How is that different from any other server application?

Servers can't compile?

Every time there's a nuclear accident, it becomes more and more obvious that while a nuclear power plant is perfectly safe, a nuclear power plant with a human at the controls is a disaster waiting to happen.

Actually in the future scientists predict that long strands of aluminum could be used to transport electricity from areas where electricity is being generated to areas where it is in demand. They may even invent devices which can store electricity for later use! As for corn, you did a rather good job of explaining why corn is NOT a form of renewable energy.

The only reason nonrenewable energy is economically competitive is because we're borrowing against our future to pay for it.

The summary sucks. But I think the TFA argument is basically that based on the measured levels of contamination, the water is somehow getting from the magic rocks to the ocean. Perhaps the pressure vessel breached from a meltdown, and the containment vessel was cracked in the hydrogen explosion or maybe even the earthquake itself.

On a side note, while even in light of this fiasco I still think nuclear is safer than say, offshore drilling or coal mining, why do we continue to bother with anything besides renewables?

Wrong (except for the boron part; graphite is indeed used to speed up the reaction not slow it). See above comment (quantumpion) for the correct answer.

And you'll never be able to shoot me as dead with your PC as I can with my real gun. Does that mean real war is more fun than Modern Warfare? It's a pointless comparison.

When people think of intelligence, they think of things that set a more intelligent person apart from a less intelligent person. This is dangerous in AI because it makes it easy to dismiss monumental achievements in intelligence that even an idiot makes look easy. Does Watson understand geography or human anatomy? Apparently not. But it does understand on some level that "the answer to this question is a city" which is a huge leap in intelligence.

Takes one douche to know another, apparently. How is Anonymous lingo not acceptable in a discussion about Anonymous?

It's funny you phrase it that way, because I've always considered "being unconcerned with labels" to be the true measure of geekiness. Which leads to an interesting paradox..

Back here in the states a large corporation gets above the law simply by purchasing as much government as it requires. I wouldn't call what google did a precedent (other than the fact that for once I happen to agree with the corporation's position.)

I would venture that a small minority of the /. crowd actually has an engineering degree. In any case, as bad as it can get here, compare the comments on here to the comments on, say, YouTube.

Before the discovery of radioactivity it was estimated that the Earth would only take 20MA to reach its current temperature from a fully molten state. So the internal heat is almost entirely radioactive, meaning that the degree of molten-ness depends mostly on composition, not square-cubiness. Also, exotic is when you use an endangered macaw not a chicken.

Just to be fair, the planned LTE networks that Verizon and AT&T are calling 4G don't meet the definition either. However, both WiMax and LTE have true 4G upgrades in the pipeline.

To be precise, the ratio of empty space to occupied space is increasing. Your shrinking is just a restatement of expansion from a different point of reference.