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...that smoke detectors only start chirping in the middle of the night when the battery starts to die. It NEVER happens in the daytime. Gotta be somebody's sick joke. 
-NP
Never underestimate the creativity of the end-user.
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Have you ever noticed how you can't cover both ears and test the buggers? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes.. Or I can get the missus to cook a pork joint that always sets them off 
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Yes you can.
For example, put your left(/right) arm up in the air and cover your left(/right) ear with your upper arm, bend elbow over top of head, bend wrist down and stick finger in ear. voila. If necessary squeeze arm against ear for extra silencing effect.
Other arm is now free to use as you please. 
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Just wait until they get so old you need to replace the whole thing. They will start to trigger for no apparent reason and it will happen in the middle of the night. Been there, done that. 
When mine hit that age about a year ago, they triggered when I was fast asleep. I jumped out of bed and checked the whole house for smoke, but there was nothing. I then had to find the stepladder and try to find out which of the five units was causing it. Oh, yeah, the joy of connected smoke detectors. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Just some input:
Most people are not home during most of the day. Given that, the chances are that if you're home and the battery's gonna' go while you're present (vs. whist away from home) it'll most likely go off at night.
You can avoid the annoying chirping once-and-for-all by removing the batteries.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: once-and-for-all by removing the batteries
This happens to dramatically impact the life-saving function of these thingies.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: This happens to dramatically impact the life-saving function of these thingies.
Which further reduces the chances of being awakened by the detector (ever).
I don't see a problem.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Prove it.
Exactly.
Marc
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100% of people who died in their sleep because of fire smoke were not waken up by a fire alarm.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Included in those '3 billion devices' that run java! Blame Oracle!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I feel the need to offer a possible scientific explanation: Usually temperatures in the house are cooler than during the day; batteries have a lower output at lower temperatures; smoke detectors draw very little current from the battery (when they are not sounding an alarm) therefore they are sensitive in changes to battery output . Ergo, they almost always give a low battery alarm at night.
There's that and sod's law to contend with!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Dear Beloved.<br />
<br />
Details After I got your year extensive online search Via (Network Power<br />
Charitable Trust) for a reliable person, I'm Mrs. Selby Anderson , a 62<br />
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Best regards<br />
Mrs. Selby Anderson
/ravi
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Dear Beloved,
That cancer is a bitch, isn't it?
As much as I'd like to help I already have in excess of $250,000,000 in my bank account. It just sits there all day doing nothing. The three houses and fourteen automobiles are all paid for but those #%$#! payouts from the lottery just keep rolling in - did you know there is no legal recourse to force the state to stop making deposits? What happens if the freakin' account fills up? I don't want to go to jail!
What I'm saying is another $3,000,000 would actually be a burden at this point. I cannot get rid of this stuff fast enough. If you would like to help please find me a scam artist who can help clean up this mess - sorry, a kind old lady like you wouldn't know anyone like that - anyways, good luck with the Chemo.
-MehGerbil
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Can you lend me $100,000,000 until pay day?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sure Griff, send me your bank details and I'll wire it straight over. 
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Ok, I think you just won the Internet. 
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: E-mail (pkbrownesq@aol.com)
aol.com was your first clue it was going to be an "interesting" email.
Jeremy Falcon
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The worst thing with these is that the day you get a real one, you won't even bother to look at it.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Poor lady, it seems she's suffering from amnesia too. Why else would she send you an email like that?
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The number of old billionaires about to be late (with change of heart) has gone through the roof lately...
Global Heartwarming or Global Warning..
But jokes apart, even today, people fall for it ! There seems to be no end to human stupidity !
Thanks,
Milind
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MT_ wrote: There seems to be no end to human stupidity
Albert Einstein said: “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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Funnily enough, my wife received an email stating that the sender was managing a bequest and needed some personal verification details. We were, naturally, suspicious and our first instinct was to bin it. However, we researched the sender and found that they were legitimately in the business of finding beneficiaries (for a cut, of course) and she got paid out.
.... about 90 quid if memory serves!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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And I kept the remaining 910 quid. Hee hee hee 
/ravi
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