Unfortunately, I'd say Trump has more experience with the practical aspects of global economics and supply chains than most politicians. He offshores his own products, he knows why this happens. He probably also knows how these things work at the 'coalface', rather than in theory or by law.

The man is a weird combination of cray-cray and genius (said as a solid lefty progressive)

I'm guessing it just takes a picture each time you close the door, it's not a streaming webcam (I doubt much stuff in your fridge moves about that much). So the energy used should be minimal and a function of how often you close the door.

With financial firms, you'll find that much of their business uses a 'follow the sun' model, where the business (FX say) will run 24/6 by transferring between regional desks as the day progresses. Singapore to London to New York etc.

Each region will generally have a number of local data centers (depending on the size of the firm etc). With virtuals, there's a potential that you could 'simply' migrate the high-load servers around the world to follow the sun as well. We do much of this already when we failover between data centers..

The HP microserver is relatively cheap, quiet and looks nice enough to sit in my (minimalist) home. It has one SSD for the OS, and two redundant large high capacity disks. The server is on 24/7 and serves all my media (plex etc) and services to wherever I am in the world. All my devices backup their data to it regularly. A subset of this data (things I wouldn't want to loose in a fire) is then sync'd up to my google drive.

Nice and simple, and just works without fuss. Most of my friends use their datacenter as an excuse to geek out, and enjoy the complexity (and the subsequent instability), but I'm most interested in it as a functional/reliable item that I setup once, and use everyday.

What if Picasa/Facebook etc suddenly started automatically recognising your face in other peoples' photos? I'd probably get tagged at least a few times a month in others tourist photos (central London), and I'd probably be surprised at the compromising situations that would put me in (walking into in interview, walking around town when I called in sick etc).

Though I think face recognition wouldn't (currently) work very well at all with such a large set of potential matches (though would find it cool if it could help me find my doppleganger)

I mostly use facebook to send and receive messages to/from my friends, its largely replaced my personal emails. How about a similar system where you can only receive messages from people on your white list (who have been authenticated)?

You can buy an A2DP dongle for your iPhone. I have an IO-Play kit [http://www.my-io.com/Products/iOPLAY.aspx] and it works pretty well in my car.