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Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave
Nerval's Lobster writes Placing your iPhone in the microwave will destroy the phone, and possibly the microwave. While that might seem obvious to some people, others have fallen for the "Wave" hoax making its way around online. The fake advertisement insists that the new iOS 8 allows users to charge their iPhones by placing them in a "household microwave for a minute and a half." Microwave energy will not charge your smartphone. To the contrary, it will scorch the device and render it inoperable. If you nuke your smartphone and subsequently complain about it online, people will probably make fun of you. (If you want a full list of things not to place in a microwave, no matter how pretty the flames, check this out.)
"Put your head in a microwave, and give yourself a tan..."
"Put your head in a microwave and get yourself a tan."
You must dare to be stupid.
"Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism."
You can't trick me. You're only jealous because your cheap Android doesn't support Wave charging.
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"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
I'm guessing people were using 800W microwaves. The Wave Charge feature is only intended for 700w microwaves. Anyone using a powerful microwave should lower the power percentage to compensate. It worked fine on mine, although 1,30 only gave me 72% battery not 100%.
Trolls are good people. They teach the public the importance of exercising their critical thinking skills. Additionally, they provide endless amusement for the few not stupids of the world.
I was just about to try out Wave on my new iPhone after I finished deleting system32 to make my PC go faster
Haha, too true. No way Apple is this advanced. Now, my Samsung, on the other hand, charges a treat. Just don't run it on full power as that overclocks the CPU and causes instability.
To charge your iPhone you need a $150 crisper... ere "Inductive charging" pouch that your phone goes into before putting it into the microwave.
Keeps it clean, you see. Not using the "Inductive charging" pouch may void the warranty.
=Smidge=
Power companies hate Apple for this one weird trick!ï
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I don't think he was referring to arcing.
Pop quiz: What happens when you boil water inside an sealed container?
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
Oh c'mon, from time to time having a laugh at the expense of the bullies that beat us up during high school really helps coping with it.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The best practical joke I've ever done was to draw a cock on a friend's forehead with a UV marker when he was already somewhat drunk and decided to take a nap before we were going to a club. Now, this was in Finland where there's an expression "to have cock on your forehead", which means that you're pissed off, upset, sad or such. Hilarity ensued when it became visible in the club's UV lights but he could not see it when checking in the bathroom mirror. Many random strangers that noticed it asked him "hey, what makes you upset, why do you have a cock on your forehead?" and he constantly had to say "no, no, I'm having a great time" and even went a little overboard to look happy thinking that he had to show it. Ah, sweet memories of my days as a student :)
The first tip-off that this story is BS is that this charging technique doesn't even require an Apple-branded microwave.
There is no way that Apple would introduce a new feature that does not require new Apple hardware.
The basic sleazeware produced in a drunken fury by a bunch of UCBerkeley grad students was still the core of BIND. --PV
Gullibility unfortunately is a survival mechanism.
Part of our nature to form communities and work as a group. Gullibility allows us not to waste time thinking about consequences if someone else seems to know the answer. We use less brain power, increasing our energy level needing less food, and could survive the next day.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
What if I dressed up as a doctor, had an air of gravitas, videoed from what looks like an ivy covered university and gave terrible terrible medical advice about Tylenol maximum dosages? .
Dr. Oz, is that you?
Don't pull on Superman's cape...
Don't spit into the wind...
Don't pull the mask off of the Lone Ranger...
And don't mess around with Jim...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.