Shorter Scaramucci: That's a nice life you've built there. It'd be a real shame if something were to happen to it.
Look, I don't know exactly what the motivation behind the above excerpt was. Perhaps Scaramucci is genuinely concerned for Musk's safety and success, though I tend to doubt it. Either way, so much that is wrong with Washington is revealed in what is said. An American citizen should not have to fear the "enemies" he's making by demanding the government function with some level of sanity and efficiency. Yet, that's exactly the situation Musk (and others) find themselves in by daring to push back on the status quo.
That people in the government can "hurt you," as Scaramucci says, for crossing them is exactly why Washington must be reformed. Dismiss attempts to do so as "Potomac fever," but things will certainly never change if no attempt is made to change them. Americans are dealing with a corrupt, deeply entrenched behemoth, and it's not going to give up power quietly. That's why Musk should not "lay off the gas on politics." If anything, it's time to go even harder.
As reported by The Federalist's Elle Purnell, there's a movement arising of individuals all over the country who are choosing to forego gathering with loved ones around the Holiday season and choosing, instead, to focus on themselves by giving them a self-care day: //
To be clear, there was no explicit socio-political reason given. It was just the stress of doing things that focus on arranging, scheduling, and being with others. The thing is, modernity and all the ideals and trends that come with it are primarily leftist, as modernity is driven by corporate tastemakers and slacktivists.
And if there's one thing leftism promotes, it's isolation.
Ideological isolation is one of leftism's biggest demands. You cannot think thoughts outside the body politic, you can't ask questions that would challenge approved ideals, and if anyone breaks from the approved boundaries they must be ejected. You must close off your mind to anything outside the boundaries. //
The "do what feels good" approach to life has contributed to an inordinate amount of people obsessed with their mental health, as anything that doesn't feel good becomes a stressor, and stress is a sin in the modern world. Stress-reduction is a billion-dollar industry, and I'm not just talking about the pharmaceuticals that promise to reduce it. Therapies of all varieties have sprung up, all of which promise to reduce your stress.
All of this has created a culture of "me," and people are willing to abandon loved ones and go into isolation in the false hope that it will relieve their stress and improve their "mental health."
If you peel it all back, you'll see the self-care industry is just that — an industry. Corporations love for you to spend time and money buying things to help you focus on yourself. As I said, it's a billion-dollar industry, but ultimately, this is harmful to the mind and soul. Isolation is not healthy. //
People who are lonely are also more susceptible to illness. Researchers found that a lonely person's immune system responds differently to fighting viruses, making them more likely to develop an illness.
Selfishness is literally unhealthy, both mentally and physically.
Family matters, friends are a lifeline, and isolation due to it being a kind of stressful to travel or deal with relatives is not doing yourself any favors.
Just how restrictive are Mexico's gun control laws? While the reporter notes about 1,000 guns a month are sold legally in the country, around 1.3 million are sold a month in the United States. That's an astronomically higher figure, yet the murder rate in Mexico is well over twice that of the United States.
"60 Minutes" doesn't care about those numbers, though, because the point of their report is to blame the United States for the flow of guns into Mexico. As their narrative goes, because Mexico has such strict gun laws, it must be America's fault that the cartels have fully automatic rifles and machine guns. Of course, those two things are largely outlawed within the United States as well, with only heavily vetted individuals allowed to own them. That's really beside the point, though. //
At the end of the day, nothing is gained by restricting law-abiding citizens from owning firearms. Criminals do not follow gun laws. They don't kill simply because they have access to certain types of weapons. If it wasn't an "assault rifle," it'd be a sawed-off shotgun or a car bomb. The root of the violence in Mexico is not the importation of American-made firearms, however many guns that may add up to. It's the corruption and fecklessness of the government that has allowed the cartels to flourish.
Until that changes, Mexicans and the rest of the world will continue to suffer. If "60 Minutes" weren't such a joke of a news program, they'd have focused on that instead of trying to blame normal Americans for something they have no part in. //
trapper
14 minutes ago
"More guns, less crime". Because guns in the hands of normal law abiding citizens deter crime. This has been demonstrated by John Lott and others again and again.
