Wasn't this exactly what GoboLinux embraced?

Xen introduced Mini-OS years ago. The question is: how much functionality that the kernel and a fat libc commonly provides, does the application need. Boot times are not really the issue anymore; look at systemd, everything is booted within 2s.

They tried this in Russia a few years ago. Everything that is prohibited comes around (hard). Better to have it slowly getting extinct over a generation or two. The only problem we have to overcome is the exporting of the religion and have it seed somewhere else, getting more stricter, more correct, than it was where it came from. While I agree with the general vision, the next worst thing to religion is someone that considers himself god and uses politics to get more equal than someone else. This kind of social behavior is a dynamic system with a certain theme to justify itself, it is still bound to rules. These rules are set by nature, either evolving to an equilibrium, directing in a binary split between followers or a collapse aka death.

With this nice modern internet age transparency it is possible that people actually manipulate what the word sees. Either by the availability of people to see it first hand, the limitation on publishing or damn copyright that prevents others to spread it. Just wondering what anyone can do about a country that riots because of its bad rulers. Is supporting their freedom of information the only thing we can do?

Patents are not brands. So the original brandname is still protected.

Have you been looking at kickstarter? The independent investor does get support and funding now out in the open while in past times this didn't happen. Whats wrong with a bit of competition? If someone really could make a clone of a product at a tenth of the price, everyone benefits including the original inventor that could copy the production strategy.

If party A would send (all - 1) their conventional weapons, imagine what happens if the rocket launch would indeed destroy everything foreign because the foreign missile defense is exhausted. Now think of what happens with the forces that are actually on route, how should the country be defended against them? This is an optimization problem is both cases: taking causalities because of potential worse problems, or exhausting everything and no defense.

Is it the current overcapacity in production that warrants a better look at the labor done for Apple? As the demand is lower, it sounds like a perfect excuse to ditch a factory, which otherwise would have been unreasonable.

Its quite simple. I have a very nice Mac Snowball. Updates for OSX PowerPC are not flying in anymore, even Safari crashes on Google.com. So it is a good time to switch to a better maintained operation system. For PowerPC there are not many choices, but lets pick Linux. The motherboard has an onboard NV04, if this was an x86 I might be able to use the nvidia legacy drivers, for PowerPC: architecture not supported. So why is open source important: it can be compiled on your architecture of choice and gives proper hardware a few extra years (see below: "Great news for ARM"). Another interesting thing is that improvements won't limit themselves to the latest, greatest (and most expensive) flagship.

Most likely your offline backup script that rsyncs your changes over every night with you sleeping tight.

I guess compliments always get wrongly interpreted. Totally reminds me of Anglo - Dutch translation guide.

When I saw the list of names, I was positively surprised about the high number of women protecting our civil freedoms.

Using their previous Eyesis camera Elphel did the backpack thing last year. Now since wikipedia already states they are the original designer of the high resolution hardware Google used in Europe, it is not really surprising Elphel is already ahead with development of new stuff. While last year a 360 camera + Inertial measurement unit + backpack was offered, the current development offers a 120Mpix 4pi camera where the resolution is equal in every direction, so no fisheye on the top! ...and this is all done with open hardware.
While the camera of Google is indeed a new one, I wonder how it compares :-)

And this is was these guys do. "Guide their client to a completed transaction." And each following transaction and so on, your are a new client being guided through the transaction. This made me wonder about the 5 million for consultancy from GS, given that would imply something like financial council. As counsel one would expect to share the reasons why GS did not do anything with L&H theirselves. I agree with the Bakers, on the unethical part of the banking business, its difficult to explain to offer the same 'independent' services to three (not two!) competitors.

Now isn't exactly this kind of reasoning some system could be always prepared for, while the driver has need to make these kind of decisions in split seconds. Multiply this split second by not breaking, the number of choices for all parties to be safe is reduced. It would be even more interesting what would happen if two cars with this system could cooperatively "crash". Hereby saving a third party. A more complex choice would be preventing a lethal accident for multiple drivers, while in any other case all drivers would be lethally injured... now compute those chances.