KW>  -=> Mocking David to Peter <=-
KW>   (Mock, mOck, moCk, mocK)
KW>
KW>  DA> The motherboard is not the only peice of hardware on a
KW>  DA> computer..  How about the monitor.  According to the X-
KW>  DA> windows manual it is possable to distroy your monitor by
KW>  DA> setting up X-windows incorrectly...
KW>
KW> you'll also find similar warnings with linux manuals and even
KW> with
KW> monitor manuals... you find such warnings in manuals for
KW> software
KW> because the are similar warnings in manuals for the hardware...
KW> but the
KW> warnings in the manuals for hardware are only cover the
KW> designers butt
KW> so that they don't have to take responsibility for damages
KW> incurred when
KW> the product is used improperly... it doesn't actually mean
KW> damages can
KW> occur...
"take responsibility for damages incurred when the product is used 
improperly" 
I take this to mean that if I use my monitor improperly, under some 
circumstances, how ever remote they may be, it is still possable to damage my 
monitor.
Now if I can damage my monitor by using it improperly, whats to say that a 
virus writer can not write a virus which will simulate these conditions and 
therefor distroy the monitor.
When the first PC came out people probably said that it was impossable to 
write a 'virus', now look.  Whats to say that in five years time someone wont 
find a way to write such a virus...
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