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Distributed Statistical Debugging
Luis Villa writes "The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project at UC Berkeley and Stanford is working on statistical debugging techniques to report, find, and fix the bugs that drive the most users crazy every day. A handful of outside bug volunteers have been running the project's special feedback builds for a few weeks, and that has generated some really interesting data. But for strong results they need more runs. /. has been known to generate those kinds of big numbers ;) Their site has feedback builds of several open source applications, and the entire project is open sourced. Read more about it, then install some applications, and help them make our free software better for everyone. I'm really looking forward to the end results."
Not Americans. Americans only chimed in when it became clear that the Russians are kicking the crap out of Hitler. You can't imagine how seriously all this talk about Americans "winning" the WWII pisses off the people who fought with Wermacht for 5 years and lost 35 million brothers and sisters in combat to actually win the war.
More correct figure is about 35mln. Most of Stalin's repressions occured in late 30's, and they're not a part of 35 mln. There was no "alliance" with Hitler. There was, hovewer a pact that USSR and Germany won't attack each other which made a lot of sense, because in early 40's Germany had more military power than any single other country on the planet, and it was pointless for Russia to even try to defeat them alone.
Nobody turned over Jews, SS troops were good at finding them themselves. Nobody protected them much either, that's true. And nobody "enslaved" anybody. Yes, they've established socialist regimes in some Eastern European countries, but this is FAR from what one would call "enslavement" (the nations weren't even economically related). Merely a change of political regime (kinda what the US did in Afghanistan and Iraq TWICE, horribly shooting themselves in the foot in process of doing that).