Think of it as evolution in action, anybody who blindly trusts the documentation on all points may in fact be too stupid to live.
On the other hand we had a guy who used to come to the clinics who licked his cpu before putting it into the socket, could just be that some geeks are more orally fixated than others. How are things in colorado these days? On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Sean Reifschneider wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 05:44:55PM -0800, Christopher Maujean wrote: > >For the test for 12 V, Lick a finger and hold one test lead in it. Put > >the other test lead on your tongue. If the lead on your tongue is > >positive, there will be a noticeable taste. You might try this with > >flashlight batteries first so you will know what taste to expect. > > First of all, electricity isn't anything to screw with. The cost of a $20 > voltmeter from Radio Shaft is much less than any possible physical harm. > That said, it's generally preferred to use the right hand instead of the > left hand for working with electrical parts, because the heart is more on > the left side of the body. > > Sean > -- > Your liver pays dearly now for youthful magic moments, > But rock on completely with some brand new components. -- Cake > Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python > http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) http://allie.office.efn.org/phpwiki/index.php?OregonPublicNetworking
