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Flaming Cellphones
phorm writes "Many of us have heard the urban legend of cellphones causing fires at the gas pump, but how about the hazards of replacement batteries? Reuters is carrying a story about a woman whose cellphone burst into flame, causing her superficial burn injuries. According to Nokia, the problem has occured before, and is related to non-brand replacement batteries. For various reasons, these batteries may overheat and catch fire, or even explode! So far I haven't found much info on whether this has happened with other brands of phone, though I do know that my little flip-phone gets very hot when running in analog mode. Perhaps some slashdot readers have had a similar experience?"
Apparently the mods aren't Python fans tonight.
It got a chuckle from me though.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
If you crash due to receiving a malformed packet, it's still a serious bug in your software! It doesn't matter whether the packet was intentionally malicious or not. (And yes, I've crashed NT servers by sending them malformed SMB requests.) The cardinal rule in designing packet parsing routines is to assume the sender is malicious and has access to your source!
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
mod this guy up also....adds an extra chuckle to that ALREADY funny joke...