Non removable batteries in an iPhone are just the battery's plastic wrap outer layer with no puncture protection at all. Every phone I've encountered with a removable battery had at least some kind of plastic or aluminum exoskeleton beyond the thin plastic from the battery manufacturing to give it some chance of not instantly folding or puncturing and catching fire when it wasn't installed. That plus the mechanism to open and latch the case and the extra bracing required internally add up to quite a bit of overhead for something so tiny.
It's common sense and physics. The additional plastic of the battery housing, the internal space in the phone to make a user-serviceable space inside, the exterior cover and latching mechanism to hold it on, etc. All of those things take up space and add weight. That space could be more lithium or a smaller, lighter phone.
You can convince me otherwise when you can demonstrate two designs (one with an integrated battery and one removable) that yield the same battery capacity and device size & weight using the same battery technology.
As a user, I'd much prefer the water proofing, smaller overall size / greater capacity, and other benefits that come from an integrated battery.
Sure, a removable battery might make this recall easier (assuming the flaw is solely in the battery & not in the phone). I'm really not interested in buying consumer devices that are designed with the idea of making it easier to replace the exploding battery though. Design & test the thing properly, and you won't have to do any recalls.
Cars & housing are special cases where specific pro-consumer laws protect you from fraud on the part of the seller. Places where "buyer beware" is a bit too open ended and the seller is required to behave honestly.
Corporate mergers are pretty much wild west in terms of negotiating the deal. Both sides are expected to do due diligence in determining the state of the companies being acquired. I'd be shocked if there wasn't some term in the agreement voiding it if the parties intentionally withheld material information related to the value of the company. Verizon might not want to invoke that if they still want the assets they're getting from Yahoo or if they don't want to go through the time & cost in court to prove who knew what & when. Using it as a bargaining chip to save some money might work out better for them than outright canceling the deal. It certainly affects the value of Yahoo. I can't imagine how many people have deleted their accounts in response to the news. (Yes, closing the barn door after the fact, but no sense continuing to do business with them.)
The fact that you're asking is why Apple has been taking a pretty hard line lately. Zero tolerance (cause that always works well) to try & reign in the garbage and restore some kind of faith in the review process.
I find paper lists far more cumbersome. They get lost or left at home. They can't be edited easily. My handwriting is dreadful. Can't write while moving or doing other things, etc. Siri can take a note no matter what I'm doing. The note is available on my phone, tablet, laptop, and two desktops near enough to instantly. I can delete it when done or revise it if necessary. I can share lists with family members, and we can all check off things as we do them or add more as we think of them. None of those are features I'd die without, but they certainly make a lot of life's activities run more smooway.
Clearly we use our phones differently, but I'd describe mine as indispensable to the way I prefer to live my life. The security of the data on it is very important to me.
Hey... Think about this for a minute... You find a VM escape vulnerability, and some N-th dimensional sysadmin is gonna have to apply a patch. And then we get rebooted. Do you REALLY want to be responsible for someone rebooting the universe?
Let’s be real for a second though There are certainly flights that are longer than the 8-10 hours you can get from a pair of BT headphones, but not *that* many people fly that far regularly nor are able to listen to music for the entire flight. I’d imagine sleep is a common alternative to music listening.
If you manage to kill your BT headphones, unplug the phone & switch to wired for a while. You’ll get another 20+ hours of music, especially with the cell radio turned off. Charge your headphones while you’re doing that.
Is it slightly less convenient than being able to listen to wired headphones & charge? Sure. Do many people find themselves in that position frequently? I doubt it.
It might be honestly. Might be able to convince the FDA to agree to an accelerated process because of the emergency situation. Never let a good catastrophe go to waste...
Probabaly easier to sell the cost to stock holders and others who don't get security too when they "have to" do it, as opposed to spending just proactively suring up security that hasn't been broken yet, at least not practically for reals. Anyone in infosec knows firefighting is easier to get funding for than prevention...
I'm austensibly right handed, but a lot of my family are lefties and I've always done some things backwards. Wrist watch on the right for example. Phone is in my left pocket with screen (and home button) facing my body, top of phone down towards the ground. Reach in & trigger home button with thumb as I'm pulling it out & pivoting it around my thumb grip to be right side up. Most times the TouchID process has completed as I'm pulling the phone out, and the phone is ready to use with my right hand touching the screen as it's held in my left.
