Then you're extremely lucky, I've had iOS hard lock when dogfooding apps fairly frequently (although that was a few years ago, maybe they're better). But I don't trust ANY device without a real pull the plug option, not after years of doing firmware and mobile development. If a device needs batteries, I will not buy it unless those batteries are removable.

If the phone is locked up, yes. Same thing for your computer and everything else. Hardware off switches are a rarity these days.

I wish people would stop adding to C++. C++ as it stood in 1998 was a good, if somewhat complex, language. The new additions (except for a few of the libraries) make the language way too complex and lead to unreadable code.

You need to learn that concise != good. If it did, everyone would be programming in perl 1 liners. Auto is the most braindead addition in history, it causes bugs, loses all the advantages of a typed language, and only needs to exist because they fucked up the STL by not using proper inheritance. Any code review that uses them is an auto bounce and fix. Templates are the most abused language concept in history- if you're using it for anything other than a container class, odds are 98% that you're writing hard to follow, hard to maintain code that should be rewritten

C== was better when it was treates as C++98.

Privacy is the next big thing.

The perception of privacy is the next big thing. We've already mortgaged our privacy for beads and trinkets.

No, we want a quick way to do a 100% reboot if the phone is in a bad state.Without that your only option is to wait 1 day until the battery is dead. Or longer if the radio is off in that state.

Or buy a competing product that does do what you want. Like one of the gadzillion other android devices out there.

If you have a specific concern, tell us.

I had to take a bus a few weeks ago because of the weather and there are a whole lot of mutants out there. A couple of them even looked like they could have been Slashdot readers.

RF radiation and high-fructose corn syrup are as good an explanation as any.

Me. I love earbuds. I even love the old fashioned kind that sit outside the ear canal. I've found some that have remarkable sound and they're a little expensive but man are they good.

This has nothing to do with financial resources. Pretty much every single apartment building in Finland has a sauna somewhere for the residents.

You're talking about a country with a very high standard of living and well-distributed wealth. Yes, it has to do with financial resources.

it's quite the contrary, we (finns) throw water to stove, which boils immediately forming steam (löyly) which fills the 'sauna room' (löylyhuoneen).

Considering the drinking habits of the Finns I've known, I'm not sure I want to be copying their health regime.

I've known some big drinkers, but Finns are in a class by themselves.

After a while, the meat is done, but you're not.

I've seen some of the people going into the sauna. I'm pretty sure you'd get done.

Hotter than the boiling point of water? I would think your eyeballs would explode or something.

Germans also do "Aufguss" (not sure what Fins call it or whether they do it) in 90C.

"Aufguss"? Is that like a sex thing? I couldn't find it on Urban Dictionary.

90C? Don't you start to cook at that temperature? What the hell.

Of course. I would bet that you'd get the same results from people who spend an hour doing tai chi or meditating or just relaxing on the back porch with a good book.

But I can't remember, is the sauna the one where naked people whip each other with eucalyptus leaves or is that the steam bath? Or is that something from a nightmare?