We will be irradiated less by nuclear power plant run by PHBs than inhale smoke from fossil fired power plants or breathe water from hydro if they are run by the same people.

Nuclear is safest method (and certainly safest proven method) of energy production: http://www.externe.info/ (that's European Commision published research)

Call me when they don't stop working after 5 years of cautious usage and don't double weight of the car.

Wave energy isn't even 1TW, geothermal is about 44TW while we already use 15TW, at 20% efficiency of power generation it's not enough for our current needs let alone future ones...

Renewables are a pipe dream and will remain so for foreseeable future.

Exactly, both Gnome and KDE environments have very good PDF readers built in, OSX is exactly the same if not better. The only OS that's behind is Windows. But then if the PDF viewer was programmed by MS it wouldn't change a thing from security perspective...

You need a programmer that knows about accounting and a good accountant working as a team at least at the design stage, all your programmers need to know a bit about accounting, either they will learn as they go, or they won't be wasting the lead time and take a course at the time the software is designed. That's if you're making accounting applications. The same goes for any other field: healthcare, banking, storage management. If you don't understand the industry (what can be made by computers and what can't) you won't be able to make good software for said industry.

Good developer is not somebody that can output 1kLOC of bugfree code daily, it's somebody that can learn new things daily and apply them in his work. That includes understanding what accounting is really about, what a healthcare unit receptionist needs from software and how to calculate lease rates. If a programmer doesn't understand the industry, you'll have lot's of functionally wrong code because of errors in specification, corner case bugs discovered after the code was shipped and all the other assorted niceties.

Yes, many don't see that real world IT is a interdisciplinary field. You need to take at least accountancy 101 if you want to know what accountants want from your software, let alone how to implement it, and implement it correctly.

Only few of us are blackhats...

Unfortunately it doesn't support S/MIME, let alone OpenPGP.

From wikipedia Bullet cluster:

In other words, the theory the guy is proposing is akin to Newtonian laws when we have Special Relativity. Non story.

If there's one thing file systems have no problems dealing with, it's appending data to file. C has even special flags for this mode of access FFS!

If your system needs special tools to see the correlations in errors then your systems is way past its usefulness and should be re-designed with greater modularity in mind.

As for windows logging, sorry to burst your bubble, but it fails when it's most needed, read my previous post: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2553896&cid=38231092

Just yesterday I was debugging why my syspreped Win 7 images weren't installing properly. So I go to sysprep directory and start reading the text log. It didn't have any useful info. So I grabbed the binary log and tried to import it on the same machine in pre-exec environment. It couldn't do it. So I copied it to different computer and tried to open it there, the system claimed that the file was damaged. After 4 hours of struggle to read, copy or convert the bloody thing I went the "Microsoft recommended way" (seriously, that's the solution they suggest in MSKB) and bisected which program caused the install failure. In "only" 6 reinstalls I finally found the culprit.

If it was a Linux distro, a simple cat or tail would have sufficed and it would have been a 15 minute job, not 2 days. If they want my text logs they will have to pry it from my cold dead hands.

I'm no electrician, I'd guess the low voltage DC is safe because you can grab uninsulated leads in your hands and nothing will happen. Hell, I touched live wires in 48VDC with my tongue without any long-term effects!

...that's one huge market. I assure you that most technicians working with stage equipment don't know that XLR connections are XLR connections, let alone general population.

This is a giant multinational corporation, just because it sells drugs doesn't make it good. Haven't you read Halloween documents? Jobs views on Android? it's all the same, we just don't hear as much about it as most of /. works in IT, not pharma (also pharma was doing it for longer so they're better at it).