Goodness, gracious, great balls of (PowerBook) fire!

So, is that what this has come down to now - total censorship of opposing viewpoints, even if they are formulated in a civil way?

Seems my response to Mike Schramm 'somehow' got lost on the intertubes.

Just hope that no one here is caught screaming bloody murder about Apple deleting messages from their feedback forum :-)

Know what #12? If you can't deal with the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Zink, you're cruising for a bruising (or a banning, at the very least, though that doesn't rhyme as easily). Cut out the personal comments, not cool.

I think the proper fail-safes either failed or were non-existent. Stuff like this shouldn't be happening at all. There should be temperature sensors and cutoffs that prevent the battery from getting anywhere near thermal run-away temperatures.

Unlike something hined above, I don't think leaving a charging notebook on carpet constitutes abuse. The battery may get warm, but it shouldn't catch fire.

Quix / #12 : "How about a way to filter out the constant commentary from the "whiny little bitches (for lack of using a stronger word)" who insist on griping about Erica's every post? Don't like? Don't read. It's how the Web works."

Great, if you can provide me some way to effectively filter out by using keyword 'b*tch', it should clean up reading TUAW a great deal. Maybe if someone started taking their editorial responsibilities more seriously, we would end up with non-iPhone related news (as this story) getting hijacked and marred by the submitters chip on her shoulder.

Quix: trolls are just wannabe terrorists, striving to disrupt instead of develop. Appeals to rational behavior will not make any difference.

Now, did the guy deserve a new machine for leaving his old one charging on the carpet, after obviously knowing it was the wrong thing to do? Maybe they were just afraid of him because he thinks his computer talks to him? :)

lol.. first post got me pwn3d....

I'm a sysadmin for a lab large university.. and dell was once our preferred vendor.
But last year many of our dells died shortly out of warranty (all the computers had motherboard failures). I was under the impression that the education and business accounts would have support not outsourced to india. Out of 10 broken computers in a lab or 50, only one was "graciously" fixed by dell. The support agent made it seem like he was doing me a favor.
These pcs have been replaced by lenovo thinkpads, and their support has been much better.

"in effect, reducing Erica to no more than whiny little bitch (for lack of using a stronger word), and further dragging down the editorial integrity of TUAW." - ZinkDifferent

How about a way to filter out the constant commentary from the "whiny little bitches (for lack of using a stronger word)" who insist on griping about Erica's every post? Don't like? Don't read. It's how the Web works.

Wow... You all need to go get a sense of humor. Damn. This is typical writing style for any member of TUAW or sister blogs for that matter. It's called sarcasm and I thought it hysterical when I clicked the link. Obviously, Erica is also a loyal Apple customer so it's not really like she's slamming them, just making a joke. I just wish we could get back to being on topic. For a while, there were a lot of intelligent and mature comments here, but now it's all just hate. It's THAT, and not Erica's blog entries, that is ruining this site.

However, from TUAW's standpoint, I think there are more comments from people complaining lately than there used to be on-topic, and you know what they say... "No publicity is bad publicity".

I am put off my erica's link to stockholm syndrome as well. Very passive aggressive post.

One more like this and I am off TUAW. This type of journalism has ruined this site.