My memory is really fading.. The S6g provided ~ 148 thermal megawatts which is ~ 45 megawatts of electricity. Although the Rankine cycle is pretty much fixed you can build more efficient turbines and steam generators that do not have to exist in the very tight confines of a submarine.

These small reactors already are designed and in production:

The S6W and its line of small reactors are reliable and safe. The rector compartment on a typical submarine is about 30' in diameter and 30' in length.

These generate ~ 50 Thermal Megawatts which translate into about 40,000 horse power or about 29 megawatts of electricity.

You damn fucking right when it comes to maintaining absolute control over things that can vaporize the planet. Until they are gone, we spend whatever it takes.

Do you really think that the United States military, very specifically, the part of it that can unleash a version of hell that you have trouble even imagining, does not have the budget to get those drives manufactured, one off or any other part of the system?

Wow, you just don't get it! Your remark implies that he is some sort of Luddite with the attitude of, "it worked for my grand pappy so it is good enough for me!"

What the man said is that they did a complete audit of the systems and given the requirements they determined that what they have is the most secure system they can come up with.

Your remark also implies that they should be all modern with a nice tomcat stack running php, python or god alone only knows what bit of Swiss cheese stack of cruft to control the very things that could quite easily turn this entire planet into a spinning ball of radioactive fire."

So AC, you really *think* you know what you are talking about, but in fact you really don't.

Postgres - in a high transaction environment if the vacuum goes sideways you just simply crash and burn and your data gets scrambled. On top of that, I double dare you to try and move from one machine to another, much less one hard drive to another.

MySQL - ACID much?

SQLLite Uhmm for little tiny projects, sure as long as you don't need ACID or more then one person using it.

Oracle - IF and it is a BIG ONE - you actually know how to use it, (If you have had the proper training, or you have been using it forever ) It will spin circles around pretty much anything out there. Do stupid things with it and just like any of the rest of them that are enterprise class ( MS-SQL, DB2, Postgres, Informix etc. ) they will not perform up to anyone's expectations.

So please go have a big frosty glass of Shut The Fuck Up.

Gui Editor - Easy, just get Kate. Not KWrite, but plain old Kate. Syntax highlight for just about every language, columnar selection and paste and all the bells and whistles you could want.

Sick to death of VI or VIM or EMACS for the simplest of CUI chores? Get Nano it is pico's older brother and works quite well.

This is really simple. They have the infrastructure, they have the bandwidth. There are a lot of really quality content generators out there that Google just rapes. Here is a really cogent explanation ( ironically on You Tube ) by Jack Conte of Pomplamoose.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Really listen to what he is talking about and you can understand how Yahoo could just kick Google's ass in this space.

Every can be broken into and some asshole can do arbitrary things on a users machine because...

• Defensive programming is not uppermost in their minds, performance is and that is a problem.
• Old code that should have been ripped out with extreme prejudice long ago still exists, eg: Driveby's

And on top of those two things there is the ever changing HTML specification, the ever changing CSS specification, and the bit of garbage called DOM.

And cracked by a "carefully constructed URL?!? What!?!?! Can these people simply not write a safe URL parser? I mean WTF?!?!?!?!

TBL dame up with the idea that was essentially Anonymous FTP and a bit of code that used a simple set of tags to format text so it displayed like the author intended it to be seen was pretty cool. Then came the committees with "Wouldn't that be cool" ideas and they implemented them with no regard for the implications.

The whole bloody mess in one huge kludge of hideously bad code, bad definitions, and bad implementations of pure garbage designed by a circle jerk.

We have waited for years for them to clean this fucking mess up and what have we gotten:

• Check boxes that still wont be sent back unless they are checked, if the are not checked they simply don't exist.
• Input boxes that still won't take a mask so that input is formatted correctly.
• Validation on the form submit event?!?!?! WTF, can we not have to submit the entire thing before we inform the user that their input does not meet expectations.
• Arbitrary timeouts that prevent large data sets from loading ( Ajax )
• An object model in Javascript that is utterly laughable and worse then C++ and Java which is saying quite a lot.
• A scripting language that is about as robust as wet cleanex

It is time for the madness to stop. Lets start over and make it correct this time.

Since I cannot reply to all, I will just reply to myself and perhaps you all will read it.

Digital cameras do a fine job for pretty much all utilitarian photography and to deny that would be foolish.

Having said that, in fine art photography, images where you want a very large amount of latitude, and where color really makes a difference they all still pretty much still stand in the shadow of quality film and quality lenses. If I want shadow detail I have to have some camera that will take three different exposures at three different ISO's then mathematically average them to get a mediocre image at best.

As with most things digital it is a race to mediocrity. Music, Film and most everything else. All the qualities we had with film are now replaced by lies of mathematical tricks to go and invent the latent image in a bit stream where there is no data because digital is slow. Unless you print the image it will be lost. Put a memory stick on a shelf and come back and see if it can still be read 100 years later. There are negatives that have been properly stored that I can make a print from that are over 100 years old. There are book that are over 100 years old that I can still read.

Are as good as a quality film camera loaded with quality film. Maybe one day..

The rise in pedestrian / vehicle / bicycle collisions and the resulting injuries and fatalities need to be addressed and it needs to be addressed as a whole.

Distracted Driving / Distracted Walking / Distracted bicycling all lead to a poor outcome and it is 98% preventable. Unplug and Drive, Unplug and Walk, unplug and cycle. I see so many people walking into an intersection while texting or whatever it is they are doing when staring at their phone when they should be looking to see if they are going to get splattered that it is a small miracle it does not happen more often.