lol, so we have a far leftwing nut job yelling at a far rightwing nutjob and you're telling me you're helping? Get of the cross.

personally, I can think of a half of a dozen ways to solve the problem off hand. That's why I think marketing or someone messed with it after engineering got done with it.

Buttons are external with pinholes through the phone
Buttons work via capacitance (Think of the lights that turn on when you touch the base)
Internal brace near the buttons
External brace... (molded apple logo on the back near them)
Different material for the case (Titanium?)
No buttons! (didn't apple invent that?)

Please people, before you mod damn_registrars up, take a look at his comments. He's just harassing samzenpus.

This article certainly is about wasting food.

Landfill - a place to dispose of refuse and other waste material by burying it and covering it over with soil, especially as a method of filling in or extending usable land.

If you put extra food in a landfill it becomes waste.
If you put extra food into a compost bin, it becomes fertilizer.
If you are putting extra food into the landfill you get a ticket.
Therefor you are getting ticketed for "Wasting" food.
It's not hard.

Yes it does.
Trash = waste
Compost = not waste

I think the OP's goal was to suggest this was over-reaching hippy nonsense. And it is certainly that.

Unfortunately there are valid, very concerning environmental problems we need to address. But some people use environmentalism as an excuse for elitism and classicism. Notice their primary target are apartments. I suspect their next primary target will be fast food. Make no mistake, environmental laws like this target groups of people that are unpopular in places like Seattle.

Typo correction... sorry (Slashdot should allow edits!)

should be

Ok, I see a lot of confusion in here and such... This is something I'm "into" though I'm not a physicist. I read a lot of physics and astronomy journals.

"Black hole" is a popular term that represents many things relating to high density objects. Generally speaking a star collapses and creates a very dense body that light cannot escape from and we, the general public consider that to be a black hole. This is not what this article is about. That phenomenon still exists, and has at least been peripherally observed.

The problem is, for a long time it's been predicted that the density of this object would be so high that at the center time and space would collapse into a single point. This point is what we all know as "The singularity" The singularity is what causes the problem. If such a thing exists then once matter enters it, it can never escape, not even information about that matter.

Along comes quantum physics. In quantum physics the univers is "Time neutral" meaning that if you were to watch an interaction forwards or backwards on a VCR for example... it would make sense. He's falling into the the object at X rate.... then reverse time... he is traveling away from object at X rate... If it's a singularity however, when you reverse time, the object cannot leave. This breaks quantum mechanics.

Because of this alone, physicists pretty much already knew singularities probably were real. OR there's something very wrong with Quantum mechanics.

What she's proven here is that everything else we know about blackholes is still ok. But the singularity itself never forms. The mass of the object evaporates away too fast to form it. This makes sense though... it's long been know that gravity slows time. The more gravity, the slower time moves. Because of that alone, you'd never reach the center of a blackhole. If facing "up" as you fell into one (providing you survived) you'd watch time end behind you.

So, blackholes as you thought they were, still exist. A particular facet of them, does not. Also, this paper hasn't even been peer reviewed yet. Even if she's wrong, or I'm misunderstanding her findings, there is still something wrong with the idea of a singularity. It will likely get dis-proven in the near future anyway.

Stop using the word "Troll" if you don't know what it means. And before you ask, go look it up on Wikipedia. There's even a book about it on amazon.

Or... stop invading neighboring countries. One or the other.

um... that's not a robot, its a balloon stretched over a turkey baster.

So, from the video you can see it clearly bend around the volume cutouts. Then even mentions that. I suspect it was engineered to survive flexing in that direction... and then later they moved/changed where the volume cutouts would be. If those buttons were on top, this wouldn't be a problem.

Form over function is always a loser.

No, it wont even protect you from your spouse.
All you need is a photocopy of the owners thumb.
Your thumb print is conveniently all over the phone.
I've seen these cracked by placing a clear piece of plastic over the screen... stenciling the print, put the clear plastic on a copier, xerox... hold copy to phone. Viola. Finger print recognition is banned where I work for a reason.

That's the "Loss aversion" or "sunk cost" fallacy.
In any financial transaction your only questions should be:
How much will this cost me to do/complete?
How much will it make me when I'm done?

The entire act of "gambling" is based on people thinking about what they've lost rather than what they could gain. The fact of the matter is, what they have lost is irrelevant. Their future actions are what count and if they continue they'll just lose even more money.

Ok, I randomly picked you to reply to out of all the people that seemed to want to focus on that one part of my statement. Yes, tax evasions always possible. People don't declare their yard sales after all. But your suggestion of buying things over-seas? No, that's not as easy as it sounds. You can't just buy something overseas and not have the US government find out. It's possible in other countries, but in the US you cannot get a credit card that wont declare your purchases to the feds. Prepaid cards don't work overseas, it's illegal as part of the patriot act. Trust me, I've tried.

The feds control every non-cash financial transaction you make. All of them. You cannot hide from their oversight. Will they miss cash sales of things on the street? Yes... so tax evasion is technically feasible. But the IRS would no longer be sending out billions in fake refunds. In fact, the entire IRS would be dead and gone.

And lastly... Rich people will always get ahead. There's no way to stop it so stop getting bent out of shape. At least with a use tax they'd pay a hell of a lot more than they do now.

Actually, based on the comments above mine I'm kind of surprised I didn't get modded troll as well. But this wouldn't be the first time I got a +5 insightful comments with hundreds of replies that within hours turned into a troll comment. Keep in mind, on slashdot Troll = I disagree ;-) and often people don't disagree until your comment rises due to up-modding.

End income tax.

No more tax returns. Only tax based on use (i.e. Sales Tax) Problem solved in one fell swoop.
Tax evasions now impossible and you encourage people to invest rather than spend.
Oh wait, that's right, we have an entire industry run by blood sucking vampires that need the current system to remain as confusing as possible.