I would say sabotaged by Samsung or an Apple Hater. Here in Australia there is a religion against Apple. Just the mention of Apple and people will burst into rage. Very likely someone caused this just like when someone sabotaged that religious painting to make it look like she was crying blood. They know deep down Apple is good and they can't handle that their hate is unverified so they go out of their way to make themselves feel better about their competitor product.
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And why would anyone not working for Samsung claim they do? Especially since this is a retail position. The important thing he claimed was "I work in retail, and often when people come with problems, it's because they are stupid".
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3rd party chargers from reputable companies will work just fine (with the caveat that _any_ company will have _some_ failure rate). You can expect them to work slower, because Apple chargers detect when the device plugged in is an iPhone or iPad and supply more power (but obviously not more than the device can handle).
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Not everyone knows. Only most people.
On the other hand, look at the statistics. Let's say buying a cheap charger means a one in a million chance of getting killed, for lets say $15 saving. With 100 million devices, that would be $1.5 billion saved and 100 people dead.
If you look at road traffic, people do things where the chance of getting killed is much higher than one in a million, for much less benefit.
Lithium is also dangerous
Very good comments from Makosuke. I'd be worried about the lithium as well as the explosion; it's pretty nasty stuff.
Very good comments from Makosuke. I'd be worried about the lithium as well as the explosion; it's pretty nasty stuff.
Are you like, what, 80?
I do not think there was ever such a time. Old people in general have a superiority complex about their early years even if it was all quite crappy
As someone else also posted and told you about, These batteries can have a very bad reaction when charged wrong or something like that. It's why their really should not be these "fake" chargers.
I used to race RC Cars. They now mostly use a Lithium battery (A LiPo) to run the cars. I've seen a couple cars catch fire from the LiPo. Most of the time they just smoke but some sometimes do have some explosion. The tracks hobby shop also had a little room catch fire. Someone was using some crappy knock off charger and a crappy battery and weren't in the room watching it. Had a reaction and next thing you know that room was on fire.
Or, given that it wasn't the charger that started it could have been an old damaged charger. Tugged on too much and the wires hit the exterior and melted etc it
'Sparks continued to appear from the charging port and a fire brigade was called, no one was injured during the incident, the Australian news service said.'
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101183900
Funny thing is I live in Canberra and no local media outlets are reporting this. No doubt my Apple-hating workmates will all give me she-it about it tomorrow and say 'oh iPad Airs are faulty man... the news says they should e banned, you are so delusional using Apple, Samsung makes much higher quality gear!!'
The Samsung sabotage conspiracies obviously aren't true but looks like the power supply was to blame in one way or another.
There are a lot of farkwits out there who like to intentionally break Apple gear and make it look she-it. I busted a kid going through demo machines and doing an rm ~/ into terminals on all the display units in a shop then giggling when they got kernel panics.
Comes down to jealousy IMO. I like Apple devices so use them. I have no interest in trashing Samsung/Google/Dell...etc devices so that they look she-it. Nor do I really care if people choose to use non-Apple devices (then subject me to rants about how I'm stupid because I use Apple gear). Who farking cares? Not me...
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101183900
Funny thing is I live in Canberra and no local media outlets are reporting this. No doubt my Apple-hating workmates will all give me she-it about it tomorrow and say 'oh iPad Airs are faulty man... the news says they should e banned, you are so delusional using Apple, Samsung makes much higher quality gear!!'
The Samsung sabotage conspiracies obviously aren't true but looks like the power supply was to blame in one way or another.
There are a lot of farkwits out there who like to intentionally break Apple gear and make it look she-it. I busted a kid going through demo machines and doing an rm ~/ into terminals on all the display units in a shop then giggling when they got kernel panics.
Comes down to jealousy IMO. I like Apple devices so use them. I have no interest in trashing Samsung/Google/Dell...etc devices so that they look she-it. Nor do I really care if people choose to use non-Apple devices (then subject me to rants about how I'm stupid because I use Apple gear). Who farking cares? Not me...
