They probably throw away the part of the case the batteries are glued to and install a new one. It's not that expensive compared to the cost of batteries.
For instance, Apple has had a recycling program available for years that is available as a free service to any of their customers. Given that Apple is promising to recycle your devices (including non-Apple ones) for you regardless of how difficult it is to do so, the ease of recycling them should be a non-factor to anyone but Apple, rendering the difficulty of recycling a meaningless measurement for outside consideration.
Apparently Apple dump the problem of recycling their devices onto a third-party contractor, which gives them a lot of plausible deniability. I'd be interested to see an investigation into what actually happens to Apple hardware once it's handed over for recycling - even if Apple has said that the hardware that's handed over is recycled, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's actually economically feasible for its recycling subcontractors to do so.
FF will throw away images in background tabs, and reload them when you switch to the tab.
If you've got really large high-res images open in tabs, this is pretty much indispensable though. On the geekier parts of the Internet I visit, it's easy to open several big images in tabs without realising it (die shots of chips are huge, for instance).
It was obvious from the teardowns that the MPB with Retina Display was designed in a way that made enviromentally-friendly disposal impossible. So that's how Apple were planning on solving the problem - redefining what it means to be environmentally-friendly!
This thing connects to the host computer - which does the brunt of the signal processing - over a "8Gbps, low latency, PCIe x4 bus". The Raspberry Pi does not have a PCIe connector, or anything with close to the bandwidth of even a a PCIe x1 interface. That's before you even get to the processing power required...
Creating a signed bootloader that can boot arbitrary Linux kernels - or even just kernels without restrictions on module loading - would subvert Secure Boot just as effectively though. Which is why I reckon they'd revoke Ubuntu's code signing key just as quickly if they didn't lock down their bootloader so that it only boots Ubuntu-signed kernels that are modified to only load Ubuntu-signed kernel modules. Basically, you can forget about installing third-party drivers or compiling your own kernels.
The SFLC advice to us was that the FSF could require key disclosure if some OEM screwed up.
So in other words they're anticipating not only that OEMs are going to accidentally or intentionally ship machines running Ubuntu that are locked down so that you cannot boot your own kernels on them but also that they won't be able to convince the OEMs to fix their broken BIOSes to allow users to run their own code. By not using GRUB2 they ensure that said OEMs would have no legal obligations to allow you to run the code you wanted on the PC you'd just bought.
Suppose segregationists had the votes to pass federal jim crow laws. Do you think they would not do so because they cared about "state's rights"?
I actually found out something hilarous a while ago. You know how a lot of modern pro-Confederate people claim that the secession of the southern states and the American Civil War was actually motivated by states rights, not slavery? It turns out that, if you read the orignal secession document, the main violation of the Southern states' "rights" they object to is the federal government not enforcing a federal law that would force states where slavery was illegal to recognise the ownership of escaped slaves from other states and return them. Funny how federal law supersedes individual states' when it's convenient.
I'm pretty sure that Ron Paul would be opposed to net neutrality full stop, since it involves the government meddling in how private corporations run their business. Sure, without net neutrality we're effectively giving a few major corporations the power to control and censor an important channel of communication, but in Paulworld that's not real censorship because it's not the Government doing it.
A "free market" doesn't mean an unregulated market. A "free market" means a market in which prices are set by supply and demand. Free markets require laws and a functioning legal system. Those are sufficient and necessary to prevent monopolies, fraud, harm from products and pollution, and asymmetric info: when these things occur, you (or even the government) can sue the people who caused them.
Which, as the comment you're replying to points out, is already more than enough government for corruption to set in. If government corruption is as inevitable as libertarians seem to think it is then it's basically impossible to have a free market.
The realistic alternative is that someone's registering a whole bunch of Yahoo! e-mail addresses and pretending to be running an Android device in order to spam with them. Someone in the comments of the original Microsoft blog entry reckons that the e-mail addresses used all have the same format (FirstnameLastname + 2 digits @ yahoo.com) which would be a pretty clear sign they're not just existing accounts that are compromised, and if there was an Android botnet there's no reason why it should reveal it's running on Android to Yahoo and all the security researchers trying to find and eliminate it.
