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Did Your Code Ever Make Anyone Deaf?

theodp writes "Siemens AG anticipates additional costs from a software problem with new mobile phones that has led retailers to suspend sales. Five models of its new 65 series can emit a piercing melody into users' ears if the battery fails during a call, causing hearing damage in extreme cases, according to a statement."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  2. No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But after viewing tubgirl, I did go blind. (same with goatse)

  3. No but I have caused brain damage - JabberKatz(tm) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    " The End of Business As Usual, is one new theory about information.We could use some help from physicists and biologists here.

    Can modern media be killed? Does information have any natural predators? Or will it grow exponentially, forever, until it approaches the Omega Point -- the computer-science fatalist theory that continued rapid change eventually leads to something that dramatically transforms the fundamental situation of people in the universe. Is there any reason to preserve their form and function, any vital purpose they serve?

    At this moment in media history, newspapers have never been absolute, unyielding or static. There is no Regulon in the Semiosphere, is one of the freest places in media, Academe and politics. In this movie, the audience was laughing throughout. It's not a lot of newspaper people will read this, take it to Einstein's grand-daughter. Soon the two were barrelling across America in Paterniti's Buick Skylark headed for California, munching donuts, staying in cheap motels, the brain bouncing along in the trunk.

    One important thing: I never thought about it that way. "

    Shauna, a self- described " hip female-with-a-kid geek, " wrote from a working mothers website that the values of the people reading this must have fantasized about a thousand times:

    He flew out to Redmond, sat across from Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or any big fat corporation. Small stuff to most of you, Computer Everest to me. Nobody is more in need of reconception and redesign. VC's of the future -- abandoned for decades in a darkened Tomorrowland tunnel -- might well be the perfect locus for the tragic view of technology has never really been much about the evolution of the electric community. They perceived Slashdot as a place where messages get out, where they could speak freely, where information is shared and distributed. The hacker's battle cry of " Information Wants To Be Free " seems increasingly hollow as giant companies swarm onto the Internet to such momentous historic periods as the Renaissance or Enlightenment.

    In " The Age of Spiritual Machines " suggests that we and our computers will become one of the standard cinematic cliches of our time, government is surely the most reactionary and least innovative sector of the economy or any other civic or social agenda. Technologies like the Net have had to suffer. I don't think you will find a single one of the many symbolic or mystic implications of the Net user, reports ZDNet, is now at the disposal of a risk-averse culture, unwilling to sacrifice and determined to stay out of harm's way. A compelling and convincing look at more (in this case, from the building of much of the world -- at least you can go where you want to read daily papers. I said I'd be posting some responses. Here are some more of the world. This won't solve all the world's problems, but it was the way to the " left " or a " right. " In fact (see below), open source, e-trading, and now believe their government is dominated by a coalition of interests -- corporations, big media, political, lobbying and special interest groups in Washington. Corporations have begun deploying lawyers, and enraged the federal judge trying the case with a series of social revolutions. More and more, it seems, even the ones supposedly responsible for caring for them.

    In many ways it could be the difference between old and new media as nothing before, especially the radical new ways in which culture and ideas have been owned, marketed and distributed. They asked that I do NOT condone what these kids are doing online, or just wanting to talk further. Many raised questions, challenged conclusions, offered new information, wondered about a point or perspective.

    " If this had been a real gun,you'd be dead now. " One of these days, this one is cast in part as a business tool, probably for good. It appears both notions may have been the most enthusiastic practitioners of this art in recent years by theme park operators and light bulb manfacturers. So their fate seems r

  4. Well, I wish Microsoft follows suit... by jkrise · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I mean, everytime I reload the OS, the apps, my data, and reboot, the system crashes yet again - and needless to add, I screeeeeaaammmm. This has happened since 1998. Will MS suspend sales of Windows and Office until all the bugs are ironed out?

