[LINK] Qantas bans Dell laptop batteries

[Adam Todd]

At 02:22 PM 26/08/2006, Ivan Trundle wrote:

>And let's put this in perspective: a very small number of laptop
>batteries is likely to be a problem. There is, as the pundits have
>already determined, a greater risk of someone being run over by a bus
>than having a battery overheat.

I tend to agree.  This laptop is a couple of years old, it's the original 
battery, it's been well used, on planes too this year I might add!  It's 
been used in court rooms, it's been used in bedrooms!

I think you have more chance of being killed or injured in a terrorist 
attack than by one of these batteries or a bus!

Speaking of which, and I probably shouldn't say this, but hell why not.  If 
security at airports is to the point of basically not allowing carry on any 
more, and shoes are being x-rayed, I'm confused.

(Now I can see ASIO knocking on my door, but they can join the queue behind 
all the State, Local Council and other Agencies!)

These terrorists are suicide right?  And so they know they are going to die 
and that is there intent anyway.

So, my wife and I were talking about a new script idea and I said to her 
there is one way, that any number of these minority radicals can avoid ALL 
the detection processes and still do the deed.

Swallow the bomb.

(Copyright (C) 2006 A&S Todd - it's our idea!  We're doin' da flick!)

I can tell next time I go to the airport I'll be whisked away to have a 
full body X-Ray or MRI now hey!

OK, that's it, I'm never leaving my home again.  Anyone could now be a 
ticking weapon of destruction!

(What a tangent!)

Mind you I can't see radicals rushing out to buy up the last of the "out 
there" rapid disassembling batteries!

>Try Dell's website, too - who, incidentally, are dealing with a much
>larger recall - they have the same text link in the same (roughly)
>location, and with a home page focus that mirrors Apple's.
>
>Both sites deliver you to a page that clearly states the extent of
>the problem (both use https:// links, interestingly), and what to do.
>What more is needed?

Well I can say that the community itself is doing a great job of sharing 
direct URL information.  I'd not actually had a chance to look at the apple 
web site myself, although my wife has been there the last few days and 
although we've actually talked about this for the last few weeks, she 
didn't even notice the link, nor did it cross her mind that the laptop she 
was using might be affected.

So it's really a "worm" like situation where people will pass it on and 
hopefully everyone will gain the benefit of the offered solution.


>It's got nothing to do with share price. However, *SONY* has suffered:
>
>http://news.com.com/Sony+shares+fall+on+battery+recall/ 
>2100-1041_3-6109550.html

I doubt that will affect Sony at all.  Considering they hold huge portions 
of the technology markets world wide, the production of films, the making 
of DVD's, the technology consumers purchase to play the DVD's, the 
technology to view the DVD's, and a large portion of the porn industry's 
expenditure for making porn, it will be but a hassle for some Sony 
Employees to have to stamp a few pages for a few months before they return 
to their previously monotonous jobs!