I think you meant to say:

What in 'http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/10/the-name-of-everything-you-hold-holy-were-you-thinking/the name of everything you hold holy' were you thinking when posting this?

Eventually the people in charge are going to realize that any kind of financial institution is basically a database on the internet that holds and exchanges account information. And then they're going to turn ghostly white as they realize all these strangers are touching the equipment that, in a very real sense, IS the bank, er, financial whatever...or worse, those strangers OWN the equipment that IS the financial gobstopper.

And then, at least in finance, outsourcing IT will be seen as a form of insanity.

See also Philip K Dick's "The Man in the High Castle".

How do you fire your boss?

The racist parts are based on racism.

Hmm... 500,000MB / 20MB/sec = 25,000 sec. =~7 hours

Dude. That's what housekeeping is for...

Whatever happened to just carbon fuel cells?

from 2005: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7891-coalpowered-fuel-cell-aims-for-efficiency.html

and some unknown date: https://www.llnl.gov/str/June01/Cooper.html

Hey! And the Navy is working on those, too.

I'd like to combine your post with an interesting quote from the parent, thusly:

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Dude, that's funny right there.

I thought Cali's problem wasn't the current budget, but the huge debt they've accumulated, and have no way of paying.

(op-ed from about a year ago) http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/06/opinion/la-oe-crane6-2010apr06