Even by the horrifying standards of Middle East savagery, the mass grave discovered in Syria with 100,000-plus bodies stands out for its hideousness.
Indeed, the world hasn’t seen anything like it since the days of Hitler and Stalin.
And it’s just one of several such graves, courtesy of the country’s recently ousted barbaric strongman, Bashar al-Assad.
Since 2012, Assad is suspected of torturing and killing possibly hundreds of thousands of his own citizens and foes.
It’s a testament to his depravity, following in the footsteps of his father, Hafez al-Assad, who similarly slayed dissenters with abandon.
Democrats like President Biden, Veep Kamala Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez weren’t outraged by the long-running Assad death factory but by an imaginary “genocide” the Jewish state is supposedly waging against Palestinians.
No, it didn’t start with them: Who can forget President Barack Obama’s “red line,” threatening a US military response if Assad deployed chemical weapons against his enemies?
Yet when the Syrian Army fired missiles laced with sarin gas into neighborhoods controlled by the opposition, killing more than 1,400 civilians, Obama did . . . nothing.
Actually, he and then-Secretary of State John Kerry invited in Vladimir Putin — asking Russia to help “resolve” the crisis (well, end Obama’s embarrassment) by coming in and saying it had collected Syria’s chems.
Pour a cup of cocoa and settle down for another episode of Microsoft Storytime. Why do codenames sometimes linger on in the implementation of products?
"Chicago" was Microsoft's codename for Windows 95. During its development, Microsoft's new operating system went by several names externally – Windows 4.0 and Windows 93, to name but two – but internally, it was named for the windy city.
The successor to Windows 3.x debuted 29 years ago as Windows 95, but during its development, engineers needed a name – not least for drivers. And so, lurking in the Signature entry of .INF files was $Chicago$.
The entry indicates the operating systems for which the INF is valid, and could also be $Windows NT$. As far as Microsoft was concerned, both values meant "All Windows operating systems." But why $Chicago$?
Every year, millions of people endure the biannual stupidity of Daylight Saving Time (DST), and we have a handful of historical geniuses to thank for this life-ruining ritual. Sure, they thought they were solving big problems, but instead, they handed future generations a headache disguised as innovation. Benjamin Franklin joked about saving candles by waking up earlier, and people were dumb enough to run with it. Yes, folks, this is why satire needs a disclaimer: Franklin was trolling, but the world took him seriously. And here we are, centuries later, living his joke as reality.
In its characteristic stonewalling, the Biden administration has only fueled speculations and occasional conspiracy theories when it could have at least reviewed logical theories and welcomed legitimate questions.
Is a controversial government agency—perhaps the CIA or the Environmental Protection Agency—surveilling installations, areas, or people that would either be too embarrassing to be revealed or otherwise might set off panic? And for the public good or consistent with this administration’s weaponization of government?
Or are these drones the work of foreign surveillance in the mode of the 2023 Chinese spy balloon?
A government that long ago lost all its credibility could not reassure the people of the truth even if it wished to.
For nearly four years, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas assured the American people almost weekly that “the border is secure”—even as a reported 12 million illegal entrants easily crossed it.
White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre asserted weekly that President Joe Biden was vigorous, in full control of his faculties, and always “sharp.”
In fact, she knew that the American people grimaced as their president slurred his speech, suddenly went mute, tripped, fell, and wandered aimlessly.
In late January and early February 2023, a huge Chinese surveillance balloon traversed across the United States. Public outrage grew as the administration changed its excuses by the day.
It variously assured the public that it was a mere weather balloon, that it would be too dangerous to shoot it down, that it did not transmit any of its photographic capability to China, or that its trajectory did not cross key military installations.
All those excuses were either half-lies or untrue. //
So, the American public understandably no longer believes much of anything the waning Biden administration says—not after its other chronic lies about denying the role of the Wuhan lab in the COVID-19 pandemic, only “moderate” inflation, and assurances that Hunter Biden would never be pardoned by his father.
This administration knows that anytime there is a scandal or embarrassment on Team Biden’s watch, it wheels out megaphones that ignore inquiries, gaslights critics by claiming they are hallucinatory, defames them as conspiratorial, or simply flat-out lies and stonewalls.
