What would yu say is the most unreliable modern product?

[laserblazer]

It doesn't have to be electrical.

[DrCheese]

Xbox 360. What a joke the first 2 (3?) years of this console was. Rushed to market to beat the PS3, was plagued from day one by shoddy power supplies and horrible heating issues that caused the CPU/GPU to come lose from the motherboard. Nasty cheap DVD drives that damage disks.
MS only managed to avoid being sued into the ground by issuing a 3 year warranty extension for the motherboard issue.

[powdarrmonkey]

The esteemed human.

(Boy, I got out of bed on the wrong side this morning...)

[Gatt]

Public Transport

[K.C.Leblanc]

Photocopiers, they all seem to have an Arthur Scargil mentality, especialy when I want to use them.

[Spitfire]

If you count Network Managers then they are the most unreliable product of modern society, some of their decision making leaves a lot to be desired.

[tech_guy]

Gordon Brown

[mattx]

Geoff Hoon The Goon, Blair, Brown Trousers, Major, Cameron [ Eton boy ], Thatcher [ Mad Cow Maggie ] & any product that has 'Sophos' written on it.

[broc]

Anything that you let end-users use........

[Vegas]

My new squash racket, arrived xmas and I still have yet to win a match.........absolutely nothing to do with the fact that i'm crap!

[Sirbendy]

Teachers - no matter how meticulously you test something, how idiot proof you make it, the dribbling imbeciles will find a way to screw it up.

[maniac]

USB memory sticks, seriously how often to they suddenly give up without warning!

[Fuzzz]

I agree on teachers! (School managementteam would be a good second!, at least at our school)

[Domino]

Public Transport

Seconded.

How come every other country I've been to has an awesome, cheap and reliable public transport infrastructure - yet we're stuck in the stoneage.....

[elsiegee40]

Photocopiers, they all seem to have an Arthur Scargil mentality, especialy when I want to use them.

Seconded - you never seem to be able to do anything to a photocopier without looking like you've been down a coal mine... and thing always goes on strike when you need it most. Precise make and model is irrelevant.

Coming in a close second place would be printers - a closely related species which are equally temperamental, but give you the option of looking like you've been down a multi-coloured coal mine