There also was "Robot War" and "Droid Arena" (after RSL was added to the game) My girlfriend used to be one of the top players on DA.

Corewars was fun when I was a kid in the 80s. I even wrote a Red Code simulator for the Apple //e, using the low res graphics to show the status of the battle "ground". (Had to a delay in the main interpreter so people could watch watch the battle.)

Very true. And very sad. My nephew has seen this happen to smart kids.

They also don't need to be held back - or worse, labeled as ADD.

The kids that can advance faster should be allowed to advance faster.

Stupid, yes.

How much of an obstacle?

The most difficult requirement is the franchise agreement. Maybe if Tesla split itself in to 2 companies, one for manufacturing, the other for retail and service operations, they could satisfy this requirement.

A 1000 sq ft "show room" in a mall is possible. Every Apple store I have been in has had at least 1000 sq ft of sales floor, plus back room space.

On site servicing could be possible depending on how strict the definition of "on site" is. Example, when Circuit City still had stores, the one near me had a store in the mall with an installation facility in a corner of the mall's parking lot. ("Anchor stores" like Sears often have attached auto service facilities, but I seriously doubt any mall would allow Tesla to do that.)

English I and II are almost certainly required by any accredited school. Most accredited schools also have a humanities requirement, so Government and Anthropology are not unreasonable.

I would consider Algebra I a remedial course, so I agreed, replace it.

I also agree the programming tools class can be covered in other classes, including Project Management (Software).

Move Intro to Unix to the first semester. Or maybe second, if Intro to Computers is needed. This will give them a foundation for the suggested web server admin class.

Intro to Programming Logic should include a programming language. One very different from Javascript, so the students get a broader perspective. (I started programming at a very early age, so I don't know what would be good for some one starting post high school, or even in high school.)

And I agree with others that a fifth course per semester should be added. Include a third programming language.

We also didn't allow cameras in our daughter's room or other private rooms in the house.

An image taken in IR is as good as the resolution of the camera. Of course, some details important details will be missing, but many ordinary photographs also miss important details.

News to me

Actually, flow charts are a form of programming. A good place to start. Something like a simple variant of Simulink or LabView would even allow the computer to run the logic depicted in the diagram.

Why not freshman? Why not even earlier? I learned how to do cleaning and cooking by the age of 8. Long before Home Ec was offered in my middle school (I took wood shop, instead, but I had already learned a lot of that before, too).

(Unfortunately, liability issues have driven most "hands on" activities out of schools (and out of what parents teach their children).)

That depends on how it is taught. Unfortunately, at least in the US, these classes often end up being "how to MS Office", which was easy for the teachers. Then MS radically changed the UI of Office. It is not a good idea to teach the details of a specific version of a specific tool set so early in a student's education.

As for programming, once children have gotten the basics of arithmetic, they can start learning programming. And programming has the potential to improve actual understanding of math over memorization of formulas and cranking out calculations.

It not just those in solitary who are denied physical contact with visitors - at least in some prisons - even minimum security prisons. A friend of mine was imprisoned (for disorderly conduct) for a month in a minimum security prison. The visitation rooms had a plexiglass partition separating the inmate from the visitors. The prison had no provisions for allowing visitors to have physical contact with inmates - not even spouses or children. The inmates were allowed contact with other inmates. Nevertheless, it was hard on my friend to not be able to hug his children and wife for that time.

Valid point.

Originally, SSL/TLS and HTTPS were developped and deployed to provide pprotection for this small amount of snesitive data.

Now, for various reasons, we have HTTPS protect pages that contain a lot of "rich" content that actually doesn't need this protection. This has the side affect of creating a lot of extra, uncachable content. I can understand why ISPs would want a way handle that.

So, is there a way to securely protect the sensitive stuff while leaving the rest unencrypted? Perhaps the non-sensitive stuff could be validated* with secure hashes, so could then be cached without need to decrypt anything?

*As I understand, one of the current problems with mixing HTTPS and non-HTTPS content on the same page is that the non-secure content can affect how the secure content is handled.

If you use a simple prefix you can remember, a different one for each system, then you can program a complex suffix into a YubiKey configured in "static mode". This avoids changing the existing password based system.

Of course, it's not as secure as other options, like One Time Passwords or challenge-response systems, but is an improvement.

(Another option would be to have a seperate YubiKey for each system, then each system could have a completely unique password.)

My girlfriend of many years freely admitted that I was the "rational" choice rather than the "chemistry" choice. Later she also admitted to other advantages of choosing me over a man "practicing optimum predation".

They wouldn't. They are already helping each other and (mostly) fighting for each other against the rest of the population. And they pay a pittance to a few "peasants" to do the the dirty jobs they don't want to do, so they are set. They don't really care about the "lower classes" as long as the lower classes don't get in their way. And for the few that do get in their way, they have the resources to neutralize the threat.