No one yet knows what, if anything, these drones are, what they are doing in our skies—and much less whether they pose any threat at all.
But almost everyone assumes the Biden administration knows and yet expects that it will likely deceive us that it doesn’t.
Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore.
Sure, the spacecraft got some attention when it launched. It is, after all, the fastest moving object that humans have ever built. At its maximum speed, goosed by the gravitational pull of the Sun, the probe reaches a velocity of 430,000 miles per hour, or more than one-sixth of 1 percent the speed of light. That kind of speed would get you from New York City to Tokyo in less than a minute. //
However, the smallish probe—it masses less than a metric ton, and its scientific payload is only about 110 pounds (50 kg)—is about to make its star turn. Quite literally. On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun. It will come within just 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km) of the solar surface, flying into the solar atmosphere for the first time.
Yeah, it's going to get pretty hot. Scientists estimate that the probe's heat shield will endure temperatures in excess of 2,500° Fahrenheit (1,371° C) on Christmas Eve, which is pretty much the polar opposite of the North Pole. //
I spoke with the chief of science at NASA, Nicky Fox, to understand why the probe is being tortured so. Before moving to NASA headquarters, Fox was the project scientist for the Parker Solar Probe, and she explained that scientists really want to understand the origins of the solar wind.
This is the stream of charged particles that emanate from the Sun's outermost layer, the corona. Scientists have been wondering about this particular mystery for longer than half a century, Fox explained.
"Quite simply, we want to find the birthplace of the solar wind," she said.
Way back in the 1950s, before we had satellites or spacecraft to measure the Sun's properties, Parker predicted the existence of this solar wind. The scientific community was pretty skeptical about this idea—many ridiculed Parker, in fact—until the Mariner 2 mission started measuring the solar wind in 1962.
As the scientific community began to embrace Parker's theory, they wanted to know more about the solar wind, which is such a fundamental constituent of the entire Solar System. Although the solar wind is invisible to the naked eye, when you see an aurora on Earth, that's the solar wind interacting with Earth's magnetosphere in a particularly violent way.
Only it is expensive to build a spacecraft that can get to the Sun. And really difficult, too.
Now, you might naively think that it's the easiest thing in the world to send a spacecraft to the Sun. After all, it's this big and massive object in the sky, and it's got a huge gravitational field. Things should want to go there because of this attraction, and you ought to be able to toss any old thing into the sky, and it will go toward the Sun. The problem is that you don't actually want your spacecraft to fly into the Sun or be going so fast that it passes the Sun and keeps moving. So you've got to have a pretty powerful rocket to get your spacecraft in just the right orbit. //
But you can't get around the fact that to observe the origin of the solar wind, you've got to get inside the corona. Fox explained that it's like trying to understand a forest by looking in from the outside. One actually needs to go into the forest and find a clearing. However, we can't really stay inside the forest very long—because it's on fire.
So, the Parker Solar Probe had to be robust enough to get near the Sun and then back into the coldness of space. Therein lies another challenge. The spacecraft is going from this incredibly hot environment into a cold one and then back again multiple times.
"If you think about just heating and cooling any kind of material, they either go brittle and crumble, or they may go like elastic with a continual change of property," Fox said. "Obviously, with a spacecraft like this, you can't have it making a major property change. You also need something that's lightweight, and you need something that's durable."
The science instruments had to be hardened as well. As the probe flies into the Sun there's an instrument known as a Faraday cup that hangs out to measure ion and electron fluxes from the solar wind. Unique technologies were needed. The cup itself is made from sheets of Titanium-Zirconium-Molybdenum, with a melting point of about 4,260° Fahrenheit (2,349° C). Another challenge came from the electronic wiring, as normal cables would melt. So, a team at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory grew sapphire crystal tubes in which to suspend the wiring, and made the wires from niobium.
wvcitizen
3 days ago
A Secret Service agent fired multiple shots at this guy at close range and missed him clean. Seem he was supposed to get away. But a person took a pic of his license plates and called 911. Local law enforcement picked him up. Don’t think that was supposed to happen. Now there is a mess that has to be cleaned up before he sings. Let’s see how this works out. //
TheAmericanExperiment
3 days ago
The Feds were behind both assassination attempts.
