Yeah. The AC had it as .001mL per drop, which is very low. 0.05 mL per second gives you 180 mL an hour, which is pretty much useless to a person riding a bicycle.

Even at a drop per second it seems optimistic to expect 500mL an hour. I think a drop is less than 0.14mL.

Raising and managing the billions required requires a full company, let alone actually producing anything. Kickstarter just isn't up to the task.

If you're going to drill any decent depth you'll have to put together a manned mission with a bunch of roughneck drilling rig workers. They're the only ones that can operate drilling equipment. It can't possibly be taught to other astronauts, and most certainly not some dumb robot.

Owning and operating your own stuff doesn't mean you won't have outages. I have no idea why you would ever think that.

I think if you sat down with one of these software packages for a few minutes you'd quickly realize that having a top notch performance is the key to a quality end-product. Think of it this way. If you're photographing a model would you rather spend a half-hour having makeup applied (maybe it takes longer, I don't know) or would you rather spend many hours airbrushing and PSing the shit out of the final image before you can even start working on stylizing it for print and doing the 'normal' PSing? Same goes for music. You can create vocals and instrumental music out of thin air with software, but it takes a TON of work to get them to not sound like crap, let alone good.

It's basically a bad party trick. It sounds awful.

It's not especially difficult to get a computer to do some math. Get a computer to shuffle a deck of cards and I'll be a thousand times more impressed.

The skill isn't in the cleaning, it's in the rigging. They give the job to what would otherwise be janitors, and that's where safety suffers. I've seen these cleaning rigs up close and they are always in rough condition. The ropes are frayed like crazy, when in any other rigging industry they wouldn't allow that kind of wear. Then there's the cables and I'll bet they're not much better but it's harder to tell. It sounds like competition in the window cleaning industry is so tense that they're cutting out safety, and the only way out of that is with tighter regulations. You have to force everyone to play by the same rules.

You can't stop viruses that are manually installed by ridiculously dumb users unless you have virus scanners, and even then it's hit and miss. I wouldn't even call it an exploit.

Yes. Just abandon the internet entirely.

I've had my S3 for a quite a while now too. Just put in a new battery a few weeks ago. What an improvement. Thankfully Samsung gave us the ability to order a 3rd party battery online and just pop it in. One of the many reasons I won't go with Apple and their unmaintainable design.

Why put in any effort to hack a Z30 when there are only eight of them in use?

Correct. The only people who don't buy Apple products now are haters. Or maybe they don't want to pay a 50% markup for the Apple logo.

Google wallet is useless here in Canada. They don't seem interested in making it available outside the US. In fact, Google doesn't seem interested in Wallet at all and I expected them to abandon it by now.