How did you figure out you got headaches from a telco base station?
I mean, sure, you get headaches in a certain location. And there happens to be a base station a considerable distance away.
But, how could you possibly "know" those are connected? Almost infinitely more likely:
1) someones furnace/stove/rooftop pool heater is pumping out carbon monoxide. 2) the carpets were cleaned with raw benzene, and/or the gasoline powered scooter is fuming away inside someones apartment. 3) mold sensitivity from the leaky roof. 4) a neighbor is doing god knows what in his meth lab 5) Perfume or other stink sensitivity, especially if the applier is a smoker (those folks tend to apply literally choking quantities) 6) Insecticide not rated for human occupation or improperly applied basically nerve gassing you. 7) The "funniest" part was describing how the headache began as the stairs were being climbed. Probably just a brain aneurysm throbbing away. 8) Drinking too much makes you hung over, not RF transmitters. Exercise, like climbing stairs, doesn't necessarily always help. 9) Neighbor is having a "fun" time getting high huffing paint solvents, you're just getting the contact-headache. 10) The hardwood floor down the hallway is getting refinished with no ventilation at all. Sorry if it makes you hurl.
I've either experienced, or am familiar with others experiencing, all 10.
is there some reason why a camera cannot be flexible to face whatever direction the user wants?
I had a camera flip phone in the mid 00s that mounted the cam on the "flip". So close the phone and the cam faces you, for self portraits, and open the phone and the cam faces outward, for taking pictures of other people. Camera "shutter" button on side, using "trigger finger".
I found the whole concept of a cam phone useless, and the blurry fuzzy low res pix to be worthless, but it was a good design.
It seems ironic that women of higher learning who might, as some suggest, fund their education from their ovaries, would need to go to a fertility clinic after their successful education and careers that kept them way from the maternity ward until their 30s or 40s.
What if they were not planning to have kids? May as well get "something" for those eggs.
So the medical quacks are all bundled up because the "best" chicks get too much money. Little concern that the "not so best" get a fraction of the money. And no care at all that some chicks actually have to pay money to get their tubes tied.
That has the interesting supply and demand effect that perhaps, the only people whom can afford such advanced fertility treatments, are those whom are highly paid / highly educated / in certain social classes.
Some trailer park residents with a combined ACT score of 10, might want the whole advanced fertility clinic egg donation thingy with their neighbor whom also coincidentally also achieved a single digit score, but they are not covered for the treatment and certainly don't have cash on the barrel... so the average test score of actual participants skews upward...
Many people seem to run completely motionless Via C7 boxes, including by modding this motherboard - although more likely is that you'd start off buying a fanless board. They're commonly available clocked at 1GHz, though 1.2-1.5GHz fanless seems possible.
That was pretty accurate about three years ago when I built a fanless mythtv box. Still running great.
Now a days they're all 1.2GHz on a designed to be fanless, off the shelf board. ATOM based boards claim to have a higher marketing speed. No idea if they actually crunch numbers any faster, first stage in the proc might be a/2 flipflop for all I know.
The reason for slow speed growth in that market sector is lack of interest... I play full screen video on my 3 year old mythtv box... so a 20% faster processor, other than emptying my wallet, would provide... nothing... for me.
Bacon tastes good because it's high fat and high calories.
Actually, no. Bacon tastes good partially because of the very strong smoked flavors, and partially due to association with eating maple syrup, a nearly pure carb. It also has a yummy crunch texture when properly prepared, like a carnivore potato chip.
If we actually enjoyed high fat/high cal foods, we'd guzzle grapeseed oil, and use crisco as a chip dip, and we would merely heat bacon hot enough to kill parasites, as opposed to frying until almost all the fat is rendered out into the pan.
I can almost 100% guarantee you have not tried a low carb diet involving bacon. One of the three almost stereotypical low carb breakfast foods is bacon. And it goes well as a lunch or dinner side item. Trust me, after a week of that you'll be repulsed by bacon. You will not devour five pounds of bacon in one sitting. Its the association with high carb white bread toast, or high carb maple syrup, or pure carb pancakes that makes bacon appealing. Also the association with almost pure corn syrup "ketchup" and high carb buns on a burger. Or super sugary salad dressings on a salad. My itself, ugh.
You are right of course; but how about this, then: Instead of making noises, why not require mobile operators to not accept calls other than to the emergency services on the motorway.
