bitsoffreedom

It's a shame that here in Germany, the railway has a state-guaranteed monopoly on long-distance ground travel (this is a law that goes back to the Nazi era!)

So, there are hardly any long-distance bus routes within Germany, only to Berlin (which was an exception from the person transport law that was made in the Cold War era), and to neighboring countries.

A situation like the one in Fukushima can occur whenever the power supply to a nuclear power plant is cut off. A similar situation occured in Sweden's Forsmark plant in 2006:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsmark_Nuclear_Power_Plant

They should better implement better search in the Android Market, clean up there, and do something against device-crippling, bloatware-installing carriers.

I don't want a touch screen on a point-and-shoot digital camera, for example.

Touch screens may turn into a technology that's omnipresent although "educated" consumers try to avoid it (like glossy laptop screens or high-megapixel cameras with tiny sensors)

Something like the Goldcorp Challenge maybe? http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/59/mcewen.html

Well, I just tweeted "accept failure" :-)

Well, it might work for them if the admission rules were less strict than in the mobile App Store.

And the mobile App Store turned out to be very profitable.