OS X stopped being OS X in 2016. It's called macOS since macOS Sierra.

Again, you're making assumptions.

Target Disk Mode, not "Targeted Disk".

Correct...

...and wrong. Target Disk Mode doesn't depend on macOS for anything. When you boot a Mac in Target Disk Mode the operating system in that Mac isn't running. The computer is behaving as an external hard drive, at the hardware level. I can boot my MacBook Pro in Target Disk Mode, plug it to another machine, and format the MBP's disk and use it as a swap partition for a FreeBSD host if I feel like it.

More assumptions. Stop being on the defensive.

Disclaimer: I'm an Apple ex-employee. I know what I'm talking about.

No, it's not.

They could already do that if they wanted.

You seem to be making a lot of assumptions regarding what Apple wants from a computer platform that you don't seem to know much about.

A few years ago I heard about this new thing called Bitcoin. I had a couple of old computers laying idle at home, so I installed a miner in one, joined a mining pool, and let it run.

After a few days, I shut it down and deleted the miner because I decided it wasn't worth my time. After all, in several days I had mined only about half a Bitcoin, and I estimated I would be mining at most 5-6 Bitcoins a month, or about $20 (IIRC).

This phone isn't about the value of cryptocurrency today: it's about what the value may become in the future.

If the value of crypto goes up, then owners of this phone could make a bit of money. Or the value could go down and be worthless. It's just a gamble.

What are you talking about? FreeBSD has a Linux binary compatibility layer. Linux binaries run with no modification.

What the fuck are you talking about? Is this the level you people have sunk to? Don't put words on other people's mouths.

Follow the laws of the region you're in. Period.

If you live in country A performing an activity that's legal where you live, don't expect country B to come after you because such activity is illegal in B's legal system. Why is this so difficult to understand?

Kim Dotcom, a naturalized New Zealand citizen who has never set foot on the USA, and who was running a business based in NZ, 100% compliant with NZ's laws, is targetted by the US because they didn't like what his business did. Not only that: they destroy his business, seize his assets, and now drag him in a legal battle that's taking him years and millions of dollars to fight.

How is this fair? The US is the world's biggest fucking bully. Just another corrupt regime. A big one.

And when he's done with the training he's already 6, so...

oh, wait...

No. One thing doesn't imply the other. You're making a wrong assumption.

That's not it.

Tokyo is a huge metropolis. Commuters in the metropolitan area often have to change train 2-3 times to get from home to work, especially those who live in the outskitrs.

Missing your train because it left early means that you have to wait 4 minutes for the next one, so you're already at least 4 minutes late to work. If you're changing to another train then that could translate in a 10-15 minutes delay, which is quite a problem.

Same here. Around May I repurposed my gaming PC (and added an extra GPU) and it's been mining Monero since then. I've also been buying Bitcoin and Monero. So far I've been able to become debt-free, but not much else.

Anyway, I'm holding long term, so we'll see how it goes in the following years.

Yes, BCH has been pumped a lot, especially last weekend. However, the other altcoins are mostly irrelevant.

In any case, it'd be nice if you stopped telling me how much you've made with Bitcoin. It's already painful enough for me because I started mining back when CPU-mining Bitcoin was doable, and stopped at around 0.002 BTC because I got bored of it. If I had continued then now my life would be very different. :-)

At $0.5? Then two things:

1) I envy you

2) You don’t need to worry much about these altcoins. It’s loose change for you. :-)

Very good point. Honestly, I have no idea. Bitcoin Cash obviously did fork, but I don't know about the others.

If you keep your Bitcoin in a wallet under your control then you can find out which ones did fork and then install their wallets to claim these coins and transfer them somewhere else.

If instead you keep them at the exchange then I'm afraid it's up to the exchange to give you access to those coins or not.

Give it another month or two. If you search for "bitcoin" today on CoinMarketCap you get this list of already-available cryptocurrencies:

• Bitcoin
• Bitcoin Cash
• BitcoinDark
• Bitcoin Plus
• BitcoinZ
• Bitcoin Scrypt
• Bitcoin Red
• BitcoinFast

And soon Bitcoin Gold will be added to the list...

Depends on the company. Traditional Japanese companies with conservative management often do this, but it's becoming increasingly less common.

The solution: don't go work for these companies. As if there isn't enough to choose from.

Source: I live in Japan. I start work at 9:30 and leave at 18:30.

Not necessarily. Catalonia produces about 20% of Spain's total GDP. Spain can certainly send military police or even its army to try and take over the Catalan government, but Catalonia can also fight back by not taking responsibility for its share of the Spanish debt (currently at a bit over 100% of Spain's GDP). This would cause the Spanish economy to collapse if it actually happened.

Spain has options, but almost everything they do will meet a lot of resistance from the Catalan population. Remember that this isn't just a couple guys in government declaring independence: about half of the Catalans voted for it (probably more, but we won't know for sure because Spain didn't allow for a proper vote). Hostility from Spain will most likely result in another general strike in Catalonia such as the one we saw on October 3rd protesting against police brutality during the October 1st referendum.

The next few days will be critical. I don't really know what's going to happen, but I really hope things don't become violent. So far all the Catalan actions have been peaceful, unlike the response we're seeing not just from the Spanish government, but also from some ultra-right-wing, pro-Spain groups in Catalonia.

For the record, I'm Catalan and pro-independence. My views can be biased (they probably are), so take everything I say with a grain of salt and verify by yourself everything you read/hear. There's a lot of manipulation on both sides.