Some of us run it at home, but since most of the work is done on Linux anyway, the whole auto updates was the last straw. It's kind of fun watching the distributed computing model morph back into the server based model that existed when I first got into programming.

And now my entire lab is going Linux, because this Win 10 thing and auto updates means our systems would be at risk.

My niece is an MD doing her placement in DC. My other niece works for Disney.com . My former roommate is now a software engineering intern in Mountain View.

Women can do it. The question is why are male hiring managers and execs so afraid of hiring them?

There's no reason to be afraid. They don't bite.

There are a lot of intelligent women they could hire, but they tend to hire men who they know, who belong to their frats or went to Stanford.

Many of my colleagues teach at Stanford.

The problem for Silicon Valley is that the world has changed, but they haven't. Kind of like the Deep South.

Just Do It. Hire women as interns at a 50 percent rate. Hire Hispanics and African Americans at least at the level they exist in the general population.

There are many highly able hires out there.

I know, I've been taking classes with them, as I go for my own PhD.

Sorry, I hear lots of Brahmin excuses for why they don't hire women or Untouchables in this.

Just Do It.

Seriously, I've met many highly educated women who would work in STEM if hiring managers and top execs would just hire them.

Excuses don't matter.

Actions do.

Sadly, I think you're right. He's even trying to remove the right of Canadian citizens worldwide from voting in Canadian Federal Elections, making Canada one of the few countries to deny their own citizens the right to vote.

That said, the Courts in Canada have tended to respect the Constitution there, so this too shall pass.

The UK high court ruling on a challenge under EU rights. Same diff.

I mean, unless he's a drone ... Although, given the actor, that might make sense.

Make it so!

Find a home using Windows 10 Home to run it's security.

Spoof server.

Feed "update" during automatic patch cycle.

Control home security.

Loot.

Profit!

Problem solved.

Yes, but if the power is out for a few months, anyone who installed their own panels will quickly convert it to power existing in-home systems, disconnecting from the grid.

My dad installed his own and is off grid. It's not that hard.

It is technically possible for one of two things to occur that would create a mini ice age, even if those pushing this are really anti-science global warming deniers.

1. The Alaska to Northern California subduction zone "jumps", triggering massive tsunamis and setting off nearby earthquake unzipping along the Alaska, BC, Washington, Oregon, and Northern California linked fault lines, which could (but most likely would not) cause some of the active volcanoes near this line (like Mount Hood, Mount Rainier, and so on) to activate in full eruption. The resulting atmospheric emissions would cause a mini ice age similar to that during the last mini ice age (also called the Dark Ages).

2. Yellowstone could erupt. If that happens, you have a lot more to worry about, other than the mini ice age that would certainly occur.

That said, those pushing this are really just anti-science global warming deniers, desperate for continuing government subsidies for their dying fossil fuel industries.