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The Tin-Whisker Menace
An anonymous reader writes "Fortune has an article about how the recent environmental push to completely eliminate lead from electronic components and wiring may eventually lead to the next Y2K problem of slowly-growing tin whiskers short-circuiting equipment.""
Imagine the engineering needed to make the tin man a razor which would give him a close shave... hell, I think that giving him a heart would be easier.
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No, the problem is:
The big sources of lead poisioning have been eliminated. But the regulatory monster created to 'fight' them must, as always with any bureaucracy, live on.
So exponentially decreasing sources of 'lead poisoning' must all be done away with, as our technical ability to measure ever-decreasing levels of contaminant increases.
It's much the same as the hysterial surrounding asbestos contamination. A bunch of fucks built a whole industry around 'asbestos abatement' and run around ripping buildings apart to get out the stable, safe asbestos in them. Yet the hazards of asbestos come when workers are exposed to it over the long term in the form of free dust in the workplace.
Same as it ever was. A bunch of regulatory fucks who should go out and get a real job.
"What's the frequency Kenneth?"
maybe in your redneck neighborhood people expose their plumbing to the sun...over here in the industrialized world we tend to obscure our plumbing between floors or under the house. good thing you posted as an AC, a plumber might call you on you BS.