No, that's a mock-up from earlier in the year, made by Foxconn. (It's still fairly accurate, mind you - but the link above gives you a better idea of the socket/connector layout.)

One of the hardest games I've ever played, ha.

I got stuck at 2 for a long time, but then finally something clicked and I got all the way to number 5!

7!

You're right, I know very little about nuclear reactors. (I'm the author.) Enough to get by, but not enough to be an authority on every variety of them.

Hopefully enough to write an interesting story, though :)

Why write a story about something you don't understand? I don't want to sound too critical, but you do a disservice to this technology and the people involved if you don't get the facts straight.

I think you did a reasonable job, but the add-in about cold fusion didn't make any sense and really affected the seriousness of the article. It calls into question whether anything else in the piece is valid or not.

There are tons of people here that have expertise in these fields. Some of them are commenting on this very page. Why not develop relationships with people that can provide domain expertise as needed for stories like this, rather than trying to wing it?

I'd love to do that! But it's just not feasible for me, when I'm writing multiple stories a day, about very disparate topics. If it was a feature about thorium power, and I had a chance to do my research, it'd be a different story :)

(I do have quite a few expert friends who I lean on for domain expertise, but as luck would have it, my nuclear guy wasn't online when I wrote this.)

I did journalism in high school. It was tough enough to write an article once a month for the monthly paper, so I get where you're coming from.

The news of "Thorium Reactors exist somewhere" is good enough to report on, and happy news indeed. :-)

It's usually pretty quick/easy to get stuff approved for in-lab, early human trials. But yeah, much longer until it's available to the public.

>>It's usually pretty quick/easy to get stuff approved for in-lab, early human trials.

I'm surprised -- I thought that even if you had an eager group of volunteers for in-lab, early human trials you still needed to jump through understandably onerous red tape and provide reams of documentation and evidence that the device was safe.

Or does signing a (supposedly ironclad) waiver absolve your right as an early human trial participant to sue in the event of failure or adverse side effects?

shortcut is a humanitarian device exemption (HDE) if you have some good preliminary data, not sure what the exact rules are.

I was trying to work out the same thing. The no-communication theorem says that you can't transfer data using entangled particles -- but would that apply to energy as well? Not sure. Need a quantum physicist...

Since you can measure energy, it's pretty clear that it counts as information.

However, the theorem you mention only rules out instantaneous transfer of information.

Is energy classified as information?

Noisy, staticy, lossy EM fields do provide electromotive force. This is why data and power cables are often separated.

I mean in a quantum mechanical sense. (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_information)

The ability of something to cause a random side-effect does not necessarily mean that something is information.

I know that Mozilla struggles with this -- that it's a whole different PR ball game, when tech writers have access to the nightly FTP server.

Ah, thanks for the info; will update the story.

You edited! So I will edit too!

Thanks for the background info on the iOS 6 jailbreak.

Btw, have we met before? I recognise your name...

> Btw, have we met before? I recognise your name...

Are you really asking that question after writing an article on iOS jailbreaking?

Extremetech.com has never prided itself on in-depth journalism.

Relatively!

For me, the iPad is uncomfortably heavy at times -- especially if I try to hold it in one hand.

I mean, yes, it seems like splitting hairs -- but at some point, a device goes from being 'heavy' to 'light'. Same with thickness -- at some point a device stops feeling 'chunky' and becomes 'lithe'. I just don't know where those thresholds are :) (but I'm sure that industrial designers put a lot of thought into it).

I think it's a spectrum rather than a threshold. If one device was half as thick as another, you'd clearly notice that.

But it's hard to believe there's going to be a major change in user experience with a half millimeter decrease in thickness.

You understand that one of the old authors (Matthew Murray) wrote this story, right? :)

No, I did not know that. I still stand by my observation that Extremetech has gone down hill and I will note that writers must please their editors if they wish to get published.