The superficial retort is bus passengers will be highly annoyed. But, upon reflection, who really wants to be trapped on a bus listening to someone babble mindlessly on the phone? Its about as elegant as those folks in the 80s whom played ghetto blasters on public transportation. I recall there was even a scene in a star trek movie making fun of that.
Actually, with a B.S. degree, your best bet is getting into OCS, Warrant officer school, or is it too late to join ROTC?
You can enlist with a B.S. if you really want, but to say you'll be slightly overqualified would be an understatement.
Maybe sign up for ROTC, catch a one year scholarship, refuse to submit an application for graduation until next year, take enough classes next year for a minor in... something, graduate with a major of CS, a minor in something useful, and a commission... not a bad plan at all. Assuming you can handle/tolerate the military lifestyle. Which is admittedly a heck of a lot easier as an O-1 than as an E-1.
Or, in a permanently contracting economy, it just means you'll be over qualified for the fewer remaining jobs and have a couple years less experience than the folks whom skipped grad school.
Also most people view their career through rosy glasses. Whats two years off, if you won't retire for four decades? But, due to ageism, outsourcing, etc, you'll be unemployable beyond 30 unless you're lucky (and I'm lucky). So do you want an 8 year career with a BS, or a 6 year career with a MS, before you have to retrain? You'll probably haul down more total lifetime income with a BS than a MS, especially when accounting for less experience and student loan debts.
A biosciences company will hire a dude with a bio education AND a CS degree before they'll hire a CS guy.
A finance company will hire a dude with an accounting education AND a CS degree before they'll hire a CS guy.
You get the idea.
No need to go back for a 4-year degree... Boss will be impressed enough to hear you're enrolled at the local community college.
Also, in general, there are certain educational areas that "go well with programming".
For example, most big companies that have MIS developers also have a finance/accounting department. If you want a MIS developer position, its hard to go wrong by taking a couple accounting classes at the local CC, or a seminar.
Another example, many apps seem to involve databases. My CS degree only had an optional, superficial, theory oriented one semester class. Since so many apps involve DBs, maybe a quickie DBA class at the local CC would be good resume fodder.
The goal is to not be "the guy who programs" but to be "the guy who programs and also knows about our business"
build some fake solar cells and windmills on the roof
Building fake gadgets by hand one piece at a time, might be more expensive than buying a real one.
Most of the money in panels is in the assembly labor, the glass, the backer, waterproofing, the mounting brackets... If you're going to all that trouble, may as well stick some cells in there. Even making convincing fake cells to encapsulate into the panel is going to be tough.
On the other hand, an inverter is quite expensive and no one sees it...
First of all, many military operations may last much more than a few weeks.
Second of all, even if "waiting a couple of weeks" could make it all okay, I'm not sure how they would know that without insight into the operation itself.
Wikileaks didn't make the video themselves, or steal it. As the name would seem to imply, someone leaked it to them. I cannot imagine a strategic advantage for WL in waiting, other than the fairly obvious situation of the guy whom leaked it stating, "They will be all done and home in the barracks on date X, therefore if you have any sense of journalistic honor you won't release until date X + small # of days". No one else in the slashdot comments has come up with a better explanation.
If you are in the business of publishing leaks, you need to understand and be ready for reasonable investigations about how you came into possession of that sensitive material. It's not like they couldn't have foreseen this happening.
The crime in this situation is that CNN isn't being allowed to cover it live, and something newsworthy is being covered up.
I was promised if I voted for Obama the wars would be over. I want a refund. Same ripoff in 06. I want a refund for that, too. An argument that we must deal ethically, morally, and honorably with an unethical, immoral, and dishonorable government is going to fall on deaf ears.
WL isn't getting ethical, moral, honorable treatment from the authorities, because the jackbooted thugs in the govt are not ethical, moral, or honorable, regardless of the classification of some video. So, why discuss the classification of the video if its irrelevant to their treatment? It merely makes a kangaroo court look more reputable than it really is...
Video taken from the point of view of the designating laser (if it was ground based) can be back-tracked. Even if the video is from the launcher information on the designator used can be determined & be useful in many cases. The less al-queda knows, the better.
Which is why they wait a couple weeks before publicizing. They have either very specific or general knowledge that our guys on the ground will have rotated out of that area by the time the publicize the video. Its entirely possible the guy that leaked the video wanted to watch CNN the day its released on his day off so provided them with a demand, which they are honoring.
If, in an alternate history, you shot an AA gun precisely straight upward from Ploesti Romania in early August of 1943, you could have theoretically hit the plane my grandfather was flying, although in our timeline he was OK. That's top secret knowledge, say, in July of 43. Kind of secret that day back in 43. A couple weeks later, its in the newspapers. In 2010, its just a wikipedia page.