Blizzard originally claimed those bans weren't caused by people using Linux:
We have been testing our security software with Cedega. Cedega was used and tested before the security procedures and during the security procedures. From this testing we have yielded no hits, meaning Cedega, by itself, does not incur an account suspension.
We have accounts of several Cedega users who have been playing normally during the time that these processes are running. Again, these people are not being suspended simply because of using Cedega or Linux.
Took them over a week to acknowledge the bans were false after all and reinstate the banned users.
Also, have they tested FreeBSD and Wine? Because there's someone on WineDB claiming to have been banned for playing Diablo III on FreeBSD, and I have an odd feeling that wasn't on their testing list somehow.
Have they tested D3 on Linux in every configuration? Because DRM tools have been known to try and detect function hooking by making assumptions about the code structure of functions that are true for Wine when compiled with some versions of gcc and sets of compiler options but are detected as attempts to hack with different versions/compiler options/phases of the moon...
There's actually am unofficial tool in UBCD for Windows these days that allows you to switch an existing Windows XP installation to AHCI. It's kind of hairy though - even creating the boot CD is messy and requires a non-OEM Windows XP installation CD, and then it does a crude partial installation of the AHCI drivers that's just enough to get Windows booting again, and you're meant to manually reinstall the drivers afterwards except that Windows didn't want to upgrade to the driver version off the AMD website for some reason, and so on...
The only way to patch the "bug" of stupid users being able to install malware on their computers is to prohibit users from installing arbitrary software on their computers, which would be a much bigger bug than any social exploit vulnerability.
The same's true for Windows and every other OS, though, which given that almost all malware is installed this way must surely make any claim of superior protection against malware of the kind Apple loves to make utter bullshit.
he doesn't mean that "higher order thinking skills" are bullshit.. he said that the terms "higher order thinking skills" "logic" "critical thinking" and others have been coopted by the left as compliance with their ideology
Judging from the Texas GOP's stated reasons for opposing "critical thinking" in schools, I suspect that the evil left-wing ideology here is not how it's taught but the idea of teaching kids to think for themselves at all rather than just letting their parents dictate their beliefs to them.
The closed-source bootloader is actually only licensed for use on the Raspberry Pi and it runs on the totally undocumented VideoCore hardware, so even if somehow you did manage to get hold of the components you couldn't legally build your own. I suspect it might also require a custom ROM bootloader that's only on the chips supplied to Raspberry Pi too or something.
Also, bugs ARE of course there and is basic fact of having an imperfect model. These are pretty much immediately exploited in quite a Darwinian way by other market participants.
Except that the only market participants that are allowed to exploit bugs in this way are the established ones. A new upstart tried exploiting limitations in the existing big players' trading algorithms intelligence and was found to be acting illegally in doing so; I think people went to jail over it.
Of course, the "safer" C library string functions are already supported by Visual Studio because they're part of Microsoft's cargo-cult approach to security. You know, the one where they're so busy making everyone rewrite all their existing code to new APIs that they don't think about little details like whether it's a good idea to hand out Microsoft certificates which have code-signing permissions for no real reason and can be used to sign fake Windows updates to anyone and everyone. And where they don't bother to upgrade the signing process for those certificates to something better than MD5.
Unfortunately Fukushima wasn't designed to survive a fairly unlikely but powerful tsunami, and it turned out that the regulators in charge of making sure it was safe knew that and didn't do anything, and there was already a history of safety failures within the Japanese nuclear industry being covered up. Nuclear power's a brilliant technology but in practice there doesn't seem to any way of operating it safely given human nature and the way politics works.
Of course, if he did do that, then a few decades down the line when he was still stuck in a minimum-wage job with no prospects it'd be his fault for not taking the opportunity to better himself when he should've. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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They probably throw away the part of the case the batteries are glued to and install a new one. It's not that expensive compared to the cost of batteries.
