10th September 2003, 6:36 PM
Hmm... to be honest I always had suspicions myself...
Still, when I read this sort of thing in many articles at tech websites, it suggests such a thing could possibly happen. It's moving parts after all, and the disk to an extent controls the movements, so if a safety isn't put in, it could possibly do this I imagine...
Regardless, what you suggest means illegally owning a bunch of OTHER ROMs, not just the ones one already owns copies of.
Still, when I read this sort of thing in many articles at tech websites, it suggests such a thing could possibly happen. It's moving parts after all, and the disk to an extent controls the movements, so if a safety isn't put in, it could possibly do this I imagine...
Regardless, what you suggest means illegally owning a bunch of OTHER ROMs, not just the ones one already owns copies of.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)