As far as handwriting handedness, I'm told it doesn't make a big difference. It's nigh indecipherable by anyone else regardless of what hand I'm writing with...
Primarily because it's the most secured device I can buy as a consumer. It's also the one that's with me at all times. My phone is my exocortex. The part of my brain that actually works right, more often than not. If there's an arbitrary detail of modern life than has no value to me other than when engaging in certain bureaucratic ablutions, you can bet my phone remembers it better than I do.
And sure I could LIVE without the other stuff my phone does. My heart would keep beating, and I'd keep breathing. But quality of life is a thing. The myriad additional functions my phone provides enables me to do a dozen little things during the course of my day that I'd have to either not do or put off doing something else later. The time and brain workingstate savings of being able to scratch those things off immediately or perhaps a minute or two later when I have a moment rather than trying to remember to do them later (or skipping them entirely) are the little things that make life more than just hunt & gather, eat & sleep.
There are lots of modern conveniences we could live without, but you're only punishing yourself (and making lots of people regard you as some kind of odd Luddite or ascetic) if you stubbornly refuse to take advantage of them.
That's a full on anxiety creeping up the back of my neck NOPE!!!!!
Phone in the left pocket, keys & wallet in the right. You can tell from the pat down I give myself to make sure every time I'm about to walk through a locking door.
The devices were never warrantied as being secure. They're sold as telephones. As long as they still make calls, they're not defective. There's no way you'll get phone makers or cell carriers to make good on these without a law telling them they have to. And you can rest assured they'd pass the cost of any such law directly on to consumers.
Buyers need to vote with their wallets. You're not just buying a dumb telephone. You're buying an always-on, always-connected computer that you're going to store some of the most private things about your life on. Pay attention to the hardware maker's upgrade record as well as your carrier's and choose accordingly.
For most users, that probably means either spending the extra on a Nexus device or going Apple or saving the money up front and knowing that you're buying a dead end device that will almost certainly fail to get some critical security update before its reasonable useful life has passed. At that point, your choices are live with the risks of the vulnerability or spend more money to replace the device.
I wouldn't be so sure. Consider what evidence is left on a device that's been hacked remotely. (I don't know at all, just speculating of course.)
What if a hacked command to send a lethal overdose looks exactly like the user pressing the buttons to deliver the same dose? Any legal risk minded investigation team is going to be falling over themselves to label that either an "accidental" overdose or perhaps even a suicide rather than let it go down as a security issue in their device that allowed someone to murder the user at a distance by twiddling some buttons. My (cynical) guess would be if the security of an embedded device is such that it can take unauthorized commands over the wire, odds are pretty good it's not going to successfully audit what happened in any meaningful way.
If it happened en mass, sure. People would put it together, and we'd get a Made for Lifetime movie about the intrepid hero who wouldn't accept the party line and pushed through to discover the horrible truth... Or somesuch drek... But one or two, here & there? We've all seen the bit about automotive recalls at the beginning of that movie we don't talk about, right?
What problems have you seen with G1GC? We're running it in production for the better part of two years on both JDK 7 & 8 without issues. Early JDK 7 had some stability problems on it, but it's been rock solid since about 7u60-something and throughout JDK 8.
It’s unfortunate how many businesses still treat them as a legitimate CDN. We have an A/V vendor that does sig updates through Cloudflare. Tough to block their IP’s...
I'm not positive, but I think if you replace your Bluetooth / WiFi card, you may be able to get this working on older Macs. That was the case with Airdrop when it originally came out. Need something with the appropriate cocktail of BT versions & extensions. Haven't looked at forcefeeding Sierra onto my MacPro1,1 yet, but will likely grab a newer BT card when the time comes. Ditto my MacBookPro5,5.
Anybody know which cards will fit & have the necessary feeps?
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Non removable batteries in an iPhone are just the battery's plastic wrap outer layer with no puncture protection at all. Every phone I've encountered with a removable battery had at least some kind of plastic or aluminum exoskeleton beyond the thin plastic from the battery manufacturing to give it some chance of not instantly folding or puncturing and catching fire when it wasn't installed. That plus the mechanism to open and latch the case and the extra bracing required internally add up to quite a bit of overhead for something so tiny.
