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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."

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  1. HAHA! Mod Parent Up! by mekkab · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    While you only really need one post to say DUPLICATE, I like this one because of the wit content. Tripe indeed!

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  2. Re:Dupe again by nelsonal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In order to make time wasting more enjoyable, the department of public sloth has established the hot grits medal for proclimation of double entrys on popular weblogs. If you happen to notice an announcment of a double entry on a popular weblog, popular defined by able to render useless pages hosted on less than a dual Xeon with T1, please let the department of public sloth know immediately. Remember kids if you read a second story about the same topic the terrorists have already won!

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