"Renewable sources are much easier to build,"

Easy to build is one thing - easy to build AND make them viable is another.

"reducing the risk of blackouts by plant failure"

Riiight. And how often do you hear of a power plant , regardless of its fuel , going completely unplanned offline? And even if it did there is usually enough resilience in the system to cover it. Whereas wind and wave power goes offline every time its a calm day and solar power is useless at night! I'll go with the minute risk off a whole power plant going down thanks.

Underground. But I don't see any envirohippies making a big fuss about all the uranium ore in the ground and the massive fission reactor thats probably at the heart of the planet so why the big fuss when someone suggests burying the radioactive waste underground later?

There's so much knee jerking going on in the enviromental movement with regards to nuclear power that they could probably audience for starring roles in Lord of the Dance.

"Mordor is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume"

So how's that different from LA?

Its doing quite nicely thank you - admittedly thanks to googles large bank balance - and its what pretty much everyone I know uses to listen to music on now. If you want to download music of course thats a different matter , but to just listen to ad-hoc music in the background while doing something else YouTube is as good as any.

The hysteria is whipped up by the more extreme hippy enviromentalists and their patsies in the ignorant media and governments (hello Germany). The hippies have a deep seated hatred of anything nuclear simply because SOME power stations in SOME countries were used to generate plutonium. So regardless of its benefits they damn the best form of power generation we have to offset climate change - and don't anyone bloody start about fucking stupid windfarms that cost a fortune, blanket god knows how many square miles and produce sod all power most of the time - simply because of their political leanings and their mindset being stuck in the 1980s along with whats left of CND.

Frankly these people are a disgrace and should be ashamed of themselves, but instead they just make more and more noise. The only consolation is they'll all be dead in a few decades and hopefully sanity will prevail once more. And anyone who still thinks nuclear power is dangerous should think twice about visiting France. Though I'm not aware of it being radioactive yet.

We're talking about loading libraries , not inter process communication.

But sure, instead of loading libs written in one language into another language you could just have N processes all written in different languages and communicate that way, but it would be at least an order of magnitude (probably 2) slower than directly linking in a library to your running process.

It would have been nice however if the C++ committee had specified a standard mangled format for class methods in binaries.

eg:

class foo
{
void myfunc() { }
};

will ALWAYS have the symbol name something like "__cpp_foo_myfunc" in the object file with the first parameter being a pointer to an object - ie "this". Instead of different compilers mangling the name in their own way. That way you could dlopen() a c++ binary with ease and use the methods directly.

... an organism may evolve that can digest some forms of plastics. Apparently when trees evolved lignin it was millions of years until fungi evolved the ability to digest it which caused it to build up leading to immense forest fires.

If we're lucky something similar will happen to plastics though given there are so many types it might be wishful thinking. Of course if it did happen we might find all our shiny toys suddenly rotting like old italian cars.

"So, with only a rudimentary knowledge of x86 assembly, and not a single programming lesson, I did just that."

"It only took a couple of weeks to make an interpretor and then a simple compiler for my language"

A complete novice writes an interpreter AND compiler in a couple of weeks? In assembler? Suuuuuuure. And I guess you helped achieve world peace and solve fermats theorum while you were at it?

Oh, btw Mr Bullshitter - BBC BASIC ran on a 6502, NOT x86. Just a little FYI for you there.

Well quite. The victorians used them everywhere in hospitals and so -unwittingly - created places that were for the time pretty damn clean. But then a plain old metal isn't hi-tech and 21st century gee-wiz so regardless of being cheap and effective its unlikely to be trumpeted by the kool kids and researchers with an eye on the next grant payment.

Even if he does find it, the drive has probably been crushed/damaged beyond repair. He'll need specialist help to recover the data assuming the platters haven't been shattered.

Oh grow up. Intelligence agencies don't waste time classifying and guarding material thats just a list of who your mother shags at the weekend.

"You claimed that it was in fact important. And you know this for a fact do you or are you just spouting the right suck-up-to-authority view?"

No, I don't know it for a fact , other than the documents were classified. Thats a pretty bloody big clue to anyone with a working braincell. Which seems to rule you out.

"Useful to who?"

To "whom". And I suggest you google the reference.

"In this case, pretty much no."

Really? And you know this for a fact do you or are you just spouting the right-on stick-it-to-the-man view?

I wonder.

Well actually I don't, you're just another useful idiot.

"We've heard from David Cameron that Snowden's leak "damaged national security.""

So you think leaking confidential documents *doesn't* damage security in some way? Have you just landed from Planet Naive?

"Government enforcers employed heavy-handed tactics to intercept, detain and threaten those even tangentially connected to the leaks."

Oh dear - they arrested some queenie journalist and his bum chum who had a load of confidential documents on his laptop. How dare they! These people are genuine pseudo intellectual liberal hacks , they must be allowed to act with impunity and make national security decisions for all of us as they're obviously far better position to make these decisions than people who work in this sphere!

Not.

You fucking halfwit. Bleaters like you will be the first to shout and stamp your little feet when another bomb goes off on the tube due to intelligence opportunities lost. You don't deserve protection from the state.