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Re:Lighting a room using 900+ RGB LEDs by astrodust on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @06:24PM (#10307844)
Software doesn't short out and burn down your house, for example.

Low voltage systems are a lot safer, but not immune to trouble. Even USB ports occasionally catch on fire if there's a damaged cable or crossed pins.

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Re:Lighting a room using 900+ RGB LEDs by cadr on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @07:38PM (#10308224)
But software might have a race condition that causes you to get zapped by a lot of radiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

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Re:Lighting a room using 900+ RGB LEDs by astrodust on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @07:45PM (#10308254)
Most people don't have one of those in their house. Also a case could be made that it wasn't software that irradiated people, but the hardware.

If there was the potential for danger, the hardware should have had a limiter built-in. We have fuses in equipment for much the same reason.

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Re:Lighting a room using 900+ RGB LEDs by linkydinkandyou on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @06:54PM (#10308011)
Actually, they're not because the current is so high. You can easily start a fire.
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Re:Lighting a room using 900+ RGB LEDs by astrodust on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @07:47PM (#10308261)
I mean mostly safer from electrocution. The risk of fire is still there.
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