The device is property of the company. It can go to someone who can use it. If no such employee exists the device can go to the issuer (or the employee who handles that stuff), who shall issue it to the next employee who asks for a device of that type.
I have been in a couple of different companies, and it always worked that way. Only once I have gotten a new computer when I started. And that was because they were expanding and there was no old computer available. Every other time it I got old equipment: a PC that was used by my predecessor, a phone that was used by someone who went on his pension. And that's fine.

I wouldn't want BYOD unless there is a good solution for erasing the company secrets on the device without erasing my own stuff. I would demand extra pay for BYOD because it means I have to buy stuff for it, and replace it once it breaks.

For some a lot of fun can be had in combined experiments with electrons and sex, but that falls in the category SM.

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The FDA compliant software is probably not written for anything but Windows.

Is there any research into coral that can stand the heat? "Natural" coral dies because it bleaches.
It bleaches because it kicks the algae out that give it it's color
It kicks out the algae because they are producing to much food for the polyps to survive.
The algae produce to much food because the water temperature rises.

Now that seems to me to be a chain of events we can influence a couple of different things in:
We could breed polyps that don't kick all the algae out, just enough to lower the food influx to a reasonable level.
We could breed algae to stabilize their production, despite of heat.
We could breed polyps that survive a higher food input.

Keeping the water cool may be the best long term solution, but it isn't the only one and it may be to long term. The water temperature will probably keep rising for years, even if we stop all sources for the rise now (which we can't realistically).

I know I don't want to prolong the risk of drunk drivers slamming into people waiting in line at the moves longer than necessary.

Correction: It's not practical without cheap-room temperature superconductors. They don't break the laws of physics, we just don't know how to make em yet.
Through a superconducting cable a mm in diameter you can easily run a couple of MA. You can lower the voltage to something safe (50V) and run 960.000 A through it.
Now where did I leave my recepie for cheap room temperature superconducting cables?
But until that dream is realized we could just replace the empty battery with a full one by means of a robot arm. The capacity decrease makes that necessary anyways.

As to your last remark: I do agree that bikes should be the future for short distance, trains for long distance. But we'll never get most fat bastards on a bike. Since we can't have the world we want, we got to make the world we have as good as we can.
Electric cars are better (CO2 wise) than gasoline cars, although they aren't perfect.

Become a politician.

Nope, my liver is fine. Its my kidneys that are fucked up.
By the way: this technique may be cross-organ applicable.

It would be:
1. More expensive (any way you slice it: it would be terribly heavy and thus terribly expensive to get there)
2. Not more detailed
3. Extremely expensive to correct mistakes (anyone remember that blasted piece of tape that f&(^(ked up the polishing of the HST?)

So, no it wouldn't be more effective at a Langrangian point.

While I agree with you there is quite a difference in the reason for labeling. Gluten and peanuts (and many other products) must be on the label because people can be allergic to them. In the case if peanuts: some people can have an anaphylactic shock when they ingest it. They can die of it within minutes after the first clues something is wrong.

This is quite a different reason than the reason for GMO labeling. I feel that people should be informed of what they eat. It doesn't have to be a big red warning with a bio-hazard logo but it should be there, under the ingredients (which should also be on every foodproduct).

Is it web-enabled, cloud and smart? No? Then you ain't got nothing these days.

They may even be able to build useful capacitors in the package. That is difficult with current lithographic processes, but if one could use more low precision layers one may be able to build a capacitor with more than a couple of pF of capacitance (and not too many of those pesky pH's). Slapping a couple of dozen low precision layers on a normal wafer would be difficult and expensive. Using this tech to assemble a chip after litho could mean useful in chip capacitors.
In chip resistors could be improved too.
These things may seem relatively useless (chip manufacturers spend a lot of time preventing capacitance) but a well placed capacitor or resistor can do wonders for your EMC performance.

Nah, that's simply Hex. Useful if he wants to be, but disturbingly sentient at times.

Yes, such things as salt, paprika flavor (or cheese and union). It makes for far more tasty chips.