers?

...if Americans got rid of their screen savers, and let their computers hibernate, or (God Forbid!) turned them off, this country could save enough electricity each year to power Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine combined! as well as, cut national electric bills by $2 billion, reducing CO2 emissions by the equivalent of five million cars.

 
...Folks, your screensaver doesn't save zip.

Modern computer monitors aren't vulnerable to burn-in and screensavers ironically just shorten their lifespan by requiring the same energy and processing as when you're working at your desk.

Just shut your computer down when you go home.

Nobody's admiring the animated fish or that slide-show of your family photos after hours.

...and if you're a decision-maker in your organization, you can follow Telstra's and Barclay's examples and save some serious cash and carbon emissions by banning them altogether.

 

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Oct 21 / 7:01am

Turn it off.

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