To come out and openly say, "We have classified material, and we'll show it to you in a couple weeks' time", what the hell did they expect would happen?
Actually, it shows profound respect for the men and women doing the fighting, that they're willing to hold a very important story for awhile to minimize any theoretical impact to the boots on the ground. And letting everyone, including the brass, know whats coming, lets them start work early on the coverup/spin or maybe even genuinely change things to improve the situation.
With a cheap projector and some patience, I've priced DIY multitouch tables at less than $1000.
Forget the expensive multitouch, I think it would be fun just to have a monitor underneath to select your own custom background. Maps, some relevant object from the campaign, Pr0n, who knows. I've been planning on putting a cheap-o "big" TV underneath a glass coffee table for this purpose, once I have nothing better to do / nothing better to buy. Basically a horizontal version of a vertical digital picture frame.
Tell your friend you have a sheet of MDF or something and that you need to make some cuts with a table saw
The "real thing" is made out of hardwoods instead of particle board. Next time you visit Home Depot or whatever, check the price of some nice chunks of oak. Also realize hardwoods are more expensive/difficult to work with... Given a hammer to start it, large pieces of cheapass pine darn near allow self tapping screws, whereas oak is so tough you'll practically need a metalworking tap set to screw it together.
Leading to my anecdote of the day, last week I was trying to build some model-RR stuff using some Oak (long story why I selected oak). So, a dull made in China home depot drill bit gets hot, seizes in the hole, and twists clean off. It was a shear fracture in a drill press not a "I bent it using my handheld drill". Well OK use the next smallest drill, a 1/32 smaller for pilot holes. Install a cheap made in China home depot screw, its getting a bit tight in there, twist IT off in the hole. Not sure if I should be swearing at China, home depot, or myself, or all three! Thats what you have to look forward to, when working with hardwoods. Now, working in cheapass pine or particle board, you can practically install screws with a hammer, I've seen illegals do that with deck screws, as long as you're careful not to split the wood.
And you'll get a good story out of it.
"So, I rolled a 2d10 to see how many appendages I chopped off, with no saving throw"
A table saw is probably the most dangerous large wood power tool the average person can buy, with the exception of a radial arm saw (are those even sold anymore?). Although it depends how you want to look at it. A jointer table probably won't remove your entire arm and its probably impossible to hurt your leg unless you're really doin it wrong, but it'll take off fingers. On the other hand a table saw is extraordinarily effective at hand and finger amputation. Then theres stuff thats only dangerous when you do something blatantly stupid rather than just bad luck, like stand in the line of fire when running wood thru a planer that occasionally catches and throws the board, although supposedly "that never happens anymore" due to safety stuff. Yeah whatever.
IFR rules require insturments in the aircraft and signal generators on the ground, but not radar in anyway. You just need beacons to follow on the ground and the equipment in your craft to detect them.
Works for one plane in the air in flat terrain. In mountain areas, stay in a published airway and you'll be OK.
For a couple aircraft, ATC can just stack them by altitude. Like old fashioned railroad track warrant dispatching. "You are now the proud (?) owner of V-170 westbound in Wisconsin from Mitchell to its termination in Waukesha at 5100 feet until 1200Z" Intersecting airways and "merge points" could get exciting.
For zillions of A/C the ATC is going to really be spinning asking them all for their fixes, comparing their report to their idea of dead reckoning to catch some errors, and hope for the best.
Basically we talked about the same crap, but I wasn't exhaustive enough to your tastes.
Its a "UK" article, so I figured most of the people posting would be UK folks, in which case I was hoping we discovered some cultural differences or something. But, I guess people are pretty much the same everywhere, to a first approximation...
Slashdot Mirror
Simply make two rules:
Define "Everyone" below as any ISP in the USA.
1) Everyone has to BGP peer with Big Brother AS number 666, one way or another
2) Everyone has to accept (not filter) a 0/0 route from Big Brother AS 666 (most people filter anything bigger than a /8)
Seems like it would be simple enough...
According to my favorite AIM buddy "BGP Bot" AS 666 is not currently assigned, probably pending this law.
How did you figure out you got headaches from a telco base station?
I mean, sure, you get headaches in a certain location. And there happens to be a base station a considerable distance away.
But, how could you possibly "know" those are connected? Almost infinitely more likely:
1) someones furnace/stove/rooftop pool heater is pumping out carbon monoxide.
