This, in my opinion, has less to do with a Trump Presidency and more to do with both houses of Congress being held by the same majority. Where there previously was gridlock, there now is a hope for legislation actually passing at a decent volume. Why spend money on a locked congress getting next to nothing done, wait until there is some ability for action.

That being said, I do also think the content of legislation comes into play as well (tax code, H1-B).

From what I've seen, the issue in finding developers for these codebases isn't in the language knowledge (i.e. COBOL), it's in the knowledge of the poorly-documented legacy software. Sure, you can get a developer to learn COBOL fairly easily, but when the software is full of dead ends, spaghetti code, and unknown business logic and workflow logic, their knowledge of COBOL won't help. Instead you need to hire someone who knows the system, and was probably complicit in creating this mess, to do anything. Either that or bite the bullet and start a huge replacement project that costs several magnitudes more than exorbitant hourly rates.

I don't understand how this isn't currently the law. By seizing and searching my cellphone and social media accounts, law enforcement officers are basically searching my property on a server somewhere in the world, and using that to determine whether I have or will commit a crime. Can law enforcement agents go through my home without a warrant if I am trying to pass the borders? What is the difference between my digital and physical property? Regardless, it is doubtful that this bill will pass any time soon given the current state of congress.

Polls and research do show that people think GMO food is unsafe. Take for example http://www.pewinternet.org/201... I'm not sure people care about conditions of the animals so much, but they do care about the concept of "real, natural food." Whatever that means.

I think lab meat would have a hard time being marketed except to a select amount of people for a very long time. A large portion of people are against GMO food, regardless of it's benefit to the environment or society, regardless of the lack of scientific proof to negative claims. People will gladly, ignorantly, eat things that are "natural" even though they've been bred and scientifically modified over hundreds of years to be something that shouldn't exist naturally on earth. That's pretty much everything in the produce department. Put a labcoat on and make something though, and then you've become some mad scientist bent on ruining the world with your hubris. insert mad scientist laugh here.

I agree. This is something of a glass-half-full study. So 30-50% of arctic ice cap melt is natural. What of the other 50-70%? It is already misunderstood. It's interesting how different media sources are covering this study: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

I have some future oceanfront property in Kansas if anyone is looking. One question I have is: At what point does global warming become so evident that there is no more argument as to whether it is occurring, and the argument becomes what do we do about it? I'm pretty sure we should already be there, but we aren't.

Apache has Kafka, among others. But honestly Kafka is all we need now.

It is a violation of federal immigration law to remain in the country without legal authorization, but this violation is punishable by civil penalties, not criminal. Therefore they are violating the law, but not to the level of a criminal offense.

As long as Trump's statements build a platform to justify his future actions, whether true or not, he is happy. It doesn't matter if illegal immigrants are actually criminals or not, it only matters that saying it provides Trump with the justification of building a gigantic wall. It doesn't matter whether Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, it only matters that saying it provides Trump with the ability to deflect conversation about Russian ties. This is how an authoritarian government works. They care less about the truth, and more about justifying their actions with a painted visage of half-truths and lies.

Talk about your poisoned chalice.

Oh go oooon. Look at all the oil!
And gold!

Who them? Friendly locals, nothing to worry about...

I reserve the right to steal that and change it to:

There are two types of Tory, Millionaires and Suckers

Suckers' not very British is it.

Um...

and Idiots.
and Morons.
and The Gullible Working Classes
and The Racist Underclasses
and The Great Unwashed ...

I'll work on that.

WHAT IN THE EVER LOVING F IS GOING ON?!?!

I thought slashdot was a tech site for tech people.

Yet I see statements saying "AI goes slow"...

Jesus wept...

Other things self driving cars will do (apart from erode liberties apparently *laughs*)

1) Automatically drive to where *you* are and pick you up.
2) Drive you home if you're drunk.
3) No parking in the centre of town? No problem, car drops you off and goes home
4) Done shopping? Car picks you up, or collects the shopping.
5) Taxis? Out of business.
6) Uber? How about your car earns you money ferrying people about while your sat at your desk at work.
7) Highway speeds? 200mph, manual drive cars are banned.

I look forward to the day.

Exactly!
And think what it would do for unemployment, it would be amazing!
You'd have to find more people there would be so many roles to fill.
Not many bridge watchers, but lots of elevator operators.
And emergency traffic light operators. Sitting in their little booths.