It's a full system devboard using proper operating system and coding-style, not a Arduino.
It's not ment for anyone to just develop the next big thing but for people with a base level of competance.
Sorry if this ruins your dreams.

The problem being the actual content owners refusing to distribute their goods in a modern way without it being a backwards and abusive method to ensure as much forced advertisement-watching as possible while at the same time allowing them to know exactly what has been watched, where and when. Ideally segmenting the market into nice chunks so that they never compete against eachother or different versions of their own product and making sure their franchising merchandise is in the right shelves at the time of availability in every little slice of pie.

Again they embrace a way of attacking the actual network without discriminating between legal and illegal use of it.
Distributing copyrighted material via bittorrent is NOT a crime, assuming the content owner is doing it or in some way approves of it being done. It's no different from putting copies of your product on a truck, assuming again that you would want to.

I think we should start sending false traffic-announcements, swap roadsigns and pave false roads going to nowhere in an attempt of obfuscating the road network all over the entire world. This is ofcource to prevent thieves, smugglers of lewd and illegal goods as well as well as drunk-drivers and other highway-killers from reaching their homes, customers and/or victims. Since all highway killers (due to road accidents) are using the roads to do it, we can eliminate all these deaths by preventing everyone from using the roads. It has just as much merrit as other attacks on infrastructure, although not as clearly claimed cash proffit. (I say claimed cash proffit as any test with free candies outside a store will tell you that giving away 1000 free bonbons is not ammount to 1000 less sold in the store. Someone should really test this and I would encourage them to do so.)

You never buy beer in any case. You only rent it for half an hour.
Not free though so your point is valid.

The interesting thing is they were forced to do this at all.
Farnell in Norway does NOT sell to end users, only companys and developers, and as such the boards are not supposed to be forced to adhere to this testing.
It smells like some competitors have gotten their will here, and it's nice to see that they didn't win. Now the sales will be even better from the get-go.
I already know of several projects that may use the pi as a base-platform now that it passed the tests.

Well, partially true.
Don't forget how much more money is available in military research than in non-military.
Now though, comercial interests in power generation is probably on-par and governments just have to give a green light. Without it ofcource, there can be no nuclear research, laws see to that.

Luckally there are now comercial companies diving into this, and if all goes well, we will see fruits of this research in 10-20 years time.

Correct on many points there, but some have already been addressed.
Specifically new alloys have been found and additives been discovered to reduce corrosion.

There are also a number of solutions relating to the maintanance and from what I read online it appears lots of the reasons for these issues is lack of research, mainly due to it stopping when weapon production was more important than public safety.

Then it will be safe, and the reactor can keep operating.

There can't be a meltdown as the reaction is self-regulating thermally. It is not reliant on external cooling in form of pumped coolant or power generation (which cools generator as energy is harvested). It would run till fuel is used up or till the purification stops working in which case the buildup of impuritys would stop the reaction prematurely.

Actually, the plug in the bottom is not made of any other substance. It is simply reactor melt that is cooled by an external system to keep it from flowing.
You are correct however in that if, for any reason, external cooling of this "freeze plug" is stopped, the plug melts and the reactor content drains to split storage tanks stopping the reaction.
The stopping of external cooling may be due to all power generation is lost (no power to cooling), external system is destroied or ruined (natural disaster) or everybody on the plant has already left and the plant is left to fend for itself and fails (zombie invasion).

As you say however, it seems to me too, to be the best solution so far.

A benefit of Fukushima (if we look hard) is that the research on other types of reactors are now starting again, even though they can't produce nuclear weapons.

Agreed!
When you write code you should be 100% sure what the code will do. If not you don't really know how to program and can be categorized as belonging to the "poke at it untill it works"-crowd and be banned from comercial programming all together. (Members of that crowd should stay away from kernels and other important open source projects too, please.)
Working with such coders will be frustrating at best, and the death of projects at worst.

True, but I still say they went wrong when copying the rediculous gearbox system of the prius making governments doubt it was indeed electrical drive only.
The power-generator should have been a seperate pluggable module so one could swap it out for a hydrocarbon or pure hydrogen fuel-cell later. Or, even with something completely unknown at this time. A micro-turbine generator would be fun.
It was really disappointing to learn they used an insane gearbox solution.

What I really want is a car based on the Michelin active-wheel and with a range-extension module that can be replaced as technology improves.
I would expect to have the car for almost 15 years, and replace that module every 5.

You only need a slight pressure-differential to drink with a straw in space as there is no gravity to lift liquid against.
As you saw in the video capillary forces hold the liquid in the "cup" and if there was a straw in it, the capillary forces would pull the liquid all the way up to the tip.
Oh and since both you and the surface of the fluid is in the same pressure environment you don't have to fight the vacuum of space either.

I believe this delegation is a direct copy of how trusted access on pirate-networks work.
Can you simply patent a method invented by someone else for illicit and clandestant activities?

We obviously need a poll here!
Choices should be straight to the point, no personal preferences of the author should be present.
"I prefer GNOME 3"
"I prefer GNOME 3 with the traditional layout and switching"
"I prefer GNOME 2"

Something like that.

Also, the oxygen for the powerfull reaction with the lithium is NOT in the battery, it comes from the air if the pack is ruptured.
The ammount of available lithium is also dependant on state of charge and somehow to the degree of wear on the cells.

There is also the LiFePo4 type batterys that have s lightly lower energy-density but where the lithium is always in a bonded state.
You can drive a nail through a LiFePo battery and nothing will happen, except the unevitable loss of ability to deliver power ofcource.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwIl8f3WI0s
Compare that to a hydrogen car or a gasoline based system and it's so much safer it's not even a contest.
The most dangerous part is the testing! They could have lost a finger from the cutter while damaging the pack!

The theoretical limit is 127 devices, but hubs count as devices.
There is also a limit of 5 levels. That basically limits you to 5 hubs stacked.

Your biggest concern will be bandwidth and power though. That many devices on a port will need powered hubs and you will definately not get any realtime performance out of it. If the system has multiple controllers it is better to spread the cams around on the avaliable ports and use as few hubs as possible. A driver allowing more than one camera is also neded.

It sounds like a fun project though, and I'd go for it if I had a tonn of cams.