Mod parent up.

I almost wet myself. ******* indeed!

They also had dilithium reactors too.

Not to mention there's legislation that prevents spent rods being reprocessed. Leaving a lot of nasty radioactive waste about when it could be reprocessed into more fuel, and reused and further being a source for fast breeders.

Besides Pebble Bed reactors are the way to go.

Here in the UK we enjoy almost uninterrupted mains power. No brownouts (a brownout perhaps every eight months which is usually due to maintenance, extreme weather or emergency works), no requirement for external generators nor for a UPS for your desktop PC.

I understand that the power supply in the US is patchy at best, with frequent brownouts. I think you guys really do need a stable source of power. Nuclear is a good way to supply this. Focusing on renewables won't begin to replace this, nor will it give an easily modulatable power supply that reacts to user demand. Sure they take a long time to build, and there's legislation preventing waste processing being done that would wring out more power from the same uranium. So you end up with large waste disposal sites where you wastefully allow spent rods to decay needlessly. That's assuming you still are building old-style reactors. Newer ones have much less waste, more power and frankly are less dangerous.

Gas Power? Coal Power? Great, Cheap to build but pollute like crazy. Not to mention coal burners actually more radioactive than nuclear power. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste

Solution lots of smallish pebble-bed nuclear reactors to do the heavy lifting, augmented with solar, with the odd gas & coal power stations taking up the slack.

(I wish I has mod points today)

More horrendous puns in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

I preferred the simplicity of system 7 (or 6) over the faux 3d of windows.

Every thing was really clear.

Anything that moves things back in that direction cannot be bad.

I remember looking at Enlightenment and thinking how bloated that was.

UI needs less chrome, not more.

Metro^WModern UI looks nicer these days, but it still doesn't hide the fact what's under the hood.

They still haven't fixed this:

http://www.pretentiousname.com/misc/win7_uac_whitelist2.html

In fact there's now exploits in the wild now, and frankly it was a stupid idea in the first place.

Also if the bad guys have access to a machine (yes, RDP counts) you lose.

I don't care how locked down you think your system is.

The only secure computer is one powered off and in a fire safe at the bottom of a mineshaft.

I think google has already mentioned that the glass part will be glowing when the device is activated.

This is more than a good enough clue tbqf.

Is it possible it just needs salt?

Apocalypse peppers?

Sounds interesting ... what's the Scoville value of them? 20 million? 40?

Surely you mean his little known novella Rendezvous with Ramen?

Richard Stallman, is that you?

Solved. Google Glass, and Microsoft Kinect, and that camera in your laptop (but I guess you have some control over that for now)

Wouldn't you rather play a nice game of chess?

-John Henry