It's common sense and physics. The additional plastic of the battery housing, the internal space in the phone to make a user-serviceable space inside, the exterior cover and latching mechanism to hold it on, etc. All of those things take up space and add weight. That space could be more lithium or a smaller, lighter phone.
You can convince me otherwise when you can demonstrate two designs (one with an integrated battery and one removable) that yield the same battery capacity and device size & weight using the same battery technology.
As a user, I'd much prefer the water proofing, smaller overall size / greater capacity, and other benefits that come from an integrated battery.
Sure, a removable battery might make this recall easier (assuming the flaw is solely in the battery & not in the phone). I'm really not interested in buying consumer devices that are designed with the idea of making it easier to replace the exploding battery though. Design & test the thing properly, and you won't have to do any recalls.
Cars & housing are special cases where specific pro-consumer laws protect you from fraud on the part of the seller. Places where "buyer beware" is a bit too open ended and the seller is required to behave honestly.
Corporate mergers are pretty much wild west in terms of negotiating the deal. Both sides are expected to do due diligence in determining the state of the companies being acquired. I'd be shocked if there wasn't some term in the agreement voiding it if the parties intentionally withheld material information related to the value of the company. Verizon might not want to invoke that if they still want the assets they're getting from Yahoo or if they don't want to go through the time & cost in court to prove who knew what & when. Using it as a bargaining chip to save some money might work out better for them than outright canceling the deal. It certainly affects the value of Yahoo. I can't imagine how many people have deleted their accounts in response to the news. (Yes, closing the barn door after the fact, but no sense continuing to do business with them.)
The fact that you're asking is why Apple has been taking a pretty hard line lately. Zero tolerance (cause that always works well) to try & reign in the garbage and restore some kind of faith in the review process.
I find paper lists far more cumbersome. They get lost or left at home. They can't be edited easily. My handwriting is dreadful. Can't write while moving or doing other things, etc. Siri can take a note no matter what I'm doing. The note is available on my phone, tablet, laptop, and two desktops near enough to instantly. I can delete it when done or revise it if necessary. I can share lists with family members, and we can all check off things as we do them or add more as we think of them. None of those are features I'd die without, but they certainly make a lot of life's activities run more smooway .
Clearly we use our phones differently, but I'd describe mine as indispensable to the way I prefer to live my life. The security of the data on it is very important to me.
Hey... Think about this for a minute... You find a VM escape vulnerability, and some N-th dimensional sysadmin is gonna have to apply a patch. And then we get rebooted. Do you REALLY want to be responsible for someone rebooting the universe?
Let’s be real for a second though There are certainly flights that are longer than the 8-10 hours you can get from a pair of BT headphones, but not *that* many people fly that far regularly nor are able to listen to music for the entire flight. I’d imagine sleep is a common alternative to music listening.
If you manage to kill your BT headphones, unplug the phone & switch to wired for a while. You’ll get another 20+ hours of music, especially with the cell radio turned off. Charge your headphones while you’re doing that.
Is it slightly less convenient than being able to listen to wired headphones & charge? Sure. Do many people find themselves in that position frequently? I doubt it.
What part of “reduced cabin pressure” was at play for a plane that hadn’t even taken off yet?
If Jobs were Samsung CEO, he would have personally thrown somebody out a fricking window over this.
It might be honestly. Might be able to convince the FDA to agree to an accelerated process because of the emergency situation. Never let a good catastrophe go to waste...
Probabaly easier to sell the cost to stock holders and others who don't get security too when they "have to" do it, as opposed to spending just proactively suring up security that hasn't been broken yet, at least not practically for reals. Anyone in infosec knows firefighting is easier to get funding for than prevention...
I'm austensibly right handed, but a lot of my family are lefties and I've always done some things backwards. Wrist watch on the right for example. Phone is in my left pocket with screen (and home button) facing my body, top of phone down towards the ground. Reach in & trigger home button with thumb as I'm pulling it out & pivoting it around my thumb grip to be right side up. Most times the TouchID process has completed as I'm pulling the phone out, and the phone is ready to use with my right hand touching the screen as it's held in my left.
As far as handwriting handedness, I'm told it doesn't make a big difference. It's nigh indecipherable by anyone else regardless of what hand I'm writing with...
