What I got out of this is that with the exception of the 6TB size, Seagate is the most likely to fail and appears to average near 1 out of ever 50 vs less than 1 in 100 for other drives. What's most shocking is the 12TB failure rate, as those are pretty new.

I was under the impression that it was significantly more than that, both in code and in effort to maintain said code. Maybe you're ignoring the APIs?

I run Photoshop 2, in a VM. Problem solved.

Final Cut's replacement seems to be working fine now. Unfortunately, Photos does not. But, there's a pretty good set of alternatives, everything from CaptureOne, Lightroom, ON1, Darkroom, Perfect Effects, etc etc etc in varying costs and levels of sophistication and support. Several also are state of the art windows programs, so you can't say they're not professional level programs. While I would avoid Lightroom like the plague as the writing from Adobe is on the wall (pay us monthly) all the others appear to support a purchase model as the primary route.

None of that is disputed, but how much smaller, simpler, and more efficient would the kernel be without that capability? And then realize that for the last 10 years for Apple's eco-system all code should have been compiled against 64 bit libraries: that'd be 2009 - what are you running today that was released in 2009?. Now what are the benefits again? Note that Aperture isn't 32-bit, so Apple discontinuing the 32 bit support has nothing to do with Aperture. More than likely there are some oddities that are being removed that Aperture took advantage of and Apple refused to patch Aperture for since it was EOL'd 5 years ago. It was an awesome program despite some peculiarities, I was sad to see it go when I dropped it years ago. Photos just isn't near as good. But it has been a boon for 3rd party developers.

Just think of what fallout that decision would have had. We might be looking at 8-way Mac Pros today instead of trashcans.

But think of your fiber intake! (You just needed to chew more)

How the mighty have fallen - that's a major shift from "you don't get fired for buying big blue"

I'm not ignoring any details. I know that my id and boarding pass are both scanned/reviewed at the checkin point. When that id is scanned, it can be in their system and displayed at the gate when the boarding pass is scanned.

who says it's going to stop the wrong person?

They have no business holding on to the picture, or any other data, honestly.

It is "fine" for them to use a picture and keep it for a limited (as in days at most) time for purposes of identification. I'm not sure what I'm trying to "have both ways" there. The problem almost anyone has with data collection has always been data retention policies and the mining of long-term collected data for behaviors, trends, and habits.

First, who said I'm ok with all those other cameras? But, let's not delve into rabbit holes. Staying on topic:

No, it's not more secure than a boarding pass. The boarding pass combined with passport confirm a) name, b) that you're supposed to be on the flight, and c) that it's really you.

Why is it not more secure? Well, based off of numerous studies of face recognition software, it appears there's a miss rate of more than 1%. Would you be comfortable with more than 1 out of every 100 people being incorrectly identified on a plane? That's a rough average of 3 incorrectly identified people per international flight. So since my id and boarding pass are scanned when checking in, when I scan my boarding pass at the gate pop up that picture to confirm it's me. All internal, and no need to keep it past the point when the plane lands.

Because there's an R or D next to the name.

What do I win?

I'm not sure where you get that figure. I pay for my own insurance, and it's closer to $1K/month. And it's no gold-plated plan, by far. To put it in proper perspective, the average payment for health insurance is somewhere around $10K/year per person. Now realize that 20-40 year olds pay about 4-5K / year for the cheapest plan they can get away with and you see how people in the US become rapidly uninsured right about when they start needing some care, as they enter their 40s. Medicare doesn't do squat until you're 65 in most cases.

You might want to double check those cases of "fraud" (because it's not fraud, but it is ethically and morally questionable IMHO) So here's a short result list for 2018 that has, among other results - NC GOP (nope, not a D in the list there) Ted Cruz (the only D there is at the end of his name) and Club for Growth (a conservative PAC, don't think there's a D there either). To be fair, there are some liberal entries in the results too, but it far and away is not solely a 'D' issue.

Then again, you're trolling hard today. So continue asserting the D's are guilty of R deeds, and keep doing so without any citations, because, you know, you don't have any.

It's the sad state of affairs that once, every 5-12 years, depending upon state, you have to haul your butt to a licensing office to get a license. Voter registration can be done at the same time, and once done, is usually automatic, or at least has been in my experience.

You are trolling hard. I checked the state of Texas, a whole 33 cases of voter fraud have been prosecuted under Paxton. Not won - prosecuted. One of the "successfully prosecuted" cases wasn't even really voter fraud, but submission of a provisional ballot in case she could vote. So that means that there were no more than 32 potential cases of voter fraud.