Next Generation Soldiers

Hi Girls!!!

Welcome to my friends from BD's, enjoy the music!!

Muslim Terrorists

The special place in hell reserved for muslim terrorists is a boiling pot of pigs blood that they are boiled in for eternity

Beware Of APPLE!!!

Please be aware that Apple censors and deletes threads from its customers in thier support forums when they are not happy with the question. They also lie about why thier OS only works on thier machines and rip off thier customers thru upgrades. Go read the latest article at Toms Hardware ( http://www.tomsguide.com/us/2007/11/02/mac_osx/ ) where they even censored the people at Toms!! DON'T BUY APPLE THEY RUN THIER BUSINESS LIKE A DICTATER (YES NOTICE THE MIS-SPELLING)

Time to close our Doors

Its was a nice 3 year run, but with so very little interest anymore by members and now myself, I see no reason to continue throwing money at a dead horse. We lost our sponsorship due to poor participation and its a real shame to end it this way, but upon April's renewal, this site will no longer exist. Take care everyone and keep in touch.

Attention ICQ Users

I - Worm / Stration is currently the Number One spreading virus. Many of you are frequent ICQ users, especially the senior members. This calls us all to be frequent anti-virus scanners. Be suspicious of any email or ICQ Links or attachments even if you know the sender, it could be they have unknowingly been infected. Check before you click!!!

This worm spreads by e-mail as an attachment or as a hyperlink in an ICQ message. On the infected computer the virus harvests e-mail addresses or ICQ contacts to which it sends its copies. Virus can then download and install other unwanted programs from the Internet.

Peace be to you all ....

and Happy Killin',

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Toshiba to recall Sony laptop batteries

Today in Tokyo Toshiba announced it is recalling 340,000 laptop batteries made by Sony Corp. because of problems with recharging them, the latest in a string of embarrassing defects and production glitches for Sony including further delay of the Playstation 3 game machine and several other cutting edge entertainment devices.

The recall affects 100,000 batteries for laptops sold in the United States, 45,000 in Asia, and the remainder in other parts of the world, Toshiba Corp. spokesman Keisuke Omori said Tuesday. He refused to reveal the number of problems reported by customers.

The defect is not directly related to the problem behind last month's recall of Sony laptop batteries by Dell Inc. and Apple Computer Inc., which cited concerns the batteries could overheat and catch fire. Dell asked customers to return 4.1 million faulty batteries, while Apple Computer Inc. recalled 1.8 million.

In both those cases, the bad lithium-ion batteries were made by Sony Energy Devices Corporation.

The Toshiba recall involves batteries for Dynabook and Satellite models made from March through May 2006. They will be replaced for free. The batteries sometimes would no longer recharge. The Toshiba spokesman claimed there were no injuries or accidents reported.

Dell Hides Laptop Fires?

August 15, 2006

Laptop Fires

� Insider: Dell Knew of Battery Problem for Years
� Dell Plans Huge Recall of Troubled Batteries
� Laptop Fires Worry Airline Safety Regulators
� "Exploding" Dell Laptop Destroys Truck, Imperils Outsdoorsmen
� Dell Denies It Knew of Overheating Battery Problem for Years
� Dell Notebook Batteries Recall Notice ---
Earlier Recalls ...
� Dell Recalls Laptop Batteries
� Dell Recalls Notebook Power Adapters
� Dell Recalls Notebook AC Adapters (#2)
� Dell Recalls Laptop Batteries

Dell's recall of 4.1 million fire-prone laptop batteries takes the heat off the company for now, but a former Dell technician says Dell has known about the problem for more than two years.

Robert Day, Dell's lead acoustic technician from 1997-2005, said the computer company received hundreds of laptops that were charred or melted as a result of the defective battery, which Dell is now recalling.

Day sent ConsumerAffairs.Com over 300 photographs of about 100 different laptops. It appears that about 12 of those melted laptops were the result of the battery while the rest were from various other electrical shorts and CPU fan failures. He said there were many more battery-burned laptops than that, but he only had access to one technician's archives. The photos are from one of PSI's technician's archives. By 2005 there were 14 technicians in that lab.

The findings of each lab, including the PSI, were submitted monthly to executives, so Day said there is no way many of the senior executives at Dell have not known about this problem for years.

Ronald Riley, president of the Professional Inventors Alliance USA, said the battery is the prime suspect in the laptop fires.

Riley gave two possible reasons for the battery combustion. He said the battery could have an internal short, as part of a manufacturer's defect, causing the battery to explode. He said any number of variables could trigger the flames.

He also said it's possible that when the battery gets hot, it "wants" to expand, but has no room.

"As the temperature rises, the conductors and plates buckle because they have no room to expand," Riley said. "If Dell used a thermometer that would automatically shut down the computer when the battery gets too hot, this could be avoided. ... The point is, the computer should not be able to get hot enough to do that."

The batteries were made by Sony Corp. and placed in in some models of Dell's Latitude, Inspiron, XTS and precision mobile workstation notebooks that were shipped between April 1, 2004, and July 18 of this year.

On August 3, ConsumerAffairs.Com reported the story of Thomas Forqueran, stranded at Lake Mead State Park in Nevada after a Dell laptop set his vintage truck ablaze.

That story came in the wake of two other summer Dell laptop blazes -- one in which cameras caught an exploding Dell laptop at a conference in Japan. The other took place in Illinois where a Dell laptop spurted flames for over five minutes and forced an evacuation of an office building.

The preceding exerpts are from an article by By Joseph S. Enoch at ConsumerAffairs.Com

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Take note members and visitors if you own a Dell Laptop shipped since April 2004.

Although not addressed by this Dell incident it makes one wary of any laptop with a Sony Battery. Besides the VAIO's, how many other brands are out there that use their batteries? It might be wise to ask your manufacturer and ask if your model has a thermal protection shutoff even if it's not a Dell.