Primarily because it's the most secured device I can buy as a consumer. It's also the one that's with me at all times. My phone is my exocortex. The part of my brain that actually works right, more often than not. If there's an arbitrary detail of modern life than has no value to me other than when engaging in certain bureaucratic ablutions, you can bet my phone remembers it better than I do.
And sure I could LIVE without the other stuff my phone does. My heart would keep beating, and I'd keep breathing. But quality of life is a thing. The myriad additional functions my phone provides enables me to do a dozen little things during the course of my day that I'd have to either not do or put off doing something else later. The time and brain workingstate savings of being able to scratch those things off immediately or perhaps a minute or two later when I have a moment rather than trying to remember to do them later (or skipping them entirely) are the little things that make life more than just hunt & gather, eat & sleep.
There are lots of modern conveniences we could live without, but you're only punishing yourself (and making lots of people regard you as some kind of odd Luddite or ascetic) if you stubbornly refuse to take advantage of them.
That's a full on anxiety creeping up the back of my neck NOPE!!!!!
Phone in the left pocket, keys & wallet in the right. You can tell from the pat down I give myself to make sure every time I'm about to walk through a locking door.
Better known as “Pharmabro” or let’s increase costs of old meds by 5000%.
This a new low, /. Not even offering to bail out 4chan should elevate this piece of garbage to “stuff that matters.”
My only question would be, “Why haven’t you stopped breathing my oxygen yet?”
Did pulling it out of my pants a few hundred times a month scratch it? No? Good. Guess it was hard enough.
Oh... And my phone's okay too!
The devices were never warrantied as being secure. They're sold as telephones. As long as they still make calls, they're not defective. There's no way you'll get phone makers or cell carriers to make good on these without a law telling them they have to. And you can rest assured they'd pass the cost of any such law directly on to consumers.
Buyers need to vote with their wallets. You're not just buying a dumb telephone. You're buying an always-on, always-connected computer that you're going to store some of the most private things about your life on. Pay attention to the hardware maker's upgrade record as well as your carrier's and choose accordingly.
For most users, that probably means either spending the extra on a Nexus device or going Apple or saving the money up front and knowing that you're buying a dead end device that will almost certainly fail to get some critical security update before its reasonable useful life has passed. At that point, your choices are live with the risks of the vulnerability or spend more money to replace the device.
In fairness, adding the switch might cost five cents, but adding it to the *design* & getting it recertified would cost millions, easy.
I wouldn't be so sure. Consider what evidence is left on a device that's been hacked remotely. (I don't know at all, just speculating of course.)
What if a hacked command to send a lethal overdose looks exactly like the user pressing the buttons to deliver the same dose? Any legal risk minded investigation team is going to be falling over themselves to label that either an "accidental" overdose or perhaps even a suicide rather than let it go down as a security issue in their device that allowed someone to murder the user at a distance by twiddling some buttons. My (cynical) guess would be if the security of an embedded device is such that it can take unauthorized commands over the wire, odds are pretty good it's not going to successfully audit what happened in any meaningful way.
If it happened en mass, sure. People would put it together, and we'd get a Made for Lifetime movie about the intrepid hero who wouldn't accept the party line and pushed through to discover the horrible truth... Or somesuch drek... But one or two, here & there? We've all seen the bit about automotive recalls at the beginning of that movie we don't talk about, right?
That's where all the l33t h5x0rz are! Everybody knows that!!!
What problems have you seen with G1GC? We're running it in production for the better part of two years on both JDK 7 & 8 without issues. Early JDK 7 had some stability problems on it, but it's been rock solid since about 7u60-something and throughout JDK 8.
It’s unfortunate how many businesses still treat them as a legitimate CDN. We have an A/V vendor that does sig updates through Cloudflare. Tough to block their IP’s...
Finally deleted my Yahoo & Flickr accounts today. Nothing of value was lost...
Did they change anything from the GM? Why would I want to do that? GM usually means done-deal.
I'm not positive, but I think if you replace your Bluetooth / WiFi card, you may be able to get this working on older Macs. That was the case with Airdrop when it originally came out. Need something with the appropriate cocktail of BT versions & extensions. Haven't looked at forcefeeding Sierra onto my MacPro1,1 yet, but will likely grab a newer BT card when the time comes. Ditto my MacBookPro5,5.
Anybody know which cards will fit & have the necessary feeps?