Yes. You are doing work for them, they are getting a benefit from it. If they don't like it, they can implement a policy that limits maximum working hours.
If studies show that it is harmful to your health, and the employer allows you to do that in the clock, they are liable for injuries sustained at the workplace. They have an incentive to keep you from hurting yourself while on the job.

Force employers to actually pay employees for the time they work, at a rate that increases for every 15 minute block over 8 hours in a day. Having to pay increasingly higher rates for hours beyond a healthy limit would act as a disincentive to work employees to death.

Case 2 can be resolved by simply denying the request.

*Except in cases of mechanical failure, metal fatigue, etc...

Presumably, cutting off app access would save power, as the OS could tightly manage the connecting polling while "off". Even though the radios are still on, they could be automatically cycled down, and only brought back up periodically to poll for "important" stuff, saving power. Of course, Apple is the one decided what counts as "important".

Contact with the tube its self could be catastrophic.

"Some of these vulnerabilities would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as part of the bootloader (thus compromising the entire chain of trust), or to perform permanent denial-of-service attacks," the research team said (PDF)"

I think they actually mean:
Some of these vulnerabilities would allow a user to execute arbitrary code as part of the bootloader (thus allowing users to have some control over their devices), or to perform installations of custom Android versions with better security than the one that the vendor still hasn't updated after 4 years," the research team said (PDF)

Yeah, by me, not Slashdot.

Not showing information to users without logging in would be a good start.

What you cans see without logging in is public information.

Truckloads of money.

If you have hundreds of megabytes of unreachable code, then you have bigger problems than your compiler.

Unfortunately, the telescope doesn't run on steam power.

Exactly, "403: Forbidden" exists for exactly this reason.

A program asked a web server for a particular page. The web server said "here you go!", instead of returning a 403 error.
If this is about copyright infringement, then sue under a law that applies to that.

No. I think they money in my bank account is real. I'm just saying that it only exists as a pattern of 1s and 0s, in a computer system. I'm saying that isn't fundamentally any different than other digital currency, like BitCoin.

How is that any different than the "money" in your bank account? It isn't like that money physically exists anywhere. Iit is also just an arrangement of bits in a bank's computer system.