Yep, "fancy themselves" is exactly the point. "fancy themselves" because they can download a ringtone to their cellphone, install some memory in a computer, manage to spell Arduino, or manage turn on the microwave. While in reality they have no clue.
But the worst, they are ineducable. Just look here. Almost every week some idiot shows up, with an idea for an non-islolated power supply, with an idea to convert a computer SMPS into a spaceship, idiots promoting unsafe meters, idiots being proud that they got zapped at least 30 times. You name it, we got it here.
And dare you you tell them that something is not safe and they should keep their hands off. Ha! No, they are entitled to it, because the "fancy themselves as technology experts".
The video http://www.kctv5.com/story/19767067/teen-electrocuted-while ? Yes, inaccuracies like "power storage box" and an expert who is just a box shifter. But the basics are still right, electricity is dangerous, and nature doesn't care if you feel entitled.
Sounds like you fancy yourself to be an expert at safety?, i bet you didn't pick up all that knowledge from a textbook. But of course, dare i not tell you such a thing.
But the worst, they are ineducable. Just look here. Almost every week some idiot shows up, with an idea for an non-islolated power supply, with an idea to convert a computer SMPS into a spaceship, idiots promoting unsafe meters, idiots being proud that they got zapped at least 30 times. You name it, we got it here.
Maybe "some idiot" is posting that design so he can get feedback and learn about what's wrong with it and how to improve it. Why in the world would he post a perfectly engineered design that meets all safety standards? Oh that's right, I forgot the standards book costs over $400, and we're not all professionally trained engineers supported by the company credit card. If "idiots" such as Michael Faraday, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison and J.J. Thomson, to name a few, hadn't been "playing" around with potentially dangerous stuff we wouldn't even know as much as we do about electromagnetism today. If anything we learn more from our mistakes than our failures, and ultimately every safety precaution should be taken, but at the end of the day, if you don't take risks you don't learn anything.
To add, i thought i'd do a little investigative work, and i found that there were no records of death by police on the day mentioned "August 16th" and the news article cites KCTV as the source, since when did a news station become a reliable source??
"Shawnee police said too many don't realize that computers carry a charge in them even when they are unplugged and broken. They urge everyone not to strip an old computer to build a new one. "There's a real danger if you don't know what you are doing," said Shawnee Capt. Dan Tennis.
So essentially the police said what was actually quoted, and the reporter made up the rest. To add to that it sounds like they've simply dug up an old story to fill "news time" with a little fear mongering. They mentioned nothing on the boy himself, his family, any other circumstances surrounding his death, or even the death report. Hmnn i smell a fishy news story.
http://gsh.cityofshawnee.org/WEB/PoliceCMS.nsf/vwContent/PoliceDailyActivity?OpenDocument&Start=1&Count=610&Expand=2