Re: Sigh....
"Who sat down and decreed "The number is 81"."
If he sat down with 99 bottles of beer, that's probably how far he got.
1143 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Feb 2013
"Because there are too many vested interests, both business and political, preventing it."
Uh, not that old chestnut again.
Obstacles really are technological - thorium cycle has lots of nasty byproducts, which are messing with the reaction cycle. And it is very hard to handle those in a running plant.
It's not a hopeless situation, but some serious advances in engineering are needed.
"The Soviet Union "ceased to exist" once the Baltics declared independence. But Russia just became, legally speaking the USSR by another name as far as the international community was concerned. This is the precedent and the standard."
Please double-check that standard. 3 Baltic states separated from SU, they are not successors. SU dissolved few months later, leaving 11 successor states. Of those 11, Russia assumed most of the obligations and took over most of the international treaties, so it is now considered the main successor, but not exactly the same entity as former SU.
Quite murky precedent, if I may say so. Certainly not repeatable.
"Ok ..... what sort/type of engineering expertise is being sought/hunted?"
Sadly, I have no knowledge of the program, if there is any.
It was only an observation - that quite a few fellow commentards have advanced knowledge of high frequency transmissions, and were willing to disclose their skills under a seemingly silly story. One cannot help but wonder. Perhaps it was a ploy, a honeypot, to achieve such a disclosure.
Or perhaps it's a diversion - one of the conspiracy theories fed to the public, in order to draw attention away from the true masterplan. Whatever that might be.
Lucas, Prince of Darkness can not be surpassed so easily. Especially by some fuzzy-wuzzy.
There are more demons of the ancient world. Vampires of Thickernet. S/370 channel extenders. And a lot of creatures whose names have long been forgotten - or they have not had names of their own, instead being identified solely as servants of their evil masters.
The key difference is a lack of hype about keys. Well, nearly, some con attempts can be safely ignored here. Keylocks are well understood and most people do not have illusions about them.
Biometrics are not so ubiquitous to have the same familiarity.
Oh, and keys do not have cult following.
Cheap tape is a waste of money. Especially helical scan types, which have 50-50 chance of reading their own backups during the first year and nearly zero after that. DLT was good up to 7000 - and that is way too old now.
I would go for LTO-4 full-height version. Best compromise between price, reliability and capacity.
"I've been told that this "portable" format of recording was a contributor to the downfall of the Iron Curtain."
Short-wave radio was more important, as VP remarked, but cassettes did make a dent in the curtain. Small dent here, small dent there, add some structural weaknesses into the mix, and the rest is history.
By today's standards, the craziest thing I've listened on the CC was few hours of speech by Gorbachev, given right after his rise to power. There, deeply buried in the hours of buzzword-compliant speech, lied the first signs of the coming changes, a breeze of fresh air. Those C60's were certainly well spent.
"Send Corrections link in the comment box at the bottom of each page of the thread"
Hmm. Can't see it. Maybe it depends on user credentials? Or browser?
There is a lightbulb button on the left side of the article, which should alert somebody about something, perhaps that will do...err...something?
"Ah yes, the ongoing militant atheist propaganda that only the religious are capable of genocide
ALL communist regimes have been aggressively anti-religion"
Hmm. Not quite. Those are usually called "political religions". Wiki has an article about it.
In essence, they are pseudoreligions - actively exploiting religious feelings, using rituals and symbols, but lacking a supernatural deity. Agression against other religions, pseudo or not, is a natural part of it.
Upvote for daring and out-of-the-box thinking.
That said, these suggestions are not particularly good for the current day. NT kernel does have some serious limitations - TCP/IP stack, driver model, memory and storage handling.
Somewhat better way would be to put W7 kernel on a diet, unbolt GUI from it, make all bells and whistles optional. Something like W2008 server. Although they did not go far enough, there is still too much cruft in the minimal install.
"Back to basics" approach is always hard, but sometimes it should be seriously considered. Especially when you're stuck in a cobweb of half-assed solutions to the problems which should not have existed in the first place.
A long-forgotten article about that
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000319.html
"Well, back then in 1995, RAM was for sale about 33 US dollars per Mb"
There was a huge upshot in DRAM prices before that. In 1993, a substrate factory in Japan burned down, so nearly 80% of DRAM manufacturing capacity was stalled. As MB price shot over §100, it created quite a havoc. Heh, burglars started to snatch DRAM sticks and leave the computers behind.
Most ways to access registry are usable only when kernel is up. If it fails to start, for example due to 7F checkstop, then this fancy database is just a binary blob. Sure, there are ways to get to it, and a lucrative job it is too, but it just should not have been designed like that.
OK, if you haven't been there, then I shall not vent too much about it.
I'm afraid I have to downvote you. SPOF, which resides in a database, and has multiple copies, is still a SPOF. And it sure fails a lot, for silly reasons, with all copies corrupted and system un-bootable. If there was a proper way to repair b0rked registry, it would be a lesser issue.
AIX ODM is better in one regard - it is possible to edit it via boot-CD. But still an abomination.
As for mksysb - no, it's not a registry tool, it makes a bootable OS backup, so allows a bare-metal recovery.
A fascinating read. For lot of that, pure truth may never come out, but fascinating nevertheless.
One gem in there:
"Neither of them noticed that he had been stealing a huge amount of MI5 top secret documents and stashing them at his home. Bettaney was only caught when he took some of the best of these secrets and tried to stuff them into the letter box of the Second Secretary of the Russian Embassy - Mr Gouk.
Mr Gouk was so confused by this that, instead of passing them on to the KGB, he went round to MI5 and gave them back, and told them where they had come from. MI5 arrested Bettaney and he was put on trial."