Industrial growth is always a surprise to agricultural economies that try to modernize using manufacturing as a basis. Great Britain in the 19th century, USA in the 20th and now China. China has the money, but I'm afraid not the will to avoid these types of environmental disasters. A central government should be able to recognize this and make the changes, but if they have succumb to the capitalist influence pedaling method used in the West, they are doomed. It will take the will of the people to force the changes. Welcome to the club,

Publish the plans please!

Don't take your phone to a crime.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse!

These stupid companies think they can treat their customers like children and in the process shoot themselves in the foot.

I hope this statement of sanity doesn't fall on deaf ears or ears that don't see the logic in this new model.

Get a 10 on the Cool Meter!

I would like to see what happens when DHS cast its next take down and happens to snap CHASE.COM or some other big institution.

Paraphrasing Dilinger, "Paypal is were the money is".

Downloading it now

This might work or be cost effective for small (up to 10 inch) flat quarter wave mirrors, but as you increase the diameter of these flat mirrors the glass substrate needed to stabilize the first surface mirror will be cost prohibitive.

My telescope will have to wait so that I can save up the $$$. This sounds cool in practice, but even at 7 cm the associated control circuitry and actuators would be prohibitive. Cool though!!

Would this lead to science fictions "Inertial Dampeners"?

I have pointed this out to my company's computer security guy and his response was, "I don't worry about copiers, that is a human resource issue". I have sent him this story. Maybe that will get him worried. Oh, and I cc'd the CEO.

Popular Electronics and Popular Science are the two mags from which I learned a lot. Today Maker 'www.makerfaire.com' always have good stuff too.