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- California could side with Apple on smoker's warranties
- Apple has told smokers to either butt out or lose their warranty coverage and California may agree. The Golden State was the first to classify secondhand smoke as a toxic air contaminant in 2006 and could side with the computer maker if challenged in court. by Jason D. O'Grady
- Tags: California, Apple Inc., Productivity, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-12-03
- Chris Anderson goes analog; We all can be manufacturers
- Interesting idea, but I'd rather not.Interesting idea - but the truth is, I'd rather have somebody else manufacture my stuff. I wouldn't know the first thing about designing my own product, and it would probably turn out being pretty crappy stuff. I think I'll leave that stuff to more knowledgeable...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Intellectual property, manufacturer, Interesting Idea
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- For The First Time in Ages, I Agree With Apple
- Spiders and dust on a slippery slopeWorst inside of a computer I've ever seen was a spider infestation. Must have been a million of them. But what I wonder is where does voiding the warranty stop?A generic abuse statement may not be sufficient in the world of EULA's....
- Tags: Manufacturing, PRODUCTIVITY, Apple Inc., manufacturer, smoker, First-time, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- Chinese wallboard gets a dirty bill of health
- Yes, but the problem isThat these things were MADE TO STANDARDS... American standards, no less.So if these things are leeching this very bad shit..... how many American-made brands of wallboard are also doing this?More toxic garbage from China...From the country that gave us adulterated killer dog food ingredients, and long...
- Tags: Quality, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Apple to smokers: butt out or void your warranty
- Well here it is...http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0446.htmlI have seen tar filled electronicsIt gets nasty. You open them up, and they can be full of tar and all this brown/black gunk. You can get a nicotine high just by touching the parts.As for second hand smoke risk, thats kind of unfounded. Is that gunk...
- Tags: Apple Inc., cigarette, joint, Cannabis, tar, smoker, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Seeking a bright idea on light bulbs
- Government please helpI need to big Gov to feed & cloth me.Dimmable Light BulbsI hope those new dimmable light bulbs are completely dimmable from 0 to 100% in a linear scale.Otherwise, incandescent is the only way to go for home automation as I use ramp rates in Insteon lamp modules.CFL's...
- Tags: Engineering, bright idea, CFL
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- Treece and truth
- Treece, KSYes, Treece is pretty much a toxic wasteland. But instead of ranting about the blowing off of mountaintops, clear-cutting forests, plowing up the prairie, and providing a link to an informationless NYT blurb, why don't you actually *talk* about Treece?Why not tell some of the story of *why*...
- Tags: Treece
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Treece and truth
- Treece is in Kansas and it's a toxic town. The Treece truth is in the result: nature gives no free lunch. You take resources, there's always a cost. A real-world, palpable cost, not some numbers on a computer screen. How can we short-sighted humans really imagine we...
- Tags: Kansas, Treece, Treece Truth, Productivity, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Could diabetes fight the obesity epidemic?
- Nice one, Dana.When are you going to write something relevant - like IT - on this site?There is no IT in this blog. Just pointing out the obvious.When will you learn to use google?This is among the worst medically releated post you have written. And please stop quoting the...
- Tags: Exenatide, diabetes, GLP-1, secretion
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- Brickbats over bricks
- This is an IT Tech site, Mr. Fuller.ntCodes as gatekeepers?As an architect, I have never once consulted a building code to determine which product I should use for a building, especially considering that neither clay brick or fly ash brick is likely to be used in a structural capacity. ...
- Tags: Performance management, CalStar
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- What's a brick?
- CinderblockMany years ago a product called cinderblock was made from coal fire residue. It was similar to standard concrete block. In many cases, over time, it proved far less satisfactory. One big problem was degradation in a wet environment. It would get sort of mushy and...
- Tags: ash, fly ash
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Could you green the world brick by brick?
- It's a brick."Well, the mainstream bricks boys do not like CalStar and want to prevent from the use of the very word 'brick.'"Oh, puh-lease. Even when people in third world countries put mud in molds on the ground and use sunlight to bake it, we still call them bricks.Yes, it's...
- Tags: CalStar, Oak Creek, ash, fly ash, Oak
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- The real-life energy battles are NOT fought in Congress
- Here's another sign that whatever happens on energy in Congress, if anything, will be a sideshow: the EPA plans to reject a permit for a new coal mine in West Virginia. The planned mine would be yet another mountaintop removal. That is a direct slap at Big Coal...
- Tags: Permit, West Virginia, Coal, Wind Farm, U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Energy Battle, WEST VIRGINIA COAL Here, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- UK envisions zero waste: What about computers?
- Recycling is part of our daily lives. We do it everyday with plastics, newspapers and other general household things. Cars are now recycled throughout North America and Europe at high efficiency rates. Everything seems to be covered, right? Computers and batteries face recycling problems. We already know that...
- Tags: Landfill, Computer, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Government, Hardware, Components, Doug Hanchard
- Blog posts 2009-10-18
- The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy
- I've blogged before about the need for a new energy calculus. Not just market and whosesale costs to the user of the energy. Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven't we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and...
- Tags: Coal, Inconvenient Truth, Energy, Food & Beverage, Mortgages, Manufacturing, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-17
- Coin-sized nuclear batteries to revolutionise electronics
- .. Nice post for a change. Good job. ntntA beautiful dream...and then reality hitspeople have been so indoctrinated that nuclear material is the most toxic substance on the planet and even saying the word will give you cancer, that this has about as much chance as a snowball in hell...
- Tags: Engineering, nuclear-battery, Coin-sized nuclear-battery, alpha, cell, electronics
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- America backs away from the Internet with a whimper
- Just like how the EU workswhen they do not agree on something, the bargining, voting, referendums, treaties, et cetera begin.And nothing gets done. I guess the internet will now become another thing to be bargin, bantered, discussed, and not agreed apon.Yes, the future looks so bright for it. I wonder,...
- Tags: Mediterranean, Internet, parody, Dana
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Apple declares its environmental credentials
- Newsweek ArticleNewsweek recently had a list of the top 100 "green" companies. HP was surprisingly #1, with Dell at #2. Microsoft was in the top half as well. Interestingly enough, Apple wasn't anywhere in the top 100 that I saw.PR BS!What Apple fails to show is the mountains of toxic...
- Tags: Public relations, Apple Inc., climate change, aluminum
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- Toxic caulk syndrome
- Harry ...... While I am interested in the future of our planet, and do read most, if not all of your posts, and I do find them informative and insightful, this is supposed to be a technology blog ... perhaps you could follow up these types of posts with examples...
- Tags: Benefits, benefit
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- Toxic caulk syndrome
- Toxic shock syndrome was a killer in its day. Now the EPA is warning of toxic caulk...in schools plus other buildings that nobody ever inspects. Why bad caulk? The old stuff off-gases PCBs. Chalk another one up for the petro-chemical industry that create poisons faster than...
- Tags: Syndrome, Regulations, Strategy, Government, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
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