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The Chinese authorities will hold him until they feel he has given them all he knows, then quickly extradite him to the US. At that point he will probably try to get to Europe. If …

Every browser seems to implement its own password management scheme. None of them are as good as the same functionality that already exists in the operating system. Browsers should…

Technically the NSA is a part of the DOD. They assist the ODNI which is civilian, although its leadership role is limited.

I think the US government is not on the list because they don't need this program. The NSA finds its exploits directly from the source code, which Microsoft shares with them and ma…

I hope Snowden realizes that none of this matters if an FBI agent is sitting beside the reporter as they communicate.

An open message to Snowden: this reporter would hand over his private key in a second.

He probably pissed off some member of the royal family, whom are more important to the US than intellectuals.

Although this wasn't news to most people here, keep in mind that the US has always denied doing economic espionage, against China or anyone else. The Snowden leak also revealed tha…

There exist proof and verification tools for C, like ACSL and Frama-C, [1] or LCL and Splint. [2,3] Not to mention the myriad of static and dynamic analysis tools. You can prove th…

I'm glad I came across this article. I'm learning Python and was given that advice to use multiprocessing rather than threading, but hadn't researched why. Very informative, thanks…

This looks great. It could be the PGFPlots of Javascript.

Without going into the technical details described by other commenters here, this is my understanding of the problem (please correct me if I'm wrong): You receive the code that is …

The fact that their website still doesn't have a viewable demonstration of their software suggests it actually isn't so easy to make interactive content like Snow Fall . The only t…

You can always put the idea on hold for a while, and find regular work until you decide to go back to it. The work you put into it so far isn't going anywhere.

To me, the next power of two after 4 is 8, not 4. If you prefer, you can add a line to simply return the input if it is already a power of two: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_o…

A ring cut from a single crystal of silicon may be strong enough. Regardless, it would look very nice.

We were taught sine, cosine and tangent in the context of how they could be used to derive angles from other angles, not what they were and how they worked. They were presented as …

Past Mach 10, a layer of plasma is formed on the leading surface of the aircraft, which RF cannot traverse. This is also why atmospheric reentry occurs in a blackout. There's a goo…

Congratulations on a successful test flight. Aircraft that fly up to Mach 10 can still use radio communication. That wasn't the case with the Falcon Project's HTV-2. I guess the Ai…

I'm glad the subject is being studied, it's a very interesting problem. Proper solutions are much more sophisticated than it seems. You have to ensure that the checks you use in th…

Your question is based on anecdotal evidence. You should instead ask why so few women and girls in your life are inquisitive about their world? In my personal experience, women are…