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  1. Re:19 Gal/day is not out on Will Cape Town be the First City To Run Out of Water? (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    But that number might only push back the deadline, not stop them from running out.

  2. Re:Use your brain please... on Sea Turtles Under Threat As Climate Change Turns Most Babies Female (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    More eggs is also good insurance if a lot of them will never mature due to excess heat.

  3. If it's past the statute of limitations, and you've already dealt with the trauma - all you can really say is "me too" and let people know they're not alone in it.

    One of the goals of the movement is to empower recent victims to do all of the things you said, because obviously they mostly aren't. Because they think they're unique and/or that it's somehow their own fault.

  4. Snowflake

    I like how being unique and thinking for yourself and not following groupthink is now somehow an insult.

  5. I'm almost on board with that. But extended family or family of friends are people I don't want to follow, but I might be interested in seeing posts they originally created if it's shared by someone I'm friends with on FB.

  6. Re:Podcasts on Pandora? on Pandora CEO Roger Lynch Wants To Create the Podcast Genome Project (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't need nearly that many ads if they're not paying for streaming rights. They can probably stream from the URL of the actual audio file and not have any bandwidth costs.

    I'd wait and see - it might be worth it. Though I'm 4 months behind on the podcasts I have. I don't think I need to discover more.

  7. Regardless, all this talk about Pandora is missing the biggest point-- their library is too damn small to do much of anything useful

    Pandora is more like Netflix. It's useful to fill in a gap, but not big enough to be your sole provider. And the recommendation engine is there to find what they *do* have (much like Netflix).

  8. For the entire city, every provider?

  9. You can say you include it, but if you're the authorities you won't really know. Any single employee could be taking money from the company to buy a personal hotspot on a personal plan. And hide that with a hotplug computer up in the ceiling tile or really anywhere. If the authorities cut the main cord and the only one they know about, there's still a way to leak out data and receive remote commands.

  10. Re: what an incredible waste of taxpayer money on Senator Wants Apple To Answer Questions on Slowing iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't have to go to an "authorized" location. You can go to any phone repair shop. Literally any shop. There are 2 in the town I live in. A few more the next town over. Replacement parts aren't locked down with Android vendors.

  11. Re: what an incredible waste of taxpayer money on Senator Wants Apple To Answer Questions on Slowing iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    With Android, you can go to any local shop and have it done same day or even while you wait. And they'll actually fix your own phone and never hand you someone else's refurbished phone.

    With Android comes more choice. Sure, most of these same shops repair iPhones too - but if you pick the wrong part to replace, a future software upgrade could brick your phone.

  12. Re: Oil Tax on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If the oil is not drilled in NY, the point still stands. My guess is there's not a lot of that.

    Also, do you propose having a border gate for the city? Cars and trucks can just drive back and forth - even tanker trucks. This was about the importation portion, not the sale.

  13. Re:Hmmmm ... Pandora? on Pandora CEO Roger Lynch Wants To Create the Podcast Genome Project (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    I have a large music library ripped from CDs. Pandora is still a good way to discover new music even if it's not your primary listening tool. Whatever they use to make recommendations, it works - maybe not as good as Netflix's recommendation engine, but close. Just create a new station and seed it with a few of your favorites of a genre, and you can start sampling new music right away.

  14. Re: Told you so. on Subscriptions With Automated Recurring Billing Come To Windows 10 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    and they are faster and quicker

    And so is CS5.5. I tried a demo of Photoshop CC 2017 recently and it was painfully slow. The UI just dragged so badly. I have no reason to downgrade to CC.

  15. If they're already going to these lengths, a cellular modem would be easy to add to their arsenal. If the main Internet feed cuts out, ping HQ and send over ingress/egress security cam photos. They could still lock down.

  16. Re: Overblown on Senator Wants Apple To Answer Questions on Slowing iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Just semantics. The point was with unexpectedly losing power - and who says that the user is the one pulling the cord?

  17. Re: Overblown on Senator Wants Apple To Answer Questions on Slowing iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok. A power outage. You're picking completely pointless nits - don't tell me you haven't heard a real world story where someone couldn't figure out why their computer wasn't working during a power outage.

  18. Re: Oil Tax on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Surely they can regulate the importation ... and sever any electrical connections

    No and no. What part of "States don't have the power to regulate interstate commerce" for you not understand?

    You could regulate the sale - for example, taxing it. But Jersey is a few miles away. People only have to drive across the state line to fill up. Yeah, that will get frustrating real quick, but consumers don't have a more viable alternative just yet.

  19. Re: what an incredible waste of taxpayer money on Senator Wants Apple To Answer Questions on Slowing iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why someone might be having buyer's remorse over getting a new phone.

    They're excessively expensive. Especially if you don't live in an area with a high cost of living where the relative price is lower.

    And even if it's in the return window, most of these phones will have been activated and all the data transferred by then. Not a convenient return by any means - and even with the hardship of the cost, most people would still give up at that point.

  20. Re: Oil Tax on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They actually can't do that. The federal government has jurisdiction over interstate commerce.

  21. Re: Can alcoholics sue a distillery now? on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because that example would reveal that the lawsuits are successful

  22. Re:Planes never crashed before they had computers? on Senator Wants Apple To Answer Questions on Slowing iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And if the stock market didn't open one day or trading was temporarily halted - neither would be a crash.

  23. Re:So I have to have root level access... on macOS High Sierra's App Store System Preferences Can Be Unlocked With Any Password (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    That's not what's on the App Store preference pane. It's whether automatic updates are enabled and how long after a app recent purchase before requiring a password again.

    By default, this whole pane is unlocked and there's not much reason that most people would go in and lock this pane.

  24. Re:The inquiry itself is interesting on Senator Wants Apple To Answer Questions on Slowing iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That was supposed to read DRM-free, not lossless.

  25. Re:Overblown on Senator Wants Apple To Answer Questions on Slowing iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Show me where pulling the power cord out of a desktop computer is regularly referred to as a crash.