I've been very happy with STRIP from Zetetic. I have nothing to do with them except being a happy customer from back in the Palm days. The only thing I don't like is that they charge for their iPhone and iPad versions so I just run the iPhone version on my iPad and it works fine.

I had the same problem as you except I was looking after 70+ computers as a sysadmin about a decade ago. Used to store them on my Palm with a program called STRIP by Zetetic. Now I have their app on my iOS devices. It's not as flashy as LastPass but then it doesn't store all your passwords on the Internet either.

Because that worked so well for Nortel when they wanted to turn everything into a switch.

Plus it might be nice if you didn't have to keep paying hundred of thousands of dollars to drill deeper wells because everyone is sucking the water out of the aquifers.

We haven't been transporting water from one place to another for thousands of years, at least not on the scale of what is happening in California (and China).

As for desalination, I don't know why people keep suggesting it as a solution. Yes it is possible to supply the water needs for what comes our of your tap. However it is much, much too expensive, environmentally damaging, and energy intensive to scale up to meeting the needs of agriculture. Farming is an order of magnitude greater in it's requirements for water. So if the population is unwilling to build a series of desalination plants to provide drinking water I somehow doubt that they are going to want to build at least ten times that number to provide water to a bunch of almond trees.

I'd say that those farms haven't worked for generations. It's just the true costs of farming in a water poor region haven't been felt as badly before and the poor decisions on the past are being felt. You have some farmers see water being transported by their fields when they aren't being allocated any to other farms with unlimited allocations just because of when the allocations where given out. And people are draining the aquifers as fast as they can drill the wells without thinking of the consequences. Or if they do think of them they still do it because if they don't their neighbours will and they want the water before it's gone.

No, farming in an area when you absolutely need to have water transported in so that you can harvest a crop doesn't work in the long run. Just like our system of having to increase the loads of artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides every year.

I'm thinking that if they build these decisions into the software then they should also build a couple of test scenarios into the flight simulator and have a pilot fly them a bunch of times to see what happens. Especially the ones where you decide to have them kick in at 120m.

Or: How much of the title do you need to read in order to guess it's an article from dice?

The components are coming from Asia and it's just being assembled in the US.

As for shipping it really isn't that expensive when you fill a shipping container. If you were to ship everything one part at a time via a courier then it would be expensive but they aren't going to do that. Basically there isn't much difference in cost if they are going to fill a container of parts and ship it over or ship over a container of finished products. There's an excellent book called The Box by Marc Levinson that outlines the history of the shipping container.

Geez, I was just joking. I just thought it was weird for them to emphasize what arm they used in the summary. Why would they recommend taking it from your non-primary arm? I haven't donated blood but have had blood tests and have had IV fluids given to me and it didn't matter what arm was used.

It says he's donated from his right arm for the past 60 years. Does it only work from his right arm? Do the antibodies stay in if they take blood from his left?

The problem a few years ago with giving every child an iPad, and now teaching everyone computer science, is that people are thinking it's a silver bullet and that it's going to solve the problem. The issue is that they are going to throw a bunch of money at this (and the next silver bullet idea, and the next) and it won't solve the problem.

Children, and adults too, are all unique and require different ways to motivate them. So if you give everyone an iPad there will be a certain percentage that will thrive but they will probably be the ones that will have thrived if you gave them a bunch of books and let them learn on their own. No matter what silver bullet you implement you are most likely going to catch some people and help them out (unless it's really bad).

What's really needed is more of those special individuals who seem to be able to motivate their students and engage them. We need to find out what style of learning best suits each student and provide that environment for them. Students need to learn at their own pace so that they aren't bored or struggling to keep up. Technology can be used to implement this but it's a huge change in how we view education so it probably won't get done. Silver bullets are easy to implement and look like you are doing something even if they don't address the core problem.

The UK carriers don't have a catapult. They were designed for jump jets like the Harrier (which they used to have) and a variant of the F-35 which they are getting.

Of course while the UK is building two carriers only the first one is being put into service. The second one is being built and basically mothballed right away because the contract was set up so that it was cheaper to do this than to cancel building it. And to make matters even worse while they have the first carrier now (it could be undergoing sea trials and may not be in service but it is built) they won't have the F-35s for it until around 2020. Plus they've already sold their Harriers so they're going to have an aircraft carrier for about five years without any aircraft.

Are they taking their customer service lessons from Uber?

No, always talk to the cops or FBI. Just say, "I want my/a lawyer." And then don't say a word.