Or do you just store a few balloons for when it's screwed up? It's not up to the car to prevent you from going somewhere. It's up to you. And, as mentioned with the balloons, or bellows, or any number of other options, there's lots of ways around just about any currently available test for alcohol. That said, autonomous cars seem like the necessary pre-condition for this particular concept. The "manual" mode can't be invoked if it thinks you're over the limit, that at least wouldn't put anyone at risk.

They stopped turning on laptops over 10 years ago.

there is such a thing as private email. ProtonMail comes to mind as an easy version but even besides that, there's truly private email. It's highly unlikely any of you are using it, yet it's been around since at least 1992. With all the asshattery going on, I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes mainstream in the near future, warts and all.

In this case, not voting for one of the 2 party candidates with 40+% of the vote each is voting for the winning candidate. So those holier than thou 3rd party voters in this election essentially voted for Trump. It's the way our elections work. I say we change it to a straight plurality required. That would make things a lot more interesting, especially on a state by state basis.

A debit card is a credit card attached to your bank account. That's why "Visa" or "MC" is printed on it.

Without knowing what you've got running there or what is on it, I can still call your statement a pile of bullshit. So I will call bullshit.

Why is your statement bullshit? Because I have 12 minis dating back to the mid 2009 mini that are all running OSX fine. The 2009 is even running 10.11 right now, but it won't be upgraded to 10.14 because, well, it can't be. The rest are running 10.12+, and there's no grinding, slow access, or anything.

That said, I did have a 2014 MBP that I had to install a plain OSX version into for 10.12 instead of upgrading, primarily because I'd upgraded and migrated the account I used from a PowerBook running 10.3 all the way through to 10.10 on that machine via 3 other machines. It was having some challenges with 10.10 and the cruft that had built up over 7 years and multiple architectures. Clean install with a quick data copy, and my account was 90% back and clean. Machine runs fine to this day on 10.14.

and I agree with this - although the new mini is a welcome step in the right direction, the pro desktop is missing.

I'm guessing you haven't been a mac user in 10 years. That's ok - the real "upgrade" road for Win7 users is macOS or Linux. Yes, that means new hardware for one case, but you probably were going to need new hardware anyways for Win10's next release or two to not suffer some arbitrary performance hit (suspected, just wait - it will happen) macOS definitely hasn't gotten more bloated, or not anywhere near the level you seem to think. The downloads have varied over the past few releases:

• 10.10 5.73GB
• 10.11 5.8GB
• 10.12 4.78GB
• 10.13 5.21GB
• 10.14 6.03GB

Hmm, that doesn't seem like it's going bloat, rather a major shrinkage and then some growth again, especially considering the variety of things that were added over the releases.

Um, not that I recall. The FP interface was there to stay, more or less. It's been so long I don't remember the specifics of the UI, other than going back to 95/98 or 2K is butt ugly utilitarian.

They never did. It took them roughly 7 years to get XP to a reasonable state, and that still required heavy modification to remove BS services that no one needed or wanted. Unless, of course, you wanted to do something like print to an HP inkjet/scanner combo that required an external security and some other module that no one outside of the military required.

It's a standard on macOS as well. A whole lot better than cycling through 50 windows to get to that one app window you're interested in.

You're right, it has absolutely useless fine-grained security for 99% of the uses people use it for.

Simple single password security, or frameworks that provide security. Not security like you'd need for ElasticSearch type services. In some ways, the security used by systems such as MySQL are even worse than no security at all. CORBA has no built in security, it's a separate component layered on top but not necessary. Neither do some queue services, they're added on but not required. The DBs have at least basic security, but their use is generally single password based. When's the last time you saw an app use a per-user to DB connection authentication?

So effectively, everything listed (except maybe SAP since you'd need to define exactly what part of SAP you're talking about) needs some sort of proxy to handle individual security concerns.

But all of that is moot, really - why would you ever expose an ElasticSearch service directly to the internet? About as often as directly exposing a DB or messaging service.

It'd be better if you never used credit. It's not dystopian because it's not a requirement for leading a happy life.

MySQL
Oracle
DB/2
Any of the Queue software
SAP
CORBA
....