You can get $120 for an iPhone 3G 8GB from Gazelle with almost no work on your part and it would be sold to someone who would use it.
Re:More money than brains?
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milkmage
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· Score: 1
sure it does. there's no contract with ATT on a used phone. that $99 dollar phone will cost you almost a grand in airtime (24 months @ $40/per for voice only)
Re:More money than brains?
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atamido
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· Score: 1
But the prices for iPhone enabled plans at AT&T are the same whether or not there is a contract. Where exactly are the savings?
Re:More money than brains?
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
Maybe because, after accidentally smashing up your phone and posting the video to break.com, you realize that you're still under contract with AT&T.
Some of your options:
- Buy a new un-subsidized phone (several hundreds of dollars)
- Buy a used phone (a couple hundred dollars)
- Switch to using pay phones, but keep paying your AT&T cell phone bill.
Another possibility is that you'd like to use your phone on a network other than AT&T.
That's a 2G, not a 3G. I think the result would be the same though.
-- How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
Re:Uhh, 2G
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
It is totally sick to destroy a working piece of hardware. Have people heard of the environment? give it to a homeless, a sick child in a hospital, anyone.
It makes me sick to see rich kids destroying a valuable object.
Plus aren't there chemicals that need to be disposed of correctly?
Commence Primary Ignition
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SweeBeeps
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· Score: 3, Funny
Another Star Wars references could be appropriate, I'm sure somewhere there are fanboys crying out who are suddenly silenced by this action.
Re:Commence Primary Ignition
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inpher
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· Score: 0
Steve Jobs invented first!
Why can I see this crap?
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TheRaven64
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· Score: 3, Insightful
I just checked my settings to see if I'd made a mistake, but I had not. Idle is blocked from the front page by my settings, and yet I currently see this 'story' and the 'Kind of Computer Mice' one displayed. The other one was in collapsed form, but this one is fully expanded just like a story I might be interested in, in spite of the fact that it's in the idle section.
The kdawson block still seems to work - maybe I should just block samzenpus as well.
Re:Why can I see this crap?
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phonewebcam
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· Score: 1
Are you viewing on an i "Phone" 4? Apple advise you avoid holding it like this guy.
Re:Why can I see this crap?
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
Noes!! I've got it blocked, and it still comes up. WWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!
Re:Why can I see this crap?
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tompaulco
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· Score: 3, Funny
Its about apple. All new about apple is important to everyone on slashdot no matter what they have blocked. Slashdot knows better than you do what you want to see.
-- If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
Re:Why can I see this crap?
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Tetsujin
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· Score: 1
Are you viewing on an i "Phone" 4? Apple advise you avoid holding it like this guy.
I'm at work so I'm not going to try a tinyurl link... Let me guess... goatse guy?
-- Bow-ties are cool.
Re:Why can I see this crap?
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
Are you viewing on an i "Phone" 4? Apple advise you avoid holding it like this guy.
I'm at work so I'm not going to try a tinyurl link... Let me guess... goatse guy?
It's Steve Jobs, also get Greasemonkey to un-tinyurl URL's.
Re:Why can I see this crap?
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mrwolf007
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· Score: 4, Funny
I'm at work so I'm not going to try a tinyurl link... Let me guess... goatse guy?
Far worse.
Steve Jobs.
Someone who knows more about the lithium batteries
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magsol
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· Score: 4, Insightful
I could be wrong, but isn't there a danger of the battery exploding from that kind of heat?
-- "I'd just like to emphasise that taking a million years isn't a metaphor here..." -Rich Bradshaw
Yay! iPhone has been destroyed!
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L4t3r4lu5
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· Score: 0, Flamebait
I am extremely glad that samzenpus has published this thoroughly informative and important discovery to the front page.
Anybody know of a tech news website that isn't run by teenagers and college dropouts? I'm about done with bullshit like this.
-- Finally had enough. Come see us over at https://soylentnews.org/
Re:Yay! iPhone has been destroyed!
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Cryolithic
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Not a teenager by a long shot and I still enjoyed that. Or are you sad that someone might defile the fruit of Jobs' loins? Really, if you don't like idle don't fucking read it.
Re:Yay! iPhone has been destroyed!
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
I am extremely glad that samzenpus has published this thoroughly informative and important discovery to the front page.
Anybody know of a tech news website that isn't run by teenagers and college dropouts? I'm about done with bullshit like this.
