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Jesse in Japan
04/06/09

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Let this be a lesson to you: don't drink and overclock.
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Jestermeister
04/06/09

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To prevent any further mac vs pc malarkey in this thread (considering we have no idea WHAT kind of laptop incinerated the poor fellow), here is a reminder of just how much we are all in the same boat on sploding laptops: [blog.wired.com]
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badhatharry
04/06/09

@jestermeister: Yeah, whatever. That exploding powerbook would never happen if it were a Mac.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
04/06/09

@badhatharry: Yes, us Mac owners know that our laptops would never explode. Just make penis paninis and melt faces off.

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Nintenboy01
04/06/09

@badhatharry: But... A Powerbook IS a Mac, right?
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badhatharry
04/06/09

@Nintenboy01: Don't think so.
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Jestermeister
04/06/09

@badhatharry: That was great.
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badhatharry
04/06/09

@jestermeister: Thank you. Although I was kinda hoping you wouldn't get it and this would turn into a huge flame thread where I categorically denied that powerbooks were macs for like 15 comments. Even though that might get me banned.
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im_here_for_the_food
04/06/09

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One less outsourcing resourse now!
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William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshire
04/06/09

@im_here_for_the_food: Though my comment above isn't the epitome of piety, yours is seriously far beyond the bounds of good taste. Also did you spell resource wrong.
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Buddy Ruddy
04/06/09

@im_here_for_the_food:

Wow man...

wow

So if that happened to someone in the US, how'd you like it if they said "Oh great! 10 more job openings"
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bosskev
04/06/09

@Buddy Ruddy: Your reply is simultaneously responsible/politically correct and subversively evil/wickedly funny. I like that.

* clicks on little "follow this commenter" heart *

* chokes just a wee bit on "following" his first Facebooker *
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Toshie
04/06/09

@William_III_Earl_of_Dastardshi...:
Also did you spell resource wrong.

Grammar fail during spelling Naziism... Tsk, tsk...

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bosskev
04/06/09

@Toshie: "Grammar fail during spelling Naziism... Tsk, tsk..."

Another victim falls prey to Frigg's Law.

And, in case the link does not work, here it is repeated from its January 2008 posting by Giz commenter Frigg--the similarity in name being entirely coincidental:

"Frigg's Law:  Anyone who corrects someone else's grammar on the internet has a greater than 90% chance of 1) being wrong, 2) including grammatical mistakes of their own in the text of the purported correction, or 3) being a dick. The more the grammar-corrector pursues their correction in a thread, the closer that percentage approaches 100%."

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MacAttack7388
04/06/09

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Another reason to use a Mac...

I hope...

God, I hope I'm not typing on a bomb
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Monty
04/06/09

@MacAttack7388: Sorry to give you the bad news, but Apple switch to Intel hardware a few years back, so you are using essentially the same hardware now as any other PC. But, maybe the pretty Apple logo will save you.
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Serolf Divad
04/06/09

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Guy's probably both shared the same computer. Yeah, that would freak me shit out, too.
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Sockatume
04/06/09

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I think a bit of scepticism's in order, Giz. We've had about three stories about this in the past year, with phones instead of computers and each time they omitted that the victim was hit by a tonne of bricks, or shot, or run over, and that might've contribued to both their injuries and the mysterious phone damage.
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bosskev
04/06/09

@Sockatume: From the Times of India article:

"Police said his charred body was found in a sitting posture. "We are yet to ascertain the cause of the blast. The computer was completely damaged and the deceased was charred," a police officer told TOI."

Indeed, we do NOT yet know the whole story, and it was only referred to as a "computer", no mention of it being a laptop.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
04/06/09

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So did the PC explode, or the CRT, or was it one of those flammable gasoline filled Best Buy tv's? So many questions.
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Dillinger23
04/06/09

@WindySaturday_GitEmSteveDave: I thought all flat screen tv's took gasoline? Isnt that what makes them so warm and toasty?
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
04/06/09

@dillinger23: [i.gizmodo.com]
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OMG! Ponies!
04/06/09

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Conficker claims his first victim.
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A Snake a Snake... OH it's a Snake!
04/06/09

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That footnote is key, I almost didn't see that and assumed a Dell had exploded. You probably dodged a defamation lawsuit there.
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bosskev
04/06/09

@A Snake a Snake... OH it's a Snake!: "...assumed a Dell had exploded. You probably dodged a defamation lawsuit there."

Maybe. Legally speaking, this is still contentious. I mean, for all we know, it WAS a Dell and that's why this "illustation" was chosen.
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bosskev
04/06/09

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P.S. PC pictured is not the computer that killed the man, just an illustration.

Then ya' might wanna blur out that "illustration's" brand name just a wee bit more. Unless you just happen to like lawsuits.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
04/06/09

@bosskev: Well, judging by the extinguisher residue and the burn marks where the battery is, can you honestly say this computer didn't have an "incident"?
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bosskev
04/06/09

@MormonChristmas_GitEmSteveDave: Well, of course this computer has had an incident...but was it an incident of the calibre of:

Man Burnt to Death by Exploding PC

I mean, a laptop battery having a meltdown is nowhere in the same league of

MUTHAFUCKINSCARY

as a computer which explodes and burns you to death. Subliminally or not, are we now not just a tiny bit more leery of a DELL laptop?

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strider_mt2k
04/06/09

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Skeptical to say the least.
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