Quick! Hide the weapons!

...and don't forget the laptop!

If you asked me how can a PC be used as a weapon I would think of 2 ways: As a remote bomb detonator and when I throw it out the window over innocent by-passers (especially after 10 consequent blue-screens). Apparently there are more ways...
It appears to be that the U.S. house of Reps. want to classify Pentium 4 and above CPUs as weapons. This would mean that all these will require export licenses.(story). Today, computer sellers are required to get a license to export any computer with performance equal to or greater than a system with 32 Intel Itanium processors. The current version of the defense authorization act would lower that limit to systems deemed "militarily critical" by the Department of Defense. That level is currently set to the equivalent of a computer using a Pentium 3 processor running at 650MHz, state of the art in 1999 but considered feeble today.

Next up: Cell phones!