Crooks was supposed to get off kill shot before being taken out by the counter snipers who were there for that express purpose.
Routh was supposed to get away but ran afoul of an alert citizen with a camera.
The Feds need to maintain total control over Routh and that means maintain physical possession of him. As long as they maintain physical possession of him he knows that one false move will get him Epsteined. If Florida is able to proceed with their case they get the chance to speak with him privately. I'd love to be a fly on that wall.
Can't get Kash into the bureau soon enough.
Pro-life activist Paul Vaughn, the president of Personhood Tennessee tested before the committee about his experience as a defendant changed by Biden's DOJ under the FACE Act.
Vaughn detailed the terrifying events of October 5, 2022 when his home was raided by the FBI for peacefully protesting an abortion facility: //
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Pro-life advocate Paul Vaughn opened his front door to find 3 FBI agents with guns trained on him.
He was arrested without a warrant for his efforts to protect the sanctity of life.
WATCH him recount his story of being victimized by Joe Biden's weaponized DOJ.
2:29 PM · Dec 18, 2024 //
Vaughn, a Chrstian father of eleven children, testified that three of his children were detained and that he was never presented with identification from law enforcement, nor a warrant: //
There is no legitimate reason for it to remain on the books. It is a tool whose sole purpose is to stifle free speech and abuse the rights of Christian conservatives. There is nothing that the FACE Act does that is not already accomplished by state laws across the land.
If abortion is returned to the States, so should the laws governing it. //
veritaseequitas
2 hours ago edited
The agents who did this need to be arrested and prosecuted for infringing upon the rights of these people. I assume they used the same tactics on those who are currently in jail.
Hopefully DJT will pardon these people.
Imagine for a moment that Donald Trump attempted to grant clemency to mass murderers motivated by racial hatred. Yet here we have the left openly cheering for these people to get a second chance at life, spitting on the graves of their victims.
It should be noted that the Wall Street Journal just issued a damning report with countless sources who indicate President Biden has been mentally incompetent from day one, essentially serving as a puppet to his handlers.
Whoever is forcing Biden's hand on this matter - whether it's Garland, the 'Squad,' or some fresh-faced college progressive interns - it is definitively evil.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) excoriated the idea of commuting the sentences of those on death row during remarks on the Senate floor earlier this week.
"Let’s be clear what commuting these sentences would mean," he said. "It would mean that the laws passed by Congress and applied by our judges and juries have no value."
"It would mean that progressive politics is more important to the President than the lives taken by these murderers," added McConnell. "It would mean that society’s most forceful condemnation of white supremacy and antisemitism must give way to legal mumbo jumbo."
According to polling from Gallup in October 2024, approximately 53 percent of Americans still support the death penalty. //
OrneryCoot
2 hours ago
I thought that I realized just how utterly evil, despicable, and without morals Biden and his fellow Democrats were. I, apparently, was wrong.
Scott Jennings Rampages Across CNN, Destroys Van Jones and Then a Full Panel on Elon Musk – RedState
Hammer, meet nail. For Democrats to now fear-monger about "unelected" people running the government is to ignore that's precisely what has happened throughout President Joe Biden's term. //
How does that compare to Musk making a post online? It doesn't. What he did was public and out in the open. People were able to decide whether to agree with him or not, and in the end, it was elected officials who chose to come up with another deal. That's democracy in action. What's not democracy in action is a bunch of nameless figures running the government behind the scenes while lying to everyone about the president's senility. //
Hang on just a second because, as Jennings will go on to note, that's a serious allegation. Did Musk oppose the 1,500-page CR because it didn't "directly benefit" him? That should be pretty easy to figure out. What is in the 105-page CR that passed that wasn't in the original deal? If Roginsky can't define that, then her claim is baseless.
I'll go ahead and spoil it for you. She didn't provide any evidence for her allegation. //
anon-eoij
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George Soros
Alex Soros
Bill Gates
Michael Bloomberg
Mark Zuckerberg
Jeff Bezos
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Shall we go on about “rich folks influencing politics”?
