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> As a precaution, the fish are all female and contain three copies of each chromosome rather than two, rendering them sterile.

They won't replace atlantic salmon

> In most of Europe there is no concept of personal bankruptcy

That's wrong. It only takes longer in most european countries. For example in Germany it takes 6 years.

Reminds me a bit of knot theory, though knot theory isn't really as practical: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_theory

> but thorium reactors have been pretty experimental

Not all thorium reactors. A good example for an industrial grade thorium reactor is the thtr-300 a high temperature thorium pebble bed reactor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300)

> Thorium reactors are inherently stable, so “nuclear meltdowns” can’t happen.

This was also one reason for the design of the AVR in Jülich and it's successor the THTR-300. Although there wasn't any "nuclear meltdown", there were various other problems:

- Small amounts of water leaking into the primary cooling circuit. Bigger amounts could have lead to a buildup of hydrogen and oxygen which can cause explosions. This is very comparable to a meltdown

- The pebbles proved to be not very stable. This lead to a bigger amount of radioactive matter being released into the surrounding environment by the THTR-300

- The AVR leaked a big amount of radioactive matter into the ground water

- various other problems

Newer thorium reactor types won't have these problems because they will be considered in their designs, but there's still the problem with the timeframe. Estimates are that 2030 is the time when Gen IV reactors will get rolled out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor). Meanwhile Germany replaced 3.5% of it's electric power sources from 2010 to 2011 with renewable ones.

Not updating a package is the best way preventing security flaws to get fixed

RHEL 7 is planned for 2013. If it's released in late 2013 it could get in

Try ettercap

The thing is, Googles self-driving cars won't get to you overnight. We may already have the technology, but it's too complex/costly for a normal car yet. (70k$ radar, a rack of servers)

But what you will get is more and more autonomous features until there is the first fully autonomous production vehicle. And this Mercedes is one of the first bigger steps in this direction.

I didn't say it's an cache system. I said that it effectively is a caching system. You won't notice much difference to a write back cache.

> If it's just a minor software tweak, then I (in good heart) suggest the author to quit his job and create an equivalent for Linux/Windows and sell it for half what Apple sells FusionDrives and make a huge amount of money.

http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org for Linux

https://blogs.oracle.com/brendan/entry/test for ZFS

And yes, Fusion drive is effectively a caching system.

The title is misleading. They only test thorium in an already built conventional reactor. Meanwhile in Germany they developed a conceptionally more safe reactor type powered by thorium, built a test reactor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_reactor) and an industrial reactor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300). They're both shut down now, partly because of safety concerns: Water leaking into the cooling circuit can lead to explosions (which happened in small amounts)

So I guess only time will tell if new reactor types really are better than current ones.

What comes after that? An sort of Airbnb for self storage?

What also people seem to ignore is the current surge of workstation users switching from mac pros to cheaper and more powerful workstations with windows

Why not implement the crypto standard in Firefox/Chrome?

There was a TED talk recently exactly about that neglect:

http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_why_architects_need...