    -

    --
    If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
  5. Nokia 5790 has similar problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hi, my name is Tom and I'm about to disclose to you a very
    messy matter between my girlfriend and I, which I would readily like to share
    with you. Her name is Kristine Olsen, originally from Mesa, AZ. As chief chef
    at Delmonico in NYC she's directly subordinated to me. Well, for couple of
    years she's been having a bizarre habit/hobby, - farting on cream cakes...
    That's her prank-like way to treat rude uncilvilized customers. She carries it
    out behind the stoves at my presence. Now, we're talking about a famous
    restaurant in the city, where many celebs, including mayor Giuliani pay a visit.
    It's amazing to see her taking off her pants, exposing her bare butt before me,
    then bending over, squating with it to the cake, and vigorously breaking winds
    all over it. It's so sexy!
    Once I decided to get down to it and asked her as to the meaning of this
    bizarre fetish, so she told me that it has turned her on since she was little
    girl. So one day while I was visiting her at the restaurant, she approached me,
    took a cake out of the fridge, got undressed and carried out her constant
    ritual. I got suddenly so turned on, that my prick thought of punching my
    stretched pants, so I took 'em off. Astonished and grateful, I stared at my
    lover performing the ceremony easily and slowly, thanking Jesus Lord for her
    beauty.
    She bent down to place her ass in front of the cake, while I'm standing in the
    corner watching her drawing near her slit and shithole to approximately 2-3
    inches from the cake, waiting patiently for the digestion gases to accumulate,
    then be thrust out of her body to meet the beneign cake. She told me she'd had
    the beans, so she was equiped with a lot of farts just to be proud of. After
    she let out a silent one, felt only due to its odor, she broke winds loudly,
    about 5 or 6 in a row, every one of them sounded like a canon bombardment, or
    at least - a starting motorcycle. The last one lasted 7 whole seconds. I think
    she passed gas at 500 ml bulk sum total.
    Initially the smell was hot, strong and condensed as the molecules were too
    dense. It smelt like the combination of a rotten eggs, a gas station and fresh
    feces-turd. After a while when it began to spread, it has become sharp,
    diffused and less offensive. After about 20 seconds it felt all over the room,
    surprisingly turning me on. She raised from the bending position, getting up on
    her feet.
    Couple of minutes later a good looking young fella entered the restaurant and
    asked for a cake. Kristine served him the foul smelling cake. He ate it
    unabruptly, unaware of the drama which had taken place just before. I was
    watching the scene while it was going on, I coundn't hold it in, and rushed to
    the staff's bathroom, bursting out laughing, lying on the floor twisting, until
    my belly was sore.
    10 minutes later, after recovering from the wild laughter, I went out of the
    facility just to encounter the funny guy holding his stomach, with a tormented
    expression on his face, speeding all the way to get rid of the foul cake. I
    think he's just had at least 150 million germs...

  6. Re:first anus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Internet: Where no matter how fucked up your fetish is, you'll get at least 500 results in a Google search for it.

  7. MOD PARENT DOWN -- TROLL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Has absolutely nothing to do with the article or topic.

  8. MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ridges flattened and sticky with cum, Spock's penis slipped
    easily into Kirk's well-fucked ass. The human could only hold on
    tight to Spock with all four limbs as Spock's thrusts crushed his
    spine into the wall. Spock was angling himself for his own pleasure,
    but each thrust jostled Kirk's prostate and rubbed his own organ
    against Spock's belly. He wanted to cry out from the intensity, but
    he feared being heard in this public place. His anguish keened out
    past his bit lip anyway.

  9. Re:Mod parent down! by jb.hl.com · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Worse than goatse :(

    Seen the Slashdot IT section? Cleanse your eyes!

    It's a joke, dudes, please don't kill my karma.

    --
    By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
  10. Re:Debsux by sakura+the+mc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    agreed

  11. Re:No, but.. by hype7 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    it.slashdot.org made me blind.


    There's pr0n on it.slashdot.org?

    -- james
  12. Cake-farting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Whoever is posting all this cake-farting nonsense, you are my new hero. Keep up the good work!

    I just wanted to let you know you're appreciated :)

  13. Totally OT, but.... by hot_Karls_bad_cavern · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i normally rip on Michael for posting crap, but looking back over tonight he's done a fair job of picking good stories. i should probably post this on my own journal, but felt i'd make it public-like.

    Seriously, nice track of stories tonight. Mod OT if you like, but i needed to post for the record (i'm not an ass). Fair is fair, Michael, you did alright by tonight. Peace, bro.

  14. last post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i want viggo mortenson
    to put it in my butt
    my code made helen keller deaf
    i put it in her butt