The idle section is an integral part of Slashdot, as well as comments complaining about it, and the general ranting found in comments on all stories.
Deal with it!:D
Re:Yay! iPhone has been destroyed!
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discord5
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· Score: 1
Not a teenager by a long shot and I still enjoyed that. Or are you sad that someone might defile the fruit of Jobs' loins?
I don't really care for Jobs loinfruit or anything that's from that region, nor for his iGadgets, but this is just infantile at best. Now, I can appreciate an immature cock joke as much as the next guy, but I really hate waste like this. Perhaps do something cool with it?
A couple of coworkers and I had some fun with a cheap digital camera a while back. Create a water rocket, build camera inside water rocket, and let it fly. We were expecting the camera to break after the first launch, but it actually survived the entire day. Sure, it's not exactly rocket science, but it's a hell of a lot more fun than setting the camera on fire under a magnifying glass "hurr hurr fire hot". All this misses is the thoughtful narration of the modern equivalent of Beavis and Butthead, now really.
Burning a $500 phone is just a rich kids way of saying "Look at me, my parents have got money. Here, have a cigar, and a $100 bill to light it with. It's all good man, my parents paid for it."
Really, if you don't like idle don't fucking read it.
I try not too, but for some reason the RSS feeds don't take user preferences into account. But the thing is, slashdot lately has been a shadow of its former self. Perhaps the audience changed so much that most people here don't want to tinker or toy with something anymore, or perhaps the firehose has turned slashdot into a story-popularity contest.
It's like I'm browsing 4chan's/g/, but without the images. All it needs now is a couple of guys spamming a degoratory term for african americans, and the "you fags sure got told" meme and we're set.
Anyway, who am I to argue against the obvious will of the masses. Up next, will it blend? The iphone 4 down the blender, together with the fruit of Steve's loins. WHIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRR... Exciting!
Re:Yay! iPhone has been destroyed!
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D'Sphitz
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· Score: 1
Way to rage against the machine over a single story (which is specifically tagged "idle") that you cherrypicked from tens of thousands of other tech related articles. You should demand a refund.
Re:Yay! iPhone has been destroyed!
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catmistake
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· Score: 1
I am extremely glad that samzenpus has published this thoroughly informative and important discovery to the front page.
Anybody know of a tech news website that isn't run by teenagers and college dropouts? I'm about done with bullshit like this.
I guess... if anything, even though if we really look deep inside ourselves we'll realize we knew it all along, we can thank Apple for inadvertently showing us quite clearly that tech journalism, and journalism in general, is in crisis. Rarely is news reported these days without bias. I guess unbiased just doesn't draw the crowds it once did. So in that regard, I find this "news" in the raw refreshing (still cringing as I often do to news).
Re:Yay! iPhone has been destroyed!
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
Care for a "Steves fruit smoothy?"
Whats that taste like?
Loinfruit topped with Bills nuts
What's Loinfruit taste like?
Some say Apples, Some say Apples employees, some say ass, it's all the same.
Well, is there anything else in it?
It's all proprietary goodness, you don't need to know, we'll tell you what's good for you.
Re:Yay! iPhone has been destroyed!
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Cryolithic
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· Score: 1
professionalism and quality journalism? In the comments? Wow, ymbnh.
Re:Someone who knows more about the lithium batter
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NixieBunny
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· Score: 5, Funny
Danger is in the eye of the beholder. Anyone with a solar death ray is blind to danger.
-- The determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language.
They missed a chance.
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Dr.+Manhattan
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· Score: 5, Funny
Back when calculator watches were cool, I had one die on me over the summer. I replaced it, melted the dead one with a magnifying glass, then hid it and waited until I went back to school. Then I waited more, for the right weather.
One night I wandered into the neighboring dorm room, hair wet from the rain, acting fuzzy.
Of course they thought I might be drunk. But I slurringly denied it. "No, I think I got hit by lightning."
Hoots of derision. "No, really. I was walking back here, and then I... I woke up... and my watch was like this." I held up my wrist with the melted face...
I wish I could have milked it a bit more, but I had to stop them before they called an ambulance.
Thanks for the spewing chemicals...
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AmazinglySmooth
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· Score: 1
Why do people just burn stuff they don't need anymore? It create unnecessary pollution.
Re:Thanks for the spewing chemicals...
