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Saturday, 23 September 2006

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1338 - Today's bit of stupidity brought to you by...

...Adaptec, who included this power cord with a USB 2.0 disk drive housing:



Why would they go to the expense of using a grounded plug when there is no conductor in the cord for the ground, let alone a pin at the other end to connect it to anything?

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From:kinkyturtle
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My hypothesis: they used to use a two-prong plug, but got just enough complaints from stupid people saying "But all my power sockets are three-prong! I can't use this!" that they felt it was worth the money to put that useless prong on there.
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From:unspeakablevorn
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...and I thought the image was stupid.

Vorn
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From:kinkyturtle
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You mean the people making the complaints, not me, right?
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From:unspeakablevorn
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Of course.

::applies rocket launcher to your icon::

Vorn
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From:argonel
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My guess is that they ran the numbers and putting 3 prong plugs on everything was cheaper than tracking inventory of 2 and 3 prong plugs.
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From:thatguychuck
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Seconded. Volume pricing on 3-prong plugs vs. having to stock a separate item for the USB device.

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