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Comment Breeder reactors have a bad history (Score 1) 560

See the wikipedia on fast breeder reactors, and note that the sodium exchange concept appears to result that Thorium can indeed result in Plutonium if so desired. The designs they are communicating leave out a lot of details. I hope they don't use Windows. Somebody will write a virus, Blue Screen of Meltdown. How is this design moderated and or shut-down ? ...heh, otherwise...

Comment Re:Are they joking? (Score 1) 250

We had a 'better' network once, at least along these lines. It was 'Switched' and was run by AT&T. To everything there is a season. Bring back the Star Topology. Isolate all end-points. Lord knows we could use the Operator Jobs. ;) Otherwise, I don't see what the big deal is. No pain, no gain. Where's the pain ? Did somebody leak all the NSA's back-door keys ? What are they really worried about ? Nothing else readily comes to mind...
GNU is Not Unix

New LLVM Debugger Subproject Already Faster Than GDB 174

kthreadd writes "The LLVM project is now working on a debugger called LLDB that's already faster than GDB and could be a possible alternative in the future for C, C++, and Objective-C developers. With the ongoing success of Clang and other LLVM subprojects, are the days of GNU as the mainstream free and open development toolchain passé?" LLVM stands for Low Level Virtual Machine; Wikipedia as usual has a good explanation of the parent project.

Comment Re:Vaporware alert (Score 1) 316

FTFA:

The key to our CO2-to-Fuel approach lies in a proprietary multi-step biocatalytic process.

Searching the company's website, there is no mention whatsoever of even a single gallon of usable fuel being susccessfully produced using their method. There is, of course, mention of "investment opportunities".

If it is a good enough idea for NASA to fill up a rocket using Mars' atmosphere for a return flight to orbit and/or back to Earth... Maybe it is a good snake...

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