I don't know much about electronics or iPhone hardware. Does anyone know if it would be possible to get old devices with dead batteries to boot when connected to a proper power supply? I don't mean a cell phone charger, but connecting the positive and ground (and whatever else?) from a bench power supply to the appropriate solder points on the phones mainboard itself?
Funcom's Anarchy Online just had it's 20th anniversary and feels the same way. It's easy to log back in and see the virtual world, but without players inhabiting the space it's missing the context that really caused these virtual spaces to be so significant in my, and I assume many other's, memories.
Having worked at a university, but not in this domain, my 2-cents is that what they're trying to say is that can't afford the paperwork in the context of the the associated internal political war that commonly comes along with trying to do anything like this in academia.
YMM but, in my area Amazon is only doing the last mile delivery. Theres a large parking lot in the industrial part of town where you can watch UPS, FedEx, and OnTrac branded trucks and van load packages into Amazon branded vans. The same type of van to van transfer seems to be happening pretty regularly at the local UPS store as well.
Possibly, but how can we be 100% sure without the ability to compare behavior? If I were following this line of research I'd still want to know if there's any difference in the nature of a failure when it comes from within the OS (possibly simulated by half -f) and the situation the parent OP pointed out where the instance just goes poof without sending any kind of signal to the OS itself.