This will just make being on the board even more exclusive. They'll just bring in somebody's wife or daughter that has a passing interest in the company and call it a day. Also, what about all female boards? I don't see anyone wanting to force them to get a man on there. Don't forget minorities too.

We ended up with IBM computers that were hand me downs from friends of the family who were IBM'rs and got them when IBM was throwing them out. We went through several PS/2 models and had an IBM dot matrix printer to go with them. Eventually the family started buying PCs from various brands. I didn't have a computer to myself until I was in high school and it was one I had rebuilt from spare parts we had from previous family computers. It didn't last very long though. The monitor blew and stunk up my bedroom for over a week. The family computer was always outdated, but it was a great teaching tool for keeping it running for the family. It was thanks to that and learning what it means to have others depend on me keeping it running that I learned a bit about the joy and frustrations of IT work when I was younger.

This system sounds just and fair to me. Only problem is getting people to accept using your official ID since that's been fought against tooth and nail claiming it was somehow "discriminatory". Personally I think any voting system MUST include the use of your official ID that can be verified and have reasonable protection against fake IDs. Nothing will be 100% but it's better than no verification at all.

While this probably should've been under NOAA instead of NASA, I can't remember the last time NASA was given something to do. It seems like any news is either funding cuts, project cuts, etc., or look at what their robot toys are doing. Maybe it's time to turn the military implications of satellites and the like over the military and let the military handle the military implications of space development and use and sell off the rest of NASA's assets to SpaceX or some other American company and be done with it. The government is clearly incapable of doing anything else worthwhile with NASA and it's pretty much just dead weight now.

I loved learning about all the good things NASA has done in the past with things like the Apollo program and the like and I thank NASA for doing it, but that age is gone and it's not coming back. At this time I'd rather see private companies move forward with space exploration run by citizens who actually care about getting results.

As for Trump cutting something related to climate change, is anyone here really surprised? Trump would rather have us turn back the clock before the information age and live lives full of pollution and bad living conditions because it's profitable for his wealthy friends and it's easy to cover up truths when information does not spread so easily. He and people like him who live in the past will doom the US to being left far behind by the rest of the world. Conservatives and Liberals both need to step up and modernize big time if we're going to get out of this funk we're in.

Here we go again with, "We're going to kill a punishment for a crime! Now lets find a way to be as humane about the killing as possible. We don't want the person convicted of killing 100 people after raping them in front of their loved ones to suffer in their last moments. I know, lets use this new method of execution."

It's the same thing over and over again. Society often deems crimes like murder as evil and inhumane and punishable by death. Never mind that the criminal taking a life is considered inhuman, when society deals out the death penalty which also has the same end result of taking a life, there's this double-standard that says we must be humane about it because society is supposed to be better than the criminal getting executed.

I really don't know if the death penalty is worth having since there are sound arguments for and against it, but regardless of which side of the fence you're on, I do think that too much time is spent on finding a way to be humane about executing criminals. If you really feel the need to force a way to be higher than the criminal while ending their life, then maybe you shouldn't be killing them in the first place and find some other punishment to fit the crime. If their death is your idea of justice for the crimes they committed then stop wasting time, get the job done, and move on. If you can't do it then you should probably rethink your idea of 'justice'.

One hand we need jokes here and there. It makes something more personable and sometimes easier to deal with when we lighten the mood up a bit.

On the other hand, I can see to a point the desire to avoid anything political since regardless of what side your on and whether or not you're offended it can be a distraction when you're trying to figure something out and get something done.

However, this is such a light joke on the subject and this is the Internet and there are far worse things being said out there and joked about out there that if someone gets offended by this, they need to grow a thicker skin and get over it. If we listened to all the SJW and snowflake nonsense out there, then we literally shouldn't bother talking and communicating at all since once one person has a different opinion on anything, at least one person will get offended and then all hell breaks loose against the person who dared to think different.

Good on Stallman for stopping the nonsense in its tracks before it grows larger.

Eh, maybe, maybe not. Don't underestimate Microsoft's powers of creating messes where none should have existed in the first place.

If the judge paid attention in science class, they'd know that they aren't qualified to be making that kind of ruling. Leave it to real scientists to get to the research and lobby the government.

Agreed. The body's circadian rhythm will adapt to the situation when one makes an effort to do so. I'm getting fed up with how these studies keep coming out about how 'hard' life is for college students. It's just more pandering to the crybabies out there. These kids need to learn that the world does not pander to them. They need to adapt to the world.

I haven't used my FB account in over 5 years and I've started receiving the same notices. It's like that desperate ex that follows you around after seeing you pass on the street and won't stop nagging you.

Even though Ajit Pai won't listen to them, maybe the next FCC chair can look into it after Trump leaves office?

I agree. It really depends on what they're taking it for. If it's just headaches and they work too much, they should consider a different job if they can't cut back the hours. I know several guys that need to rethink their life because they work themselves to death everyday and they aren't in a position to where they need to do so with family and kids to take care of for example.

It's good to shoot for the sky (or space), but you need to be able to enjoy life too. It's usually younger guys that make the mistake of overworking but it can happen to anyone.

Looks like the court ruling is a step in the right direction. Gerrymandering has been out of control for a long, long, time. I'd also go so far as to blame it for the reason why we haven't broken out of the two party system we're stuck in now where it's almost impossible for other parties to get any seats in office.

When politicians lose the ability to choose their voters, they'll have to start listening to the people for a change.

Written by a dreamer for dreamers. My take on it is they're looking for something other than x86 and x86_64 that's cheap for anyone to use. Well since even IBM's Power systems (I don't recall which models) are susceptible to Specter, jumping architectures won't prevent things like this happening.

I think I understand what they're going for with being able to quickly fix these design flaws when they're revealed, but methinks they don't have any understanding what so ever of how these things are developed and manufactured or that once the chip is made it can't be altered. Sure there are some advantages to being able to jump architectures since some architectures are better for different jobs, but for general computing nothing's been able to topple the x86/x86_64 dynasty (for one reason or another). Not even Intel could do it and you need to license the instruction sets from them! If they couldn't beat their own platform....good luck.

Also, design flaws like these don't break a system. The systems are already up and running and have been running pretty well with them for over a decade. When the new chips come out without the flaw, software designers will be able to speed things back up again. It's not like other flaws that cause miscalculations or fried CPUs.

That said, it must be nice to dream.

For regular cars we all drive ourselves, I say NO! Even if the car is stopped it's unacceptable to bombard the driver with ADs while they're getting ready to go. We already have people sitting at lights and not going when they change from red to green and then almost hitting others when they do get going. That is just with texting and other mobile phone use. For autonomous self-driving cars, there should be less of a threat to public safety so I can see that being a thing especially if they're surfing the net on the dashboard. However, I still say NO! The space people have in which they aren't bombarded with ADs is shrinking so the line must be drawn somewhere.