2) the carpets were cleaned with raw benzene, and/or the gasoline powered scooter is fuming away inside someones apartment.
3) mold sensitivity from the leaky roof.
4) a neighbor is doing god knows what in his meth lab
5) Perfume or other stink sensitivity, especially if the applier is a smoker (those folks tend to apply literally choking quantities)
6) Insecticide not rated for human occupation or improperly applied basically nerve gassing you.
7) The "funniest" part was describing how the headache began as the stairs were being climbed. Probably just a brain aneurysm throbbing away.
8) Drinking too much makes you hung over, not RF transmitters. Exercise, like climbing stairs, doesn't necessarily always help.
9) Neighbor is having a "fun" time getting high huffing paint solvents, you're just getting the contact-headache.
10) The hardwood floor down the hallway is getting refinished with no ventilation at all. Sorry if it makes you hurl.
I've either experienced, or am familiar with others experiencing, all 10.
is there some reason why a camera cannot be flexible to face whatever direction the user wants?
I had a camera flip phone in the mid 00s that mounted the cam on the "flip". So close the phone and the cam faces you, for self portraits, and open the phone and the cam faces outward, for taking pictures of other people. Camera "shutter" button on side, using "trigger finger".
I found the whole concept of a cam phone useless, and the blurry fuzzy low res pix to be worthless, but it was a good design.
So given that the west is slowly dying under a load of debt and bad demographics, this was a useful endeavor because ... ?
... its a more useful way to spend our remaining time and money, than the alternatives?
It seems ironic that women of higher learning who might, as some suggest, fund their education from their ovaries, would need to go to a fertility clinic after their successful education and careers that kept them way from the maternity ward until their 30s or 40s.
What if they were not planning to have kids? May as well get "something" for those eggs.
So the medical quacks are all bundled up because the "best" chicks get too much money. Little concern that the "not so best" get a fraction of the money. And no care at all that some chicks actually have to pay money to get their tubes tied.
A) Approximately like them.
That has the interesting supply and demand effect that perhaps, the only people whom can afford such advanced fertility treatments, are those whom are highly paid / highly educated / in certain social classes.
Some trailer park residents with a combined ACT score of 10, might want the whole advanced fertility clinic egg donation thingy with their neighbor whom also coincidentally also achieved a single digit score, but they are not covered for the treatment and certainly don't have cash on the barrel ... so the average test score of actual participants skews upward ...
Many people seem to run completely motionless Via C7 boxes, including by modding this motherboard - although more likely is that you'd start off buying a fanless board. They're commonly available clocked at 1GHz, though 1.2-1.5GHz fanless seems possible.
That was pretty accurate about three years ago when I built a fanless mythtv box. Still running great.
Now a days they're all 1.2GHz on a designed to be fanless, off the shelf board. ATOM based boards claim to have a higher marketing speed. No idea if they actually crunch numbers any faster, first stage in the proc might be a /2 flipflop for all I know.
http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=2
The reason for slow speed growth in that market sector is lack of interest... I play full screen video on my 3 year old mythtv box... so a 20% faster processor, other than emptying my wallet, would provide ... nothing ... for me.
Bacon tastes good because it's high fat and high calories.
Actually, no. Bacon tastes good partially because of the very strong smoked flavors, and partially due to association with eating maple syrup, a nearly pure carb. It also has a yummy crunch texture when properly prepared, like a carnivore potato chip.
If we actually enjoyed high fat/high cal foods, we'd guzzle grapeseed oil, and use crisco as a chip dip, and we would merely heat bacon hot enough to kill parasites, as opposed to frying until almost all the fat is rendered out into the pan.
I can almost 100% guarantee you have not tried a low carb diet involving bacon. One of the three almost stereotypical low carb breakfast foods is bacon. And it goes well as a lunch or dinner side item. Trust me, after a week of that you'll be repulsed by bacon. You will not devour five pounds of bacon in one sitting. Its the association with high carb white bread toast, or high carb maple syrup, or pure carb pancakes that makes bacon appealing. Also the association with almost pure corn syrup "ketchup" and high carb buns on a burger. Or super sugary salad dressings on a salad. My itself, ugh.
You are right of course; but how about this, then: Instead of making noises, why not require mobile operators to not accept calls other than to the emergency services on the motorway.