'(Biden) made us wait an extra three hours to receive the bodies of our dead family members because he couldn't pull it together,' Roice McCollum told DailyMail.com.
Roice said she and others were waiting for Biden to appear when a military officer told her he was napping on his plane.
Christy Shamblin, the mother-in-law of Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee, and Darin Hoover, the father of Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover, who were also killed in the Kabul blast, told DailyMail.com that their families were also left waiting on the tarmac. //
anon-qwge
an hour ago
How can all of his last minute actions be considered irreversible when the news is spewing reports of his cognitive incapacity? We’ve been shouted down for 4 years for stating the obvious. To have unelected minions shove last minute edicts for his signature has to be fraud & invalid. Instead we’re told “Yeah, well, it’s all hard to prove.” What kind of world is this where evidence of the National coup is now in our faces & nothing happens?
The missing Congresswoman in question is Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX), who represents Texas' 12th Congressional District, which includes the Fort Worth area west of Dallas in Tarrant County. Granger's last known vote in the House appears to be in July when she voted "no" on HR8998, a bill that would reduce the salary of Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticides Program Ya-Wei (Jake) Lee to $1. Since then, she has no recorded votes. //
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2:22 PM · Dec 20, 2024. //
The newspaper discovered that Rep. Granger was now the resident of a local memory care and assisted living home and had been for some time after she was found confused and wandering around her neighborhood. Assistant Executive Director for the memory care/assisted living home, Taylor Manzeil, confirmed that Granger was a resident, saying, "This is her home."
Bo French is the Tarrant County Republican Chairman. He stated the obvious about this crucial time for Republicans in Congress, who need every vote.//
Granger's constituents are also concerned about Granger's absence in Washington. But the biggest question is, why has this situation gone on as long as it has, with no one appearing to notice or even care?
It appears that this is just another example of those in Washington on both sides of the aisle hanging onto power until they are literally incapable of doing so. It is exactly the kind of thing that the American people clearly said in November they are tired of.
The Department of Education had previously sought a Title IX rule that would essentially make "gender identity" a protected class, making it illegal for states or local districts to stop boys who claim to be girls from competing against actual girls in athletics. On Friday, though, that attempt was finally dropped. //
OrneryCoot
8 hours ago
I think you hit the right of it when you stated that they didn't want to give Trump an obvious win when he gets in and would reverse the rule, Bonchie. They can see the writing on the wall, even when they didn't believe it until it was too big to ignore. I think that Trump's ad against Kamala with the pronouns in it made them wake up. I just hope they keep screaming about it so that we can continue to thrash them in suburbia, where parents don't want their teenage daughter showering in the locker room with an unstable dude who has unhealthy ideas about sexuality.
Earlier on Friday afternoon, the House passed the third version (AKA Plan C) of a continuing resolution (CR) crafted by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, in an effort to avoid a partial government shutdown before many in Washington head home for winter recess. As RedState's Susie Moore wrote:
The House has now passed the "Plan C" CR, with a total vote of 366 to 34, with one voting "present." The 34 nay votes were Republicans. All Democrats voted in favor of it, save for the one who voted "present."
...The measure will now move onto the Senate, where, given the latest developments, it appears it will likely pass. //
Senators began voting on the stopgap government spending bill just before 12:30 a.m. EST. It will need 60 ayes to pass.
Now, the Senate has spoken:
The Senate has voted 85 to 11 to pass the stopgap spending bill approved in the House earlier today and keep the government open.
Here's some of what is (and isn't) in the bill:
The final bill did not include anything related to the debt limit, though House Republicans agreed to increase the borrowing limit by $1.5 trillion in exchange for $2.5 trillion in net cuts to mandatory spending. That would take place during next year’s budget reconciliation process. //
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Senators voting against - Bruan, Crapo, Hawley, Johnson, Kennedy, Lee, Paul, Risch, Romney, Sanders, and Schmitt
Senators Manchin, Rubio, Schiff and Vance did not vote.