For instance, Apple has had a recycling program available for years that is available as a free service to any of their customers. Given that Apple is promising to recycle your devices (including non-Apple ones) for you regardless of how difficult it is to do so, the ease of recycling them should be a non-factor to anyone but Apple, rendering the difficulty of recycling a meaningless measurement for outside consideration.
Apparently Apple dump the problem of recycling their devices onto a third-party contractor, which gives them a lot of plausible deniability. I'd be interested to see an investigation into what actually happens to Apple hardware once it's handed over for recycling - even if Apple has said that the hardware that's handed over is recycled, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's actually economically feasible for its recycling subcontractors to do so.
FF will throw away images in background tabs, and reload them when you switch to the tab.
If you've got really large high-res images open in tabs, this is pretty much indispensable though. On the geekier parts of the Internet I visit, it's easy to open several big images in tabs without realising it (die shots of chips are huge, for instance).
It was obvious from the teardowns that the MPB with Retina Display was designed in a way that made enviromentally-friendly disposal impossible. So that's how Apple were planning on solving the problem - redefining what it means to be environmentally-friendly!
Some translations of the Bible are recent enough to be copyrighted, e.g. the New Revised Standard Version. They're actually quite cheap though.
This thing connects to the host computer - which does the brunt of the signal processing - over a "8Gbps, low latency, PCIe x4 bus". The Raspberry Pi does not have a PCIe connector, or anything with close to the bandwidth of even a a PCIe x1 interface. That's before you even get to the processing power required...
Creating a signed bootloader that can boot arbitrary Linux kernels - or even just kernels without restrictions on module loading - would subvert Secure Boot just as effectively though. Which is why I reckon they'd revoke Ubuntu's code signing key just as quickly if they didn't lock down their bootloader so that it only boots Ubuntu-signed kernels that are modified to only load Ubuntu-signed kernel modules. Basically, you can forget about installing third-party drivers or compiling your own kernels.
The SFLC advice to us was that the FSF could require key disclosure if some OEM screwed up.
So in other words they're anticipating not only that OEMs are going to accidentally or intentionally ship machines running Ubuntu that are locked down so that you cannot boot your own kernels on them but also that they won't be able to convince the OEMs to fix their broken BIOSes to allow users to run their own code. By not using GRUB2 they ensure that said OEMs would have no legal obligations to allow you to run the code you wanted on the PC you'd just bought.
Suppose segregationists had the votes to pass federal jim crow laws. Do you think they would not do so because they cared about "state's rights"?
I actually found out something hilarous a while ago. You know how a lot of modern pro-Confederate people claim that the secession of the southern states and the American Civil War was actually motivated by states rights, not slavery? It turns out that, if you read the orignal secession document, the main violation of the Southern states' "rights" they object to is the federal government not enforcing a federal law that would force states where slavery was illegal to recognise the ownership of escaped slaves from other states and return them. Funny how federal law supersedes individual states' when it's convenient.
I'm pretty sure that Ron Paul would be opposed to net neutrality full stop, since it involves the government meddling in how private corporations run their business. Sure, without net neutrality we're effectively giving a few major corporations the power to control and censor an important channel of communication, but in Paulworld that's not real censorship because it's not the Government doing it.
A "free market" doesn't mean an unregulated market. A "free market" means a market in which prices are set by supply and demand. Free markets require laws and a functioning legal system. Those are sufficient and necessary to prevent monopolies, fraud, harm from products and pollution, and asymmetric info: when these things occur, you (or even the government) can sue the people who caused them.
Which, as the comment you're replying to points out, is already more than enough government for corruption to set in. If government corruption is as inevitable as libertarians seem to think it is then it's basically impossible to have a free market.
The realistic alternative is that someone's registering a whole bunch of Yahoo! e-mail addresses and pretending to be running an Android device in order to spam with them. Someone in the comments of the original Microsoft blog entry reckons that the e-mail addresses used all have the same format (FirstnameLastname + 2 digits @ yahoo.com) which would be a pretty clear sign they're not just existing accounts that are compromised, and if there was an Android botnet there's no reason why it should reveal it's running on Android to Yahoo and all the security researchers trying to find and eliminate it.