The superficial retort is bus passengers will be highly annoyed. But, upon reflection, who really wants to be trapped on a bus listening to someone babble mindlessly on the phone? Its about as elegant as those folks in the 80s whom played ghetto blasters on public transportation. I recall there was even a scene in a star trek movie making fun of that.
Actually, with a B.S. degree, your best bet is getting into OCS, Warrant officer school, or is it too late to join ROTC?
You can enlist with a B.S. if you really want, but to say you'll be slightly overqualified would be an understatement.
Maybe sign up for ROTC, catch a one year scholarship, refuse to submit an application for graduation until next year, take enough classes next year for a minor in ... something, graduate with a major of CS, a minor in something useful, and a commission... not a bad plan at all. Assuming you can handle/tolerate the military lifestyle. Which is admittedly a heck of a lot easier as an O-1 than as an E-1.
Or, in a permanently contracting economy, it just means you'll be over qualified for the fewer remaining jobs and have a couple years less experience than the folks whom skipped grad school.
Also most people view their career through rosy glasses. Whats two years off, if you won't retire for four decades? But, due to ageism, outsourcing, etc, you'll be unemployable beyond 30 unless you're lucky (and I'm lucky). So do you want an 8 year career with a BS, or a 6 year career with a MS, before you have to retrain? You'll probably haul down more total lifetime income with a BS than a MS, especially when accounting for less experience and student loan debts.
A biosciences company will hire a dude with a bio education AND a CS degree before they'll hire a CS guy.
A finance company will hire a dude with an accounting education AND a CS degree before they'll hire a CS guy.
You get the idea.
No need to go back for a 4-year degree... Boss will be impressed enough to hear you're enrolled at the local community college.
Also, in general, there are certain educational areas that "go well with programming".
For example, most big companies that have MIS developers also have a finance/accounting department. If you want a MIS developer position, its hard to go wrong by taking a couple accounting classes at the local CC, or a seminar.
Another example, many apps seem to involve databases. My CS degree only had an optional, superficial, theory oriented one semester class. Since so many apps involve DBs, maybe a quickie DBA class at the local CC would be good resume fodder.
The goal is to not be "the guy who programs" but to be "the guy who programs and also knows about our business"
build some fake solar cells and windmills on the roof
Building fake gadgets by hand one piece at a time, might be more expensive than buying a real one.
Most of the money in panels is in the assembly labor, the glass, the backer, waterproofing, the mounting brackets... If you're going to all that trouble, may as well stick some cells in there. Even making convincing fake cells to encapsulate into the panel is going to be tough.
On the other hand, an inverter is quite expensive and no one sees it...
Earth (in Reality)
Takes seven days to make a copy. Well, technically six and then a day of rest. So they say.
First of all, many military operations may last much more than a few weeks.
Second of all, even if "waiting a couple of weeks" could make it all okay, I'm not sure how they would know that without insight into the operation itself.
Wikileaks didn't make the video themselves, or steal it. As the name would seem to imply, someone leaked it to them. I cannot imagine a strategic advantage for WL in waiting, other than the fairly obvious situation of the guy whom leaked it stating, "They will be all done and home in the barracks on date X, therefore if you have any sense of journalistic honor you won't release until date X + small # of days". No one else in the slashdot comments has come up with a better explanation.
If you are in the business of publishing leaks, you need to understand and be ready for reasonable investigations about how you came into possession of that sensitive material. It's not like they couldn't have foreseen this happening.
The crime in this situation is that CNN isn't being allowed to cover it live, and something newsworthy is being covered up.
I was promised if I voted for Obama the wars would be over. I want a refund. Same ripoff in 06. I want a refund for that, too. An argument that we must deal ethically, morally, and honorably with an unethical, immoral, and dishonorable government is going to fall on deaf ears.
WL isn't getting ethical, moral, honorable treatment from the authorities, because the jackbooted thugs in the govt are not ethical, moral, or honorable, regardless of the classification of some video. So, why discuss the classification of the video if its irrelevant to their treatment? It merely makes a kangaroo court look more reputable than it really is...
Mystified how this ends up modded troll.
I don't do windows. Mac and Linux only.
Could someone compare and contrast with apt-get and security.debian.org, which I am very familiar with?
I'm not trying to ignite a flamewar, I'm just curious about the feature set. What one side would have to add to reach the other side's level, etc.
the release of a recent military operation
They're intentionally waiting a couple weeks, almost certainly for that reason. Making the rest of your post inapplicable.
Video taken from the point of view of the designating laser (if it was ground based) can be back-tracked. Even if the video is from the launcher information on the designator used can be determined & be useful in many cases. The less al-queda knows, the better.
