its a step down transformer and a voltage regulator. 5vdc and 1 amp. 1 amp is what killed not a non branded charger. I mean yes stuff needs to be safe and up to code but what a bunch of tripe that article is spouting.
No, 5 volts is not enough. It is indeed the amps that kill you, but it's the amps that flow through your body. At 5 volts, 0 amps will flow from these chargers, because the resistance of "you" is too high.
No, of course not. By the time you've run enough current to melt/ignite the insulation, you've run enough current to kill. It's not as though the insulation melts as the first electron passes by.
And, oh, by the way, since you seem to be unaware, an uninsulated cable can deliver enough current to kill you, even one covered in flaming insulation;-)
Now if you're talking about the conductor melting instead of just the insulation, oh good lord, of course that does not happen before dangerous current has flowed. Good grief.
But even if it's not certified for the voltage it seems that the individual conductor insulation combined with the plastic outer sleeve of the USB cable would seem to provide at least enough isolation...
The OP's point was even stupider than you gave him credit for. 1) Your heart would be stopped before the insulation melted. 2) Uninsulated wires are perfectly capable of carrying lethal current.
Just for fun: Nobody, not even a single person or even animal, has ever been electrocuted and survived in any situation, ever.
If you're going to be pedantic, you should at least try to be correct. The definition of "electrocution" is "death or injury from electric shock", so yes indeed, many people have survived it. In fact, I would bet on hundreds of thousands per year. Myself, I've survived it multiple times...
Cue the Apple haters claiming that Apple engaged in a conspiracy to manufacture and distribute lethally-flawed apparently-counterfeit chargers in order to destroy the market for 3rd-party chargers and lock up all the profits...
They may never be nice people. They might always be aggressive arrogant jerks. But maybe they can be simply a jerk rather than an actual criminal.
Although I suspect that has much more to do with impulse control than empathy, and so this could indeed turn out to be completely worthless, it does seem at least worth investigating.
Apple (headline) profits fall, just as they are being asked to pay tax.
During the depths of the recession they were able to negotiate really sweet deals on their huge purchases of components. Those contracts expired, and they're now having to pay more, but they certainly can't raise prices. Of course they explained all this and warned investors of the coming drop in margins about a year ago, but much easier for the irrational Apple-haters to ignore the perfectly sensible explanation from Apple itself, and start looking for strange conspiracies instead...
Anyhow, I was mildly amused at the efforts to disparage this language above. Donkey Balls and all; quite convincing for some of you I'm sure.
While the strengths you describe are all true, you conveniently ignore a few well-know problems--or are ignorant of some of the more sophisticated points. For instance, the rules regarding scope and closures and when "this" is captured are bad mistakes, just a complete fucking mess. The several flat-out errors in the design of this language are very well known and widely discussed, such that in any reasonably sophisticated discussion of javascript people often take that knowledge for granted. I don't know if you're disingenuous or just uninformed, but either way you're wrong.
Yeah, sure. Assuming you can get the Federal Government to build the whole thing so that you only have to cover marginal operating costs instead of amortizing construction costs into the price, and each seat is filled every time, and you count in 1950's dollars;-)
I've had the best luck with Buffalo so far. Linksys, D-Link, NetGear, even Cisco small business and NetGear business-class have been pathetic crap. My Buffalo router has not been in service over a year, so I cannot honestly speak to longevity. But I can speak to lack of extraordinarily lame firmware bugs;-)
It isn't uncommon to lose power for about a week with storms in this area. We loose power for about 9 hours probably once a year or so and for a week about once every 10 years.
6,000,000 people at once???
It's not just the duration, but also the extent...
In 95% of cases (or more) as one of the first response said: "stupid fucking managers", in 5% (or less) of cases, some very very very high-end features that almost nobody actually needs. Sorry, bathroom break is over, got to get back to the movie with the wife, otherwise I'd say more;-)
But I'll leave you with this: the postgres folks are truly experts in database, and extremely forthright. Unlike the MySQL founders, if you go and ask this same question on the postgres mailing list, you will get an honest answer, not marketing bullshit.
