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Warning: Exploding Batteries
batlike writes "It seems I have been quite lucky up to this point as I habitually leave my laptop in the trunk of my car - which is just over the gas tank (duh!) . See this article in InfoWorld by Ephraim Schwartz for details. You may want to give it a once over if you currently use lithium-ion batteries."
I don't know why the worst of these, the Prismatic lithium ion polymer battery, isn't banned. There's so much packed into them that a slight overcharge can lead DIRECTLY to thermal runaway, and they're becoming more and more popular in laptops. What's worse?
The battery's charging system is under the control of firmware. One dodgy firmware update and you could have a battery on your lap, in your home, on your desk, in your car, suddenly "expire with flame". a subtle way of saying "spray red hot lithium metal all over your legs and genitalia".
I smell a large, very expensive class action for all manufacturers using these, and unfortunately not until many, many more people are injured or killed.
the felonious corepirate nazi execrable/unprecedeNTed evile, thinks it's the be-all & end-all for all of US.
fact is, they're peacing off the wrong guise on this won, &, they must continue to deny (buy order of their greed/fear/ego based megalomania) the existence of any power greater than their owned felonious selves.
no moretoll 'man' can win this daze (thanks freddie)? lookout bullow.
consult with/trust in yOUR creators... the real big flash, won't hurt a bit, so long as you're not involved in evile's life0cide against the creators' planet/population.
..... hot batteries explode you!