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oldspewey
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Because nobody would watch a 3-minute video of an iPhone sitting untouched on a table somewhere... and for some people, getting attention is their primary motivator.
-- If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Re:Thanks for the spewing chemicals...
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Robert+Zenz
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· Score: 1
Because nobody would watch a 3-minute video of an iPhone sitting untouched on a table somewhere...
I doubt that.
Re:Thanks for the spewing chemicals...
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vlm
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Why do people just burn stuff they don't need anymore? It create unnecessary pollution.
Everything that doesn't dissolve, burns eventually, even if it takes a billion years to enter a subduction zone. Ask a geologist.
Someone not burning an iphone in front of you does not resolve you of your guilt over pollution. Its going to end up in the air/water regardless of pageviews.
-- "Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Re:Thanks for the spewing chemicals...
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oldspewey
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· Score: 1
Rule 34?
-- If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Re:Thanks for the spewing chemicals...
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Teun
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· Score: 1
Indeed, like right now there are billions watching a South African lawn, I think it's called soccer.
-- "The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
Re:Thanks for the spewing chemicals...
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neumayr
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· Score: 1
I'm pretty sure the iPhone has some recyclable parts.. Regardless of what Greenpeace says about Apple's environmental policies, they're still bound by environmental laws..
-- Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion. -Francis Bacon
Re:Thanks for the spewing chemicals...
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Robert+Zenz
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· Score: 1
iPorn? Now that's...an...idea...damn it...the domain is already taken.:(
Re:Thanks for the spewing chemicals...
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Tetsujin
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· Score: 1
Indeed, like right now there are billions watching a South African lawn, I think it's called soccer.
Football, actually.:)
-- Bow-ties are cool.
Waste
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
I was able to give away my 4 year old audiovox with no bells or whistles through freecycle. Though mildly amusing, this is really a waste of a functional item.
I'm glad you filmed this because one day you can say "No, Doc, I dont know how I could have developed lung cancer, I dont smoke... but I did make this burning iPhone video, check it out"
Over the last 40 years or so, we've seen an incredible pace of technological improvements. Sometimes I wonder if it's going to end soon. And then I see a couple of idiots burning a phone for fun that not-even three years ago sold for $600 and I know that the march of progress continues.
Although, you must consider, the depreciation of those early iPhones is killer. $600 to kindling in three years is pretty bad.
You should never search for 'does it blend' on YouTube...
It will permanently damage your brain.
Re:Progress is amazing
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Anonymous Coward
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And here I thought the point you were going to make is that we have advanced so much, yet as exemplified by these yahoos, are still not much better than cavemen at times.
These guys used a solar deathray! 40 years ago, similar idiots would have used a shotgun. When borderline miscreants graduate from firearms to directed energy for their tools of destruction, that is progress!
I guess you missed the idiots breaking an ipad on the day of release.
-- ---- Booth was a patriot ----
Re:Someone who knows more about the lithium batter
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atrain728
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· Score: 1
I believe that the explosion risk of a Li-Ion battery is more from it being exposed to extreme electrical impetus beyond it's tolerance, and less about heat.
Certainly exposing the Lithium to the water vapor in the air will cause combustion, but that's more of smolder than an explosion.
Re:Jerks
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Anonymous Coward
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While people die without food in several places of the world, these guys burn around $200. This world is seriously fucked up. - I'm going to Mars.
Re:Someone who knows more about the lithium batter
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jeffmeden
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· Score: 2, Interesting
The heat is what causes the explosion, as a side effect of the "electrical impetus". The electricity itself isn't really explosive. Heat it up sufficiently some other way, and you will have just as much of a fireball since all you need to do is kickstart the exothermic chain reaction in the lithium. There are plenty of fun videos around of this in action.
Re:Someone who knows more about the lithium batter
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Teun
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· Score: 1
And even when it doesn't explode, inhaling Lithium vapour is certainly a real danger.
The effects might only show up hours to a day after exposure and can be fatal.
-- "The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
It took 2 minutes to melt LCD and damage speakers or main board.
Matching ad....
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
In Germany, I just had an ad from T-Mobile offering refurbished iPhones next to the Youtube clip. I hope this fried one does not end up in that program....
Re:Someone who knows more about the lithium batter
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vlm
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· Score: 1
And even when it doesn't explode, inhaling Lithium vapour is certainly a real danger.
