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Apparently a US user of an iPod is suing Apple for hearing loss while
using his iPod. Has he not heard of a thing called volume control.?

Flintstone wrote:
>
> Apparently a US user of an iPod is suing Apple for hearing loss while
> using his iPod. Has he not heard of a thing called volume control.?

Eh? What's that? Speak up man!

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Flintstone wrote:
> Apparently a US user of an iPod is suing Apple for hearing loss while
> using his iPod. Has he not heard of a thing called volume control.?

I see that the litigant is not claiming personal loss of hearing.

From Arstechnica - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060202-6100.html

> Although Patterson himself does not claim to have actually suffered hearing loss,
the complaint filed with the U.S. District Court in San Jose claims that
the capacity
of the device to exceed 115 decibels presents a legitimate risk
Apple already includes a cautionary notice with the documentation of
every iPod,
which warns that "permanent hearing loss may occur if earphones or
headphones are
used at high volume." Patterson considers this warning inadequate, and
wants something
to be done about it.<

Maybe Apple should include an audible warning that plays first every
time the ipod is used.

How about a warning on every pair of shoes that warns wearers that
wearing undersize shoes may cause permanent damage to the feet.

Some people seem to think that everyone needs protection from their own
stupidity. They'd have us all encased in cotton wool and never leave the
safety of home if they got their way. I hope this case gets thrown out
before more do-gooders get in on the act.


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Rob

http://grumpyalien.blogspot.com/

Just remember: you're not a "dummy," no matter what those computer
books claim. The real dummies are the people who, though technically
expert, couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal
consumers if their lives depended upon it. (Walter Mossberg)

Flintstone wrote:

> Apparently a US user of an iPod is suing Apple for hearing loss while
> using his iPod. Has he not heard of a thing called volume control.?

That's as bad as someone blaming McDonalds for making them fat. Some people
have no sense of personal responsibility.

Allistar.

Allistar wrote:

> Flintstone wrote:
>
> > Apparently a US user of an iPod is suing Apple for hearing loss while
> > using his iPod. Has he not heard of a thing called volume control.?
>
> That's as bad as someone blaming McDonalds for making them fat. Some people
> have no sense of personal responsibility.


In America, people have infamously sued McDonalds for the coffee being
too hot, so now it is luke-warm.

Nothing about America is surprising.

"Mike MacNabb" <> wrote in message
news: ups.com...
>
> Allistar wrote:
>
>> Flintstone wrote:
>>
>> > Apparently a US user of an iPod is suing Apple for hearing loss while
>> > using his iPod. Has he not heard of a thing called volume control.?
>>
>> That's as bad as someone blaming McDonalds for making them fat. Some
>> people
>> have no sense of personal responsibility.
>
>
> In America, people have infamously sued McDonalds for the coffee being
> too hot, so now it is luke-warm.
>
> Nothing about America is surprising.
>

Maybe some of these companies should counter sue these yanks with these
frivolous claims, for wasting their time and damaging their rep.

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:27:29 +1300, Rob wrote:

> Flintstone wrote:
>> Apparently a US user of an iPod is suing Apple for hearing loss while
>> using his iPod. Has he not heard of a thing called volume control.?
>
> I see that the litigant is not claiming personal loss of hearing.
>
> From Arstechnica - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060202-6100.html
>
>> Although Patterson himself does not claim to have actually suffered hearing loss,
> the complaint filed with the U.S. District Court in San Jose claims that
> the capacity
> of the device to exceed 115 decibels presents a legitimate risk
> Apple already includes a cautionary notice with the documentation of
> every iPod,
> which warns that "permanent hearing loss may occur if earphones or
> headphones are
> used at high volume." Patterson considers this warning inadequate, and
> wants something
> to be done about it.<
>
> Maybe Apple should include an audible warning that plays first every
> time the ipod is used.
>
> How about a warning on every pair of shoes that warns wearers that
> wearing undersize shoes may cause permanent damage to the feet.
>
> Some people seem to think that everyone needs protection from their own
> stupidity. They'd have us all encased in cotton wool and never leave the
> safety of home if they got their way. I hope this case gets thrown out
> before more do-gooders get in on the act.

What kind of decibels? dBA and dB-SPL are the common ones and are quite
different. My first job out of college was working in a sound lab, and
coincided with the introduction of the walkman. At that time ( nearly 25
years ago! ), we used lemmy and a plastic head to prove it was very easy
to permanently damage your hearing. We wrote about it then, in learned
journals. ISTR being 5 metres from concorde on takeoff was mentioned.

Why has nothing been done about it until now?

Steve
( not that I have any support for the suer at all, I hasten to add! )

Flintstone wrote:
> Apparently a US user of an iPod is suing Apple for hearing loss while
> using his iPod. Has he not heard of a thing called volume control.?

Probably the same family that had a woman sue McDonald's over coffee
that was too hot....(hence why we see the Caution contents hot warning)....

Like some ppl should just be on the Darwin awards....

regards

Thing

In message <egm80q$lo0$>, Flintstone wrote:

> Apparently a US user of an iPod is suing Apple for hearing loss while
> using his iPod. Has he not heard of a thing called volume control.?

There was a researcher who found that people listening to music on
headphones tended to turn the volume up louder than those listening on
speakers. Something about the lack of environmental cues to help them gauge
relative sound levels.

In message <>, Steve wrote:

> ISTR being 5 metres from concorde on takeoff was mentioned.

If you were 5 metres from a Concorde on takeoff, you're likely to suffer
damage to more parts of your body than just your hearing.