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Congratulations for your unbeatable victory. May god give you all you need to reunite your country and to solve many of the problems.

You're right: Anything is possible in America.

and there are already over 700 angry comments by users discussing about the reasons for this step.
Members of Heise staff wrote that the database has grown too large and indexing kills too much performance now. And they note "editorial reasons" - leaving them nebulous:

"Wir starten morgen mit dem Löschen":

http://www.heise.de/extras/foren/S-Wir-starten-morgen-mit-dem-Loeschen/forum-7262/msg-15786090/read/

The heise newsticker is famous for the "troll postings" and conspiracy theories as well as many technical debates. It is Germany's most read IT website.

[Update:] Heise said it will not delete old posting due to users' protests. They will simply mark older threads as "read-only".

are fascinating: People spent millions of dollars to have "crystal clear" pictures and now we're on HD, but everybody enjoys Youtube... Videos encoded with 320x240 pixels and scaled to 415 pixels wide while playback...

Nevertheless, I have a youtube channel now and I've put these zfs block pattern movies in there, resized to "youtube-ready"-size.

I am not alone. There are other people on this small planet which get many visitors from IP addresses resolving to *.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net.

Is St Louis the new hidden google network spidering websites? Or is it a poor jazz musician which lost his trumpet and now passes his time hitting reload?

I think we'll never get the answer. Mulder and Scully: please begin investigation. THEY have been seen in St Louis!

Yesterday I saved an old S-Bus (sun) ethernet scsi combi card from the trash. It's quite special because engineers seem to have forgotton a capacitor and a logic circuit on the board, so they did extra wiring and sticking to the produced card. Funny to see. I am wondering how many of these cards were corrected this way until a new revision of the board was developed.

And yes, it is "made in U.S.A." which it proudly "says" on its back.

The SCSI controller is a NCR 53CF96-1, the ethernet controller is the AMD chip under the green wirings. The big LSI chip seems to be a microcontroller, doing some bios work for the s-bus card.

Revision seems to be "210-2013-03 REV.50". And yes, these cards were expensive...