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Those don't look like actual classification markings, which are required to appear at both the top and bottom of pages. It seems more likely that those are some internal Democratic…

Ok,ok but "own the term sky" doesn't sound as nice.

Wow, they literally "own the sky".

Here is a link to the actual CIA document that was released: http://www.scribd.com/doc/159950486/CIA-FBI-Referred-Doc

This whole line of argument presupposes that there is some sort of magic ratio of nutrients for each person and that if they don't hit exactly those numbers they will suffer some v…

There most certainly are capacitors available that meet his specs without being unreasonably large. For example this one has a capacitance of 1200F and is only 8 cm long: http://ww…

This headline is pretty misleading. He just introduced a bill to renew an already existing ban on non-metallic guns and magazines.

I wrote some code a little while ago to do something like this (although I wasn't trying to produce Victory Boogie Woogie in particular)[1]. It generates samples from a probability…

However the driver lives in New Jersey, where only 10% of the power comes from coal (as of 2005). There, I find that it is only 0.713 lbs of CO2 per kwh, so he'd only be releasing …

Regardless of what they paid, its already been spent and its likely that Facebook did not see much of that anyway. Even if they were to move to another social network out of spite …

Is it just me or does $3000 seem like a really cheap price for the Dallas Mavericks to reach 1M+ fans? Would it make any significant difference to their marketing budget if the pri…

I'm not really sure that this explains it at all. For one, there are sites similar to isitruby19.com - such as onpython3yet.com. What seems more likely to me is that python 3 was n…

Somewhat off the beaten path for this site I know, but the process seemed oddly similar to software development to me as well as simply amazing that you can create something that p…

I think it still requires your normal password as well, so the server wouldn't be lost unless someone had both.

Pretty cool. Google authenticator is another alternative that be used via a pam module, with the additional benefit that it doesn't need to connect to something else for verificati…

Compound with statements are nice, put this is not a 3.1 feature. This was added in 2.7: http://docs.python.org/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-wit...

This article article is ridiculous. He acts as if alternative energy sources must be cheaper than our current energy sources to be worthwhile. Of course alternative energy sources …

Carol's measurements would destroy the entanglement in a way that Alice and Bob would be able to detect. However QKD is still vulnerable to a MITM (as opposed to mere interception)…

RBAC appears to be a bit richer of a concept than group based authentication. In particular, role assignments can be session dependent and role assignments can be constrained to li…

There's a good response to this paper on RealClimate http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/07/misdia...