...long long ago, an out-of-town visitor to New York was admiring the elegant vessels harboured off the Financial District; "Those are the bankers' and brokers' yachts!" exclaimed the guide. "But where are the customers' yachts?" questioned the naÃve visitor in response...

It was the Russians !

"There are no central architectural design teams inside Facebook, each team does its own work to their own specs."

I think the term is Agile.

I would be interested to learn more about what you consider " a brain that's been properly schooled in how to learn things."

actually he may be the smartest one of the lot

Sounds like Van Halen's m&m clause
http://businessofsoftware.org/...

" There is a lengthy legal precedent, Your Honor, going back to 1789, whereby a defendant may claim self- defense against an agent of the government where the act is shown to be a defense against tyranny, a defense of liberty"

PowerPoint doesn't kill people, people kill people.

"President Obama, by the way, is expected to use his executive authority to expand the H-1B program after the midterm elections."

I don't get it. If it's a good thing, do it now. If it's a bad thing then why do it later or at all ?!?!?

Filing this under hope and change

"The remaining five virtual machines are used for load balancing...."

I thought it was the dolphins the whole time ??!

from what i have read that is indeed the next step with each zap costing $2,000

Umm not. Nice link but what you are hiding from the community is the extensive pre-engagement genetic testing that is done in the community. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

form the article " a New York neurologist who credits the near-total disappearance of the condition (Tay-Sachs disease) from the ultra-orthodox community due to Dor Yeshorim's involvement"

or Blackberry ?