Just found this quote by Mark Dillon the software director. Essentially anyone can create a cover (the tools are open):

Same here. It's an intriguing strategy they are trying to pull off. The central Jolla platform is expandable by third party hardware vendors, who can become the other half of the device, not just an external peripheral maker. This kind of modularity will surely become more prevalent in the future, because smaller and smaller parts are made to be smart in some way. The Jolla platform functionality will be quickly copied though, but hopefully the Sailfish OS will connect all together...

In the Logica incident report it says that after the incident they run the same password cracking tools as the perpetrators and managed to crack a very large number of user passwords. Their summary:

The psychological manipulation and citizen monitoring have been going on since the beginning of organized societies, because the rulers needed to secure their position and so know everything. It's build in the human psyche.

This has since turned into a science since the 1920s at least, when Edward Bernays came up with the whole new field called Public Relations and successfully applied Freudian psychoanalysis in his consulting business for large corporations. His book 'Propaganda' is worth reading, and the documentary series The Century of The Self explores it too.

I'd say it's not reasonable to trust any corporation, because they only seek to create more profit at your expense.

Let's imagine that aliens start to pour carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the Earth's atmosphere. The greenhouse effect has been known for over 100 years so we quickly can conclude that the net effect would be a warmer atmosphere. We would definitely try to do something to the matter, because well, the risk assessments would be increasingly worrying.

So why is it so difficult to act now?

And true, the climate has changed. Also it's normal that gamma ray explosions happen in space and they might destroy most of the Earth's atmosphere. It's still rather insane to explode one on Earth.

True. Even during the black&white developing process one can alter the lighting of the original exposure by various means. One simple method is to cover certain areas with hands while the photographic paper is exposed. Press images always have a viewpoint which is pronounced by a simple crop for example. Their function is to distill the context into a striking composition. This image conveys the feeling and the depth of the actual event really well - it's a good press photo.

It works if one also lived like the test animals - in a controlled dust and aerosol free environment on an optimized non-excessive diet. So in essence everybody should turn into nature lovers.

I'm afraid this will just turn out to be one more pill...

The game creators kind of created the statistics by making the title easily available, so the data is skewed.

The titles are competing of a share of the amount of money (and time) a gamer is willing to spend. The available sum doesn't magically accumulate when new titles are released, so I'd guess that better / more marketed games will get a larger share.

Here's a forum about this with screencaps: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=550032 They show that in the first day 6,4% were genuine versions and the rest were pirated copies.

I wonder what's the average conversion rate. Usually not all who pirate buy the game anyway. How about demo downloads versus purchases? It's a neat trick they pulled, but I think some context would be nice.

Maybe the illumination should come from bacteria, held inside biopanels? When the nutrients are low the panels would light up to say feed me!

SARS is/was more fatal strain, and it was prevented with quick and effective international response. I'm pretty sure people don't want SARS or any new strain to be as prevalently hanging around as common flu. The immune system is not used to it, and there's little reason to let the viruses go freely around and mingle with each other.

It's a bit morbid to compare the fatalities. I'd rather say that great, only 773. The lower the number the better the response has been.

Besides the mechanics of the free market (is there any?) works so that if someone comes up with a nice product of course others will copy it because otherwise they would lose their share. To differentiate from the others some details are changed or improved. Some just clone the current winning concept. So far the successful product of Apple's have been like hot knife in butter, but the market is not so vertical anymore.

So there's no innate need to innovate at all. It's an option The past is pretty much meaningless. The sales happen now and the appreciation comes from the expectations. Successful companies can differentiate and deliver. If similar product has been released and it wasn't a success then it's a bad example of a product and management.

Take this gem for example from the article:

That's not the origin of science, but it coincides with the industrial revolution, which sparked a new range of philosophical thinking from economy to nature. Besides printing press was readily established at that time to spread the news. There has always been science at some level. The selected viewpoint has an effect to the origin.

Consider for example 10 freely usable computers in a public space. Now open the same website yearly in each of the computers and leave the session open. Random visitor can then have a glance of 10 years of a website's history, and the action is approved by the content holders.

Thanks for the correction, I made a silly mistake...