Tegra 2 was obsolete due to its lack of NEON instructions for its entire lifetime, it just wasn't always as obvious as this.
Blizzard originally claimed those bans weren't caused by people using Linux:
We have been testing our security software with Cedega. Cedega was used and tested before the security procedures and during the security procedures. From this testing we have yielded no hits, meaning Cedega, by itself, does not incur an account suspension.
We have accounts of several Cedega users who have been playing normally during the time that these processes are running. Again, these people are not being suspended simply because of using Cedega or Linux.
Took them over a week to acknowledge the bans were false after all and reinstate the banned users.
Also, have they tested FreeBSD and Wine? Because there's someone on WineDB claiming to have been banned for playing Diablo III on FreeBSD, and I have an odd feeling that wasn't on their testing list somehow.
Have they tested D3 on Linux in every configuration? Because DRM tools have been known to try and detect function hooking by making assumptions about the code structure of functions that are true for Wine when compiled with some versions of gcc and sets of compiler options but are detected as attempts to hack with different versions/compiler options/phases of the moon...
There's actually am unofficial tool in UBCD for Windows these days that allows you to switch an existing Windows XP installation to AHCI. It's kind of hairy though - even creating the boot CD is messy and requires a non-OEM Windows XP installation CD, and then it does a crude partial installation of the AHCI drivers that's just enough to get Windows booting again, and you're meant to manually reinstall the drivers afterwards except that Windows didn't want to upgrade to the driver version off the AMD website for some reason, and so on...
The only way to patch the "bug" of stupid users being able to install malware on their computers is to prohibit users from installing arbitrary software on their computers, which would be a much bigger bug than any social exploit vulnerability.
The same's true for Windows and every other OS, though, which given that almost all malware is installed this way must surely make any claim of superior protection against malware of the kind Apple loves to make utter bullshit.
he doesn't mean that "higher order thinking skills" are bullshit.. he said that the terms "higher order thinking skills" "logic" "critical thinking" and others have been coopted by the left as compliance with their ideology
Judging from the Texas GOP's stated reasons for opposing "critical thinking" in schools, I suspect that the evil left-wing ideology here is not how it's taught but the idea of teaching kids to think for themselves at all rather than just letting their parents dictate their beliefs to them.
The closed-source bootloader is actually only licensed for use on the Raspberry Pi and it runs on the totally undocumented VideoCore hardware, so even if somehow you did manage to get hold of the components you couldn't legally build your own. I suspect it might also require a custom ROM bootloader that's only on the chips supplied to Raspberry Pi too or something.
Also, bugs ARE of course there and is basic fact of having an imperfect model. These are pretty much immediately exploited in quite a Darwinian way by other market participants.
Except that the only market participants that are allowed to exploit bugs in this way are the established ones. A new upstart tried exploiting limitations in the existing big players' trading algorithms intelligence and was found to be acting illegally in doing so; I think people went to jail over it.
Apple's design patents that I've looked at didn't even cover the back of the iPad anyway, just the front face.
Of course, the "safer" C library string functions are already supported by Visual Studio because they're part of Microsoft's cargo-cult approach to security. You know, the one where they're so busy making everyone rewrite all their existing code to new APIs that they don't think about little details like whether it's a good idea to hand out Microsoft certificates which have code-signing permissions for no real reason and can be used to sign fake Windows updates to anyone and everyone. And where they don't bother to upgrade the signing process for those certificates to something better than MD5.
Unfortunately Fukushima wasn't designed to survive a fairly unlikely but powerful tsunami, and it turned out that the regulators in charge of making sure it was safe knew that and didn't do anything, and there was already a history of safety failures within the Japanese nuclear industry being covered up. Nuclear power's a brilliant technology but in practice there doesn't seem to any way of operating it safely given human nature and the way politics works.
Of course, if he did do that, then a few decades down the line when he was still stuck in a minimum-wage job with no prospects it'd be his fault for not taking the opportunity to better himself when he should've. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.