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By a vote of 85-11 the #Senate passed H.R. 10545 (The Continuing Resolution )
Breakdown to come
This was the last vote of the 118th Congress.
12:02 AM · Dec 21, 2024
In late October, Microsoft warned that Chinese government-backed threat actors had compromised thousands of internet-connected devices for password-spray attacks against its customers, and noted "routers manufactured by TP-Link make up most of this network." //
updated The Feds may ban the sale of TP-Link routers in the US over ongoing national security concerns about Chinese-made devices being used in cyberattacks.
Three federal departments — Commerce, Defense, and Justice — have opened investigations into the router manufacturer, according to a Wall Street Journal report, citing "people familiar with the matter." Plus, a Commerce Department office has reportedly subpoenaed TP-Link. //
A TP-Link spokesperson reached out to The Register at 1056 UTC on Friday and said there is "no indication" that its routers are more vulnerable to hacks than any other brands.
"To be clear, the Chinese government does not have access to and control over the design and production of our routers and other devices," the spokesperson said. "TP-Link Systems is no longer affiliated with China-based TP-LINK Technologies, which sells exclusively in mainland China. Further, TP-Link Systems and its subsidiaries do not sell any products to customers in mainland China."
TP-Link Systems, which is based in Irvine, California, supplies networking gear to the company's US and UK customers, and "carefully controls its own supply chain," we are told.
Plus, the router maker said it has signed on to CISA's Secure by Design pledge. "TP-Link Systems is proactively seeking opportunities to engage with the US government to demonstrate that our security practices are fully in line with security standards."
Wednesday 19th June 2013 08:28 GMT
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PDP 11 odds and ends.
The PDP 11 (like the PARC Alto) had a main processor built from standard 4 bit TTL "ALU" parts and their companion "register file." So 2nd, 3rd,4th sourced. I'm not sure how many mfg still list them on their available list in the old standard 0.1" pin spacing.
El Reg ran a story that Chorus (formerly British Steel) ran them for controlling all sorts of bits of their rolling mills but I can't recall if they are
I think the core role for this task is the refueling robots for the CANDU reactors. CANDU allows "on load" refuelling. The robots work in pairs locked onto each end of the pressurized pipes that carry the fuel and heavy water coolant/moderator. They then pressurize their internal storage areas, open the ends and one pushes new fuel bundles in while the other stores the old ones, before sealing the ends. However CANDU have been working on new designs with different fuel mixes (CANDU's special sauce (C Lewis Page) is that it's run with unenriched Uranium, which is much cheaper and does not need a bomb making enrichment facility) and new fuel bundle geometries, so time for a software upgrade.
And 128 users on a PDP 11/70. Certain customers ran bespoke OSes in the early 90s that could get 300+ when VMS could only support about less than 20 on the same spec.
Note for embedded use this is likely to be RSX rather than VMS, which also hosted the ICI developed RTL/2, which was partly what hosted the BBC CEEFAX service for decades.
Yes, it's an anorak.. //
Wednesday 19th June 2013 18:20 GMT
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Who's laughing?
I feel much better knowing this.
What is the alternative? Buggy software written by the "'Have you tried switching it off and on again" generation? Wednesday 19th June 2013 20:24 GMT
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It's not the GHz clock cycle that is the problem. It's the smaller feature size of the transistors that increases the single event upset (SEU) rate. Yes, the two are inter-related, but one could conceivably build multi-core, chip symmetric multiprocessors based on the PDP-11 at today's feature sizes and not have GHz clock cycle times (and still end up with significant SEU rates.)
