But unless I'm willing to spend lots of money per month, I'm happy with my 6/1 connection

If you're a GS (general schedule) US government employee, you get rated as "met" or "not met" expectations. Everyone except true losers get across the board "met". Not that the pay changes much regardless. Pay and performance are pretty much uncoupled. Work hard and get paid the same as the lazy guy across the hall. And people wonder why government employees are lazy...

I completely agree. Bluray is too expensive to purchase except for those movies you really want. Streaming is much easier than the local RedBox or library, but the online selection is still very poor.

Obviously, that's also a possiblity, until the younger decide to leave for greener pastures, like panhandling or something similar.

As a young engineer myself, the good part of the story is that there will be more promotion possibilities because the older workers are retiring. The bad part is that the reason for the decline is the loss of job security and pay that barely pays the school loans and isn't matching inflation most times makes S&E a somewhat risky career path.

Not that $1.6 billion would hurt them much, but all they'd have to do is threaten to stop selling the iPad in China. At that point, the government will just make Proview go away.

Great Plan...Ban electronics but then go to eBooks for all your textbooks. How does one follow along with the lecture? Let's ban notebook paper as well. We wouldn't want students doodling instead of listening to the professor...

Honesty, I might expect this policy from a liberal arts college, but not an Institute of Technology. If the student doesn't want to pay attention, they can fail the class. Learning is the responsibility of the student not the teacher. (I've been through many of classes through my undergrad and grad level classes.)

As technology becomes more common, schools and teachers need to embrace it, not demonize it.

Que the contractor vs. organic AF maintenance argument. And "blame the contractor" is always a fun game.

I'm sure this law will be overturned by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional after a few years of lawsuits and appeals.

I doubt they actually changed anything. I'm pretty sure they already collect and mess data from all their services. This announced change is just to allow them to "officially" use the messed data without getting sued.