Lawsuit Alleges That Palms Damage Motherboards 437
schussat writes: "This brief AP article describes a lawsuit that alleges that syncing a Palm Pilot "damages or destroys the motherboards on certain PC brands." Does anyone know more or have experience with this? Is it even possible to cause damage? The article is not very detailed."
That's nothing... (Score:3, Funny)
Palm crashes hotmail! (Score:3, Funny)
Can i have the names of the lawyers? I smell money!!!
Re:I did blow a processor before (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Why sue Palm? (Score:3, Funny)
Only sweaty palms (Score:4, Funny)
Re:HotSync? (Score:2, Funny)
A technician, upon opening a box to work out modem problems a customer was having, found no modem card, but a phone cable spliced directly onto the main power cord. Upon asking the customer why on earth that was, the customer replied "Well, whoever made the computer forgot to install the the modem card, so knowing a bit about Electrical stuff I spliced in a cable myself.
It never fails to amaze me just how dumb some people are. ;-).
Re:That's nothing... (Score:2, Funny)
1 crash per week?! (Score:2, Funny)
Surfing /. damages the monitor (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmmm, so not user error at all. Right? (Score:4, Funny)
Rather than saying 'up with stupid users', how about we continue to call them stupid until they can prove themselves otherwise?
More than once before I have suggested to those calling me for tech support that they might like to read 'The Demon Haunted World' by Carl Sagan as an excellent primer for how to apply basic logic and scientific thinking ftoeveryday life. One of them actually took this advice, and since they've not called for tech support again I can only assume this worked.
Warning: I only do tech support as a summer job whilst at University; if your life depends on your tech support job (and $deity help you if this is the case) then recommending books on basic logic skills to those requesting tech support may not be an advisable course of action. You do so at your own risk, and I will accept no responsibility.
Re:One question... (Score:2, Funny)
Uhm... Are you sure it was Ebola?
HotSync? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:AP mirror (Score:4, Funny)
You mean people on ./actually read the article first and post after?
My god, this should be in the headlines...
The kind of people that believe this... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Come and get your $900 handheld? (Score:3, Funny)
So, if the poor end-user who thought that the Palm blew up his motherboard is proven wrong, he's not only out the cost of the motherboard, but also thousands of dollars for engineers, plane fares, hotel bills, rental cars, per-diem expenses, etc. That will make for a great Slashdot story: "Palm user billed $17,500 for tech support."
Do yourself a favor: Don't ever get involved in public relations.