PL>   PL>> I don't see that you can cause any damage to hardware
PL>   PL>> unless you can write a program that temporaly stores
PL>   PL>> voltage in a variable to be released in one burst.
PL>
PL>   KW>  the computer itself knows nothing of variables, it has
PL>   KW> capacitors, transistors, resistors and the like... variables are
PL>   KW> funny things humans use to make programming easier... as such, a
PL>   KW> single variable can only store a single value, and it's voltage is
PL>   KW> not something you can directly manipulate with software...
PL>
PL> So having said all that you still couldn't see I was joking?
PL>
PL> Maybe that could be the next terrifying hardware destroying virus.  A 
virus
PL> that puts the CPU into a nth degree tight binary loop, that stores a 
fracti
PL> of the voltage from each loop in a variable until such time that the 
variab
PL> is storing so much eletricity that is burns out the RAM chips, or if you 
ar
PL> using virtual memeory, and who isn't these days?, it pits the surface of 
yo
PL> hdd, thus phyically destroying your hardware.
PL>
PL> Of course this is all just a joke.  Right?  I know now that you really 
can'
PL> store eletricity in a variable.
No but a virus is able to mark sectors on your disks as bad and then you will 
not be able to use these sectors.
This is probably the nearest you can get to a virus that destroys hardware.
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