Faraday Cages for PCs? Huh?

[CZroe]

OP's misconception likely comes from someone misinterpreting the point of the I/O shield (shields the system from EMI while having the right shape to make the ports accessible) and such. Basically, the relationship is backwards. PCs do not pose an EMI threat. EMI is a threat to PCs. In the days when your average desktop system had party checks in the system memory, it was very obvious. A cosmic ray could flip a bit and cause your PC to lock up with a "parity failure" message.

 

[Ben90]

Crap, I touched a cell phone tower today. I now have cancer.

 

[Ichinisan]

hook, line, and sinker

1) You were trolling and got the rise you wanted.

2) You were really being a dumbass and now you're trying to play it off as a joke

Either way, I don't see where the pride comes from.

 

[Nik]

1) You were trolling and got the rise you wanted.

2) You were really being a dumbass and now you're trying to play it off as a joke

Either way, I don't see where the pride comes from.

What you think matters.

 

[geno]

So no more debate, case == grounded.

I haven't read through much of the thread, but the fact a case is grounded was called into question? A very hearty lol.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

you clearly have spent too much time next to your pc. probably microwave & cell phone as well.

 

[geno]

hook, line, and sinker

OH SNAP SON! YOU JUST FUCKING TORCHED THEM! BUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNED!!! HOLY SHIT!!!!


I hope sjwaste doesn't do any personal harm to himself. I think most people would feel downright suicidal after being at the business end of that much ownage. Can I get an Ownage of the Year nomination up in here?

 

[zinfamous]

Not to mention, the same people who chug bottled water which probably had UV as a step in the filtration process.

Don't forget the tanning beds.

I love this country.

 

[Elias824]

The computers are readin mah brains!

 

[ShawnD1]

you clearly have spent too much time next to your pc. probably microwave & cell phone as well.

I keep my cell phone in my ass. Do I have colon cancer?

 

[Barfo]

 

[mb]

More importantly, how close to the CPU do you guys/girls sit?

I'm never that close to my CPU, it's usually inside the computer case and I think that kinda shields the EMF from the CPU...

 

[disappoint]

Wow nice hard drive, is that an Iphone?

 

[Baasha]

LOOOOOOOOOOOL.. you guys are funny.. I thought the fan was the CPU?!?

What I meant was your entire computer... that includes your case and everything in it..

If you get one of those Mountain Mods case, you could sit ON it!

 

[Ichinisan]

Wow nice hard drive, ...

You mean the modem?

I had an "Intro to computers" class at a technical college back in the '90s. The textbooks actually forcibly taught people to identify the computer as the "CPU". There were even worksheets forcing you to draw lines between words and pictures. You were expected to connect the picture of a PC to the word "CPU." There were other worksheets that similarly forced you to label the computer chassis as the "CPU."

Of course, it sounds unbelievable that an adult class would have ask people to identify keyboard, mouse, monitor, "CPU," etc...but this was a time when they really couldn't assume that adults knew a single thing about a computer.

Misinformation way back then is the reason it's so prevalent today.


Now that I work in phone support, I hear people call it all kinds of things. People still call it the "CPU," "Hard Drive," and even "Modem." I've heard stranger things, like "Battery." Yeah.

A lot of people just kind of stumble and realize that they don't know what the computer is called. They always think of the screen as the computer.


I have enough trouble with people not knowing the difference between Internet and web browsing. There's an AT&T commercial on the radio that I just heard yesterday. "The original name of the Internet was the 'World Wide Web.' At AT&T, we want to keep it that way: World-Wide. ..."

*facepalm

 

[zinfamous]

You mean the modem?

I had an "Intro to computers" class at a community college back in the '90s and the actual textbooks forcibly taught people to identify the computer as the "CPU". There were even worksheets forcing you to draw lines between words and pictures. You were expected to connect the picture of a PC to the word "CPU." There were other worksheets that similarly forced you to label the computer chassis as the "CPU."

Of course, it sounds unbelievable that an adult class would have ask people to identify keyboard, mouse, monitor, "CPU," etc...but this was a time when they really couldn't assume that adults knew a single thing about a computer.

Misinformation way back then is the reason it's so prevalent today.


Now that I work in phone support, I hear people call it all kinds of things. People still call it the "CPU," "Hard Drive," and even "Modem." I've heard stranger things, like "Battery." Yeah.

A lot of people just kind of stumble and realize that they don't know what the computer is called. They always think of the screen as the computer.


I have enough trouble with people not knowing the difference between Internet and web browsing. There's an AT&T commercial on the radio that I just heard yesterday. "The original name of the Internet was the 'World Wide Web.' At AT&T, we want to keep it that way: World-Wide. ..."

*facepalm

I think those kind of classes--especially being at CC--are mostly designed for elderly instruction.

...which still makes that rather insulting. I mean, they aren't kids. wtf.

 

[The Boston Dangler]