[ltp] Is my thinkpad burning?

[James Knott]

Bernhard Sputh wrote:
> On Saturday 10 December 2005 17:26, Ignacio Fernández Galván wrote:
>> As far as I can remember, this mark wasn't there when I bought the
>> computer (last January), and it hasn't suffered any serious overheating
>> nor do I detect any strange behaviour. In these last days I haven't seen
>> the mark growing anyway.
>>
>> Have you seen anything similar before? Should I be worried?
> 
> Yes, same here, but I recall that this mark was there from the beginning, I 
> got my R50p last January as well. Looks like the people in China have 
> problems removing the stickers from the sticker roll. Or it could be an 
> advanced security trick by M$.

Genuine stickers will self destruct, eventually disappearing entirely.
When this happens, MS can then claim that since you don't have a
sticker, you've got a pirated copy of Windows and sue you.  ;-)