[Sussex] XBOX FIRE RISK

[Jon Fautley]

On 18 Feb 2005, at 10:21, Andrew Guard wrote:

> Microsoft has issued an emergency recall for XBox.  There is a serious
> risk of XBox hard ware starting a fire.

It's actually only the power cable that's got the problem, not the Xbox 
itself.

> This is nothing new for Microsoft naff software, naff hardware.

Which other hardware would you describe as 'naff'? I have a Microsoft 
Optical mouse sitting on my desk, because I consider them one of the 
best mice on the market for reliability and usability. As do many other 
people I know - even die hard open source advocates. IBM helped the 
Nazi's during WWII, do you stop using their hardware? I think not...

> This is a serious safty risk, do not use XBox until you have hardware
> fixed, you could be puting your familey at risk by using the XBox.
>

Yes, you too could be the one out of 10,000 people (estimated) who's 
xbox power cable gets a bit warm! I'm not aware of them spontaneously 
bursting into flames, burning the house down and raping your mother, 
though.

Yes there is a risk that there could potentially be a safety issue with 
your xbox power cable, but A) how often do you play about with the 
power cable? and B) it's been working fine for X months (I've had mine 
about 1.5 years, and as far as I've noticed, it's not burnt the house 
down, or raped my mother).

Jon


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