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    1.5 Million Durabrand DVD Players Recalled By Wal-Mart: Fire Hazard

    Canon Recalls 1D, 1Ds Mk III Cameras Due To Lube Leakage

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    08/21/09

    In reply to 1.5 Million Durabrand DVD Players Recalled By Wal-Mart: Fire Hazard
    While Walmart should not sell DVD players that catch fire spontaneously, 12 per 1.5 million is a very small number. For comparison, you would be about 14 times more likely to commit suicide than to have one of these DVD players that you bought catch fire. You would be 24 times more likely to die in a car accident, and about 10000 times more likely to have had sexual interactions with animals.

    [en.wikipedia.org]

    [en.wikipedia.org]

    [www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org]
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    08/21/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: What if the animals was either:
    a: asking for it, or
    b: came on to you

    Would that alter the statistics any?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    08/21/09

    @GitEmSteveDave: WalkinOnSunshine: That's what I told my neighbor about his golden retriever, but he still didn't take it very well. Unlike us, he must not be a very progressive-minded fellow.
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    Hello Mister Walrus was starred Hello Mister Walrus was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    08/21/09

    In reply to 1.5 Million Durabrand DVD Players Recalled By Wal-Mart: Fire Hazard
    Well there's your problem. This is supposed to be a DVD burner, not a player.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    08/21/09

    In reply to 1.5 Million Durabrand DVD Players Recalled By Wal-Mart: Fire Hazard
    Poor Durablend, er Dharmabrand, er...whatever.
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    Image of Ozyman666 Ozyman666
    08/21/09

    In reply to 1.5 Million Durabrand DVD Players Recalled By Wal-Mart: Fire Hazard
    Durabrand?

    You mean Duraflame.

    amirite?
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    Image of vSanjo: I don't actually mean this vSanjo: I don't actually mean this
    08/21/09

    @Ozyman666: Oh no you di-untttt.

    They'll just paint them another coat of shit-fake-silver, and sell them as heaters.
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    Image of Chris Cuttriss Chris Cuttriss
    05/15/09

    In reply to Canon Recalls 1D, 1Ds Mk III Cameras Due To Lube Leakage
    This is a nit pick, but the 1D Mark III isn't a full frame camera. It has a 1.3x crop APS-H sized sensor.
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    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    05/15/09

    @Chris Cuttriss: noted!
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    John Herrman was starred John Herrman was unstarred
    Image of RacecarBoobTat RacecarBoobTat
    05/15/09

    In reply to Canon Recalls 1D, 1Ds Mk III Cameras Due To Lube Leakage
    Oh Evan, thank you for bringing that lube for my full-frame 1D and 1Ds Mk III cameras. I never would've been able to handle your four inch photo inside my full-frame 1D and 1Ds Mk III cameras without that gigantic bottle of lube.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    05/15/09

    @RacecarBoobTat:

    D3X: Hrmph! Filthy kids.

    D3: Get a room!
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    Image of Joo Chung Joo Chung
    05/15/09

    In reply to Canon Recalls 1D, 1Ds Mk III Cameras Due To Lube Leakage
    What I find curious about this is that both the 1D Mk III and the 1Ds Mk III have been on the market for quite some time. Why is it that they are being recalled now for a lube leakage? That seems like something that would have been apparent and confirmed fairly quickly.
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    05/15/09

    @Joo Chung: Perhaps this has only recently become an issue. That, or they may have needed to determine whether this was truly an issue or only happening in isolated cases.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    05/15/09

    @Joo Chung: It could just be for a batch with a specific datecode.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    02/25/09

    In reply to AT&T's Quickfire Officially Has Worst Name Ever
    The CANYONERO!


    (unexplained fires are a matter for the courts)

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    Image of medopal medopal
    02/25/09

    In reply to AT&T's Quickfire Officially Has Worst Name Ever
    Talking about Sidekicks, why they aren't popular. I dont know if they are in the US, but in the rest of the world i dont think so. I never saw one!!

    Doesn't it compare to iPhone or Android mobiles?!!
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    Image of GoogleSauce GoogleSauce
    02/25/09

    @medopal: I'll be honest, I don't see very many people with Sidekicks, though I did have a deaf co-worker that never let go of hers. She used that thing religiously.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    02/25/09

    @Karin's being followed by a moonshadow: The only person I know who used one was deaf, too. Perhaps that's the unintentional target market?


    Of course, since I read "I did have a dead co-worker" at first, who knows...

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    Image of Shane Orzechowski Shane Orzechowski
    02/25/09

    In reply to AT&T's Quickfire Officially Has Worst Name Ever
    It's hard to believe any product name that calls to mind premature ejaculation would be a failure...
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    Shane Orzechowski was starred Shane Orzechowski was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/25/09

    @Shane Orzechowski: Nowadays, the favored term is preemie, which is sort of sad since it was also a term for babies that are born prematurely. Minuteman sounds cool, until you think about it.
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    02/25/09

    In reply to AT&T's Quickfire Officially Has Worst Name Ever
    just another reason to support the micro usb cell phone charger standard proposal.
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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    02/25/09

    @nutbastard: I personally think we should charge our phones via coin operated charging stands. That way the cell phone companies can get a little more money they need.


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    admoseremic was starred admoseremic was unstarred
    Image of falandil falandil
    02/25/09

    @admoseremic: Coin operated chargers actually exist in Japan. I've seen pictures of them. I think they're operated by 3rd parties, though.


