mic plug stck in hole

[drmsucks]

he could have a flash drive next to the mic port and scramble it

You can't "scramble" a flash drive with a magnet. Or anything else data related except a floppy disk.

Dias - Thanks!

http://www.pcworld.com/article/116572/busting_the_biggest_pc_myths.html

[Dias de verano]

Yes, I am saying that. It would be a powerful electromagnet and not a permanent magnet you'd need, as you see below:

No.1 in PC World Magazine's Top 20 PC Myths:

Magnets zap your data.

For venerable floppies, this statement holds true. We placed a 99-cent magnet on a 3.5-inch floppy for a few seconds. The magnet stuck to the disk and ruined its data.

Fortunately, most modern storage devices, such as SD and CompactFlash memory cards, are immune to magnetic fields. "There's nothing magnetic in flash memory, so [a magnet] won't do anything," says Bill Frank, executive director of the CompactFlash Association. "A magnet powerful enough to disturb the electrons in flash would be powerful enough to suck the iron out of your blood cells," says Frank.

The same goes for hard drives. The only magnets powerful enough to scrub data from a drive platter are laboratory degaussers or those used by government agencies to wipe bits off media. "In the real world, people are not losing data from magnets," says Bill Rudock, a tech-support engineer with hard-drive maker Seagate. "In every disk," notes Rudock, "there's one heck of a magnet that swings the head."

Want to erase data from a hard drive you plan to toss? Don't bother with a magnet.

[BC_Programmer]

blast! foiled again!

[Dilbert]

Yay! Someone else got the sting of being wrong, besides me!

(I've been wrong on the last 3 topics I posted in. I'm glad to see it's not just me. )

[BC_Programmer]

I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.

[patio]

I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.

1988 wasn't it ? ?

[drmsucks]

I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.

1988 wasn't it ? ?

No...you're mistaken.

[icy]

Just an update.. the bit is still stuck in the hole.. the "techs" at future shop laughed at me and periodically itll shifft and tell me its been plugged/unplugged.   Other then that I have plugged a head set in to the back ports which work fine.   still sucks though ..lol