VIM. No, seriously, my eight year old uses VIM!

Perhaps that is why VIM is a good choice. In the learning stages one learns to use it, and the immediate feedback is a form of gratification if it does what you intended. And when VIM does something unexpected, we laugh and wonder what we can learn from that.

Don't.

Python is a real programming language, and it is very easy to learn. My eight year old daughter started learning Python when she was seven, and she can write Hangman and other games. Note that we are writing _console_ games but we have a blast doing so. And her native language is not English, nor even use English letters, so if your child already knows the English alphabet and knows what "define", "print", and "if" mean, then he will already be at an advantage.

For kids their age, it is fun just to write a function is_cute(name) that accepts the name of someone they think is cute, and then prints "AC is cute", "timothy is cute", and so on each time it is called.

Even worse, there is no way to know which certs you need and which you can get rid of. This question has remained open on Super User without a good answer for over half a year:
http://superuser.com/questions...

The NSA did this with RSA, as well. Well, they had to bribe RSA with $10,000 but their code went in.

Oh, and GP should become familiar with the obfuscated C contest:
http://www.ioccc.org/

The next one will be Windows Atlas.

So Windows Redstone will be good, but stay away from Windows Atlas!

You've been here since '98 (beat me by a year) and you don't remember goatse? A kid is a goat offspring.

Regarding that video, /.ers might recogize the name of the speaker: Jon Skeet.

The issue is, though, why wait for the CA to go before deciding not to trust it? Why should all users in the world have Chinese, American, Iranian, Russian, and other potentially-rogue CAs trusted by their browser?

This Stack Exchange (SuperUser) question about how to know which certs to leave in and which to remove has gone without a decent answer for months:
http://superuser.com/questions...

OP's incident might be related to this question on the Stack Exchange network:
http://lifehacks.stackexchange...

Amusing that the classified DoD payloads are launched with an RD-180 engine.

OP may have been thinking of Brian, not Jesus.

My daughter and I were watching it live as well. I have no idea how much it costs, but I believe that they have to drain the LOx tank if the vehicle sits off countdown timer on the pad. That seems pretty expensive to me! I'm not even sure that they can reuse the cryogenics, it might be vented to atmosphere.

I just asked here, if you are interested:
http://space.stackexchange.com...

Thanks, Bert. I agree with you on all accounts.

I've been on both ends of the assault rifle, and my children have been through one rocket damaging our home and dozens more landing nearby. The more we "advance" technology the more we enable any particular human to hurt more and more people around them. I long for the day when we forget how to forge rifles and pack blackpowder. Let the warriors (and I say this as a reserve soldier) fight with their fists. There is no way for either side to "leave the civilians out of it" when we are fighting with weapons with a ranges measured in kilometers. If you can't look the other side in the eye, don't pull the trigger / don't throw the punch / don't push the button.

And don't be afraid to call someone a false cleric if they are using holy texts / mythology / out-of-context quotes in order to convince you to hurt somebody.