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Corporate Espionage Leads To Faulty Motherboards

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the cowboyneal-is-too-lazy-to-make-a-dept dept.

Champs writes "If you've gotten the feeling that they really don't make 'em like they used to, you might be right. This article at IEEE Spectrum tells the story of large batches of faulty capacitors sourced from Taiwan causing motherboards to eventually fail, with an interesting twist on the reason why these capacitors failed."

18 of 234 comments (clear)

  1. Dupe again by daghlian · · Score: 5, Funny

    This story has already been posted. This story has already been posted. This story has already been posted.

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    1. Re:Dupe again by SuperDuperMan · · Score: 2, Funny

      You should ask for a refund on your subscription. That will hurt them in the pocket book.

  2. Didn't we just leave this party... by Reziac · · Score: 4, Funny

    .. like, two days ago, and last month too??

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  3. No matter how many times I refresh.... by Yo+Grark · · Score: 5, Funny

    ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG I'm still getting Slashdot's History Pages.

    I'm stuck in Cache HELL!

    Can someone tell me how to get the latest stories? :P

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  4. so confused by natefanaro · · Score: 2, Funny

    I deleted all of my temp internet files and this story still showed up! Where did I go wrong?

  5. So... by labratuk · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...if a duplicate post is a 'dupe', does that mean a triplicate post is 'tripe'?

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    1. Re:So... by sean23007 · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, almost all the posts are tripe...

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  6. OMG! by NMerriam · · Score: 5, Funny


    hey, everyone! i don't think this is public yet, but there are some faulty capacitors going around!!!!! send this message to ten of your friends and post it everywhere or else nobody will know!!!!!!

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    1. Re:OMG! by ForestGrump · · Score: 2, Funny

      no no...
      its pass it around to 10 friends within the next hour...or the caps on YOUR mobo will blow!

      -Grumpy Old Man.

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  7. This is happening again! by Anonym0us+Cow+Herd · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fool me once, shame on me. ....

    We should have learned our lesson about corporate espionage the first time. But now that history has repeated itself, within only a few days, I guess we didn't learn our lesson the first time here on Slashdot.

    How many times will we have to have faulty motherboards and other consumer electronic items before we learn our lessons abotu corporate espionage?

    Are we learning yet?

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  8. Re:Imagine by proj_2501 · · Score: 4, Funny

    CowboyNeal is actually a hip-hop DJ. This is only his day job.

  9. Re:ENOUGH by Bob9113 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am sick of this. Evertime there is a dupe(a mistake! sometimes people make these) there is always the obligatory barrage of "DUPE" messages and never any discussion of the issue.
    Get over it and find something constructive to do!

    You mean like bitching about the dupe messages?

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  10. Re:Chinese et al are thieves by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    That is why the smart money is going into nearshore outsourcing, "nearshore" being Canada. Canadians speak English, work harder than Americans for less money, are more law abiding and very much less violent. Canada has cities and transportation infrastructures that haven't been allowed to decay, unlike in America where cheapass taxpayers don't mind if their city turns into a jungle if it will save them $100/month. Canada also has telephone and internet services that are as good as if not better than those in the USA. Canada doesn't have greedy corporations running its health care, so it costs less and covers everybody.


    America is as obsolete as a rusted out 1976 Ford LTD; come to Canada.

  11. Re:This storys been going around for at least 7 ye by n9hmg · · Score: 3, Funny

    AAaahh... You must be a /. editor.

  12. Joseph+Pharoah+Slashdot=repost (7yrs) by MickLinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    Okay, let's see what happened. Pharoah had a dream and couldn't remember it. So Joseph reminded him, and told him how there would be 7 years of good articles, and then 7 years without good articles in Slashdot.

    So Pharoah asked "What should we do?" And Joseph said, "Let's save up the seven years of good articles, and then repost them during the seven years of bad articles."

    Thus it was said, thus it was done, and thus we got seven years of bad articles.

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  13. Post modern posting by AndroidCat · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's a little known fact, but the world ended several years ago. In order to keep things going, They have been recycling time from the past. That's why we're getting a shuttle disaster again, Desert Storm again, Bush in the White House again.

    It's a tough job just keeping the Big Picture going, so weird effects show up in the small things. That's why television is all repeats, and why Slashdot has dups. Oh yeah, and Anonymous Coward really is this one guy.

    Have a nice day, again!

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  14. Finally !! by KoolDude · · Score: 5, Funny


    From the Book of /. Postings:

    And Saint Hemos displayed the posting on paper, saying, 'O Lord, bless this Thy Holy Posting that, with it, Thou mayest blow Thine readers to boredom in Thy mercy.'

    And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and large chu--

     Hmm... Skipping a bit...

    And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou choose random Story. Then, shalt thou post it three times. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt post, and the number of the posting shall be three. Four times shalt thou not post, nor either post thou two times, excepting that thou then proceed to post thrice. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, post thou thy Holy Posting towards thy readers, who, being naughty in My sight, shall comment on it.'

    Amen.

    Congratulations, /. editors have finally made it ! ;)

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  15. d�ja vu by dna_(c)(tm)(r) · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've seen this comment on another story, too