A pharmacological dose, probably of a salt not pure metal, would be about 20 mg/Kg. So, 100% complete consumption of less than 2 grams of Li metal would seem to be borderline safe for me. An entire iphone weighs about 100 grams, and what matters is not the weight of the phone, or even the weight of the battery, but the weight of the lithium metal inside the battery.
Depending on exactly how stored, batteries are allowed on passenger aircraft from 8 to 25 grams of Li content, and air circulation inside a plane is far worse than outdoors. So if 1/4 the weight of an iphone were pure Li (unlikely) and you ignited it in an enclosed area and breathed it for hours (unlikely) the FAA thinks you probably won't kill or severely injure passengers. Outside I would assume you could survive a large multiple of 25 grams, maybe 250, maybe 2500 grams. Which would be quite a few iphones worth.
It would be interesting to calculate if the burning plastic fumes would kill you before the battery fumes. I'm thinking the plastic fumes will kill you before lithium toxicity sets in.
Very few solar rays of death are operated indoors in confined unventilated spaces, I find it highly unlikely you could inhale or swallow even 1% of the total released lithium without using a crack pipe or similar apparatus. Stand upwind and dose rates probably drop to zero.
In summary, the danger of lithium poisoning would be far lower, than, say, permanent blindness from the light, or burning plastic toxicity, lacerations from the cracked screen, or even simple skin burns.
-- "Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Re:Someone who knows more about the lithium batter
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fear025
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· Score: 1
Hopefully they remembered the "will it blend" episode with the iphone. "iPhone Smoke, don't breathe this". I did hear some coughing in the video though...
>after its destruction, the phone still plays music
I don't think the editor understands the meaning of the word "destruction." Tape that sucker to a half-stick of dynamite, touch off the dynamite, and I am quite sure that sucker will not play music.
-- Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
They absolutely missed a geek chance to play Still Alive on it instead of some random song.
Re:Someone who knows more about the lithium batter
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noidentity
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· Score: 1
I could be wrong, but isn't there a danger of the battery exploding from that kind of heat?
There's a danger of the battery exploding in any temperature.
The day without iPhone
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gsgriffin
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Oh, how I look forward to a single day without something about the iPhone. It is as if our trillion dollar economy depended solely upon this novelty. The poor desperation of all the lost souls in the world that don't own one and never will. Come on/.ers, let's try just one day without a meaningless story about something that most people don't own and most never will.
-- jsut athnoer menagiensls ltitle psrhae for you to dcoede. Why do we wtsae our tmie dnoig tihs?
Re:Someone who knows more about the lithium batter
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Teun
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· Score: 1
The toxicity is one thing but Lithium vapour will potentially destroy your lungs and that's a real-life danger when inhaling it, just read the data sheets.
-- "The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
A death ray!
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
Looks like Dr. Horrible's moving up.
spoiled brat
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
why not just go ahead and burn a bunch of $100 bills? i didn't buy an iphone because its too expensive, that kid must think that iphones grow on trees.
This is why iPhone battery can never be replaced
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ultramarweeni
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· Score: 1
You know, you can never really turn iPhone completely off ('coz BB-Apple needs to know where you and your iPhone are every moment).
I just bought a new 3GS and I retired my 1st gen iPhone to "remote control status".
It still functions as a pocket PC plus I am using a remote control app on it to control my home theater system via my WIFI.
It still functions quite nicely as a multi-function, general purpose tool.
Using it around the house in such capactity greatly reduces the wear and tear on my nifty new 3GS..
I just can't believe someone would be so wasteful. If nothing else, give it away to someone that needs one. Many people have never had an iPhone and would be tickled to get a free phone, used, old or otherwise.
The 4th is out now, it is time for you to have a remote for the remote!
Do not try this at home
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
I was waiting for the lithium battery to explode that would have made the video more interesting. Also the gases coming out of the burning phone are not something you would want to inhale.
Re:Someone who knows more about the lithium batter
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flyneye
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· Score: 1
That would be a feature , not a bug. Of course then this would be a Jackass video instead of Idle video. The only thing that comes close to idly exploding things would be to idly watch others idly exploding things. Even better to idly sit by giggling as you watch some Jackass pull chunks of Iphone out of his zit collection.
-- *Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
You can't stop the music ....
