@ChaoZ: Oh you :)

@waclark57: Oh I agree the US is far from gone, but if it suddenly were to be gone then the world would continue is what I mean, it would not make china and the rest crumble into dust.

@jamescobalt: Ah I see, thanks for the clarification.

So this tunes a lightwave to the silicon to make it become absorbed by it.

@Mike43110: I'm pretty sure that's been done ages ago already, the high percentage conversion, just because you can't make large area solar cells in an economically viable way doesn't mean a laboratory can't do thing on the scale of a small dot.

@Sora57: Yeah as if AT&T didn't need fiber before 4G (and could not predict 4G), go ahead, believe these things.

@waclark57: Unfortunately the dollar isn't worth much to them anymore, I'm not sure they need them really.

@BoscoH: It's what made AOL big, that silly attitude of people, and if people want that then meh, what can you do.

@TD99: One of those small mobo's for the atom with a webcam thrown in a box should work.

@TD99: And who doesn't want google to see his front porch and crib as part of the deal?

@OMG! Technology!: Slim? I think the trick will be finding a place without a dead animal, I mean there are billions of rats and mice and birds everywhere, and they often have a lifespan of only a few years, do the math.

@Sora57: What I meant was that it's 2010, you'd expect them to have finished the move to all-fiber some 15 years ago, but you say that them starting now can be described by 'already', as if they are oddly quick about it.

@DangerousLiberal: What happens to a battery was already demonstrated in videos as we all know and have seen. ;)

@icelight: Well those mirrors of telescopes are so thick and heavy because they must not deform for a fraction of a millimeter, that's not quite the same requirement, and there are very thin stretchable transparent materials, although when dealing with a laser powerful enough to melt metal I imagine even the slightest…

@thefakebest: Yeah OK, go watch your youtubes.

@VVhistler: AMD also has their acceleration, there's openCL and DirecCompute too (also supported by nvidia), CUDA is a bit over the hill in a sense since now they are suppose to all get on those standards.

@waclark57: I claim that if the US starts invading random countries because they have material that then other countries like russia and china and african countries andsoforth will stop doing business with them since once proven to be insane and unreliable people don't want you as a customer 'no shoes no shirt no…

@Graviton1066: Even if they ran it all off a satellite the local government could still outlaw having the device or having contracts with the company and transferring money to them I guess, it's pretty hard to stop that kind of thing when governments pull it.

@ima747: Yeah and then people owning half the world and half the money of the world and with lots of shady contacts would be mad enough to nuke the US, might be fun.

@DefineStatutory: They could sandbox (pardon the pun) the UAE users and give them a separate contract specifically warning them and having them agree, and not allowing direct contact with the rest of the network outside UAE.