It's still a well-known issue in the States. For example, when I lived in Michigan (Grand Rapids area) we had recycling ($4 fee per month too); found out later they collected it separately but it still was always just dumped into the landfill.

Programming existed long before Computer Science existed and came out of the Electrical Engineering field - the Applied Sciences, before even the "electronic computer".

Computer Science came about as mathematicians got involved in the field *after* computer languages started sprouting up. EE's also have high training in math - oddly sometimes more than CS folks. As the theoretical side took hold it moved to the Math oriented folks and took hold in and grew out of the Math departments. CS didn't even exist until the last 1960's, wasn't official until sometime in the 1970's, and didn't really become popular until the 1990's.

Interestingly, the conversion of Computer Programming from being based in EE to being based in CS has also largely corresponded with decline of women participating in the overarching field. (Though one cannot say the transition caused such an effect.)

Wrong. Compute Science is the theoretical side of programming, and very much behaves like it. It came out of the Mathematical departments. The Applied Science is Software Engineering, which most schools fail to teach at all. It's more akin to Computer Engineering but with a higher software focus.

A good Software Engineer knows how to do those things; however, it's hard to find any good Software Engineers. Software Engineering goes way way beyond those things too and it is extremely hard to find a good Software Engineer, especially since most programmers want to be about art instead of engineering.

...Microsoft will probably appeal the new Warrant based on legality issues with the CLOUD Act and how it impacts business, which will probably get severely limited or struck down by SCOTUS. Basically, CLOUD Act has to be judicially proven.

Microsoft is right that their initial issue is not moot due to the CLOUD Act, but the CLOUD Act has yet to be tested. The ultimate outcome will probably be the same though as if CLOUD Act had not passed and this had continued out to a resolution. It's just going to take longer to get there.

I've actually stopped setting up Windows networking by default on my Linux systems, especially my servers. It's easier to install FileZilla or WinSCP on Windows.

Oh, and no - it didn't have anything other than the models affected and a phone number to call. Nothing verifiable.

I still haven't gotten any kind of response on its validity from Amazon; and Slashdot is sadly the most reliable source I've heard about the recall from.

Even Cloud providers are looking to move to a different platform and many are involved in OpenPower (https://openpowerfoundation.org/membership/current-members/) to find better hardware in terms of cost per watt for Cload loads where floating point or integer computational performance may not matter as much.

Same process happened in the 1980's when Intel overtook the Mainframe market, and folks said the same thing. Like it or not, laptops and (even more so) desktops are moving to areas of that generally require high performance stuff. As productivity (LibreOffice, MS Office, etc) and financial applications (Quicken) get better on mobile (Google Apps - Docs, Spreadsheet, Presentation; O365; Quicken is already on iOS and Android) then the need for even a laptop will go away entirely for the every-day-user will be able to 99% of things on a phone or tablet, and laptops and desktops will be left to specialized fields - CAD, A/V Editing and Production, etc - some of which is already starting to move to mobile platforms. (CAD will be among the last to truly go mobile, though viewers are already available so tablets can be used on the manufacturing floors.)

All said, time is *not* on Intel's side unless they figure out how to get back into the ARM market - a market they left shortly before the smart phone market took off.

Hardly, I find plenty to watch and have a hard time lowering my backlog of things to watch - it tends to keep growing.

That said, yeah - there's fewer movies, but it's hardly noticeable though.

As far as TV-series goes, really wish they'd bring all of Star Hunter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starhunter) back.

Not quite. You're referring to Article 1 Section 8 Paragraph 12 with respect to appropriations; however, paragraphs 9-13 stand in contrast to that - providing for the creation of navy and militia (army), training thereof, as well as buildings (forts), etc - none of which are limited to 2 years terms.

Now I would probably grant your argument over term durations...but then, budgets typically run year to year, even if a contract is over a longer period term it's still subject to budgeting every year, thereby getting around Article 1 Section 8 Paragraph 12 since the appropriation doesn't last for more than 2 years, but separate appropriations are made.

Nor does the Constitution require that the army or navy be dissolved after 2 years time period. Rather, Congress can "raise and support armies" but is forbidden from the "appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years" which as I showed above Congress has figured out how to hold to the Constitution while maintaining the army. By a strict reading that wouldn't apply to the Navy (which is separately listed); nor would it apply to the Air Force (not listed at all - which means it's also not prohibited). Thus there are plenty of ways to get around it as a result.

$19/does (Dateline and 20/20 news reports in the 1990's - 76,000% markup - $0.025 USD/dose at the *most* expensive end per Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., 2014 price) meet $4,00 hammer (445% markup, $9/hammer cheapest decent thing I could find on Amazon). Yeah - a lot easier to trim the excess from healthcare without compromising service than it is to cut from defense.

hmm...some real numbers - https://www.usgovernmentspendi...

Not sure where you get the $1.11 Trillion for discretionary spending...but military was only $798 Billion for 2015. Military has yet to break the $1 Trillion mark; yet Healthcare did in 2015 ($1028.4) and Pensions was just shy ($953.6 Billion); "Pensions" seem to include Social Security.

Oh - I figured out the $1.11 Trillion - a misleading chart that pulls from various budget items and compares against select items. How'd I figure that out? The numbers don't match up against actual data...so be careful with your "nationalpriorities.org" usage.

Here's some real numbers for you - https://www.usgovernmentspendi...

Solving the Healthcare problem would do so much better than cutting defense - since Obama took office Healthcare went from $641.8 Billion (2007) to $1,130 Billion (2017). Defense however has only gone from $652.6 Billion (2007) to $832.1 Billion (2017). Yeah - ObamaCare (PPACA) did nothing but exasperate it as it had no real spending controls in it.

Or take federal government pensions - $636.1 Billion (2007) to $1006.1 Billion (2017).

Funny... https://www.usgovernmentspendi... - there's many other areas where spending can be more easily cut...from discretionary/healthcare/pensions/education, and more...