War department is Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth doing their fascist circle-jerk.

After 25 years, it's nice to see I've finally graduated to Longtime Slashdot reader.

Only if it happened a decade or two ago.

No. A court has decided that the stuff emitted by an AI isn't copyright.

They have a *history* of being fraudulent (at least after the fact, I don't know intent). Solar+wind+storage is a lot quicker and, I believe, usually cheaper. And it's got a short enough turn around that we can tell what it's going to cost.

That's like the National Enquirer quoting the Weekly World News on a Bat Boy story.

Why on earth would Democrats in California engage in election fraud? The only insanity is believing they would bother to cheat in an election they're going to win anyway.

USB-C? Apple were laughed at for only including USB-C on their laptops and there are still weird antique societies around keeping USB A kicking when it should have been buried over a decade ago.

If you mean only the world of phones - Apple changed their charging and connection standards three times. 30 pin -> Lightning -> USB C. Each one lasted about a decade, which is what they always said. Lightning came out in 2012, USB C didn't even exist as a standard until 2014. Should they have changed yet again after two years, thus annoying everyone?

Meanwhile, over in the rest of the world you had an assortment of barrel connecters, USB Mini, USB Micro, USB C. USB C emerged the winner (although you still get these hateful USB A->USB C power-only cables. I hate the USB C 'standard', never know what cable you're picking up), and yes Apple was arguably forced to change but then so were others. I'm still plagued by more USB Micro devices than I am USB C, a connector that Apple entirely skipped (thank god).

So? Proof (or disproof) is irrelevant in a PR fight.

What can go wrong?

I wonder if the control room technicians will be allowed bathroom breaks...

By far, the people most certain to the answer to that question are those convinced that it used to be so much better, the belief being particularly strong among those who weren't alive yet.

How the **** am I supposed to look into the details of how the contract will be enforced?? I can look an see prior contracts that were evaded by one means or another, several involving nuclear power plants, but that doesn't say about this one. But I would STRONGLY prefer supporting something with a lower down-side, like solar + wind plus some storage mechanism.

The one proposal I saw that I though looked interesting involved closed cycle in a deep well...about as deep as an oil well. Just about anywhere has hot rocks if you go that deep. The question is "Is there a good enough flow of heat for this to continue being useful?". I didn't see an answer to that, so that may still be site specific. Iceland has proven that can make it work when an active volcano is available, and it should work in Yellowstone. But that's shallow depth-site-specific. Can they get it deep enough to work most places? That, IIUC, is currently unknown. Will it be cheap enough to be worthwhile? I think that's also unknown.

What facts? You have unverified and unverifiable claims from a disgruntled ex-employee, and this own admission is ""My thought was . . .". There are no facts there, only opinions from someone with an agenda and a limited imagination.