That's the best one of all! Hahaha! We created insurgents. I like your line of thinking...stick your head in the sand and they just don't exist. It disappoints me that so many Americans swallow that.
It's doubtful the flame produced from IC fireworks would be sufficient and last long enought to do much damage to a battery.
Your assumption about it being a freak occurance is most likely correct, at least until more reports of similar instances start to appear.
Your bias against Maxtor is certainly slanted. Every MFG of hard drives will have a small percentage of failures and will produce a "dog" model now and then. I do not prefer their SCSI models, but have very high praise and success for their older IDE drives in the 1-80GB size. Some of which are still running solid at 6-7 years old. Can't speak much for the larger Maxtor drives since I haven't used many since they went to a 1 year warranty. Replacing RMAs with "refurbished" units is pretty much an industry standard. Every drive manufacturer does this. There are rare occassions when you will recieve a new drive just due to stock on hand. In fact the few times I RMA'd Maxtor drives, I actually recieved replacements that were new and larger (rcv 10 or 13GB for an 8GB, 20GB for a 10GB, etc).
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He never hacked into any large company web sites.
That's the best one of all! Hahaha! We created insurgents. I like your line of thinking...stick your head in the sand and they just don't exist. It disappoints me that so many Americans swallow that.
That might be true up NE in your house, but break into mine and you'll be finding more 00 holes in your body than theater.
So what happened to Kraken being the largest botnet with an estimated 400k bots?
you just don't get it. we don't care what you or any other country plays as a sport. you just don't get it, do you?
It's doubtful the flame produced from IC fireworks would be sufficient and last long enought to do much damage to a battery.
Your assumption about it being a freak occurance is most likely correct, at least until more reports of similar instances start to appear.
Your bias against Maxtor is certainly slanted. Every MFG of hard drives will have a small percentage of failures and will produce a "dog" model now and then. I do not prefer their SCSI models, but have very high praise and success for their older IDE drives in the 1-80GB size. Some of which are still running solid at 6-7 years old. Can't speak much for the larger Maxtor drives since I haven't used many since they went to a 1 year warranty. Replacing RMAs with "refurbished" units is pretty much an industry standard. Every drive manufacturer does this. There are rare occassions when you will recieve a new drive just due to stock on hand. In fact the few times I RMA'd Maxtor drives, I actually recieved replacements that were new and larger (rcv 10 or 13GB for an 8GB, 20GB for a 10GB, etc).