There are third-party external battery packs for iPods. Some even allow you to use standard AA batteries as well, in a real pinch. Apple doesn't address every single need that every single consumer might have, since they made a conscious decision to let third-party manufacturers deal with them (leaving Apple to focus on making a great, easy-to-use music player). I personally prefer not having a removable battery pack, as do most of the people I know.
What's wrong with buttons? How would replicating the function of buttons on an easily-dirtied touch screen be an improvement? It really does sound like they are trying to find applications for technologies that are not really needed when trying to make a phone call.
I don't see how anything harsher could be warranted. As far as I've understood, there is no expectation of privacy when doing a web search, and the release of the records has simply been a breach of AOL's privacy policy (versus an illegal act). The only way any of the searches could be traced back to the user was a direct result of the unprotected information the user knowingly sent over the internet.
IF the CTO knew about the release of records beforehand and let it go forward, she should be canned, nothing more or less. If the CTO did not know about it, it is easy to argue that she allowed it to happen on her watch and could have stopped it through better policies, training, etc. In either case, resignation was probably her best option.
Between the relatively low reliability of wireless access points (compared to wired connections) and the fact that there will be bottlenecks at the wired connection(s) they are propagating, are wireless mesh networks really the best way to go (even discounting the monkey issue)?
True, it will be better than nothing, but it sounds pricey and difficult to a degree that the benefits won't be worth it.
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There are third-party external battery packs for iPods. Some even allow you to use standard AA batteries as well, in a real pinch. Apple doesn't address every single need that every single consumer might have, since they made a conscious decision to let third-party manufacturers deal with them (leaving Apple to focus on making a great, easy-to-use music player). I personally prefer not having a removable battery pack, as do most of the people I know.
What's wrong with buttons? How would replicating the function of buttons on an easily-dirtied touch screen be an improvement? It really does sound like they are trying to find applications for technologies that are not really needed when trying to make a phone call.
I don't see how anything harsher could be warranted. As far as I've understood, there is no expectation of privacy when doing a web search, and the release of the records has simply been a breach of AOL's privacy policy (versus an illegal act). The only way any of the searches could be traced back to the user was a direct result of the unprotected information the user knowingly sent over the internet. IF the CTO knew about the release of records beforehand and let it go forward, she should be canned, nothing more or less. If the CTO did not know about it, it is easy to argue that she allowed it to happen on her watch and could have stopped it through better policies, training, etc. In either case, resignation was probably her best option.
If these are analog signals, does the DMCA apply here? Is cleaning noise out of a signal considered "hacking" now?
Between the relatively low reliability of wireless access points (compared to wired connections) and the fact that there will be bottlenecks at the wired connection(s) they are propagating, are wireless mesh networks really the best way to go (even discounting the monkey issue)? True, it will be better than nothing, but it sounds pricey and difficult to a degree that the benefits won't be worth it.