>> furious effort over the past few years to bring the teaching of programming into the core academic curricula

They tried this in the early 1980s and all we got was the Internet at everyone's home, online shopping and news, free video conferencing, entirely new ways to organize photos, transportation and events, realism-quality video gaming, and cell phones so easy to use that toddlers can participate in the world wide web.

What good could coding literacy possibly do now?

>> it is only a matter of time before online agencies attack the armies of intermediaries that are the backbone of the trade

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=online+in...

>> deep-pocketed government entities from undercutting a private sector unable to keep up

Funniest thing I read all day.

I think Amazon's doing this to blunt attempts by content providers, whether HBO, ESPN, etc. (or even the production companies themselves) to bypass middlemen like cable companies, Netflix, Amazon, etc. by bringing their own paid streaming content to market.

Checked the site. Seems like the answer to every problem I saw is "regulate it".

>> be at the conference working

No one goes to a conference to do work. You're generally only doing work if you get called into an issue from home base.

>> administration's goal is to cut methane emissions from oil and gas production by up to 45 percent by 2025

Good luck, pal. You'll be OOO for 7 solid years by then.

Reagan: "If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

>> increase the amount of money they grant and loan to ISP-related projects

I'd say we're in Reagan's third phase with ISPs, wouldn't you?

New York taxi details can be extracted from anonymised data, researchers say
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

I'm pretty sure I knew math, science and sometimes English better than my teachers through high school. Experienced teachers know how to deal with students like us - how would this be any different?

>> It's an attempt to alert everyone to the dangers of a machine that could outsmart humans

This is redundant - for the masses fictional actors such as HAL, Skynet, etc. already do plenty to sow FUD.

...and where was this nifty idea (and the free college one too, and immigration reform, etc.) during his first two years in office (when the Congress was mostly Dems)?

Why does he even bother to open his mouth now?

>> identified online harassment as a major challenge facing free speech

There's a bigger challenge in France right now: http://www.bbc.com/news/live/w...

I'm almost afraid to answer this ('cause it's a joke)...but you can use the --header, --user-agent and a few other options to get around this on a lot of sites.

...I'll bet he's into foreplay.