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  1. The only people that "loved" Hillary were the Democratic party establishment. Minorities that had massively voted for Obama stayed home, the American far left preferred Bernie and centrists just preferred Hillary over Trump.

  2. Re:Where does the Hydrogen come from? on NASA Is Offerring $1 Million To Turn CO2 Into Sugar (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Strip mine it or drill in areas where there'll be liquid subsurface water as is now suspected. Neither would have much of any impact at the levels any colonists would be capable of for decades. If future exploitation is deemed to have a deleterious impact there will be more than enough time to restrict methods in the future.

    Why do you think that we need to go into minutia now?

  3. Re:Yeah, that's kinda what I mean... on NASA Is Offerring $1 Million To Turn CO2 Into Sugar (space.com) · · Score: 2

    Processing even very salty water on mars is not a significant problem. Just like on Earth, if you freeze water, almost pure H20 floats to the top where it can be collected. Perchlorates are merely a particuler form of salt.

  4. Re:Where does the Hydrogen come from? on NASA Is Offerring $1 Million To Turn CO2 Into Sugar (space.com) · · Score: 2

    The target is Mars which has been determined to have enough subsurface water ice that were it lall iquid would cover Mars wit a global ocean 30 meters deep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. Oh, look! One of the Tesla shorts is trying (and failing) to criticise my grammar. No need for a translater, it's perfectly cromulent english. Had you gone beyond 8th grade you might have gotten beyond your comic-book english level of "Pow! and Kaboom!".

    So, how much did you lose? Tesla Série 3 entry level at least I hope.

  6. Those who predicted that Tesla would not be able to reach their goals and shorted them need to find something to salve their injured pride/pocketbook. Apparently it's FUDing the quality of the cars.

  7. Re:Apple only a consumer-level gadget company now. on On The Sad State of Macintosh Hardware (rogueamoeba.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem isn't Apple, it's Intel who, has refused to add the support of more than 16 Gb of LPDDR RAM to their chipsets year after year after year.

    Do you really think that Apple _doesn't_ want to sell you 32 Gb of soldered on RAM for what they would be marking it up for?

    As for using power hungry desktop DDR like PC makers do, it'd kill the battery life on MBPs.

  8. Re:It will be interesting to see what happens on Honolulu Lawmakers Pass 'Surge Pricing' Cap For Ride-Hailing Companies (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    None are so blind as those who refuse to see applies. The Taxi companies everywhere around the world have been searching for ways to outlaw and hinder the success of ride sharing as it threatens their cushy "I bought taxi medallion and want to resell this artificially scarce resource for as much money as I can in a few years" racket. Being in favor of market restrictions (or not) has nothing to do with blinding oneself to the active lobbying and sometimes outright corruption they employ.

  9. Re:It will be interesting to see what happens on Honolulu Lawmakers Pass 'Surge Pricing' Cap For Ride-Hailing Companies (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The "very strong reason" for meddling with ride share surge pricing that you're not seeing is the taxi companies finding a way to curb their competition by lobbying council members. As the taxis cannot benefit from surge pricing they find it unfair that anyone else should be able to do so.

  10. You give me much too much credit, lol. I didn't read the T & Cs but when they added that 90 days language to it it _was_ noted and commented on in Apple blogs. I just have a head filled with useless facts...

  11. https://apple.stackexchange.co...

    The text "You may switch an Associated Device to a different Account only once every 90 days" appears twice in the current iTunes, Mac App, App Store and iBookstore T&C

    It may well not be implemented in such a way that it's a problem but I remember that addition to the T & C around the time I stopped bothering with using two separate AppleIDs.

    Updates with two AppleIDs were a pain anyway because you needed to sign out from one to sign in to the other, & if there were a bunch of updates, they weren't sorted by appleID and you might have to do so more than once (or twice or ...) to get everything updated.

  12. Nothing is stopping them, other than it's a PITA to switch between app-store accounts & that you cannot change your signed-in appstore account more frequently than every 30 (90?) days.

    I used to use a U.S appleID account without a credit card attached because some free apps I wanted were only on the U.S appstore. Between not being able to switch accounts frequently any more & all the apps I wanted now being in the local appstore I haven't used it in years.

  13. Re:Can't forecast because they can't do shit on Russia Demands Apple Remove Telegram From Russian App Store (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    What makes you think that the Russian authorities are incapable of imposing increasing fines on Apple for every day the apps they want to ban are still in the Russian App store?

  14. Re:What about the cop? on Gamers Involved In Fatal Wichita 'Swatting' Indicted On Federal Charges (kansas.com) · · Score: 0

    With a 6 figure /. uid you've been on /. for years during which swatting and indeed this particular case have been discussed dozens of times but you had to read the article to discover what swatting is?!?! Nope that doesn't stink of hyperbole or trolling _at_all_...

  15. Re:This is NOT autonomy. on Floating Pacific Island Is In the Works With Its Own Government, Cryptocurrency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Whereas if they setup in the U.S. or one of it's overseas territories they'd get free Big Macs? For the more obese among us I can see the advantages.

  16. This is NOT autonomy. on Floating Pacific Island Is In the Works With Its Own Government, Cryptocurrency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    As they will be setting up under French jurisdiction, they will be subservient to French laws and protections.

