alt.engineering.electrical

Prisoner at War wrote:
> Is there some such concept as "residual electricity"???
>
> There was a problem with a computer at work...it's a new Dell running
> WinXP Pro...everything's fine, I go to lunch and come back to a blank
> screen that won't wake up from power-save/sleep mode!! I do the
> obvious and check connections, making sure they're secure and
> whatnot. I turn off the computer and turn it back on a few times, to
> no effect!

Well, it's simple really, all of the viruses and malware that afflict
Microsoft operating systems have finally banded together to form a
neural net that has achieved sentience. The newly sentient entity has
now figured out a way to be able to horde electricity for background
operations even when the computer is off. It can send you Viagra notices
whenever it likes now. :-)

Yousuf Khan