it was owned by xensource, now owned by citrix, really unlikely that IBM contributed more than the owners.
Thanks playing FUD and toeing the party line on KVM

comodo is not based in those places.
why do you think oh say africa is "safer" than eastern Europe?

there is, it's called Certificate Revocation and Online Certificate Status Protocol
why they are not implemented and we have to rely on installing new s/w, I'll leave to those in the know

really? what's hp-ux going to run on?

I don't have the knowledge to have an opinion on what's being discussed

your power refreshes every 5 years sounded wrong, I double checked and ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER6 power6 released 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER7 power7 released 2010

why do make up facts ? really I am interested

and how is that bad?
you want to be able to get away with a hit and run? or drive home after committing a crime without anyone knowing?

you are placing the freedom to commit crime and have a fair chance of getting away with it, ahead of public safety.

BTW if you carry a mobile phone ....

out of interest, does anyone know, if space is like guantanamo bay (or at least how GwB wanted to have it treated)
in that the courts don't have authority over it?

Mutual assured destruction (M.A.D.) is not literally, I will kill *all* your people before/whilst you kill *all* my people.
It's I'll kill so many of your people, that odds are I'll kill you, I'll kill all you family, I'll kill most people you know, and their relatives. your country will be at the stone age for decades.

I doubt any sane person, by any loosely based definition of sanity would say, well I'll kill 99.9999999999% of your population and you will do the same to me, but 100K strangers from my country will survive so *bring* *it* *on*. if you raise the prices of natural gas, I'll nuke you, end all life on earth.

basically what you and parent are saying, is that
search the moon for an area containing some "hard" rocks, dig up the moon to carve out a few ton sized rock, coat it with heat shield, propel it to 9000km/hr, use some tricky aiming to ensure you hit roughly what you are more or less aiming for.
keep sending food, air, supplies, spare parts to the moon base.

or!!!! use nuclear missiles, stealth bombers carrying nukes, ICBMs, submarine launched nukes.

reminds me of the urban legend of NASA spending millions of dollars on a pen that can write in space, while the Russians used a 10c pencil

.... and when the usage grows beyond the size of the largest single disk available?

your answer works, so long as the usage is bellow the size of the largest (affordable) single disk, perhaps that is enough.
should those with 4TB of movies and crap, be shot

it should depend on what the fresh grad knows, not what they proclaim to know.
I mean if it's a young miguel de icaza, Gnome founder, or a hot shot open source contributor, then yes.
If it's someone, that participated in an iphone group assignment then no.

even if they accept it, if I was amazon, I'd put it for sale for $1,000,000,000 , you would get 20% of nothing.

what I know about win32 api, can fit on a post-it-note with space for a doodle, but I read somewhere that an app can veto a system shutdown, I would assume someone doing an update on app shutdown, would veto the system shutdown.

what's evil about providing a single interface to multiple backends, then being bought out?
No one is getting smacked to use it, continue to use it, divulge personal information, publish career damaging photos/opinions or even use their real name!

out of interest are you being funny about military coup? or did 2 Generalissimo in a banana republic get into a real fight while playing your tetris clone?
"you cheated I kill you" .... "send the Toyota pick-up truck to round up my men"

From a api POV the UI can be abstracted away, e.g. java, tk, wxwidgets, QT
The display of a UI element can also be shown very differently, an example is how the iphone handles a dropdown box in a webpage (it pops a large picker at the bottom)

As for what you call "These are significantly different UI approaches", both the IOS and android encourage different ui and images for different devices / resolution, which the device dynamically picks depending on it's capability / model / screen resolution, orientation.

btw, if a company develops an android app and a chromos what-ever-they-are-called (notebook optimised webpage ?), they still have to put in the effort to make their app/page useful on both.
Additionally they need to have expertise in both types of development, so your point is kind of irrelevant.