But one strain of mobile malware threatens a far greater social embarrassment: remotely-detonated digital flatulence.
The carbonation and artificial sweeteners in soda can also lead to bloating, belching and excess flatulence.
Among his interviews were a specialist in removing road kill and the maker of the world's first flatulence-proof underwear.
In January Stern debuted on Sirius, opening his show with the theme song from 2001: A Space Odyssey--accompanied by flatulence.
Exhibit 1: AgCert International, an Irish company launched on the London Stock Exchange last year to trade in pig flatulence.
The unabsorbed fat leads to gas, flatulence, diarrhea, increased bowel movements, and even, how to put this delicately, anal leakage of oily material.
Mr Johnson said the expansion of Heathrow would be a "giant step backwards for London", giving rise to "great flying fleets of fortissimo flatulence".
In the studies, Cholestin had no side effects, except for a few cases of flatulence, according to Joseph Chang, vice president of clinical affairs at Pharmanex.
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Add in the various over-the-counter remedies for flatulence, constipation, diarrhoea, hay fever and the common cold, and the average American might seem to be a pill-popping hypochondriac.
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Other common adverse reactions, reported by 5 to 7 (17-24%) patients, included weight loss, abdominal discomfort, abdominal distension, constipation, flatulence, increased ALT, chest pain, influenza, nasopharyngitis, and fatigue.
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Too much vitamin E can cause nausea, diarrhea and flatulence.
In a January study, Finnish researchers found nearly half of 48 patients who had a Nissen laparoscopic procedure, as the traditional surgery is called, were experiencing bloating and flatulence 15 years later.
The dinosaurs were not wiped out by a comet or asteroid impact or some other planetary catastrophe but by a serious flatulence problem, according to research quoted in a Chinese news report.
Much of the rest of the islands' productive acreage is used as pastureland for sheep and cattle, whose flatulence helps explain greenhouse gas emissions triple those of the U.S. on a per capita basis.
In CIC clinical trials, the most common side effect were diarrhea (16% vs 5% placebo), abdominal pain (7% vs 6%), flatulence (6% vs 5%), upper respiratory tract infection (5% vs 4%), sinusitis (3% vs 2%) and abdominal distension (3% vs 2%).
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Paramount made sure to point out that Dreamworks' animated features would be exclusively on HD-DVD because it knows that parents don't want to have to tell their kids that they can't watch Shrek on that device, at least not in the full resolution of his flatulence jokes.
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