Be the best Make all information free Choose a good licence Expect to be taken over one day from something better, when that comes along ... help them Make it easy for anybody to use your information It is counterintuitive but the moment you put up protective barriers, you fall over. The moment you depend on an artificial barrier to protect your lead is the moment you will degrade the quality of your product. Happens every time on products and services that grow on openness and suddenly feel the reason they are good is more so because of their qualities than the openness. If you develop a product/service based on a closed environment, that is a different story. It makes business sense to improve your model based on a closed environment until a disruptive product/service comes along.

One day will do me, long enough to copy the web page and have it live for ever

Ahmmm ... there are a few things you may not get, Think of Ph.D students as clowns. You don't go there for the money, and you need a lot of practice to excel or even matter. Think about it, if you are a Astronomy student, you're bright enough to become a lawyer in your sleep ... why don't you ?

The timing is seems to be pretty good for the photoshop fail of the Russian orthodox Church http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2126092/Watch-closely-Russian-church-apologises-Photoshop-fail-20-000-timepiece-disappears-wrist-Patriarch.html Although Nokias PureView was a pretty good one as well :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud0wbhUqX1Q

I have just realised the major problem with the driverless car !! People knowing their behaviour and hacking it. In other words the cars are being developed to emulate how humans drive responding to normally expected behaviour of other humans. The problem that humans will treat driverless cars differently. For example a human realising that it is a driverless car will cut in front of it knowing it will handle it. A pedestrian will step right in front of it and then step back, or will pretend to walk to the edge of the pavement ... and stop. This is what I can think of now. "Hackers" will understand how driverless cars will behave to external inputs and exploit that behaviour much like hackers exploit computer systems everywhere. It may take much longer to deal with that than it is to develop a safe driverless car in "normally predictable" scenarios.

This is a developing concept with the potential of being a paradigm shift. Now days anything you want to do, there is a YouTube video. From baking bread, to understanding excel, to trying to figure out complex math concepts. Somebody charismatic among a multitude on mediocre has made a video or a tutorial.

We are comparing an old method of tuition with a new concept of online learning. There are elements of online learning that cannot duplicate face to face tuition, but the reverse is overwhelmingly on the side of online learning.

Some of the greatest innovators are self taught. Some of the most brilliant mathematicians/scientists are also self taught. How many more self taught brilliant minds will this produce ? How many more of the rest of us will not have access to knowledge there is no way we would have pursued under the "old" system ?

I predict somebody working at some Nestle warehouse to pass all the boxes through a metal detector.

Which carrier parked 10 miles off anybodies border especially in a time of war. Carriers don't travel alone, they travel as part of a carrier group for a reason. Much like an emperors carriage in a time of war does not travel alone or even at the head of the army.

History is written by the victor ... hence a couple of million of evil Greeks thrown out of minor Asia. All the historical sights now being "Roman". The pogrom in the 50s against the Greeks in what is now Istanbul, The expulsion of the Greeks from Northern Cyprus, the Pontian genocide. That's only the Greeks. Check the Kurds, the Armenians and effectively most races in Turkey. Sure ... try calling the Armenian Genocide such in Turkey ... and off you go to the slammer. Where do you think all the Kurds in the slums (Gecekondu) around Istanbul came from. Try calling your self Kurdish a decade ago, or even naming your child a Kurdish name

Turkish fighter jets fly low over Greek islands every other week. Tourists might find it funny, but the US or Russia or most countries would have shot it out of the sky had it happened to them and they have. Turks have often wanted to "liberate" Turks in Northern Greece and have the words largest invasion army on the coast of the Aegean for "training" purposes.

There are many bizarre "rationalizations" performed by Turkey all the time ... but most of the above is just delusional :-)

So what if it was a flying saucer shape, where the rim/ring it self smoothly transitions between the two profiles? There is no point to the star shape then.

Science means "Here is a model that predicts what will happen, hence useful", Creationism has no predicting ability whatsoever. It is useless in describing the world around us. That is not to say it does not have spiritual or moral value. They think the world "theory" has the same meaning in "I have a theory why she is bonking a stranger" to "The theory of gravity"

How about leave the system as it is, and 5% of all patent costs go to a fund who's sole purpose is to reveal prior art and offending patents. The targeted patents are based on some algorithm that will return the most to society. This fund should also be open to donations from geeks to big companies who has a say where their own money is spent. If Apple wants to fight a Google prior art I am good for that even if Apple is the devil's devil.

There will be a connection between the number of patents and the funds income. There still is intensive in applying for patents.

That's like saying petrol cars run on air. It's not just water, you also need Aluminium.

Maybe some schools should have it as a matter of safety. If your child is not immunized, you cannot come to this school because you put other children at risk. That way they will end up taking their kids to "open minded" schools. At these schools you will very soon discover some pretty grim statistics. Within a few years all these alternative schools will cease to exist. It is terrible that we treat kids as ginneapigs.

Troll bait title if I have ever seen one :-) Its a company retail outlet, it looks no different to the Sony store down the road. G