It's fairly conspiracy-theory-esque but I'm pretty sure that a large enough portion of our government has been bought out by the military industrial complex that it would be impossible to actually change any of those things, and likely dangerous to even try. I wouldn't be surprised if Obama earnestly intended on changing those things, only find that it would be more impossible than expected.

Either way, though, the practical matter is that he didn't, and wont, and we can only hope that the next person in line will.

Thanks for the info, smarty. Does it mean you're going to actually do something about it? No. Just some fine that pales in comparison to what they made from breaking that law, and zero incentive to actually stop. Just like always. Just get back to jailing kids for downloading MP3's. THOSE are the people who really need to be punished. ...

The common sense and experience principle is that the competent one's are too valuable to lose to promotions, and thus only the one's competent enough make their way up the ladder.

Though, coming from the engineering field into technology I've noticed a striking difference in how that works. In tech people are very big on praise and namesake. Which tends to lend itself to those golden few actually making it ahead. It's actually somewhat refreshing.

Yes, I thought about this after having already posted my comment. Printers that can do electronics != printers that can do nano scale. My point was that once combined microchips wouldn't be far behind.
As for multimaterial, yes, they can. I'm not real sure how well/readily they switch from on to the other, but they do exist. But even if they couldn't, a series of 3d printers could be used to make a new one. The chips are the only sticking point, that I can think of.

You seem like you might be surprised to learn that they can already print electronics. They can even print at the nano scale, too. Making the possibility of printed processors and micro-chips not that far off.

And I think the managerial: ???? covers "Abort, Retry, Fail?" - as , in my experience, managers never understand that part of the process. ;)

Step 1: use 3d printer to make more 3d printers.
Step 2: stop paying to use first 3c printer.
Step 3: managerial: ?????
Step 4: profit.

http://gizmodo.com/government-lab-admits-to-using-quantum-internet-for-two-493293340

How about you make your own browser that doesn't follow any standards rather than making the rest of our lives hell?

I work at one such company. We recently setup openstack and plan to eventually use it for our production environment. But ec2 will still stay in the picture. Both for services were the end user needs more direct access to the machine and for failover purposes. I just don't know that openstack means the end of ec2.

Can I get "things we've been capable of doing for decades but haven't" for $1000 please.

On a serious note, we do recognize that things like "the skywheel" (e.g. halo?) will be plausible once space mining finally gets going, right?

I like you.

What is it If I enter your house and take photo's of your photos? On a quick look in florida, unless you break something (vandalism) or the owners are home it would be classified as 810.08 Trespass in structure or conveyance which is a 2nd degree misdemeanor, which has a prison term of not greater than 60 days. So based on your conclusion he should be looking at about the same. Not the 10 years the OP presented.

No one has issue with Afghanistan. The OP is more than likely talking about Iraq. Whom we were literally lied to and told they had ties to al-qaida, and then oops we misunderstood the report - but they have "weapons of mass-destruction1!!!!!" oops, we misread that one too, "but sadam is torturing his people!!", oops, turns out they weren't asking for help.. "ohhh.... okay well then I guess we need to stick around to clean up. "

can you imagine having died and learned that was the reason? That there wasn't one, never was, but now more need to die because of the mess we created by being there wrongfully in the first place? Can you imagine that the vast majority of our current debt is because of the massive amount being pumped into the war in iraq? And you're going to defend it?

Lesson Learned - don't report the security holes you discover. Apparently it would have just been better to exploit or sell it.

Hmm. I think you missed my thought process. I am talking about how to motivate kids into wanting to learn about computers/programming. Not learning programming outright via games, or worse teaching people HOW to program games. I think a programming game would never be fun enough to honestly captivate a kid. They really aren't much better than math games... And trying to get kids to program their own games would only lead to confusion and frustration, and likely turn them off from programming.

And no one will *ever* go from messing with game files to programming, say, path finding algorithms in assembly; without having decided to dig into some level of formal learning first. That isn't my goal in my post, either.

My reasoning is that in leaving some room for people to customize and manipulate games there is a higher chance that a youth will at least try to learn enough to create an advantage for themselves, like they have since the invention of PC games... And thus in doing so they will not only gain motivation to take it to the next level, but gain at least some tools in the process.