Corporate Espionage Leads To Faulty Motherboards

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Corporate Espionage Leads To Faulty Motherboards

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday February 8, 2003 @04:26AM 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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DUPE by man_ls · 2003-02-08 04:40 · Score: 1, Redundant

I have never posted "dupe" before, but this is the _third_ time in recent history that I've seen this story.

Don't you people ever check the current articles?

Seriously...
Faulty Capacitors on CowboyNeal by Limburgher · 2003-02-08 05:23 · Score: 1, Redundant

This may have resulted in the duplicate post. Slashdot engineers are investigating. . .

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Department by Tokerat · 2003-02-08 06:12 · Score: 0, Redundant
How about the"file-in-triplicate" department?
- Illicit Leaky Capacitors Killing Motherboards - 2 frikkin days ago, same IEEE article
- Taiwanese Capacitors Leaking, Exploding - Back in November.
Searching for "Capacitors" under Older Stuff yeilds these three stories as the top 3 results. Wow.
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Re:Dupe again by meowsqueak · 2003-02-08 08:01 · Score: 0, Redundant

did the previous posts mention the IEEE article?
Re:Dupe again by TheJesusCandle · 2003-02-08 08:20 · Score: 0, Redundant

I think that every time a editor posts a dupe story they should be required to donate $5 to http://www.eff.org/

If this rule was put into affect, the EFF would end up with enough money to take anyone to court, even have a head on battle with Microsoft!! If I had a nickle for every dupe on slashdot I would be rich!!