You can pay for a lot of coolie labor for the price of one good robot, and with far less up front investment.

What makes you think it's not being done with machine vision?

I'm another southpaw that handles a fork the way you do. I never could understand all that switching, and setting the knife down, picking it up again...

I've got some Muslim in-laws though, that I think are a bit offended by my eating with my left hand. They're too polite to say so and I don't think slopping food all over the table trying to use my right hand would be much of an improvement.

So when you're traveling the speed limit and the light turns yellow when you're 6 inches from the intersection, your vehicle is still able to stop before crossing the line?

And here:

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/26/1626245

And the only attacks you have to worry about are from people who are overseas and couldn't possibly get here or have contact with sympathizers here?

RoHS is a EU directive, but it's forced electronics manufacturers everywhere and in all industries to go lead free.

Even when you want to build something (IT infrastructure, Aerospace, Medical Equipment, etc) with good old Sn60Pb40 solder, you often can't anymore because none of the basic components (resistors, capacitors, transistors, integrated circuits, etc) are available with leaded plating on their leads and so they have problems when bonded with traditional tin-lead solder.

Doesn't tapping tidal energy result in the moon moving further from Earth?

All the stuff from Baen at webscription.net is DRM free, as are a lot of the books from Fictionwise.net.

I read ebooks on my Nokia N810 in the bath all the time. Seriously (though my wife makes fun of me for it - at least I'm not reading romance novels and sipping Chardonnay).

I'm careful not to not to drop it in the water, but if I were more worried I'd just stick it in a ziploc bag.

Actually AC, I did read both the linked pages and neither says anything about the failsafe mechanisms.

But, I suppose that's not really consequential as long as you think you might have a pretext to spout something vitriolic.

Interesting info. I appreciate it.

Why be such a dick about how you share it though?

I wonder if it had any kind of watchdog controlled system to inflate a flotation device or anything? (If it did, it apparently didn't work)

You'd think it would be a sensible feature to have on such an expensive and unique piece of equipment.

Send me a hollow coin and I'll do it. I've X-rayed guns before (http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m5/J_M_Lambert/Guns/SR9X-ray.jpg), and condsidering the way it's easy to see through a metal magazine, and through the brass cartridges inside of it, I'd speculate that it should be pretty easy to differentiate hollow coin from a normal one.

I wouldn't worry about it. The acceptable weight range for real nickels is probably wider than the range of available microSD card weights.