http://stevenbird.info/2010/07/15/droidx-today-is-the-day-more-security-info/

"But wait![...] what about the efuse?! Guess what? google "omap3 efuse"

Droid, Milestone, DroidX, Droid2...all these phones have efuse...they just really haven't been put into use...

Will your DroidX explode from unauthorized tinkering? probably not. (but wait for someone else to try it first if your scared of the big bad efuse :p)"

Doesn't sound like the modding community is too worried.

Cory Doctorow's new Young Adult book, For the Win talks about some of this. The main premise of the book is that the horrible sweatshop working conditions of MMO gold farmers in China, India, Malaysia, etc. inspire a plucky gang of visionaries to lead union organization for "virtual world workers". He Creative Commons licenses all of his work so grab an ebook from his site and check it out.

That's what I immediately thought too. It sounds like this essay is making the exact same point that John Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment is intended to make. It also seems to fail for the same reasons as Searle's argument: By defining semantic understanding as something only humans are capable of he begs his question without addressing why we are to assume that other humans are capable of semantic understanding but computers are not (if able to pass a Turing Test). Basically he's an organics bigot.