This, of course, was a very dangerous case of insubordination on the part of the military, since the exact reason it was imposed on them was that the political leadership considered the risk of an unauthorized launch to be greater than the "last man standing" scenario, and, guess what, in the United States the political leadership is supposed to be supreme to the military.

It's easy to throw together a BASIC interpreter. However, in this day and age, why would you want one?

Well, let the distros know...

As the author of Syslinux/PXELINUX I found the article rather interesting and enjoyable. :)

Seconded the recommendation for Gandi. Another good one is Loopia in Sweden, loopia.se. Loopia got acquired reasonably recently, so they may or may not stay that way but for now they have been very good and for a long time they were the best-priced .se and .nu registrar (and may still be.)

380 V is presumably because it is the phase-to-phase voltage in 220 V 3-phase wiring, so there is plenty of distribution products already rated for that voltage. Why 380 V and not 400 V (230 V 3-phase, which is the modern standard) is a good question; it might have been what they actually intended.

USB is designed to enable inexpensive devices. 5 V is so that when cable losses are counted in, you can use a LDO linear regulator to obtain 3.3 V (Vcc) without excessive losses. 12 V would require a switching regulator.

Squeamish Ossifrage.

... biological warfare. Malware didn't evolve naturally, it was engineered.

Making old machines actually come to life... http://www.abc80.org/~hpa/fpga/