Granting all of the above is true, it's still not clear what can be done when many/most women, whether for reasons inherent or socially acquired, are simply not much interested in programming as a career(*). You can't tell them "oh yes you are interested, you have to be, because women are under-represented in this field" without denying them the right to make their own decisions about what they want to do with their lives.

It seems to me that if you want to crack this nut, you'd have to teach better parenting skills and try to reach girls at the elementary school level. By the time the woman is a young adult, her preferences are likely already largely formed.

(*) in this case, "not much interested" can be defined as "not sufficiently interested to spend the thousands of solitary hours necessary to become really good at it"

Dunno if you were joking or not, but in case you weren't, note that the MacBook Pro has (by my count) 8 ports. It's the new MacBook (not Pro) that has only the single USB-C port.

I'm curious... say we wanted to keep the level of CO2 in the atmosphere constant at its current level. What level of carbon emissions would we need to have? (Or, to put it another way, what is the natural "Carbon sink rate" of the Earth?)

Who let the Green party run the place? All sorts of demands. What if I want a skylight? What if I want traditional roofing? No freedom of choice on how to make my home.

Some companies will do a half-assed job, and some will do a more thoughtful job. Then the market will decide whether or not it's willing to pay the extra money to have things done well. The outcome will depend a lot on what the particular Thing is used for, and what the costs of the occasional malfunction are vs the extra development costs of developing the software 100% correctly.

Your post sounds so much better when read in an Abe Simpson voice.

Well, there's PlugShare which pretty much does that, although I don't think people typically charge a fee; rather they do it pro bono on the assumption that when they need a recharge someone else will do the same for them.

I can predict how it will actually be done... release a product and see what happens. When something goes horribly wrong, wipe up all the blood, review the log files, figure out what went wrong, and issue a software patch. Repeat as necessary until bad things don't much happen anymore. It was good enough for Windows, and by God it will be good enough for Tesla. ;)

So you can get yourself and your car home when you're drunk.

Seriously... if you want to manually drive your self-driving car, go right ahead. Even that weird Mercedes prototype thing still has a steering wheel and pedals so you can drive it manually if you want to.

The question is, do you want to have the option of not driving in situations where it would be inconvenient, tedious, or dangerous for you to drive? If so, you might find a self-driving car useful.

One presumes that eventually we will all be using multi-factor authentication to log in.

I was under the impression that as of MacOS/X 10.9.x, all distributed shared libraries in your .app directory needed to be signed as well, or Gatekeeper would treat the app as if it was unsigned. (See the "Code Signing Changes in OS X Mavericks" subsection at this link)

Is the vulnerability described in the article applicable only to older versions of MacOS/X, or has the researcher found a way around that test?

Professional drivers need to obey the traffic laws also. I don't see a problem here, unless the rich person was pressuring their chauffer to drive unsafely; in which case that is a workplace-safety issue that can be dealt with separately.

Surely the very high likelihood of a nuclear counterstrike would play some deterrent role here also?