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Laptop Explodes at Japanese Conference
An anonymous reader writes "A laptop reported to be a Dell burst into flame and was caught on camera during a recent Japanese conference. Guess this laptop could be a poster child to prove that laptops really can cause sterility if they are on your lap."
Don't put batteries in laptops! They can explode!
I've built balls of steel lugging that thing around. Not even an exploding Sunblade100 could sterilize my boys.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
... hackers
Perhaps this is a sign that computers (through the mega-computing power of the internet) have become self-aware. This is just the start to their war against the fleshlings... I mean, what better way to take out your opponent than to get him to put you in his lap, then you detonate yourself -- even if you don't destroy him, you take out his ability to reproduce. Fear the machines!
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
From the article:
Should you witness such an event, his advice is, "Don't try anything courageous/stupid, stay away, away, away!"
But take pictures first!
-h-
Good thing this wasn't on the guy's lap.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Having just looked at pictures of an exploding laptop, and been warned to "avoid actually using a laptop on your lap", here I am happily typing away with my laptop sat in my lap as ever (with the usual book underneath to keep the CPU from burning out).
But then mine is a fairly old thinkpad that runs quite cool, usually ~45 degrees. The one that exploded looks more modern (it is a Dell, after all).
There, nicely rationalised away so as I can get back to my life
Reportedly, the conference attendees were viewing a new high definition porno stream when the laptop exploded...Film at 11.
'Liar liar, pants on fire."
I can't wait till we get hydrogen fuel cells in our laptops!
This guy's the limit!
It's on the Inquirer, but they have a picture. Who do I believe, my eyes or my head?
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
...the Dell, being the subject of a long standing flame war, finally succumbed to the last battle of its painfully long life.
(It'd be ironic if somehow I got modded down with a "Flamebait")
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
Guess this laptop could be a poster child to prove that laptops really can cause sterility if they are on your lap
Am I the only person out there who thinks that sterility is a good thing? I can buy thousands of high end laptops for what one kid costs.
...I'd kill myself too.
And now, a PSA from David Lynch.
..an exploding beowulf cluster of these things!
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Was this....
ATTEMPTED MURDER?
Steal a laptop, replace it's battery with an explosive one, and set it to explode when it is in a certain place or at a certain time.
OMG I guess they'll have to ban laptops from airplanes now.
Hey Osama, wanna laptop?
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Anyone know if the screen displayed "LP On Fire?"
Just add {In Space!} to anything.
North Korea was testing their missles.
wreck your car
steal your money
kill you in your sleep and run off with your daughter
go crazy in high school and shoot a lot of people
get pregnant
get someone pregnant
I for one would be happy to see more people sterilized, but voluntarily and not by exploding laptops.
Does Dell cover explosions in their warrenty?
I like the way that in the second picture, the laptop is still burning, yet just in the shot you can see some geek typing on another laptop, just a couple of feet away. Not even a fire can stop a geek from bashing out some code! Or maybe he's on IRC: "d00dz, a laptop just caught fire in front of me!!! Freaky!! Its still burnin..."
Was that laptop was web server host to the previous slashdot story?
meh
"wreck your car"
you just wait
I wonder what the US Marshall onboard would do?
First, he would carefully return his pristine copy of American Rifleman to its snug sealed fold within his kevlar jacket, then reach into his jacket holster and withdraw his standard issue SIG-Sauer P228. Then, in one brisk motion, he would adjust his stetson/baseball cap, stand out of his seat, face the explosion and flick back his jacket revealing; one flawlessly polished United States Marshals Service badge, one flawlessly polished State of Texas belt buckle(large), one flawlessly polished non standard issue Smith and Western Model 500 holstered to right of belt buckle.
He would then proceed to unload all fifteen rounds of the P228 into the laptop and its owner, causing further combustions of the laptop, and naturally killing the misfortuate passenger come terrorist, who only moments before would have been enjoying a quiet morning flight while reading left wing Californian blogs over the inflight coffee. A number of the bullets would obviously rupture the aircrafts fragile hull, and as a result of the altitude, the entire plane would begin to depressurise and disintegrate.
As the wind howls about him and as passengers begin to be sucked out of the plane still vainly clutching at their chairs, the marshal would leap forward, land a solid punch on the jaw of the laptop owner's corpse, and, just before the chair that now contained them both was torn away by the wind, the marshal would reach for his handcuffs, and neatly clamp one end about the corpses wrist, and one about his own.
As the gale finally takes the pair, the remaining doomed passengers will just faintly make out the brave hero's final words, carried by chance on swirling eddies:
United States Marshalls!!!! Freeze!!!
May the Maths Be with you!
caption that picture "revenge of the RIAA."
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Caution - laptop may run a little warm. ;)
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isn't this what y2k was supposed to be like?
Anybody know how it exploded?
Like this...
BOOM!!!!!!!!
This space unintentionally left blank.
"Somebody Set Up Us The Bomb".
:) *Bows* Thank you, thank you.
Ta-da!
How is it possible that even images of their own device on fire could look so boring. They're so devoid of composition, of sensitivity.
In this other example, the victim has taken time to place the burning device against a backdrop of roughly hewn rock, and has done so at a time of day deserving of the generous tones cast by the flames as they lash, even swagger about the white plastic..
Dell, here this: even in death, one should look positively gorgeous.
Since no one has said it,
"Dude, you're getting a skin graft!"
/
This is why I had a sprinkler system installed in my PC. Safety first!
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
I blame Microsoft. I'm not sure of the specifics yet, but I'm pretty sure this is a Windows error. Or possibly DRM working properly.
Our competition's computers get so hot, no wonder their name rhymes with hell.
... or something to that affect.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Apple Commercial
Opening shot: Boring White Dude and Sarcastic Babe Magnet Skaterboy
BWD: Hello... does it feel hot in here to you?
SBMS: Yeah. But it always is a little warm. You just have to dress right... are you okay?
BWD: Ahhhhh... you might want to stay back -- ARRRRAAAAGHHH! I'm BURNING!!
SBMS: Stopdropandroll! Ah, man that has to hurt!
BWD: I'm okay. It's just the epidermis.
SBMS: [leaving for Japan with Kevin Rose] Old people suck, and they're also pretty flammable. Don't hang out with them. I rule. Macs get laid. JAGERMEISTER SHOTS! Line 'em up, and show me the Japanese chicks!
Alex: [shot of him passed out on floor next to toilet] ooohhh goddd.
Gives a whole new meaning to DVD BURNER!!
-- QED
Learn to harness the power of the exploding battery, couple it with zTrace Gold, and you get a solution to the trend of compromised personal data on stolen corporate laptops. Maybe not a solution per se... but visceral satisfaction at least.