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Comment Re:Eat your words on MULTIPLE grounds vs fact (Score 1) 298

Hi APK, I knew you were a hosts file fanboi, I didn't know you were a Microsoft astroturfer as well!

FYI, I didn't intend to put words in your mouth, hence why I put "ever?" in brackets (context APK, context...).

Also, if you want people to take you seriously then you need to learn how to summarise your thoughts and present them in a non-td;dr way.

// Note to self, don't feed the trolls

Comment Re:BS (Score 1) 298

Fair enough Windows has been dominant in the PC market for decades but you can hardly say it's been dominant on server platforms for decades (ever?). Maybe for intranet use but as far as internet facing, mission critical servers UNIX, BSD and since the late 90s Linux has been dominant.

Comment Re:ordinance? (Score 1) 18

WIYF:

The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see ordnance and surveying): mapping Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rebellion in 1745. There was also a more general and nationwide need in light of the potential threat of invasion during the Napoleonic Wars, reflected in the inclusion of the War Department's broad arrow in the agency's logo.

Comment Re:What do you mean not providing a service? (Score 3, Interesting) 18

"The OS are not creating a new Google Maps-style service of their own" was taken from the BBC article.

I figured I'd already broken the first rule of Slashdot by RTFA so I might as well break rule 1 of journalism by not verifying the source.

I suspect what they meant was that the OS is not trying to replace Google Maps. Also, if you were going to provide a (large) dataset for people to use don't you think it would be a good idea to give them a convenient way to browse it before downloading?

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