QUES: In turn SuSE will license Java 2 Standard Edition while also formalising an existing agreement to distribute Sun 's Java Virtual Machine for running Java applications .

Nuremberg , Germany-based SuSE will license Sun 's Java 2 Standard Edition ( J2SE ) and ship Sun 's Java Virtual Machine across its Linux software line .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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ANS: yes

[Q]: It would be difficult to overestimate the potential dangers of the Remote Procedure Call ( RPC ) vulnerability .

The flaw involves the Remote Procedure Call ( RPC ) protocol , which deals with inter-computer communications .

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[A]: no

Problem: Wwo sentences:
A discouraging outlook from General Electric Co. sent its share down 81 cents ( U.S. ) or 2.7 per cent to $ 29.32 .
A discouraging outlook from GE sent the company 's shares down 81 cents ( U.S. ) or 2.7 per cent to $ 29.32 .
Do they have the same meaning? OPTIONS:
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Answer: yes

Here are two sentences:

Meat giant Smithfield Foods Inc. has won a bidding war to buy a bankrupt Midwestern pork producer .

Pork processing giant Smithfield Foods Inc. said Monday that it won the bidding in an auction for bankrupt Farmland Industries Inc . ' s pork business .
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yes

Q: Columbia was destroyed during re-entry Feb. 1 , killing its seven astronauts .

The Columbia broke apart during descent on Feb. 1 , killing all seven astronauts aboard .

Please tell me if the sentences above mean the same.
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A: yes

[Q]: Launched from the space shuttle Atlantis in 1989 , Galileo will have travelled about 4.6 billion kilometres by the time it hits Jupiter .
Launched from space shuttle Atlantis ( news - web sites ) in 1989 , Galileo will have traveled about 2.8 billion miles by the time it hits Jupiter .
(See options at the end). If the first sentence is true, is the second one also true?
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[A]:
yes