Of course! All new technologies must be handicapped to make sure that the sellers of old technology can continue to make money. All digital photos should come with auto-deletion code to make sure that the makers of photo paper continue to stay in business. And a guy with a sledgehammer should show up every five years at your door to make sure you don't just keep using your artificial knee replacement forever.
The appropriate demo of the dangers of AC data center power will be to show an elephant losing his entire database due to a power failure. Ominous voiceover: "Unlike an elephant... AC-driven data centers always forget!"
Zothecula writes: Inspired by origami and children's pop-up books, Harvard engineers have pioneered a means of mass-producing bee-sized flying microrobots. The breakthrough mechanizes the already state-of-the art process of making Harvard's Mobee robots by hand, by mass producing flat assemblies by the sheet which can be folded and assembled in a single movement. The technique, which cunningly exploits existing machinery for making printed circuit boards, can theoretically be applied to a multitude of electromechanical machines.