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macxpress said:

Who the hell needs 20TB of space? Thats a lot of stolen music and movies. 

Well this product is great news for people like me who are involved in modern DNA sequencing projects, where individual data files are in the range of 50-100 GB each.  A single 96-sample run can generate 5TB of data in a few hours, and yes this often means hard drives are express-shipped to customers.  "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a US Mail truck full of hard drives, traveling down the highway at 65 MPH"

Skeptical? The human genome is 3 billion base pairs of DNA.  Even with only 20-fold redundancy (needed for assembly) that's 60 gigabases, which is 60 Gbyte of ascii data.  Now think about the companies offering full- genome sequencing to the public, and the many people willing to pay a few thousand bucks each for the service. 

Now think of all the plant, animal, and microbial research being done in the world, and understand that many of these organisms are having their DNA being sequenced by someone.  And not just once, but multiple instances of each species....  Data storage is a major issue.  PS: the last Mac I bought is outfitted with 128 GB of RAM....

Forget selling the data, I ALSO wouldn't want the data to be GIVEN away.  Nor do I want it to become accessible to Google, when Google buys iRobot.  In short, I don't want iRobot to be transmitting ANY data outside of my home.  The data belongs to ME, not to them.  They should not have it AT ALL.

Far too many companies are able to "buy" data simply by buying the company that holds the data.  Happens all the time.  Should be stopped!

Similarly, this is why there will be no Alexa in my home.  Ever.

iPad 9th Gen with iOS 18, and now experiencing frequent lag and key skips while typing. Not pleasant.

Also iPhone SE 2nd Gen with iOS 17.7, occasionally experiencing touchscreen non-responsiveness, particularly when using Chrome browser, but also Firefox browser. Not pleasant.

AppleInsider said:

"...this Apple thing," an ex-Geek executive said. 

Sometimes ya just gotta luv typos!

DAalseth said:

I get these, I just block and report them. It’s easy to recognize the scams because there are no toll roads anywhere near me. 

I only encounter a toll road maybe once every 3 - 4 months, but got the scam within 24hr of my last trip, so it seemed plausable.  Except that [1] the DMV doesn't collect tolls, [2] the tollway allows 7 days to pay online (vs. the immediate payment demanded by the scam), [3] my tollway account showed that the tolls had been collected, and [4] the link provided was in a foreign country. That's 4 red flags, besides the absurdity of it.

I wonder how the decision will translate to tourist or business travelers to the UK carrying iPhones?  That is, assuming the UK continues to admit travelers from the US.

Watch Google become a monopoly in a new way: by monopolizing the court wins!

So is Safari 10 available for download?  The article keeps switching from present tense to future tense and back again, so it's unclear.  It says it's for Sierra and ElCapitan, but doesn't actually say if this is a beta or something available NOW.

randominternetperson said:

It’s the price, silly. 

 In that case, you can save a further $170 by buying the SE  (3rd Gen, Unlocked, New) from BestBuy online for $429 today.  Which is exactly what I did a week ago.  Dumped the content of my 2nd Gen into it, moved my Mint Mobile nano SIM over, and was off to other matters.  I saved you $370 on your new iPhone!  You're welcome.  If a refurb 3rd Gen had been available on the Apple Refurb store, I'd have bought that.  But in the month I've been watching, they were not to be seen.

lkrupp said:

TurboPGT said:

In terms of a quality, great ceiling fans can be had for $100-$200.

Baloney. See what happens to the motor of that $100 fan twenty years later. I know, do you?

Haha!  The same thing that happened to my Mac Plus after only ten years.....  dead!