[LINK] PCs wasting our lives...

[Howard Lowndes]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

> "Dr. Bob Jansen" wrote:
> > 
> > At 9:52 +1100 7/1/04, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> > >
> > >What would be the equivalent of a virus checker for a microwave oven?
> > >
> > 
> > A bug swatter perhaps :-)
> 
> My question was only partly in jest. How could you design a microwave so
> that someone could not do any of the things suggested on the
> http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/weird/microexp.html web site?
> 
> A microwave oven may seem to be easy to use but it is very simple to turn
> it into an offensive weapon (see Under Siege where Casey Ryback - the
> Steven Segal character uses one in an attempt to kill the baddies who are
> chasing him)
> 
> Even harder - how do you design a knife so it can only be used for Good
> Things (tm)

Didn't someone sue a match manufacturer because a match was used to start 
a fire somewhere; I know that there have been several attempt to sue 
firearms manufacturers.


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