The business world has already separated the two concepts to a dangerous degree.

Personally, I think you can't act professionally without also acting ethically.

True, but potential customers do. As a potential customer, I want to know these things as well.

If it's one of a number of other similar bad reviews, then it's saving me from patronizing a business I'd rather not support.

That's contrary to popular opinion? I thought it was well-known that Google is a terrible place to work.

Companies are also on legal safe ground stating whether or not the ex-employee is eligible for rehire.

It depends on how its done. If an employer is really terrible, that's something that people should know. If nobody ever says anything, how would people find out?

Nope, just like we shouldn't believe a single positive review. Individual reviews mean nothing. What you want to see is what the gist of all the reviews are.

One of the things I consider when deciding whether or not to do business with a company is how they treat their employees. This is valuable information to me.

My point is that when you don't want any of the candidates to be elected, you have no voice.

Me too.

This isn't even remotely accurate. What is true is that you have to learn a new soldering technique to solder SMDs -- but once you learn it, it's easy.

Yes, you really can. Honestly, I do it all the time.

Yes, true, and that's a very sad thing. However, there are heaping piles of discarded electronics to be had for cheap, and you can cannibalize. And what you can't cannibalize, you can buy new for cheap online.

This is also not true. The hobbyist electronics world looked like it was dead for a while there, but it's come back in spades -- and most of that new energy is coming from the younger generation. It's us old farts that have largely given up on it. The kids are off and running with it.

If you have to cast the situation in such binary terms, then it's easy: you're always completely unsecured in everything you do. Not just with smartphones.

Making a copy of the video for the use you describe is perfectly legal.

Breaking the DVD encryption to do it is a violation of the anti-circumvention law.

That's a wonderful example of how ludicrous the law has become.

And what if you want to use the work in a way that is completely legal, but which the copyright holder doesn't want to give you permission for?

Permission of the copyright holder is not necessary for all kinds of uses.

And the vast majority of those smartphones have let you replace the battery, which mitigates the issue. Last year, my Android phone battery reach the end of its life. I knew it because it started to randomly shut down even though I made no changes to settings and installed no new applications.

I just replaced the battery, and it's like new. Nobody heard me complain because it was a nonissue.

I would say the threshold is that if any random person can do it without special training and/or special tools, it's user-replaceable. An ordinary screwdriver? Sure, pretty much everybody has one of those.