Poll of the Day > Laptops should have an optional self-destruct mechanism

(+) Yeah! (+)

As a paid feature, a self-destruct trigger will be installed on the battery, i guess laptop batteries can cause a small explotion enough to destroy all the components and injure anyone nearby.
I still don't know what should activate the trigger...

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Most do, just handle them bandly.

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Its called Windows 10.

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Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

Its called Windows 10.

And Microsoft wonders why I, and others, refuse to install their obtrusive updates.

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Zangulus posted...

Yes. This feature idea would never, ever be abused by malicious people.

Could just shoot it with a few shells or burn it? The feature would be just a nicer way of going about it.

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Entity13 posted...

And Microsoft wonders why I, and others, refuse to install their obtrusive updates.

Yeah, especially Edge. Unfortunately you have to know exactly what you are doing to uninstall it if you have the latest Windows update. They disabled the regular ways of uninstalling it.

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I'm still annoyed that they took away the option to disable Cortana. They included it in the first place, meaning they obviously know that people are going to want to get rid of it, but then got butthurt that so many people turned it off and took that option away. Disabling it now means tearing out its still-beating heart in Regedit, which I happily do whenever I'm configuring a new Windows 10 machine.

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Are you that afraid of someone finding your pr0n

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The CIA would love this idea. Have some foreign enemy in power you don't like? Just send them a welcoming laptop gift!

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Are you that afraid of someone finding your pr0n

Real people use their phone for that.

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Would it play the original Resident Evil 2 self destruct theme and message? Because it'd be mighty tempting then...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y37-PfXZujM

So its like if Apple and Samsung made a phone together.

Zangulus posted...

Im pretty sure you completely missed my point.

Please for the love of God dont explain it, just in case.

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You can do that, you just have to bypass every single lithium ion battery protective controller by drilling into the metal casings and wiring them to a custom controller that hooks up to your computer and let's you detonate (they would burst into flames, not explode) them all by shorting them out at once.

It would hurt the user's lap but it probably wouldn't destroy the laptop or hard drive. A better option would be to install Linux and encrypt the hard drive so the data is useless to anyone who doesn't know the password.

Edit I'm thinking of the old-school computers with the removable battery packs... the new ones would definitely destroy the MB at the very least.

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By the way, I was originally going to remark in this topic that the self-destruct is called its warranty expiration date, but that's not really optional, is it?

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Hmm.. maybe i've gone too far with the battery explotion.. how about just destroying your HDD remotly?

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