    Though I'm not sure if the picture in your comment is a real one or a mock up or what.

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    falandil was starred falandil was unstarred
    Image of tande04 tande04
    02/25/09

    @falandil: I don't know if you don't travel much but they have them in nearly every major US airport.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    02/25/09

    @tande04:


    the nicer airports just have wall plugs and powered USB ports everywhere - for free.

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    02/25/09

    In reply to AT&T's Quickfire Officially Has Worst Name Ever
    Dear AT&T,


    They're called gendered connectors. Wiki them.


    Contemptuously,


    nuttyb

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    Image of TheUCanes TheUCanes
    02/25/09

    @nutbastard:
    Dear nutbastard,


    UTStarcom made this phone. We will forward your misguided comment.


    Slightly annoyed,
    at&t

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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    02/25/09

    Dear TheUCanes, please place the Quickfire GTX75 into your oriface of choice, and place the clearly marked arrow in the down position in relation to the Quickfire screen. Next, stand in a puddle of water and plug the charger into a wall socket.


    AT&T has the ability to not buy crap phones from companies that refuse to follow standards. It is their choice to bring to market something that is not only proprietary, but also apparently untested and unsafe for most of the world populace.

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    Image of TheUCanes TheUCanes
    02/25/09

    @zenpoet: And now that they found that moron 13 and 14 year olds cant plug a damn charger in correctly they pulled it. What else do you want them to do? No one was hurt and every once in a while a shitty product goes through. All i was saying that at&t didnt make the shitty product they just sold it. And once they found that there was a problem they pulled it.
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    02/25/09

    @TheUCanes: I agree wholeheartedly that a product shouldn't be pulled just because it kills off the weak-minded, but what I hate is proprietary crap that has no reason to exist other than for accessory sales. It is just icing on the cake that their stupid product is going to cost them more money in the long run than just giving up and going with mini or micro usb.


    I think the carriers should stop putting things on the shelves that don't follow the standard charges. But again, that is just my opinion, but I do reinforce that by my spending habits, and I will not buy non-standard tech.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/25/09

    In reply to AT&T's Quickfire Officially Has Worst Name Ever
    So did they design a plug that's symmetrical, but is not agnostic to the direction you plug it in? I don't get it. My phone is incapable of being plugged in the wrong way, even if I tried to force it. Who are these ham-fisted ape people raping their phones' charging ports and making them overheat?
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/25/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Around here we call 'em teenagers
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/25/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I love the way you write... ham-fisted phone-raping ape people.


    Although, to be fair, I have seen some phones (notably Samsung) which have incredibly miniscule charger ports. The tabs on the connecter are very fine and I can imagine that an individual with a somewhat less-than-stellar mental capacity could, conceivably, force it in without too much effort. However, that leads me to wonder why the geniuses in engineering didn't think about the possibility of the connector being inserted the wrong way, and why they didn't offset the pins sufficiently to prevent this overheating problem.

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    BeautifulAgony was starred BeautifulAgony was unstarred
    Image of A Snake a Snake... OH it's a Snake! A Snake a Snake... OH it's a Snake!
    02/25/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®:

    "The clearly marked, embossed arrow on the AC Charger adapter should always be face-up..."


    I guess teenagers have trouble recognizing clearly marked, embossed arrows and sticking them in the right place. This must be why the tramp stamp has gained so much popularity...

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/25/09

    @BeautifulAgony: By the looks of the rest of the phone, I'd say an all-around rushed design with minimal forethought is the culprit. It's basically some chintzy(ier) Sidekick for AT&T, so no doubt the engineers just pushed this little Rosemary's cellphone out as quickly as they could and didn't pay much attention.
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/25/09

    @iamholland: "This must be why the tramp stamp has gained so much popularity..."


    LOL... but that's for the face down position...

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    Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was starred Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was unstarred
    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    02/25/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: They scare the livin' shit outta me.
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    MushyHeirloom was starred MushyHeirloom was unstarred
    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    02/25/09

    @iamholland: It's not a "tramp stamp", it's an "ejaculate target zone".
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    Image of Clancycoop Clancycoop
    02/25/09

    In reply to AT&T's Quickfire Officially Has Worst Name Ever
    1-800-801-1101

    "Ring"

    "Ring"

    "Excuse me, what is phone?"
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    Clancycoop was starred Clancycoop was unstarred
    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    02/25/09

    @Clancycoop: Ah, the problem with the statement is that it says to call if you have any questions, not just questions related to phones.


    "Ring Ring"


    "What's the speed of dark?"


    "If you run backwards will you gain weight?"


    "Despite the cost of living, why does it

    remain so popular?"


    Ba-dum, tish!

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    Hello Mister Walrus was starred Hello Mister Walrus was unstarred
    Image of SegamanXero SegamanXero
    02/25/09

    @Clancycoop: hahaha, good one! you caught me off guard with that one!
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    SegamanXero was starred SegamanXero was unstarred
    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    02/25/09

    @Clancycoop: You just freaked me out man. That is just one digit away from my phone number.
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    Image of Epoch's apple copyright violation Epoch's apple copyright violation
    02/25/09

    @zenpoet: i'm going to dial every variation until you answer.
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    02/25/09

    @Epoch: No calls yet, but give 'er hell!
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