Here is some food for thought. Assume for a moment that software companies can be held monetarily responsible for bugs in their software. If we hold these companies liable all that will happen is they will raise their prices to offset the cost of litigation. Imagine a piece of software (i.e. windoze) that frequently has gaping security flaws uncovered. Each one of those holes could cost M$ billions. That adds up to is a $1000+ license for Windows 2005. All that manages to do is shift the costs to the consumer. You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
probe this...
Go into your closet and find a metal coat hanger. Cut it and straigten it out. Go to radio shack and pick up the microphone style jacks for the end. Solder the hanger to some wire and attach the jack on the other end of the wire. Wrap some electical tape around the hanger so you have a non-conductive grip. Plug it into the line-in or the microphone port.
The only problem i could see with this is if you are testing something with a high enough voltage, you may end up roasting that brand new SB Augidy card.
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Here is some food for thought. Assume for a moment that software companies can be held monetarily responsible for bugs in their software. If we hold these companies liable all that will happen is they will raise their prices to offset the cost of litigation. Imagine a piece of software (i.e. windoze) that frequently has gaping security flaws uncovered. Each one of those holes could cost M$ billions. That adds up to is a $1000+ license for Windows 2005. All that manages to do is shift the costs to the consumer. You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
probe this...
Go into your closet and find a metal coat hanger. Cut it and straigten it out. Go to radio shack and pick up the microphone style jacks for the end. Solder the hanger to some wire and attach the jack on the other end of the wire. Wrap some electical tape around the hanger so you have a non-conductive grip. Plug it into the line-in or the microphone port.
The only problem i could see with this is if you are testing something with a high enough voltage, you may end up roasting that brand new SB Augidy card.
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ehe clever! how long did that take you to come up with?