A) It's not that obvious. Care to explain how that would work? A2) That's not interesting to the end-user.

Newspaper advertising traditionally gained its value from the newspaper's demographic. You know the readership, so you know who you're advertising to. Certain newspapers will carry adverts for cheap lager, others expensive champagne. But this notion of a "readership" has been destroyed by Google News -- people now don't chose "their" newspaper, and the advertising becomes untargeted. Newspaper websites are now looking at the same sort of advertising revenues as people's personal blogs. Everything is outsourced to the Google algorithm, and the newspaper itself adds no value to the advertiser.

It is possible that ending the Google News aggregation will mean that sites regain a "readership" and therefore can return to negotiating their own advertising, and that this will result in them returning to profit.

No they're not. Why did News International raise a paywall on their sites? Because site advertising wasn't covering their running costs. The newspapers need a business model that delivers profits. It may be that the Spanish press feel that without Google News it will be easier to have paid subscriptions. It may be that they believe that without Google News, their site "stickiness" will increase, and the value of advertising will increase. Either way, continuing to operate at a loss is no long-term solution.

Free advertising for a loss making product isn't particularly valuable. Advertising revenues have plunged for news sites because they aren't "sticky" enough.

There's a potential difference. The problem is that Google News has become a one-stop-shop for many people (myself included). This means that we don't stay on the newspaper site, going back to Google News to look for the next interesting story. This means that advertising revenues on the content sites are minimal, and pretty much every news site on the entire internet is a loss-making enterprise. This is unsustainable.

Google's solution to claims of profiting off others' work was to run Google News without any advertising content, but that doesn't deal with the fact that Google News is a contributory factor to the financial woes of the content providers it relies on. If Google wants Google News to survive, it must exist in a viable ecosystem, and right now it doesn't. Even if you don't think this is Google's fault, the problem still exists and must be dealt with.

The JS decoder isn't the intended end-product. If browsers adopt the format natively, problem solved.

A) What useful, practical, mass-market purpose is there for light-field photography?
B) Have you seen a light-field camera with any sort of decent resolution?

Nope -- that's not the reason. The reason is "JPEG is here and everyone archives their photos as JPEG, with no uncompressed original, particularly given that most consumer digital cameras use JPEG as their native format."

The problem for the near future is that untold petabytes of data out there exist that cannot benefit from this new format.

It's still a 5V, 2A device though, isn't it? An old USB cable with one end cut off and a jack soldered on will still mean you can power it from a hub. That said, using USB as your power source can start all sorts of fun. Maybe you try to plug it into a device that only supplies 1A, or maybe it's one of those "smart" devices that doesn't power up until it detects a device, but that means your board doesn't get powered, which means that the hub doesn't power up, so the board never powers up...

My problem with Scratch is that it starts with non-intuitive coding paradigms then tries to simplify them just by virtue of "graphical". We as coders have become fixated on our existing paradigms and find it difficult to see that there are other, more appropriate styles for beginners. Even those that do often take the easy way out and declare that thee's no point using a more accessible paradigm as this is the kind of programming that is the end-goal of computer education anyway.

Nothing legally enforceable.

Isn't the IQ scale norm-referenced within study groups? The average IQ in any demographic group is 100.

I have met a great many people in an office environment who waste time on basic repetitive tasks because they don't know the basics of scripting... and I worked in an IT company! We're currently in a chicken-and-egg trap - software is dumbing down to the GUI so that dumbed-down users can operate it, and it's making it harder for power users as the software isn't designed for us any more. If our schools can turn the next generation into a code-savvy userbase, software can be designed for automation once again. (And after all, the future of computing is the command line, but in spoken form.)

I bring up chickens. You can't bring up bricks.

Not like constant contact, but lots of clubs make themselves known to local ATC so they can be informed of any changes to regs, and so that ATC knows when and where they typically fly.