In article <[email protected] pqcorp.net>, Conway, Patrick R (HOU) <[email protected]> writes
> I thought this was worth sharing. > >http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/18/odd.television.reut/index.html > > How many people and how much money do you think were spent >tracking this one down? I can guess $$$$$, but it only *needed* one guy with a DF set! > > > …this reminds me of all the times I've had to justify to someone >why we test, and why we fix something "that no one cares about" (not my >quote - just one that I've heard many times at previous job sites). This isn't the first case of its kind. There was a real transponder activated by accident in a storeroom in Glasgow, Scotland a few years ago. I had a case to look at where an audio preamp was oscillating strongly at 20 MHz, due to a faulty op-amp. Many of these incidents are due to individual faults, not characteristic defects in a design. Type testing doesn't control this, and a faulty unit may have passed production-line scan but fail later. > > > Thank goodness my present employer doesn’t think that way! But, >I think I'll archive this article just in case I ever run into this >question again. Yes, do so, but don't show him my previous paragraph! -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. The good news is that nothing is compulsory. The bad news is that everything is prohibited. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Scott Douglas [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
