-=> Mocking Chris to Kurt <=-
  (Mock, mOck, moCk, mocK)
 KW>not in my book... if you can put the same component back in then there
 KW>was nothing physically wrong with the component and thus physical damage
 KW>did not occur... hardware damage is necessarily physical damage...
 CE> yeah, but for the regular user they arent going to know how to pull
 CE> and re- program/fix the chip. Just going to toss it and claim 
 CE> hardware damage.
thats their problem... the average user should know better than to just
toss something from their computer when it seems to not work anymore...
most average users i've heard of take the computer to a service
centre...
besides which, what the average user thinks it is and what it actually is
usually are wildly different things, but if you spread the word that software
can only affect software in all but the most bizarre and incredibly rare 
ases
then eventually the regular user will smarten up and not assume that
non-hardware damage was hardware damage...
... Virus Alert/Tagline Virus, avoid "Virus Alert" infected taglines...
                   
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