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
>> You'll note that after its destruction, the phone still plays music. For when it bursts into flame in your pocket;)
Re:Someone who knows more about the lithium batter
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moose_hp
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· Score: 1
YouTube now says "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by chris." This seems to be the same video: iPhone 3G Vs Solar Death RayVideo.
Slashdot Mirror
Poor iPhone :-(
1% APY, No fees, Online Bank https://captl1.co/2uIErYq Don't let your $$$ sit in a no-interest acct.
They could have sold it for maybe 30-40 bucks.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
I guess...
That's a 2G, not a 3G. I think the result would be the same though.
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
Another Star Wars references could be appropriate, I'm sure somewhere there are fanboys crying out who are suddenly silenced by this action.
I just checked my settings to see if I'd made a mistake, but I had not. Idle is blocked from the front page by my settings, and yet I currently see this 'story' and the 'Kind of Computer Mice' one displayed. The other one was in collapsed form, but this one is fully expanded just like a story I might be interested in, in spite of the fact that it's in the idle section.
The kdawson block still seems to work - maybe I should just block samzenpus as well.
I am TheRaven on Soylent News
I could be wrong, but isn't there a danger of the battery exploding from that kind of heat?
"I'd just like to emphasise that taking a million years isn't a metaphor here..." -Rich Bradshaw
Others would be happy to own one of these...
I am extremely glad that samzenpus has published this thoroughly informative and important discovery to the front page.
Anybody know of a tech news website that isn't run by teenagers and college dropouts? I'm about done with bullshit like this.
Finally had enough. Come see us over at https://soylentnews.org/
Danger is in the eye of the beholder. Anyone with a solar death ray is blind to danger.
The determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language.
One night I wandered into the neighboring dorm room, hair wet from the rain, acting fuzzy.
Of course they thought I might be drunk. But I slurringly denied it. "No, I think I got hit by lightning."
Hoots of derision. "No, really. I was walking back here, and then I... I woke up... and my watch was like this." I held up my wrist with the melted face...
I wish I could have milked it a bit more, but I had to stop them before they called an ambulance.
PHEM - party like it's 1997-2003!
Why do people just burn stuff they don't need anymore? It create unnecessary pollution.
I was able to give away my 4 year old audiovox with no bells or whistles through freecycle. Though mildly amusing, this is really a waste of a functional item.
I'm glad you filmed this because one day you can say "No, Doc, I dont know how I could have developed lung cancer, I dont smoke... but I did make this burning iPhone video, check it out"
Now you have destroyed the touch screen, how are you going turn the music off?
It doesn't have to be like this. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
Daisy, Daisy
Give me your answer do
I'm half crazy
all for the love of you.........
Link goes to a video with only 300 views.... but in the right column there's an identical video with 100,000+
Thinking someone ripped off this guy's video and posted it.
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
Keep in mind who you're dealing with here: guys who build heat rays in their backyards for fun.
To them, setting things on fire is fun. Making things explode is AWESOME.
Over the last 40 years or so, we've seen an incredible pace of technological improvements. Sometimes I wonder if it's going to end soon. And then I see a couple of idiots burning a phone for fun that not-even three years ago sold for $600 and I know that the march of progress continues.
Although, you must consider, the depreciation of those early iPhones is killer. $600 to kindling in three years is pretty bad.
I believe that the explosion risk of a Li-Ion battery is more from it being exposed to extreme electrical impetus beyond it's tolerance, and less about heat. Certainly exposing the Lithium to the water vapor in the air will cause combustion, but that's more of smolder than an explosion.
While people die without food in several places of the world, these guys burn around $200. This world is seriously fucked up. - I'm going to Mars.
The heat is what causes the explosion, as a side effect of the "electrical impetus". The electricity itself isn't really explosive. Heat it up sufficiently some other way, and you will have just as much of a fireball since all you need to do is kickstart the exothermic chain reaction in the lithium. There are plenty of fun videos around of this in action.
The effects might only show up hours to a day after exposure and can be fatal.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
Step 1: Filter out "Idle" Step 2: Stop crying.
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
How many apple fanboys does it take to put a battery into a fire? Apparently 2. 1 to hold it, and 1 to film it.
It took 2 minutes to melt LCD and damage speakers or main board.
In Germany, I just had an ad from T-Mobile offering refurbished iPhones next to the Youtube clip. I hope this fried one does not end up in that program....
And even when it doesn't explode, inhaling Lithium vapour is certainly a real danger.
