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Dell's Exploding Laptop Autopsy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the determining-the-cause-of-aaaughh dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Dell has gone to the Consumer Product Safety Commission looking for help determining the cause of death for its exploding laptop. Dell has been blaming the lithium ion battery; the commission seems to have had a few problems with those batteries in the past."

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  1. OT: Sci-Fi show on Zombie Parasites by davidwr · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Remember the Zombie Parasite threads here a few weeks ago?

    Sci-Fi's special Stargate SG-1 True Science repeats tonight at 1AM Eastern.

    Among the items mentioned:
    Pig parasites in people
    Ant parasites that cause suicidal behavior

    We now resume our regularly scheduled thread.

    --
    Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
    1. Re:OT: Sci-Fi show on Zombie Parasites by gardyloo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      If you have "OT: [...]" in your subject line, and you're modded "off topic", isn't it really ON topic? I think that mods should get shocks just for putting Eddy in the spacetime continuum for that.

  2. Re:They scanned in a picture of Mohammed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "and it went Shahid."

    Actually, a little Arabic lesson (Shahid means "martyr" as in suicide--or homicide--martyr) makes this very funny, and very much on topic. Politically correct, not so much.

  3. Why so little trolling? by lostngone · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Apple has a battery problem and the trolls and flamers roll out of the wood-works in armies to bash Apple and the Mac. Dell has almost the exact same problem with its laptops and we barely hear a peep out of them. What kind of double standard is that!