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Corporate Espionage Leads To Faulty Motherboards
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CowboyNeal
on Sat Feb 08, 2003 11:26 AM
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from the cowboyneal-is-too-lazy-to-make-a-dept dept.
Champs writes "If you've gotten the feeling that they really don't make 'em like they used to, you might be right. This article at IEEE Spectrum tells the story of large batches of faulty capacitors sourced from Taiwan causing motherboards to eventually fail, with an interesting twist on the reason why these capacitors failed."
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Dupe again (Score:5, Funny)
(http://daghlian.net/ | Last Journal: Wednesday June 12 2002, @02:11AM)
Didn't we just leave this party... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.offworldpress.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday October 31 2002, @12:57PM)
Joseph+Pharoah+Slashdot=repost (7yrs) (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Thursday September 13, @12:15PM)
So Pharoah asked "What should we do?" And Joseph said, "Let's save up the seven years of good articles, and then repost them during the seven years of bad articles."
Thus it was said, thus it was done, and thus we got seven years of bad articles.
Repeat! (Score:3, Informative)
(http://xptical.org/)
Re:Is this the whole story? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.sirsonic.com/)
If capacitors are exploding (see the pics, they are), across multiple motherboard vendors, all of whom are desigend differently, you dont have to be a rocket scientist to recognize the trend here.
The capacitors are exploding. Vendor-independantly. Maybe you can provide some proof that cheaper and chaper processes are leading to the same capacitors exploding in many brands of motherboards
Anyhow, the Mobo manufacturers were loathe to admit the capacitors were exploding. If it really *was* their shoddy workmanship causing faulty boards, they've hae JUMPED at the opportunity to blame it on some untracable capacitor. But the article makes it very clear that manufacturers are reluctant to say anything, making it clear to me that the common element in all these exploding capacitor situations is
No matter how many times I refresh.... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm stuck in Cache HELL!
Can someone tell me how to get the latest stories?
Yo Grark
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Re:No matter how many times I refresh.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Imagine (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://watch.this.for.changes.soon.com/)
Re:Imagine (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Friday September 10 2004, @12:41PM)
Post modern posting (Score:4, Funny)
(http://home.primus.ca/~ronsharp/tororg.html)
It's a tough job just keeping the Big Picture going, so weird effects show up in the small things. That's why television is all repeats, and why Slashdot has dups. Oh yeah, and Anonymous Coward really is this one guy.
Have a nice day, again!
So... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So... (Score:4, Funny)
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OMG! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.artboy.org/)
hey, everyone! i don't think this is public yet, but there are some faulty capacitors going around!!!!! send this message to ten of your friends and post it everywhere or else nobody will know!!!!!!
This is happening again! (Score:5, Funny)
We should have learned our lesson about corporate espionage the first time. But now that history has repeated itself, within only a few days, I guess we didn't learn our lesson the first time here on Slashdot.
How many times will we have to have faulty motherboards and other consumer electronic items before we learn our lessons abotu corporate espionage?
Are we learning yet?
More info from the guy who changes the caps (Score:5, Informative)
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Motherboard Cap Replacement [att.net]
ENOUGH (Score:3, Insightful)
Get over it and find something constructive to do!
Re:ENOUGH (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.traxel.com/)
Get over it and find something constructive to do!
You mean like bitching about the dupe messages?
This Issue Can Be Deadly With Aircraft Parts (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.clearplastic.com/)
was in aerospace.
Poorly constructed counterfeit parts have
been an issue within aerospace for years.
Counterfeit aircraft parts made from stolen
drawings.
Even worse were defective parts, bought for a
song from a legitimate manufacturer or airline,
cleaned and polished up a little, and then
sold back into 'the system' as new parts.
In aerospace, unlike most desktop computer
use, this scam can and has been deadly.
Mark
Re:This Issue Can Be Deadly With Aircraft Parts (Score:4, Informative)
(Last Journal: Tuesday February 22 2005, @10:20PM)
Now if only we could throw the offenders in jail, just like they do to people selling faulty airplane parts...
(fyi, the site was at http://www.jdmag.wpafb.af.mil/bogus%20parts.pdf )
Oh no! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, wait -- its just standard Slashdot re-posting. Whew!
How to check before you buy (Score:3, Informative)
Forget case mods, maybe we need to start modding our mainboards with better caps.
Finally !! (Score:5, Funny)
From the Book of
And Saint Hemos displayed the posting on paper, saying, 'O Lord, bless this Thy Holy Posting that, with it, Thou mayest blow Thine readers to boredom in Thy mercy.'
And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and large chu--
Hmm... Skipping a bit...
And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou choose random Story. Then, shalt thou post it three times. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt post, and the number of the posting shall be three. Four times shalt thou not post, nor either post thou two times, excepting that thou then proceed to post thrice. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then, post thou thy Holy Posting towards thy readers, who, being naughty in My sight, shall comment on it.'
Amen.
Congratulations,