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12-year-old "Magneto Man" breaks every computer he touches

engadget.com — Confirming our belief that some people are just "bad with computers," a boy named Joe Falciatano III from Pulaski, New York, seems to have simply the worst luck ever -- and some think it could be do to an overly magnetized touch.

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  • ieataquacrayons, on 03/03/2008, -1/+347At least everything isn't turning to skittles....
  • loganhid, on 03/03/2008, -12/+216FTA: ''caused his Xbox to freeze repeatedly''

    No! Knowing Xbox hardware i don't think we can blame the kid for this
  • MikeonTV, on 03/03/2008, -0/+184Has Gizmodo recruited him to ***** up another trade show yet?
  • cheungroys, on 03/03/2008, -34/+202Quick Time sucks. *Mac users... no offense to you guys.
  • Raisedshoulder, on 03/03/2008, -2/+153I'd like to have Patrick Stewart's power that makes womens clothes fall off.
  • Krumm, on 03/03/2008, -0/+148Can I sponsor him to work in the RIAA's server room?
  • VogonPoetry, on 03/03/2008, -5/+135Inaccurate, a 12 year old is not a man.
  • vertinox, on 03/03/2008, -5/+109Quicktime, WMV, and Real all suck.
  • wild, on 03/03/2008, -22/+114WMV sucks.
  • xirtap, on 03/03/2008, -1/+83The real Magneto wouldn't say anything and just run around touching every computer he could.
  • frogman54, on 03/03/2008, -1/+80My magnetism ate my homework.
  • oyourmom, on 03/03/2008, -14/+90Yeah but Windows Media Player dosen't lock your whole browser up for 15 seconds.
  • m0rg0th, on 03/03/2008, -10/+85oh no... now i have to use my theleppatic powers to stop him
  • carrera594, on 03/03/2008, -1/+69Thats why I use VLC.
  • cygnus2112, on 03/03/2008, -3/+69You really need to meet more people if you are blowing light bulbs.
  • bin673, on 03/03/2008, -2/+52I knew it.. we are gonna mutate into Xmen... whoo hoo
  • LongShlong, on 03/03/2008, -12/+62Tight isn't new, or really a buzzword. But, it's still a stupid word whichever way you homeslice it.
  • zachblume, on 03/03/2008, -1/+48Divide by 0
  • solid12345, on 03/03/2008, -0/+45Unless his hot blonde teacher makes him one.
  • insomniac8400, on 03/03/2008, -2/+39Why is this on here again? The kid is using shift lock. Which despite the fact keyboards lack that key these day, it can be activated with sticky keys by hitting your shift key five times. Once sticky keys is on, you just double tap shift to turn shift lock on. Hit it once to turn it off.
  • jhandfield, on 03/03/2008, -1/+38Off-topic, but what happens if the Skittles guy touches a Skittle? Does it turn into smaller Skittles?
  • wookee88, on 03/03/2008, -1/+35i can repell all women that i meet, you think he will let me join his mutant army?
  • gr4yscale, on 03/03/2008, -7/+36Most Windows users will even agree that WMV sucks.
  • wild, on 03/03/2008, -0/+29I can't wear watches. If I set the time correctly on Sunday, its either dead or 3-4 hours off by Saturday.

    I also spend about $20 a month replacing the light bulbs in my apartment. I blow at least two a week.
  • EmitStop, on 03/03/2008, -0/+26Turns into an M&M
  • inactive, on 03/03/2008, -5/+30Yhea, But the thing is even Windows User know that. Mac users are in denial about Quicktimes *****.
  • wild, on 03/03/2008, -0/+25ah ha. Well done. I did write it like that, didn't I?
  • greenlight2001, on 03/03/2008, -2/+26" *poof* her clothes falls off... and before she could get them back on... *waves*... I've seen everything."
  • inactive, on 03/03/2008, -12/+36Not allowed to start new buzz words on digg, thanks.
  • 4ndr3wk, on 03/04/2008, -0/+23How the ***** did a story about a kid breaking computers turn into a my format/program is better than yours war?
  • stilesja, on 03/03/2008, -6/+29I actually knew a guy like this that couldn't dial a touch tone phone and generally had lots of computer problems (how I met him). I would watch him press the digits and probably 2 out of 3 times it would go to a wrong number. Hand's me the phone, I dial the same digits, goes through every time. Crazy stuff. I guess there are more people like that than we know.
  • inactive, on 03/03/2008, -1/+24FTA: "he somehow managed to throw fireballs at it too"
  • lhbaker, on 03/03/2008, -2/+23We had a guy like this in our office. His name was Thor. True story.
  • HPMNick, on 03/03/2008, -2/+20The kid would have to be a large electromagnet in order to make the computer stop working for that reason (in other words, its impossible). You could put a magnet on the HD and it won't do anything.

    Static shock on the other hand could indeed be a problem. He'd know it though... An over voltage into the PS/2 port very easily causes damage on motherboards in many interesting ways. I've actually done this quite a few times, although never through a keyboard (only with direct shock to the PS/2 port). I've had the port go completely dead after that... Failure through several I/O ports, random reboots...

    That's the only thing I can think of... OR, the story could just be fake..
  • mlavergn, on 03/03/2008, -1/+19Come on, you have to include a link to the video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=exgpW2_MbRM
  • AndrewDB, on 03/03/2008, -5/+22digg.com/general_sciences/Be_Kind_Rewind_not_quite_fiction_Magneto_Boy


    Dupe, it already made the front page a while ago.
  • redstarburst, on 03/03/2008, -13/+30hasnt this been submitted...
  • cohortq, on 03/03/2008, -4/+21Imagine how much Mars would give him if he could.
  • mywhitenoise, on 03/03/2008, -9/+25I'd probably kill myself if I couldn't access my music and porn.
  • Ouchimoo, on 03/03/2008, -0/+16Guess I don't have it as bad as you then, it takes 3 months for my watches to die and I don't have that much of a problem with light bulbs. However, I can't use apple computers very well as they seem to be really sensitive and when I was really into a video game I went through 5 TVs.
  • iignotus, on 03/03/2008, -0/+16Theleppatic?
  • inactive, on 03/03/2008, -0/+16NOOO GET OUT OF MY HEAD CHARLES!!!
  • Terr01, on 03/04/2008, -0/+15It's replaced by another skittle. So there's a fair probability the color changes.
  • ORBAT, on 03/03/2008, -8/+23Yeah, it crashes it instead.
  • inactive, on 03/03/2008, -2/+17WMV still sucks more than quicktime. But real sucks worst of all
  • rdoger6424, on 03/03/2008, -5/+20It's cause Quicktime isn't as ***** on the mac. Apple doesn't care about its windows products. Even Microsoft puts some effort into Office 2k8.
  • mortigon, on 03/03/2008, -1/+16I call Gambit!!!!!!!
  • Dundasbro, on 03/03/2008, -1/+15That whole brain re-arranging mispelt words thing is really quite weird...
  • ElBeh, on 03/03/2008, -2/+16[Reply buffering]
  • L4WL3RS34L, on 03/04/2008, -0/+13The universe will implode.
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