in the couch

I'm confused by your comment. Why wouldn't Oracle or any company do whatever they want with a company they just purchased?

Why anyone would believe that number from the NY Times is beyond me.

If you have any experience with even medium sized software projects, you will realize it's a typo. They started coding this spring, of 2013, I doubt they even have 5 million lines. Maybe 500,000.

Oh, ok, a few weeks? My largest project was orders of magnitude smaller than this project and you couldn't even complete testing in a "few weeks". I don't think you have any clue the complexity of this project or time required for large/complex projects.

Actually, the ignorance is people that aren't aware that it was originally called SEQUEL and then renamed to SQL. There have been various products over the years on various platforms with the SEQUEL name (80's and early 90's). The pronunciation has been both ways, although as time goes on there are many people like yourself that just aren't aware of the history and other pronunciation and so it continues to fade.

Ownership of "regular property" is just as pretend as anything else. It's based on laws we created with the protection of our legal/justice system. Without that anyone could take your home that wants to and has the physical power to do it.

I like the new design more...than AOL...but just barely

What if there was a guy named Beeks that had the report in his briefcase and traveled to the exchange in advance of the public announcement, and there were 2 men and a woman that intercepted the report and used it to their advantage while swapping it with a fake report which was given to the original people?

Ok, pretend you're a car sitting on an oil tanker...

I don't think you are up on current events. Amazon currently has about 60 facilities in the US and is planning on building more in every single state to achieve the same day delivery model.

There's a great Piroshky stand in the East terminal of the airport, you should try it.

IBM 360 and 370 mainframes have had 128 bit floating point since the 60's

Make the advertisements and credits for your web site part of your content in a way that it's too much work to remove so the copied versions retain this stuff. Like watermarks in images, maybe an article delivered as an image with advertising and credits, etc. Then embed tracking links so you can demonstrate to advertisers the total "viewage".

Recent research showing how junk DNA is involved in brain development:
http://machineslikeus.com/news/brain-development-guided-junk-dna-isnt-really-junk-0

I'm curious why you characterized nn's as linear? They are universal function approximators and their power comes from approximating non-linear functions.