...for every 1 innocent person you save from life sentences or execution you are in effect sentencing many more innocent people to a much more grisly death at the hands of murderers.

Rubbish. Serial killers are rare. What a terrible reason to do less than your best to avoid convicting innocent people.

Government-started is not the same as Government-provided.

Except that if it were up to you, nothing would get "government-started," since you'd decry the initial involvement of the government as a commie plot, so we're back to you getting off of the Internet.

if this isn't proof copyrights are broken I don't know what is.

Actually, it's just proof that either the people you were dealing with were being silly, or that you are lousy at making that kind of deal.

I don't think that a "huge scaling problem" is necessarily implied -- Twitter is probably slow because it's querying your tweets out of its database, not because the front-end Web servers are CPU bound.

They want to "defend against memory safety vulnerabilities?" I assume that they're talking about buffer overflows, if nothing else, and I can think of a couple of ways to prevent them: 1) non-von Neumann architecture; or, and here I'm going really crazy, I know, with an idea that'd disrupt the entire industry: 2) stop using bloody C.

"Stable equilibrum temperature" implies that the heat from the fuel, including any decay heat, is going somewhere. If that (presumably passive) process can continue indefinitely without risk to the outside world, and if the equilibrium temperature is below any temperature at which melting of the plumbing or new and exciting chemical reactions could occur, then the design would appear not to be vulnerable to a loss of power to the pumps.

Heating up the coolant naturally slows down the reaction.

Except that a runaway reaction isn't the problem here. The reactor reportedly scrammed as designed. As at Three Mile Island, all of this trouble is being caused by the decay heat alone.

I note that the Wikipedia illustration of a molten salt reactor design shows a pump in the cooling system, so it's not immediately clear to me that a molten salt reactor would survive the loss of emergency power reported to have occurred here. And even in the case of a design where the cooling is driven entirely by convection — with, what, giant air-cooled heat-exchangers? — there's the question of earthquake damage to the plumbing, which I suppose is the other obvious possible cause of the current problem.

...that this article is baseless fantasy. Half of it's gibberish: what does "cities heated by servers," even mean? The other half ignores what's known to be possible, with the holographic projections popping out of phones within four years being the most obvious clanger. How's that supposed to work? Like in Star Wars, of course, which is to say only as a special effect in a movie.

So no XML...

I'm not really a COBOL-lover, but you're starting to sell me on it.

"I don't get paid for work I did two decades ago. Why should you?"

A possible response: "Because work that I did two decades ago is still valued and in demand, while nobody cares what you did yesterday."