The Gaelic/Celtic Calendar's new year's eve is still celebrated in many parts of the world although you now know it as Halloween. You can find out more on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_calendar

was a Kinsale Coderdojo session in the Lilly factory canteen. Here's a video we shot of the event http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMODHilE4qk

I was working on public key cryptography in the late 70s while doing my undergrad degree in maths and electronics and got to know some of the people in that field. I have talked with PZ face to face about his experiences with PGP and government. I believe him.

http://www.tamersahin.com/mssecrets/hotmail.html TL;DR it was not easy!

Most companies that do this type of SSL inspection at their Internet gateways can get Internet Explorer (and such companies often standardize on IE) on the user's PCs to trust the fake certificate by pushing the fake Certificate Authority Root Cert through their Active Directory.

I help out at the local CoderDojo, it's like a youth club and we show them everything from Scratch through HTML & Javascript up to developing Android apps (for the older kids). The company I work for just donated 100 old laptops to allow kids without their own (or parents) laptop to take part.

Here's what it looks like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMODHilE4qk

They're looking for intelligence on Facebook? That should keep them searching for a while :-)

Here in Ireland we follow a Celtic calendar. Autumn (fómhar) is defined as the three month period with the Autumnal Equinox as midpoint. For simplicity, seasons nowadays align with the months of the Gregorian civil calendar so Autumn starts on the first day of August.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_calendar

Kevin Mitnick was able to get mugshots of police that were investigating him by buying a police yearbook claiming it was a present for a relative who was a police officer.

"At one point, he went to a police station and found a Los Angeles Police Department yearbook for sale. It included photographs and names of the very undercover squads seeking him. He said he wanted to buy a copy as a gift for his police officer uncle. With no questions asked, for $75 he walked away with a photo guide to his pursuers."

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/hacking-the-system-because-he-could/question-2086111/

Please do not give the five trillion dollar coin to Mr Burns to deliver it ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Trillions

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/16/1618206/Open-Source-Alternative-To-Dropbox

It would be bad if I lost my Gmail account but I do have a DRP (Disaster Recovery Plan) for that. I download everything each month via IMAP to have a local backup and for all registrations instead of just using my Gmail address I use an e-mail address in my own domain which redirects to my Gmail address. It would be bad if I lost my Gmail account but I do have a DRP for that.

I tried the demo at http://myfavoritebeer.org/ and the result was:
"Error encountered while attempting to confirm your address. please try again. (error message: unknown)"

Spartans! Prepare for glory!