The quick adjustments to tileable blueprints sound amazing. Such a great idea!
Somehow I thought the pipette on water to get an offshore pump (like how you can pipette on an ore field for a miner) was already a thing. That and the quick access to landfill will save so much time when designing nuclear plants.
The spidertron stuff sounds nice too, but they're usually so late game that I haven't minded the slightly clunky v1.1 status quo.
The ASF has renamed their conferences from ApacheCon to Community over Code, so foundation leadership seems receptive to moving away from the Apache name.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the name is changed in the next couple of years.
The name was originally just a silly joke, since it was "a patchy web server" (as it was an open source web server abandoned by the original author, but kept going by a community sharing patches to fix bugs and add features).
To be fair, Avril Lavigne signed away the movie rights to Sk8ter Boi to Paramount in 2003, and we still don't have that movie.
Selling IP rights into another medium is not the same as a guarantee that it will be developed (though it is a first step).
Trump's second impeachment came after he lost his second election.
Short answer (that clears things up for most non-Americans): There is no national ID card.
When you register to vote, you're expected to provide proof of citizenship, which for most Americans (who don't have or have use for a passport) means a birth certificate plus some photo ID (which ultimately proves that a person with your name and your birthday was born on US soil and you are in possession of their birth certificate -- so it's very likely you). Bringing your birth certificate to vote would be kind of risky, since it's the origin of all of your other ID and pretty much the only record that you're a citizen. (Work visa holders and permanent residents get social security cards, for example.)
Funnily enough, if you're an adult immigrant it's almost safer, because there's a huge federal paper trail of photos and records proving your citizenship (versus this flimsy piece of state-issued paper that native-born citizens have).
Of course, if election officials have some discretion on who needs to prove their citizenship, it's rife for abuse.