Which is why they wait a couple weeks before publicizing. They have either very specific or general knowledge that our guys on the ground will have rotated out of that area by the time the publicize the video. Its entirely possible the guy that leaked the video wanted to watch CNN the day its released on his day off so provided them with a demand, which they are honoring.
If, in an alternate history, you shot an AA gun precisely straight upward from Ploesti Romania in early August of 1943, you could have theoretically hit the plane my grandfather was flying, although in our timeline he was OK. That's top secret knowledge, say, in July of 43. Kind of secret that day back in 43. A couple weeks later, its in the newspapers. In 2010, its just a wikipedia page.
To come out and openly say, "We have classified material, and we'll show it to you in a couple weeks' time", what the hell did they expect would happen?
Actually, it shows profound respect for the men and women doing the fighting, that they're willing to hold a very important story for awhile to minimize any theoretical impact to the boots on the ground. And letting everyone, including the brass, know whats coming, lets them start work early on the coverup/spin or maybe even genuinely change things to improve the situation.
I've seen people ragging on the price. Look at the cost of nice hardwood furniture.
It seems to be aimed more for the "coastal mcmansion" market than "moms basement" market.
With a cheap projector and some patience, I've priced DIY multitouch tables at less than $1000.
Forget the expensive multitouch, I think it would be fun just to have a monitor underneath to select your own custom background. Maps, some relevant object from the campaign, Pr0n, who knows. I've been planning on putting a cheap-o "big" TV underneath a glass coffee table for this purpose, once I have nothing better to do / nothing better to buy. Basically a horizontal version of a vertical digital picture frame.
Tell your friend you have a sheet of MDF or something and that you need to make some cuts with a table saw
The "real thing" is made out of hardwoods instead of particle board. Next time you visit Home Depot or whatever, check the price of some nice chunks of oak. Also realize hardwoods are more expensive/difficult to work with... Given a hammer to start it, large pieces of cheapass pine darn near allow self tapping screws, whereas oak is so tough you'll practically need a metalworking tap set to screw it together.
Leading to my anecdote of the day, last week I was trying to build some model-RR stuff using some Oak (long story why I selected oak). So, a dull made in China home depot drill bit gets hot, seizes in the hole, and twists clean off. It was a shear fracture in a drill press not a "I bent it using my handheld drill". Well OK use the next smallest drill, a 1/32 smaller for pilot holes. Install a cheap made in China home depot screw, its getting a bit tight in there, twist IT off in the hole. Not sure if I should be swearing at China, home depot, or myself, or all three! Thats what you have to look forward to, when working with hardwoods. Now, working in cheapass pine or particle board, you can practically install screws with a hammer, I've seen illegals do that with deck screws, as long as you're careful not to split the wood.
And you'll get a good story out of it.
"So, I rolled a 2d10 to see how many appendages I chopped off, with no saving throw"
A table saw is probably the most dangerous large wood power tool the average person can buy, with the exception of a radial arm saw (are those even sold anymore?). Although it depends how you want to look at it. A jointer table probably won't remove your entire arm and its probably impossible to hurt your leg unless you're really doin it wrong, but it'll take off fingers. On the other hand a table saw is extraordinarily effective at hand and finger amputation. Then theres stuff thats only dangerous when you do something blatantly stupid rather than just bad luck, like stand in the line of fire when running wood thru a planer that occasionally catches and throws the board, although supposedly "that never happens anymore" due to safety stuff. Yeah whatever.
IFR rules require insturments in the aircraft and signal generators on the ground, but not radar in anyway. You just need beacons to follow on the ground and the equipment in your craft to detect them.
Works for one plane in the air in flat terrain. In mountain areas, stay in a published airway and you'll be OK.
For a couple aircraft, ATC can just stack them by altitude. Like old fashioned railroad track warrant dispatching. "You are now the proud (?) owner of V-170 westbound in Wisconsin from Mitchell to its termination in Waukesha at 5100 feet until 1200Z" Intersecting airways and "merge points" could get exciting.
For zillions of A/C the ATC is going to really be spinning asking them all for their fixes, comparing their report to their idea of dead reckoning to catch some errors, and hope for the best.
Basically we talked about the same crap, but I wasn't exhaustive enough to your tastes.
Its a "UK" article, so I figured most of the people posting would be UK folks, in which case I was hoping we discovered some cultural differences or something. But, I guess people are pretty much the same everywhere, to a first approximation...