Also, I see now that Craig Ringer has responded above. Anything he says, believe it;-)
If it were me, I'd try to claim that I was actually truthfully reporting my accounting numbers, and it is the software (and by extension the authors thereof) who are guilty of trying to falsely report accounting numbers.
Absolutely. And given that the bugs had been reported for a long time, and gone unfixed, the insistence that its numbers were accurate and its reported shortfall must be paid should be treated as fraud.
In short I think blaming the Postmasters for not being wise enough is just a wee bit disingenuous.
The post to which you are responding said "post office chief", not "postmaster". In other words, whoever is the head of you postal service should not have started suing postmasters without checking to make sure that the basis of the suits was solid.
You can trust MIT exactly as far as you can throw any one of their buildings. MIT employs the most despicable state propagandist in US history, Noam Chomsky...
Rant, rant, rant. Dude, seriously, almost nobody pays any attention to Chomsky. He just spews for his own egomaniacal self-pleasure, and a to impress a small number of awed groupies.
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Does psychological injury count? As in "a good scare", followed by a fear of connecting stuff to power mains?
Well, yes or no, would depend entirely on whether you're talking to your psychologist, or you health insurer's claims department ;-)
no, it's Microsoft trying to get back market share. /me adjusts tinfoil jockstrap protecting the all-important little head
Just don't short that jockstrap to a cheap charger ;-)
its a step down transformer and a voltage regulator. 5vdc and 1 amp. 1 amp is what killed not a non branded charger. I mean yes stuff needs to be safe and up to code but what a bunch of tripe that article is spouting.
No, 5 volts is not enough. It is indeed the amps that kill you, but it's the amps that flow through your body. At 5 volts, 0 amps will flow from these chargers, because the resistance of "you" is too high.
Wouldn't the USB cable catch fire first?
No, of course not. By the time you've run enough current to melt/ignite the insulation, you've run enough current to kill. It's not as though the insulation melts as the first electron passes by.
And, oh, by the way, since you seem to be unaware, an uninsulated cable can deliver enough current to kill you, even one covered in flaming insulation ;-)
Now if you're talking about the conductor melting instead of just the insulation, oh good lord, of course that does not happen before dangerous current has flowed. Good grief.
But even if it's not certified for the voltage it seems that the individual conductor insulation combined with the plastic outer sleeve of the USB cable would seem to provide at least enough isolation...
The OP's point was even stupider than you gave him credit for. 1) Your heart would be stopped before the insulation melted. 2) Uninsulated wires are perfectly capable of carrying lethal current.
Just for fun: Nobody, not even a single person or even animal, has ever been electrocuted and survived in any situation, ever.
If you're going to be pedantic, you should at least try to be correct. The definition of "electrocution" is "death or injury from electric shock", so yes indeed, many people have survived it. In fact, I would bet on hundreds of thousands per year. Myself, I've survived it multiple times...
Cue the Apple haters claiming that Apple engaged in a conspiracy to manufacture and distribute lethally-flawed apparently-counterfeit chargers in order to destroy the market for 3rd-party chargers and lock up all the profits...
But why would they want to?
To stay out of prison.
They may never be nice people. They might always be aggressive arrogant jerks. But maybe they can be simply a jerk rather than an actual criminal.
Although I suspect that has much more to do with impulse control than empathy, and so this could indeed turn out to be completely worthless, it does seem at least worth investigating.
listening to Mozart, with eye drops in order that their eyes won't wither ? Sorry Dude, It's been already tried ...
No it hasn't, Mozart would be much more soothing ;-)
...he has no clue about programming and this is about the most stupid thing one could propose.
Hey, for once when I think "what a stupid fucking idea", it seems that most of /. agrees with me! Maybe I'm not just old and cranky after all!