    France already lets many islands in Polynesia govern themselves -- as long as they don't have any impact on other islands & generally respect french laws so if it actually comes to pass this will be generally more of the same.

    There are islands in Polynesia where no non-inhabitant is allowed to stay the night. One in particular is about a 2 hour boat trip from Bora Bora. -- The islanders want to keep their culture pure but appreciate the tourist money.

    Another island not too far away saw a few boatloads of Gendarmes come ashore about 10 years ago to put an end to another society that was "attempting to return to their polynesian values" and were treating the women as chattel so there are limits and the french Government will not hesitate to intervene if they judge it necessary.

    Nothing new here...

  17. Re:It has to be proven better on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    So using subcooled propellants and the slower loading protocol that Space-X went back to after ATMOS-6 that has never seen a loading incident is "throwing caution to the wind"?!?! Because nobody in 50 years ever used subcooled propellants?

    But using solid boosters (which no-one in his right mind would use for manned missions), well that's not a problem for NASA (nor you visibly).

    Forcing Space-X to fly Block-5 seven times to prove that it is reliable enough to used for manned Dragon-2, OK, But NASA can send it's first manned mission on SLS after only a _single_ test flight of the EUS without them "throwing caution to the winds"?!?!

    "Maximizing safety" by forcing the frequently launching Space-X to jump through hoops but not applying the same criteria to NASA's & ULA's rare efforts is pure hypocrisy.

  18. Re:It has to be proven better on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it was sufficient to return to the previous loading protocols with which Space-X has NEVER had an issue with the pre-Block-5 COPVs..

  19. Re:It has to be proven better on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    ONLY with pre-Block-5 COPVs and with the accelerated loading protocol which they abandoned after AMOS-6. Using the original & since AMOS-6, current loading protocols, there has never been a loading incident with the COPVs.

  20. Re:Irresponsible on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    Space-X has _never_ had an incident when fueling F9s using the current loading protocols - neither in the thousands of fueling tests they have performed nor on 30 odd launches since they started using sub-cooled propellants. It was only with pre-block-5 COPVs using the accelerated loading protocols that they were testing to be able to hold longer at the last minute before aborting and defueling the stack that they had the problem with AMOS-6 (confirmed in testing).

    Block 5 COPVs (First launch: tomorrow) have been redesigned to eliminate the problem and they will almost certainly be re-using the accelerated loading protocol in the future - but at least initially, not on manned launches. If the Block 5 fixes have proven to have eliminated the issue and after that has been proven through continued launches using it without any issues, at some point even NASA will have to admit that it is a solved problem.

  21. Re:Fipronil on EU Votes To Ban Bee-Harming Pesticides (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    What will farmers do without (American made) pesticides?

    They will go back to pesticides made by Bayer and Rhône-Poulenc who have been financing this “grass-roots” smear campaign and all will be well!

    What, you didn’t think it was about the bees, did you?

  22. Apple support who:
    Replaced my 2010 iphone 4 with a shifted back that was causing all flash pictures to be self blinded for free with a new one in 2012?
    Replaced the battery in my rMBP in 2013 for free?

    Oh yeah, sure, 5 & 8 years isn't long enough to judge how Apple support does long-term, eh, troll-boy? I'm not going to detail the non-support Dell, HP, Acer etc did't perform that caused me to turn to apple.

  23. That's exactly what your point was

    YOU know better than what I do what point I was making? Naaah, you're barely coherent when attempting to make your own points.

    Looking around my Apple-filled home, I don't think it's the people who don't own any Apple gear who (claim that it is more of a problem than it really is)

    So now, in addition to yourself, you think you speak for all the Apple Haters who pretend to have apple gear...

    Bye troll boy.

  24. When compared to the problems encountered by PC makers at the same time, Macs were generally much better built.
    PC Laptop issues:
    - Uncountable plastic bodies that flexed and broke (you didn't need that power socket did you?),
    - Hinges that wore out after 6 months (here, use these books to prop up the screen so that it doesn't slam shut),
    - The screen wiring that was just a bunch of poorly insulated wires passing through a too small hole where they eventually rubbed together and shorted out (oh well you can always just plug it in to an external monitor),
    - The Chinese capacitors that flooded the market back then with poorly copied Japanese electrolyte formula that caused the Caps to explode after 6-12 months,
    The Nvidia issues with their leadless soldier cracking the BGA connections after a few months (Ah so it reboots spontaneously when it gets too hot & then displays a boot error until it cools back down -- here's a fan, point it at the laptop's fan input so it'll cool down faster)
    - Etc.

    Of course, one could cherry pick a splinter in your neighbours eye while ignoring the massive wooden beam occluding your own sight, but that'd be hypocritical.

  25. White Macbook: 8 years, MBP: 10 years, rMBP: 6 years, Macbook Air: 5 years, Retina MacBook: 3 years. All still working in our household without any keyboard issues.

    None of the 5 PC laptops used over the same period here work anymore except for a noisy old Lenovo with an XP only USB media capture dongle I dredge out to digitise VHS tapes who's trackpoint & keyboard are now so flakey that I need to use an external keyboard+mouse.