That Tingling Sensation Is Normal

According to TechWorld:

In a knowledge base article published on Wednesday, Dell acknowledged that "a tingling sensation may be noticed when connecting devices to Dell notebook computers or printers and touching exposed metal parts of the devices being connected or the parent device," but denied that the "tingling sensation" is cause for alarm.

Apparently they did an internal study and the engineers suggested that the power leakage situation was sufficiently minor, and not worth the cost of sending consumers a free three-pronged (in other words, electrically grounded) AC connector.

In general, we as consumers are power-happy. Despite the never ending protestations of sensitive environmentalists and progressives we use more and more electricity each year, in every facet of our lives. Talk about irony: A roomful of coal is burned every time an email is sent out among Green activists urging sustainable choices. It's measured in the electricity used by the servers, routers, the Internet backbone, the energy consumed by each of their monitors as they read the latest call to outrage from their messy, Marxist apartments.

Go ahead an make it more efficient. We'll only use more.

And now it's spilling out of the devices themselves, and we're considering it normal that we're getting zapped.