as my History professors and English professors were.

Umm. I'm pretty sure it's open source.

Or Congress, which has oversight authority.

Just like 2013,...,1995 (when I first installed RedHat 2 from a CD)

As good as any other theory, I guess.

what Panama is to the US, then fine, go for it.

There is a many to many mapping of those. (Should be many to one, but nothing is perfect.)

That is, my slashdot user name is one "name", so is my "real" name that people call me, which is not the full name on my birth certificate. So that's three names for one person.

Also, not all terrorist groups are in the middle east, or Muslim. Several are right here in the US, and Christian. (Or Jewish, not sure if any atheist groups are in the US).

In which mathematical system is 40>60?

better to deliver it to where it's needed (i.e. Phoenix) than sell it to southern California or let it flow into Mexico unused.

Because God forbid we actually let those dirty beaners get the water we promised to them by treaty, right?

New since, umm, the 1960's? 1980's, anyway. The US has tested several different ASATs over the years, and has long had countermeasures. I assume other countries have countermeasures as well.

For those of us old enough to remember The USS Vincennes.

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Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.

It's gonna make going through airport security even more fun. Especially for those with pacemakers.

The Russians will release the complete Snowden Archive.