JoelBennett

The more fingers in the pie, the higher the cost. At least that's my guess. I imagine more expensive labour and tighter regulations also greatly increase costs.

Funny thing is, most waste water treatment plants I've seen - the water coming out of the waste treatment plant is cleaner than the water removed from the river for drinking (which is then treated).

Wait until people learn that they air they breathe has likely already been breathed by someone else...

It's almost too bad there isn't some way of manufacturing all 18 varieties of hemagglutinin, and wrapping them all into a single vaccine.

I dunno... North Korea might say differently.

As someone who currently has a Samsung stove, I can wholeheartedly say I hate the thing. The interface is one of the worst I've seen - touch "buttons" on a stove. It does't work half the time if your hands are the slightest bit wet - which they often are after washing hands. It's incredibly frustrating, and has completely thrown me off about buying any sort of Samsung appliance.

Samsung has such potential, but it's untested things make me wonder about their long-term value.

Agreed. I've got an MSc, and the only contact I've ever had was a practically spam message for an Amazon recruiter (who contacted half the province I live in, as near as I can figure).

For Android (and for Windows Phone) it requires permissions to pretty much everything. It's pretty evil in that regard.

I'm curious - I still haven't seen any details on how these are installed. How are things wired - does the wiring run under the shingles themselves? Also, how does it work with odd sized/shaped roofs - e.g.: something that isn't exactly a multiple of 1/2 a shingle?

I'm always baffled by this as well. "Let's make something cool, get money from investors, then figure out how to make money off it!"

In other words, cash in and leave before people find out there actually isn't money in it or cram the service full of advertising and watch the users flock to the next upcoming thing as your service tanks like a flaming dumpster rolling down a San Francisco hill.

Do we know why they removed the MagSafe power cord?

I always thought it was a smart design. It seems kind of silly to remove it.

By chance was your friend non-Caucasian?

Oh man, so true.

That's what I wonder about as well. I suppose with some smarts, it might be possible to ignore touches along the edge when it is held a certain way, but why unnecessarily complicate things? Even a 4 mm bezel would be fine.

There'd be something ironic about a manufacturer's website being made unavailable because of a DDoS caused by their own poorly secured devices.

It getting hot just sitting there would be more a sign of some background process that is running the CPU at full tilt. I've had the same thing happen to a Blackberry and a Nokia Windows Phone.

Either way, it's a crummy situation to deal with. Sometimes rebooting helps.