I still love watching the Movie Aliens but what I still find funny is that Mother can understand the spoken word but is unable to perform text to speech which is the trivial part of the verbal communication between man and machine.

One mans troll is another mans hero. All to many times I hear the cry of "troll" and sure enough out come the torches, pitch forks and mod -1 Troll, well before anyone has properly read and moderated the post, only to have someone with mod points save the comment from obscurity. Care must be taken to not completely silence discussion. BTW what ever happend to my mod points?

Another patriotic naming convention (i.e. Patriot Act). It will be an easy sell. It's all about control. Nothing more than control.

Yes, the Earth and the Moon share the same orbit too.

Sorry to disagree. I;ve replaced my porch lights for 30 years, every other month until I finally tried a CFL. I was skeptical with the weather swings. Guess what, after two years and -25 F in Vermont, it still is going strong. Yes a little slow to start but the light of 60W equivalent is just fine.

Windows is NOT universal for medical record storage. Linux and AS400 are very much in use. Also windows does not silently push our any patches to our network. Each one is reviewed and approved before distribution to our workstations and servers using wsus. HIPPA is taken very seriously at all levels in our hospital and our IS organization. Our CIO literally stays up nights worrying over potential security holes.

Instead of using their war chest to buy politicians to shut down a free advertiser (Pandora) they show lobby to help restore the middle class. Limited music choices is a bad enough reason no to buy, but having no discretionary spending is first on my list for not buying music this year.

You hit the nail on the head.

Mod this insightful person a 5 AND copy/mod as troll for me so see too. More truth in these few paragraphs than I have seen anywhere in the press (or here for that matter) for months.

Mod me down like always. May be it time we get our act together like the north African and mid east Arab states. Looks like we could learn something like them and "SPEAK UP". We live in a democracy, yet we sit on our couches.

Finally an opportunity for a slashdotter to breed.

Moderators suck the life blood out of slashdot and we know they are 100% male. Mod me a TROLL today.

Your all witnesses. I wish to lay claim to patenting the act of patenting the obvious. While at it I wish to patent the act of posting to Slashdot. Pay up my pretties.

As it stand it probably will not kill anyone. OTOH add a second mirror driven by a very simple robotic car to capture to rays at the focal point and reflect them back to a central focal point where the energy could be harnessed. Now THAT would result in a DEATH RAY!