One of my old tag lines said:
"It's hard to make things foolproof when fools are so ingenious".

I see it here every day. Keeps me employed.

R

Jinx wrote:
>
> > strongly discourage the users from yanking the battery without
> > downloading the data first
>
> Good idea. Some level of idiot-proofing is essential, but
> people have to take responsibility for what they do. Assume
> nothing about common sense
>
> The last case of this to hit me (and still makes me a little angry)
> was someone bypassing the 5V regulator and applying a full
> 12V to the PIC in the belief "it will go better". Still baffled as to
> why thinking 12V shoved up a perfectly operational circuit and
> s/w would improve functionality. Needless to say, performance
> was very quickly off the lower end of the curve. Clever boy took
> out some tracks as well. Still, my wallet thanked him. Poor little
> circuit was only a day old too, sniff, not much of a life was it
>
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