You sound insane

DVRs can only play back videos recorded in the past, not videos that will be recorded in the future.

That sounds great! I guess I'll just go down to my local BestBuy and pick up one of these Oculus Rifts....oh wait.

No financial data travels from your phone either until you enter the PIN or scan your fingerprint.

So you should feel right at home with NFC+PIN then

Why is that? How do you imagine your money would be stolen?

So you're saying that the good old magstripe is somehow MORE secure than an NFC phone that requires secondary authentication? Or is it you just haven't figured out how to turn NFC on?

Who gave you a monopoly on deciding which words people can use?!

The US would still be a very lucrative market - especially since everyone would have a minimum income they are able to spend. Say we put taxes at a ridiculous 90%. Would you as a corporation rather take in 10% of $1 billion or 0% of $1 billion. Take your time on the math.

It is handy to have a standard wallpaper for each version for quick identification

Though the requirements are a bit vague, Google spreadsheets might be able to fit the need. It can be setup to just have a form/questionaire for the volunteers to fill out and then sticks it all into a spreadsheet.

Though with a lag time of over 15 minutes at some parts of the year, it might be not as realtime as one might hope.

I know my android device has a barometer, but I can't seem to figure out why. Sure it's kind of neat to be able to see the pressure graphed over time, but I don't think it's a big selling point on devices. Is it just a side effect of some other hardware that makes it easy to implement or something?

Many sites use third-party javascript libraries such as jquery or will host javascript files on a CDN. That doesn't make them close to malware.

That's true, but using ADS-C, it relay the information over a satellite connection.