You need to spend less time at Slashdot. Seriously.
If you had any clue about what these stability tests are doing and how computers work you'd see how outright ignorant it is to say that these stability tests can be corrupted by the operating system, regardless of how unstable it might be.
Every ergonomic study says otherwise. The top of the monitor should be at least 1 inch below your eyeline. Of course you may be fine with it tipped forward, but it's definitely not something other people should be doing.