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Corporate Espionage Leads To Faulty Motherboards
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."
Maybe a similar reason is why floppy drives and media seem to have become much less durable over the years? Or perhaps we are just used to more durable things now and floppies haven't changed? Eitherway the analysis at Digital Teenz.com makes for interesting viewing, who would have guessed that they would come to those results?
Ok, I realize that pontificating on the less than dedicated Slashdot editors is not the most worthwhile activity, but between crap reposts like this and the daily XBox post, Slashdot just plain sucks anymore.
The Slashdot Editors are a bunch of two faced, idiotic morons. I can't take it anymore: I'm off to finally look at the options here for filtering out XBox crap. Can you filter stories by editor? I'd prefer to never read another word written by CmdrDipshit again.
When a duplicate story appears, why do countless morons repeatedly post and re-post to point this out? What do you want, a medal for spotting this?
Too bad slashdot can't dupe money as well as it can dupe stories!!! Otherwise it would be like money really does grow on trees, no slashdot reader would ever need to work again!!!!!