I knocked a glass of wine right into the center of my last laptop.

... for those of you who don't recall

http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612

Read the GAO report: http://archive.gao.gov/t2pbat6/145960.pdf

Or, so you can get back to uninformed ranting as quickly as possible, skip to page five and ignore the part about the system's internal clock.