FTP is a stupid protocol and needs to die. Please use something else (such as SFTP).

No need to wait for a TCP connection to time out. As soon as the page has finished loading, all connections are closed. HTTP is a stateless protocol; just because you have a web page open in front of you doesn't mean there's any connection to the server right now.

If you're not using cookies, you can use query strings to track state. For every link on the page, you add a query string to the URL containing a session ID number, so when the user clicks any link, the session ID is passed in the query string. But that looks ugly, so you should just use cookies.

You ask that as if the notion of attorney-client privilege would magically prevent the NSA from spying on everybody's email. It won't, because the NSA's official position is that they're already not reading anybody's email that they're not supposed to. If your email is privileged, the NSA will continue to "not read" it, just as they have been.

Aww crap. Well, they were the last to do so, so it comes at no surprise. I guess I needed to learn how to emulate that through JavaScript anyway.

But kids CAN play with things like this:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929275.800-kindergarten-coders-can-program-before-they-can-read.html

Sure, but who's going to pay for that? It's way cheaper to just print whatever's trending on Twitter. The public has clearly indicated that they don't really care.

If spacial ability in children is a predictor of their scientific creativity later in life, then if we could improve children's spacial abilities, this might produce more creative adults. The next step is to look for ways to do that, and then see if it worked.

Yes they do, so no, linking to a Tumblr page would not get the Tumblr page indexed.

My roommate and I did this in our apartment complex during college, running 10base2 coax to friends in another building in the same complex. It worked great for six months, until management found it and threatened eviction.

OK, but let's say the city said "our city is dying, everything is falling apart, but damnit at least we're gonna have good emergency services!" If that's their priority, and then this happens, it's a pretty big deal.

If you can load your self-made CA cert onto the device and explicitly tell it to trust any cert issued by that CA, then everything is fine. Obviously if you don't do that, a MITM attack should cause scary warnings. :-)

That only counts as one.

Ummm, yeah. Microsoft is going to stop releasing security patches for the OS. If you're still running XP, using older video drivers should be the least of your concerns.

Was that also back in the day when the search engine was altavista.digital.com?