"Marco Leon" mmleon(at)yahoo.com wrote in message
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Hmmm, maybe they're on to something. When was the last time you had a
"general run-of-the-mill" consumer product start smoking on you?? ;-)

Oh, I've had a couple recently. My dad bought an electric light that
contained a transformer, which did the blue smoke thing, and the CD-ROM
drive in my sister's PC did the same the other week (I've had them fail, but
never in a combusting kind of way!). And I've lost count of the number of
power supplies in computer equipment that have exuded smoke over the years.

D.