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Jul 11, 2010. 2:13 PMsilencekilla
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this seems more like destroying somebody's usb flash drive rather than pranking them with it...... still its pretty freakkin funny
Jul 12, 2010. 9:22 AMrikstroink (author)
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You mean destroying his USB port? yeah, maybe, I haven't tried it on a real computer but I think it won't damage it really badly.
Oct 26, 2010. 3:11 PMGanoderma
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There's no way to destroy an USB port this way.
You're drawing power from it, which it's made for (the outer 2 pins at least).
Worst case you could destroy the motor or USB drive housing (unless you somehow manage to leave the real USB drive in there)
Also, you can't just damage an USB port by plugging something in it.
I've done some stupid stuff myself with the ports and worst case my computer disabled the ports and after a reboot they were fine.
You're drawing power from it, which it's made for (the outer 2 pins at least).
Worst case you could destroy the motor or USB drive housing (unless you somehow manage to leave the real USB drive in there)
Also, you can't just damage an USB port by plugging something in it.
I've done some stupid stuff myself with the ports and worst case my computer disabled the ports and after a reboot they were fine.
Jul 19, 2011. 3:21 PMPikeMinnow
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Those are called pins. Universal Serial Bus has four pins, the two you point out carry power (a 5 volts and a neutral, if I recall right, with up to 400 mA depending on how the hardware allocates power. More often it's 100 mA), the two left unused carry data.
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