I believe such monuments are usually funded by subscription by private organizations; and I find evidence that such is the case for this Memorial. So, NO, your tax dollars did not pay for this, though it is on public land; I do not know if the Federal government maintains the site or a private organization does so (as is the case with e.g. Monticello).

Savitch's book is superb as a textbook. You won't find many other books that are that good. The two things I'd suggest learning about are data structures/algorithms and design patterns. For the former, there are a lot of text books, but the good ones are advanced and expensive (for instance, Cormen, Leiserson & Rivest, *Introduction to Algorithms*), and the inexpensive ones are poorly written. You might try the O'Reilly book "Algorithms in a Nutshell*. For the latter, there are a number of books - a good intro book is *Head First Design Patterns*; the book of books is the so-called Gang of Four book that introduced the idea, *Design Patterns* by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides.

He's probably afraid they lifted his prints from the doorknob to that apt he burgled in high school to get some money to buy weed.

The UAE actually is a collection of small sovereign states who have banded together, but are not unified under a single government ... Sort of like pre-1789 USA.

Yes, but it needs to happen without our "help." you can't force democracy down someone's throat at the point of a gun (Germany and Japan are exceptions, as the occupations of those countries were justified in the minds of their citizens by the nature of the conflict). Read @oxfordgirl on Twitter to get some idea of how pro-Western, secularist Iranian Greens feel about our "help."

I think he's read Cryptonomicon one too many times.

I would imagine that Google will also deploy gigabit worthy applications.

Or, in somewhat more technical terms, the fact that they suspect it's manmade suggests it has a very high albedo, which would make it much easier to find.

RSA uses semiprimes - numbers with only two prime factors. If you know the factors p and q, you can derive the private key from the public key through multiplication mod (p-1)(q-1). There are much faster ways to factorize numbers than brute force - the best is the general number field sieve. It is Diffie-Hellman which uses discrete logs. There are better attacks against discrete logs than brute force, too. Once we have sufficiently powerful quantum computers, both the factorization problem and the discrete log problem will be made trivial by Schor's algorithm.

From what I remember, Excel also thinks that February 29, 2000 doesn't exist.

Hey, what did you do the last time you realized you said something unbelievably stupid on the internet? Oh, right, post as an anonymous coward!

Facepalm. I'm gonna get mauled for this one.

Do *you* often work with years as floats?

The baseball advertisements are almost all during natural breaks in the game between half-innings (the main exceptions being pitcher substitutions).

One problem that al Qaeda has is that their most operationally successful teams don't survive to strike again. If we weren't doing such a bang up job of recruiting for them, they'd already be washed up.