Hiya Kurt,
And thus Kurt let it be known to Peter:
  PL>> I don't see that you can cause any damage to hardware
  PL>> unless you can write a program that temporaly stores
  PL>> voltage in a variable to be released in one burst.
  KW> how do you store an electrical potential in an abstract mathematical
  KW> concept?
I would say at a guess you can't... that was the point. :)
  KW>  the computer itself knows nothing of variables, it has
  KW> capacitors, transistors, resistors and the like... variables are
  KW> funny things humans use to make programming easier... as such, a
  KW> single variable can only store a single value, and it's voltage is
  KW> not something you can directly manipulate with software...
So having said all that you still couldn't see I was joking?
Maybe that could be the next terrifying hardware destroying virus.  A virus 
that puts the CPU into a nth degree tight binary loop, that stores a fraction 
of the voltage from each loop in a variable until such time that the variable 
is storing so much eletricity that is burns out the RAM chips, or if you are 
using virtual memeory, and who isn't these days?, it pits the surface of your 
hdd, thus phyically destroying your hardware.
Of course this is all just a joke.  Right?  I know now that you really can't 
store eletricity in a variable.
Cya,
Pete
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