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Illicit Leaky Capacitors Killing Motherboards

Posted by chrisd on from the plans-out-the-back-door dept.

mcd7756 writes "The IEEE Spectrum magazine has an article about how capacitors made with a stolen formula for the electrolyte are leaking and causing motherboards to fail. Some computer manufacturers are admitting to the problem; others are hiding it."

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  1. Re:Corporate espionage? by crhylove · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    whatever happened to that open source cola? where the recipe is open source? i'd like to buy some can's of that, and or patch the recipe via cvs. :D mod me down, i can't even code a good baked potato recipe.

    rhy

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