A couple of years ago, a NASA/JPL scientist pointed out that the alpha particles (helium nuclei) from lead solder were causing interesting issues with current x86_64 I/O pins -- radiation issues on commodity hardware. //
Wednesday 19th June 2013 07:32 GMT
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RSX11M - Dave Cutler
Anyone who read the RSX11M sources (driver writers especially) realised that Dave Cutler was a very very good programmer long before he worked on VMS and later Windows NT. He managed to get a multiuser protected general purpose operating system to work with a minimum memory footprint of under 32kbytes on machines with about the same CPU power as the chip on a credit card. (A 96kByte PDP 11/40 (1/3 mip) with 2 RK05 disks (2.4Mbyte each) could support 2 concurrent programmers - a PDP 11/70 (1 mip) with 1Mbyte and 2 RM03 disk packs (65Mbyte each) could support 10 or more.) During the many years that the CEGB used PDP-11 computers with RSX11M, I did not hear of a single OS failure that was not caused by a hardware fault - I wish that current systems were as good. //
Wednesday 19th June 2013 17:23 GMT
MD Rackham
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Of course, that was several years after there was a protected, multi-user timesharing system running on the PDP-8, TSS/8. And it would run in 8K of memory, although you had to spring for 12K for decent performance. Swapped off a fixed-head 256K word disk.
You PDP-11 kids get off my lawn! //
Wednesday 19th June 2013 15:28 GMT
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There is replacement hardware available. NuPDP replacment CPU's including QBUS support and peripheral cards. Also NuVAX for the new kids.
The Reviver boards for PDP-11 and HP1000.
The Osprey PDP-11 and Kestral HP1000 hardware from Strobe Data.
There are also the Stromasys/Charon software emulators VAX/AXP/HP3000. //
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There is already a well established PDP-11 project on OpenCores:
http://opencores.org/project,w11 //
PDP 11 odds and ends.
The PDP 11 (like the PARC Alto) had a main processor built from standard 4 bit TTL "ALU" parts and their companion "register file." So 2nd, 3rd,4th sourced. I'm not sure how many mfg still list them on their available list in the old standard 0.1" pin spacing.
El Reg ran a story that Chorus (formerly British Steel) ran them for controlling all sorts of bits of their rolling mills but I can't recall if they are
I think the core role for this task is the refueling robots for the CANDU reactors. CANDU allows "on load" refuelling. The robots work in pairs locked onto each end of the pressurized pipes that carry the fuel and heavy water coolant/moderator. They then pressurize their internal storage areas, open the ends and one pushes new fuel bundles in while the other stores the old ones, before sealing the ends. However CANDU have been working on new designs with different fuel mixes (CANDU's special sauce (C Lewis Page) is that it's run with unenriched Uranium, which is much cheaper and does not need a bomb making enrichment facility) and new fuel bundle geometries, so time for a software upgrade.
And 128 users on a PDP 11/70. Certain customers ran bespoke OSes in the early 90s that could get 300+ when VMS could only support about less than 20 on the same spec.
Note for embedded use this is likely to be RSX rather than VMS, which also hosted the ICI developed RTL/2, which was partly what hosted the BBC CEEFAX service for decades. //
Wednesday 19th June 2013 13:20 GMT
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Re: PDP 11 odds and ends.
Most real-time systems stayed as PDP-11 when the industry realised that the interupt latency on VAX/VMS was too slow for a lot of applications. You could improve it with a ccustomised VMS kernel but, in most cases, it was cheaper to stick with the devil you knew. Similarly, a friend worked for a measuring company that were using embedded PDP-8 systems as controllers well into the end of the 90s. used to drive round with a clip-on PDP-8 front panel in the boot of his car.
Phil. //
Thursday 20th June 2013 08:25 GMT
FrankAlphaXII
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Its a certainly a CANDU reactor and its fuel bundle loader robots from what it looks like.
CANDU is a different type of reactor than what gets built most of the time, they can burn just about anything, from some unenriched uranium with some slightly enriched uranium at the same time, to thorium, to Mixed Oxide fuels partially from decommissioned nuclear weapons, to "fun" transuranic actinides and also (as a proliferation concern) some quite nasty fuel mixes which can breed massive (relatively speaking of course) amounts of Plutonium if the reactor isn't properly safeguarded. Thats where India and probably Pakistan bred most of their Special Materials.
