You may want to take that study that says smokers save society money with a MASSIVE grain of salt, it was a tobacco industry sponsored study conducted by someone that works as a litigation expert for the tobacco industry.

There are almost half the number of daylight hours midwinter compared to midsummer. (around 16 versus 8), there goes half your potential generation time, then you have the angle of incidence which reduces the effectiveness of solar cells and the filtering of the atmosphere. peak usage periods (e.g. 6pm) are outside of daylight hours in winter and during daylight hours in summer. It all adds up.

who do you think is going to spend 100 billion on securing it? and that will only be for the current release, what about the 100 billion needed next year or the year after. Software is evolving and changing so rapidly that the investment isn't a once off and at those costs a single failed product becomes enough to bankrupt a company.

All that would result in is software that no one will buy or want. You want to pay $5000 for your new smartphone because it was held up to the same engineering standards? The reality is in a consumer world people get what they pay for and the vast majority are not willing to pay what it would cost to have the software they use engineered to those standards. If you had a choice between a Samsung Galaxy s5 for $500 and a Brand X with same features but at $5000 because it has software that was designed to those engineering standards I guarantee the only outcome would be Brand X going out of business.

this is a solution searching for a problem that doesn't exist. I still wear a nice watch, mainly as a backup for when my phone has a flat battery or is in an awkward to reach place. my current watch does everything I need it to do, it tells the time, is water proof so I never need to be concerned where I am with it and doesn't need recharging more than once a year, maybe one day a smart watch will also be able to do all those things, but what's the point!

of course they have an ulterior motive, and pretty much all of them are farely up front about that, would have taken you all of about 5 seconds to find it for any of the providers. They want you to use their service and like it enough or be tied to it enough to upgrade to the premium offerings.

and what exactly is stopping you using client side encryption and storing in onedrive or amazon or googles service? personally I would not trust ANY of them with data that I considered sensitive enough to need encryption and I certainly would not be using encryption software provided by any of the cloud providers themselves. I see no advantage to anything offered by MEGA and hence I don't understand why anyone would use that service.

NOT On a motorbike, the person next to you is as dangerous if not more so than oncoming traffic. when your travelling at speed on a motorbike a tap from the person next to you that doesn't see you can be just as fatal as a head on. Usually I am far more concerned about whether the person next to me has seen me, oncoming traffic is far easier to predict and handle on a motorbike, the driver that merges without indicating is nightmare that you need to be constantly aware of if you want to stay alive.

I completely agree, it doesn't need to be loud, just at a level to make it audible at close distances, quiet car level is many times better than silent. morons that modify cars and motorbikes just to increase sound for some sort of dick waving exercise should be fined to oblivion.

who said anything about it needing to be loud? it merely has to be at an audible level, something around the average car sound is sufficient.

umm NO. sound travels in both directions, a bike does not move at sufficient speed for sound to only be behind them. The benefit of hearing a bike is not for cars on the interstate, it is for pedestrians that will step out in front of you, people that are doing slow speed manoeuvres that may fail to see you in the mirrors but still might hear you coming 20-50 yards behind them. push bike riders that at the best of times are a hazard even when they know you are there.

most countries do not recognise virtual goods as property (though that is changing) and they certainly don't recognise bitcoin as currency. As such even if it could be proved he stole them I doubt there is much that could be done in most countries, regulations have upsides as well as downsides, many with their heads in the sand didn't seem to realise this.

you vastly underestimate how brazen and opportunistic thieves are. It only takes a couple of seconds, perhaps you sit your phone down on the counter while you take your wallet out to pay for your coffee or it is slightly protruding from your pocket making it an easy target to pick. You give the example of securing a $600 bankroll, guess what, people with $600 bankrolls also get targeted and robbed all the time too.

What you said is the VERY definition of Blind Faith, you cannot prove the existence of god or the holy spirit, you blindly accept they exist. I am fine with you believing that, just don't try to preach it as science because it is the exact opposite. Also ALL SCIENCE is basically detective work, including physics, it is investigating theories to see which are untrue and which are likely true, the complete inability to investigate God and the Holy spirit make them unscientific and hence should not be the basis of ANY scientific teachings.

triple that is only 75 miles a day average. hardly a freakish amount. my drive to work is 25 miles a day and same home. That covers 2/3rd of that mileage, I am pretty damn sure a 25 mile commute is not a freackishly rare number.