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Safely Cleaning LCD Displays?
An anonymous reader asks: "I own several laptops and one flat-panel LCD display, and I am trying to find a good way to keep them clean without damaging them. Using the alcohol-based cleaning wipes that I normally use for my CRT displays doesn't seem right, and I had an (idiot) friend who shorted out a great many of the transistors on his laptop's LCD by spraying Windex on it. What's the best way to clean these things without damaging them or creating buildup that I'll just have to clean off again separately?"
We get a lab of new iMacs into the school.
A week later, we ship them all back.
First it was a rash of cracked screens.
The kids were poking their fingers into them.
Then it was a broken arm.
They both wanted to look at it.
But the children could not match what came next:
They all got washed with whiteboard cleaner.
By the principal.
An hour before open house.
The PHB said "they ARE white."
It turned them blue.
The parents got to see their tax dollars at work.
We traded them for eMacs.
The PHB kept his job.
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
Pavlovian conditioning. They touch the screen, they get smacked.
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