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danwells said:

You imply that you can get the GTX 980 to function in MacOS

but your procedure lands you in Windows...

I was explaining how the EFI menu is meaningless, except for when you need to reinstall OS X. And that’s where keeping an old GT 120 around comes in.

I can almost guarantee we'll see at least one wildly nonstandard connector on the new Mac Pro.

Probably a daughterboard like the earlier Mac Pro.

SSD and video are the primary candidates

Why would Apple do that? The one reason to have the product and they’d ruin it? Again? No. Standard M.2 connectors and PCIe (5.0, hopefully).

AppleInsider said:

Apple will apparently detail the launch schedule of AirPower, Apple's wireless charging mat capable of providing power to multiple devices at the same time, which is touted in the report to cost around NT$5,000 to NT$6,000 ($161 to $193). 

“Available H1 2019”

CheeseFreeze said:

A Chromebook is a much better deal for many users

Explain what type of user does not need the human right of privacy.

AppleBighter said:

First, redefine evil.  Then do whatever you please.

“Evil for thee, not for me.”

If I’m still alive in 10 years, it’ll be interesting to see how many people, by then, know exactly what I’m talking about here.

airnerd said:

How about if I just delete all Google apps from my iPhone.  Does THAT stop them tracking me?  I honestly can't tell anymore because of the underhanded tactics they apparently pull.

Their code is hidden on every single website. You’ll have to stop Safari from getting access to location data ENTIRELY, otherwise Google will just take it. And even THEN, they’ll still know your location because they will be fed the location of the Wi-Fi network you’re connected to (Thanks, Akamai*, for this invasion of privacy!) or the cell tower you’re currently using.

*I have a friend who lives out in the country, down a decent lane. His Wi-Fi network isn’t strong enough to get to the end of the lane, so he doesn’t show up in his iPad’s Wi-Fi-based location service. Good for him. Akamai doesn’t go down private roads, apparently. Yet.

andrewj5790 said:

My brother in law said “why do we care that we’re being tracked, again?” I’d enjoy reading some of your reasons.

Not sure who you’re asking, but I have something, if you like.

“You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide.”

This is a very dangerous mindset. The argument is frequently raised in debates by pro-big brother hawks, and doing so is dangerous, cowardly, and dishonest. There are at least four good reasons to reject this argument, solidly and uncompromisingly.

The rules may change.

Once the invasive surveillance is in place to enforce rules with which you agree, the ruleset that is being enforced could change in ways with which you don’t agree at all. But then it is too late to protest the surveillance. For example, you may agree to cameras in every home to prevent domestic violence (“and domestic violence only”), but the next day a new political force in power could decide that Christianity will be illegal and they will use the existing home cameras to enforce their new rules. Any surveillance must be regarded in terms of how it can be abused by a power worse than today’s. 

It’s not you who determine if you have something to fear.

You may consider yourself law-abidingly white as snow, but that won’t matter. What does matter is whether you set off the red flags in the mostly automated surveillance. Where bureaucrats look at your life in microscopic detail through a long paper tube to search for patterns. When you stop your car at the main prostitution street for two hours every Friday night, the Social Services Authority will draw certain conclusions from that data point and won’t care about the fact that you help your elderly grandmother–who lives there–with her weekly groceries. When you frequently stop at a certain bar on your way driving home from work, the Department of Driving Licenses will draw certain conclusions as to your eligibility for future driving licenses–regardless of the fact that you think the bar serves the world’s best reindeer meatballs and have never had a single beer there. People will stop thinking in terms of what is legal and start acting in self-censorship to avoid being red-flagged out of pure self-preservation. It doesn’t matter that somebody in the right might possibly and eventually be cleared–after having been investigated for six months, you will have lost custody of your children, your job, and possibly your home.

Laws must be broken for society to progress.

A society which can enforce all of its laws will stop dead in its tracks. The mindset of ‘rounding up criminals is good for society’ is a very dangerous one, for in hindsight it may turn out that the criminals were the ones in the moral right. Barely over 200 years ago, if you promoted republican ideals, you were criminal. It is an absolute necessity to be able to break unjust laws for society to progress and question its own values, in order to learn from mistakes and move on as a society.

Privacy is a basic human need.

Implying that only the dishonest people have need of any privacy ignores a basic property of the human psyche and sends a creepy message of strong discomfort. We have a fundamental need for privacy. I lock the door when I go to the mens’ room, despite the fact that nothing secret happens in there. I just want to keep that activity to myself, I have a fundamental need to do so, and any society must respect that fundamental need for privacy. In every society that doesn’t, citizens have responded with subterfuge and created their own private areas out of reach of the governmental surveillance–not because they are criminal, but because doing so is a fundamental human need.

Macseeker PM’d me about this, and I’ll just repeat what I said to him here so that other users can see my workaround for this.

(1) When you have something already typed in your post and go to add a new quote box, hit return to get a new line (after this line of text), then choose the quote option from the menu.

(3) Then you can click in the quote box to paste in that section of their comment. After which you can continue typing below.

(2) Then click DOWN HERE FIRST, so that your cursor reappears (because it will refuse to appear if you only click in the empty quote box).

(4) If the forum software’s formatting for merely responding to another user’s separate points is prohibitively confusing, people won’t use it. Least of all to do multiquotes. And discussions will, consequently, suffer. If not only because people are simply confused as to which part of a quote is replying to which part of their post, then because the discussion just won’t be had at all, because some might see it as “too difficult” to distinguish the points.

Cheers, everyone.

EDIT: Oh, one more thing. If the last word/character of your section (1) above has any sort of text formatting applied to it (bold, italic, underline, etc.), then the subsequent quote box will probably just be broken entirely. You’ll have to CLEAR the formatting from the text at the end of the line (easy way is to do a bunch of spaces after the last word, select the spaces, and then remove the formatting) and then add a new quote box.