In a situation where your company outsources code generation to some external IT consultancy, it might be beneficial for that external developer not to document his code. After all, who are they going to call when they need to understand the code or extend its functionality?
This also work down the road - if they should get several offers for future coding work in an RFP, the original programmer can still price very aggressively, as he knows all the pitfalls of the solution that he wrote in the past.

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. " - a story right out of Hollywood :)

Maybe I did not make myself clear enough - I never made the assumption or the claim that the brain resembles a computer in any way.
Recognition tasks are knowledge-driven; they are based on experience. Humans have to learn to see; a major input in the visual recognition process is experience. The brain has found a way to store years of learning in its structures. So I think it is fair to say that the brain has a vast amount of storage capacity.
The aforementioned conscious calculations are an emulation. The 7-item limit would not apply, if the calculations were executed subconsciously (by whatever algorithm).

I think this line of reasoning is not convincing.
The brain masters computations (e.g. visual recognition tasks, speech recognition etc.) that require enourmous amounts of memory when implemented in a conventional computer system. Under the assumption that those recogntition tasks are inherently memory-intensive, the brain has to have similar amounts of memory at its disposal.
So, obviously, the brain is not lacking memory to execute complex calculations, but it seems to disallow the conscious control of brain structures to execute multiplications. Each single neuron could execute such multiplications with ease.

This story tries to impress us with its "IT-is-not-for-girls" spin. But honestly, you would need a lot more data to draw such a conclusion. For instance, what is the current ratio of men leaving the IT profession in general and in the middle of their career in special? There might not even be a significant difference...
Moreover, what kind of women /people are leaving the industry? As far as I know, parts of the IT market are shrinking due to Offshoring and on-going automation, so a lot of simpler IT jobs are simply vanishing right now. So the loss of those jobs might also contribute to the observation of women leaving the industry.
Unfortunately, TFA does not provide more information to put the numbers in the right context...

We are not talking about photovoltaics (i.e. the direct production of electricity from the sun), but about solar heat power plants.
The majority of power plants in this region will consist of nothing more than a whole bunch of mirrors to heat up some medium and a conventional turbine that uses the hot oil/water to generate electricity. This is a very simple technology, unlike solar panels used in photovoltaics.
Energy storage will be solved using molten salt or other liquids, but most definitely not electrical batteries. So all in all, this project is technologically very feasible. Please check http://www.desertec.org/

I can't help it but those pictures look like straight out of a Hollywood science fiction movie...this is just awesome! We are living in the future :)

Well, just dumping the extended color data onto the brain might not be enough. When a child learns to see, its brain already has the basic visual perception algorithms hard-coded, e.g. there are brain structure for color detection, edge detection, motion detection etc. Those structures are built from the DNA, the genetic material, so the brain does not start learning from scratch.
Only those structures allow a child to pick up seeing as fast as it does (the process of learning to see in humans is necessary because of our ability for 3D vision. Depth perception depends on the distance between your left and your right eye; the hard-coded perception algorithms don't know this distance beforehand, so people have to learn seeing after being born. Animals without 3D vision are far more quickly able to see).
Anyway, there are no brain structures for the extended color data, so how would a brain learn the new input?

Not very likely. The slime mold in this case solve a kind of combination of a maximum flow-minimum spanning tree problem. There are algorithms with polynomial-time complexity for both problem types, so a computer would probably quickly find the optimal solution. So the computer should be way faster, even for much greater problem instances.

I've heard of servers going up in flames from being slashdotted, but this may be the first time in history that slashdot has destroyed something made of WOOD!

What's with all this hatred of the command line? The command line is an interface, just like the graphical one, and it is a very powerful interface that can do things GUIs will never do (how do you even try to make a full (not just if x in the line sub y with z) GUI for sed without making it a textbox?)

Actually the AC above me is right. It's the Final Circle of Paradise, not the Noon, 22nd Century. My bad, sorry.

700,000,000,000 *1
  / 100,000 *2
  / 452,000 *3
gives,
15 *4

  15 years of a $100,000 job would really turn things around for this country. It would allow them (including myself) to probably buy that house instead of renting that they have been wanting to. But right now, they are out of work. They could also buy the car that they need. (Even a green efficient one!) We wouldn't need to raise taxes either; anyone who tells you so is either a liar, or under a delusion. Doing the (simple) math just now has told me that Obama, and the whole entire government has sold us out to the bankers and to whoever ultimately controls them.

*1 - Seven hundred billion in bailouts which may be conservative as a Google search of "Total cost of bank bailouts" gives links indicating up to 4 trillion in Jan. and up to 23.7 trillion in July.

*2 - One hundred thousand dollars, which is a comfortable salary anywhere in America, or should be.

*3 - Four hundred and fifty two thousand reported 9 hours ago are unemployed right now according to Google search (news).

*4 - Fifteen years is how long the currently unemployed could be paid one hundred thousand dollars a year.

Interestingly, 94 is also his age. And the year he started to read Chips & Dips’ precursor. :P

The fuse isn't redundant. It fuses at say 3 Amps, whilst the circuit breaker for the ring main will be 30 or 32 Amps.
The earth pin isn't redundant. It provides an essential safety feature for products with exposed metal parts.
Flexing pins are not an advantage. It's the sign of poor engineering.

Size is on the large size. But fairly minimal at the time of design for it's features. If you look inside a plug, you can see that it's pretty tight in there. Though because it's sensibly designed with the cable coming out at 90 degrees to the pins, it uses less space from the wall than most other designs.

So, you have nothing.