Where do you think that $141million went, to the moon? It went to pay engineers, technicians, other workers. It helps bootstrap the Indian space and technical industry, which in the long run will get their citizens out of poverty.

My new Biotronik pacemaker appears to have security protocols installed. A programming session is started by pairing the programmer and the pacemaker with a wand that requires 10cm proximity (this provides the security key). The RF communications can then take place up to 3meters away utilizing a proprietary communication protocol. They claim that the communication is "security protected by state-of-the-art measures," according to the technical manual.

I have a WIndows machine primarily to run video editing, Power Director. KDEnlive almost does what I need, but frequently crashes. I am also disappointed that Hulu and Amazon Video don't run in Linux. (Netflix does run in Chrome, but not in Firefox.)

I've been using PCLinuxOS (KDE) for three years on 4 machines, and have been happy with it. The rolling releases are great and usually work. There have been a couple of problems, but they're usually fixed in a week. The maintenance crew maintain an active and friendly prescence on their forum. The distro is independent, not based on Debian or Ubuntu, so the occasional independent software may not have a plug-and-play distribution.