Apple (headline) profits fall, just as they are being asked to pay tax.
During the depths of the recession they were able to negotiate really sweet deals on their huge purchases of components. Those contracts expired, and they're now having to pay more, but they certainly can't raise prices. Of course they explained all this and warned investors of the coming drop in margins about a year ago, but much easier for the irrational Apple-haters to ignore the perfectly sensible explanation from Apple itself, and start looking for strange conspiracies instead...
Anyhow, I was mildly amused at the efforts to disparage this language above. Donkey Balls and all; quite convincing for some of you I'm sure.
While the strengths you describe are all true, you conveniently ignore a few well-know problems--or are ignorant of some of the more sophisticated points. For instance, the rules regarding scope and closures and when "this" is captured are bad mistakes, just a complete fucking mess. The several flat-out errors in the design of this language are very well known and widely discussed, such that in any reasonably sophisticated discussion of javascript people often take that knowledge for granted. I don't know if you're disingenuous or just uninformed, but either way you're wrong.
No other choice? Take a look at NodeJS [nodejs.org].
Please explain in exactly what way Node.js offers an alternative to javascript on the client side; go ahead, we're waiting ;-)
Yeah, sure. Assuming you can get the Federal Government to build the whole thing so that you only have to cover marginal operating costs instead of amortizing construction costs into the price, and each seat is filled every time, and you count in 1950's dollars ;-)
I've had the best luck with Buffalo so far. Linksys, D-Link, NetGear, even Cisco small business and NetGear business-class have been pathetic crap. My Buffalo router has not been in service over a year, so I cannot honestly speak to longevity. But I can speak to lack of extraordinarily lame firmware bugs ;-)
It isn't uncommon to lose power for about a week with storms in this area. We loose power for about 9 hours probably once a year or so and for a week about once every 10 years.
6,000,000 people at once???
It's not just the duration, but also the extent...
In 95% of cases (or more) as one of the first response said: "stupid fucking managers", in 5% (or less) of cases, some very very very high-end features that almost nobody actually needs. Sorry, bathroom break is over, got to get back to the movie with the wife, otherwise I'd say more ;-)
But I'll leave you with this: the postgres folks are truly experts in database, and extremely forthright. Unlike the MySQL founders, if you go and ask this same question on the postgres mailing list, you will get an honest answer, not marketing bullshit.
Also, I see now that Craig Ringer has responded above. Anything he says, believe it ;-)
Mostly irrelevant, illogical, nonsense--the blog post that is.
Boycotting the former because of the latter is called an ad hominem.
No, it is not--well, at least not by people who know what the words mean.
If you're not confident you can disinfect your computers, then selling them on eBay is a lot more cost-effective ;-)
If it were me, I'd try to claim that I was actually truthfully reporting my accounting numbers, and it is the software (and by extension the authors thereof) who are guilty of trying to falsely report accounting numbers.
Absolutely. And given that the bugs had been reported for a long time, and gone unfixed, the insistence that its numbers were accurate and its reported shortfall must be paid should be treated as fraud.
No, it's a surefire way of being treat like an asshole.
Nope, at least with Dell, being nice will get you lied to and blown off. Yelling and cursing will get your dead under-warranty equipment replaced.
In short I think blaming the Postmasters for not being wise enough is just a wee bit disingenuous.
The post to which you are responding said "post office chief", not "postmaster". In other words, whoever is the head of you postal service should not have started suing postmasters without checking to make sure that the basis of the suits was solid.
You can trust MIT exactly as far as you can throw any one of their buildings. MIT employs the most despicable state propagandist in US history, Noam Chomsky...
Rant, rant, rant. Dude, seriously, almost nobody pays any attention to Chomsky. He just spews for his own egomaniacal self-pleasure, and a to impress a small number of awed groupies.
So then, have the plane fly east to get to San Francisco! It will get there.
Granted it'll take a little longer. ;-)
No, with this plane, it would take less time than flying west to get there ;-)