Firstly that command would do nothing because the directory would not be empty - it would need to be an rm -rf ~/
Secondly, are you claiming that removing a users home directory causes a kernel panic?
It is. Relax.
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They're only making kids toys, why should those be safer than laptops?
You have read the article right?
This was an iPad in an Apple store, not one at someones houses being charged with a cheap charger, or getting wet.
Gee, there are plenty of "Apple Haters" in the U.S., too. "Hate" being used the way teenagers use it. I absolutely hate (mildly dislike) Chipotle." Whatever.
Do you guys mean to say that lots of people in Australia actually hate (like, say, Tea Party people hate Obama) Apple? Why? Is it safe to bring an iPhone to Australia? I mean, just how much do they "hate"?
Ok, no problem.
Just as I said, it does absolutely nothing because the directory is not empty.
It simply won't do anything unless you use r for recursive and f for force (do not prompt).Maybe variants of your command then?
rm -rf ~/
This would actually remove my home directory but it certainly would not cause a "kernel panic".
What if we put a space there?
rm -rf ~ /
This would remove my home directory and then get a permission denied against removing /
or we could just hop straight to it and try
rm -rf /
which would again do nothing, because in a store, presumably I would not have the sudo or root password to escalate privilege.
Even if I did the above command and I did have the sudo or root password it would be unlikely to cause a "kernel panic". All the parts of the OS and apps which were loaded into RAM would function OK until they needed to access the filesystem and then they would start producing all kinds of errors (file not found).
It wouldn't be all that different from if you just yanked the drive out of your machine...I haven't actually tried this mind you but I've had SANs detach themselves from large Linux clusters which is pretty much the same thing. Or, you could run a Bash script which loops and prints something to stdout and then delete the script... the script will continue to run.
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Ok, no problem.
Just as I said, it does absolutely nothing because the directory is not empty.
Maybe variants of your command then?
rm -rf ~/
This would actually remove my home directory but it certainly would not cause a "kernel panic".
What if we put a space there?
rm -rf ~ /
This would remove my home directory and then get a permission denied against removing /
or we could just hop straight to it and try
rm -rf /
which would again do nothing, because in a store, presumably I would not have the sudo or root password to escalate privilege.
Even if I did the above command and I did have the sudo or root password it would be unlikely to cause a "kernel panic". All the parts of the OS and apps which were loaded into RAM would function OK until they needed to access the filesystem and then they would start producing all kinds of errors (file not found).
It wouldn't be all that different from if you just yanked the drive out of your machine...I haven't actually tried this mind you but I've had SANs detach themselves from large Linux clusters which is pretty much the same thing. Or, you could run a Bash script which loops and prints something to stdout and then delete the script... the script will continue to run.
You were too chicken to try it the forgot to end yourself.I wish I was there in your little bedroom at mummy's house so I could see your pimplie 10 year old face cry as you lose all of your $hyt3 and have to explain to mummy why your computer's broken.
I'm sure your parents are proud that they gave birth to a troll faced effing idiot who wastes time trying to prove that deleting everything on your HD (except for the protected files) won't break your PC. I seriously dare you to do it instead of being an d!ck43@d and using the internet to pretend you know everything.
I wish I was there in your little bedroom at mummy's house so I could see your pimplie 10 year old face cry as you lose all of your $hyt3 and have to explain to mummy why your computer's broken.
I'm sure your parents are proud that they gave birth to a troll faced effing idiot who wastes time trying to prove that deleting everything on your HD (except for the protected files) won't break your PC. I seriously dare you to do it instead of being an d!ck43@d and using the internet to pretend you know everything.
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It would have been much more mature to just admit you made a mistake.
Besides..it was just bad luck that you got into that discussion with me as I was a Linux sys admin for 5 years (and i've been using various types of Linux and Unix for 17 years) and know my commandline pretty well
Here is a screen capture of your command being run. It does nothing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVxk9_6WhgM
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