A pharmacological dose, probably of a salt not pure metal, would be about 20 mg/Kg. So, 100% complete consumption of less than 2 grams of Li metal would seem to be borderline safe for me. An entire iphone weighs about 100 grams, and what matters is not the weight of the phone, or even the weight of the battery, but the weight of the lithium metal inside the battery.
Depending on exactly how stored, batteries are allowed on passenger aircraft from 8 to 25 grams of Li content, and air circulation inside a plane is far worse than outdoors. So if 1/4 the weight of an iphone were pure Li (unlikely) and you ignited it in an enclosed area and breathed it for hours (unlikely) the FAA thinks you probably won't kill or severely injure passengers. Outside I would assume you could survive a large multiple of 25 grams, maybe 250, maybe 2500 grams. Which would be quite a few iphones worth.
It would be interesting to calculate if the burning plastic fumes would kill you before the battery fumes. I'm thinking the plastic fumes will kill you before lithium toxicity sets in.
Very few solar rays of death are operated indoors in confined unventilated spaces, I find it highly unlikely you could inhale or swallow even 1% of the total released lithium without using a crack pipe or similar apparatus. Stand upwind and dose rates probably drop to zero.
In summary, the danger of lithium poisoning would be far lower, than, say, permanent blindness from the light, or burning plastic toxicity, lacerations from the cracked screen, or even simple skin burns.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Hopefully they remembered the "will it blend" episode with the iphone. "iPhone Smoke, don't breathe this". I did hear some coughing in the video though...
>after its destruction, the phone still plays music
I don't think the editor understands the meaning of the word "destruction." Tape that sucker to a half-stick of dynamite, touch off the dynamite, and I am quite sure that sucker will not play music.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
There's a danger of the battery exploding in any temperature.
Oh, how I look forward to a single day without something about the iPhone. It is as if our trillion dollar economy depended solely upon this novelty. The poor desperation of all the lost souls in the world that don't own one and never will. Come on /.ers, let's try just one day without a meaningless story about something that most people don't own and most never will.
jsut athnoer menagiensls ltitle psrhae for you to dcoede. Why do we wtsae our tmie dnoig tihs?
The toxicity is one thing but Lithium vapour will potentially destroy your lungs and that's a real-life danger when inhaling it, just read the data sheets.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
Looks like Dr. Horrible's moving up.
why not just go ahead and burn a bunch of $100 bills? i didn't buy an iphone because its too expensive, that kid must think that iphones grow on trees.
You know, you can never really turn iPhone completely off ('coz BB-Apple needs to know where you and your iPhone are every moment).
And by never I really mean NEVER.
That phone took a beating before it broke. I guess they are as durable as Apple claims. Very funny video thought that poor phone.
http://www.thetechnologygeek.org
People invest money in entertainment, news at 11.
Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion. -Francis Bacon
"It dun work can fix?"
Danger is *TO* the eye of the beholder.
FTFY
Prov 9:8 Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.
Just in case your captain goes nuts and opens the solar shields, and you still need to listen to music.
Do not look into solar death ray with remaining eye?
Is 1563649 a prime number?
I can't stop laughing, bravo!
How totally wasteful and childish!
I just bought a new 3GS and I retired my 1st gen iPhone to "remote control status".
It still functions as a pocket PC plus I am using a remote control app on it to control my home theater system via my WIFI.
It still functions quite nicely as a multi-function, general purpose tool.
Using it around the house in such capactity greatly reduces the wear and tear on my nifty new 3GS..
I just can't believe someone would be so wasteful. If nothing else, give it away to someone that needs one. Many people have never had an iPhone and would be tickled to get a free phone, used, old or otherwise.
I was waiting for the lithium battery to explode that would have made the video more interesting. Also the gases coming out of the burning phone are not something you would want to inhale.
That would be a feature , not a bug.
Of course then this would be a Jackass video instead of Idle video.
The only thing that comes close to idly exploding things would be to idly watch others idly exploding things.
Even better to idly sit by giggling as you watch some Jackass pull chunks of Iphone out of his zit collection.
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
>> You'll note that after its destruction, the phone still plays music. ;)
For when it bursts into flame in your pocket
Michael Bay is that you?
DON'T PANIC.
YouTube now says "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by chris." This seems to be the same video: iPhone 3G Vs Solar Death RayVideo.