I think this is mainly going to be an excuse for hotels to add a daily $7.99 (+ $1.39 tax) "Robot Fee" to your bill.

It said "Virgin could take on Tesla", so I thought it was about a fellow Slashdotter forming his own company.

you do realise the absurdity in what you suggested, don't you.

Sure... Just like the way the nuclear reactors were designed to not melt down in the first place.

First thing I check is cables.

What could possibly go wrong?

can you think of a way to do those tests with less cost?

but to see them actually go for it? ... the poor bastards...

Note that you can query ark.intel.com to find every chip that supports ECC:

http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?ECCMemory=true&MarketSegment=DT

DST is not a bad idea. Who the hell is going to wake up at 4:00 a.m. in June? Who is going to do anything enjoyable or productive in the wee hours of the morning when they've still got a looming commute to work?

Stop all the damned whining and enjoy the sunlight while you're actually awake.

going off on a tangent, whoever is responsible for android's ui needs to be tortured.

no clear indication of accepted taps, no indication the device is busy, no way to distinguish interactive elements from eyecandy, menus needlessly hidden even on huge devices, pointless separation of menus (eg: why are there two menus with different styles in youtube?), elements abruptly changing location whilst being active (you tap somewhere but at the last fraction of a second, the list refreshes without warning and now you must guess what you've tapped), message windows pop up just before you tap something completely unrelated but since you've already tapped the window disappears and now you will never know what it said, i could go on.

my 1997 hp48gx has immeasurably better engineered UI.

*tortured* i say.

I think I've seen this movie before. It doesn't end well.

You've found me out! I admit it, I'm a member of a vast conspiracy that's foisting "static observation" on an unsuspecting public.