And what's cool about this is if the PDP-11 is what GE is using in Canada for their loaders, then its probably what they're using in India, South Korea, Romania, Argentina and China as well, as they also have CANDU reactors or designs derived from CANDU. //
Emma-Jo Morris was the first on the scene. She had the real October Surprise for the 2020 election: Hunter Biden’s laptop. While loaded with images of drug use and sexually explicit images from the exploits of the cracked-out son of Joe Biden, it was also a roadmap into the Biden Family’s allegedly illegal government access deal from which they were the beneficiaries of millions of dollars in bribes. This family set up multiple shell corporations run by Biden clan members to funnel the proceeds from the Romanian government. Right now, the meat and potatoes allegation stems from Hunter’s time in Ukraine, where Joe, then serving as vice president, forced the firing a prosecutor looking into Burisma in exchange for foreign aid.
The release of the FD-1023 report from the FBI’s confidential human source on Biden’s Burisma deal is damning, arguably impeachable for Joe Biden. It shows that the company only hired Hunter to protect them and that Mykola Zlochevsky, co-founder of Burisma Holdings, felt coerced into paying Joe and Hunter $5 million each. Zlochevsky has a ledger of the payments and recordings of their conversations. The source reported this intelligence to the FBI about the Bidens’ sordid deal with the Ukrainians in 2018.
All of this would have been disregarded as Russian disinformation three years ago. Mr. Morris delivered testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on July 20, where her opening remarks took a flamethrower to the FBI, intelligence community, and social media. Morris was then a New York Post editor/reporter at the time.
She revealed how The New York Post was locked out of their social media accounts for days, users could not share their links on the platform, and the intelligence community did not go through proper channels and released a letter claiming this laptop and its contents to be a disinformation operation. //
Morris, now the politics editor for Breitbart, also went into the censorship operation between the FBI, Silicon Valley, and the intelligence community. Social media companies are stacking their top positions with these former spooks who ooze political bias. //
“On October 19, five days after the Post first began publishing, Politico ran a story headlined, ‘Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say,” Morris continued while breaking down laughing.
“God, I can’t even say that with a straight face,” she said.
And for good reason: every aspect of her reporting was confirmed to be accurate years later. From The New York Times to The Washington Post, the story of the laptop, the shady Biden deals, and how this was not a Russian disinformation scheme were proven true. The laptop is genuine, and it’s not going away.
The FBI and the Justice Department are under heavy scrutiny now that there’s credible evidence that the DOJ ran interference pervasively on any Hunter Biden investigation, with the wrongdoing seemingly reaching Attorney General Merrick Garland’s office. //
Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald
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This is the NY Post reporter who used authentic docs to report on Joe Biden's role in Hunter's business deals in Ukraine and China before the 2020 vote.
CIA and @NatashaBertrand smeared her with lies that it was "Russian disinformation," then Big Tech censored her reporting.
Simon Ateba @simonateba
BREAKING: Journalist Emma-Jo Morris (@EmmaJoNYC), who broke the Hunter Biden laptop story for @NYPost but was immediately censored by the state on social media in an attempt to influence the 2020 election, just delivered a mind-boggling testimony on the extent of censorship in…
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Sheinbaum Pardo called Mexican migrants in America “heroes” in part because they sent $63 billion back home to relatives in 2023. //
Remittances now surpass almost all other sources of the country’s foreign income, including tourism, oil exports and most manufacturing exports.
While the report doesn't differentiate between illegal aliens and legal migrants, it doesn't take a proverbial rocket scientist to figure out that given the more than 10 million illegals who have crossed the southern border during four years of the Biden-Harris Border Crisis™, the amount of cash continuing to leave America for Mexico has continued to increase. //
Lourde Mike
5 hours ago
So the solution here is to tax wire transfers to Mexico at 100% if sent by a non-us citizen. //
Bearsblow
4 hours ago
She laid out the best argument in the world for mass deportations.
They won't change their loyalty and they send their money back to their home country.
That's a 1-2 ticket punch back to that country, imo. //
anon-stbc Grogger
2 hours ago
Absolutely.
If they are taking money out of our economy, then tax it.
There are a bunch of "studies" that talk about how much money the illegals pump back into our economy. Hmmm...none of those studies mention that $50 Billion is getting drained out of our economy.
A lot of that money isn't getting taxed because it is being paid under the table...then they send it right over the border to help Mexico's economy.
Shut down the transfers, or tax it to the max, and see how quickly those folks go back home.