...well, maybe they weren't happy with the specifics of the Nationalist-Socialist platform. (I bet it was the anti-smoking mindset.) It's not quite as if neo-Nazis have a monopoly on profound racism, or even a monopoly on holocaust denial. Sometimes it's just desirable for the sake of some local variety of nationalism to pretend the Jews weren't as abused during World War 2 as they actually were.

He was quite well regarded by Clarke and Heinlein, but definitiely not in the same rank as them when it came to writing. He could churn out money making words though.

...But it's okay, because he actually died years ago; no one has bothered to check because he continues to emit information.

Any idea who wrote it?

Vigorous!

Maybe unlimited storage of email text?

10.04 is not "old", it is old. It was released over 5 years ago and is now out of support, and you're expecting developers to target things that far back? If you want that, you need to find someone to step up and do that support for you.

Actually I would argue that when we say that part of the Earth (like the ocean) is flat, we mean that it follows the shape of the WGS84 oblate spheroid, whereas an area the size of Kansas which was geometrically flat would look to us like a bowl, with its centre lower in gravitational terms than its perimeter.

The Earth is not flat therefore Kansas is not flat.

Not sure what OP is on about.

I believe at that point the poster child was OpenSSL/SSH, not a kernel.

Machinery doesn't need life support. Thats the challenge. Try operating a machine like Opportunity on a planet like Venus or Earth for ten years. That would be very difficult.

I just had a 3.6 here. Should I submit a new story for it?

Right, which is why I added the second sentence. My point is that it could've been phrased in a manner that avoids implying Moscow is a trap, e.g. "unable to return home." I'm sure there are schools of propaganda training that are more subtle and don't pooh-pooh that sort of structuring, but at the very least it implies some restraint on the parts of the authors away from being a proverbial anti-US slant.

I'd really love to see some examples—I've been watching demo competitions for years and I can't recall any efforts that really focused on authentic portrayal of humans.