If so:
No
No
No
and No.
But thank you for posting a summary that's nearly 50% questions!

Why would I go to a market to buy a service (with a middleman markup) when I could just buy it directly from a provider? Do we really expect to have shortages of computing power that would benefit from a secondary market redistributing computation around?

I gotta admit that it's been a very long time since I actually read Wired, but I remember them having more interesting stories about tech and fewer sensational pieces. The summary makes it sound like something I'd see on my local TV news station ("GOOGLE: IT MIGHT DIE??!?!??? Tune in after these advertisements to watch us speculate!").

Well, I guess I'm glad to see it's not just /. that's past it's prime :/
I mean, seriously - "What is someone else made a better search engine? ALL TRAFFIC WOULD GO THERE AND GOOGLE WOULD DIE" just seems so.... speculative.
(Maybe Wired has added a Creative Writing section since I last read it?)

Man this takes me back - it's just like the good old days of /., when we'd all head over to some small, random site and /. it. A nice, well-meaning site that had no idea about the tsunami of visitors they were about to be inundated with. Yep, those were good times :)

Is the author looking to drive traffic to their video? I followed the link but only 31K people have viewed it (as of 4:20pm, PST, July 12, 2013). That can't be right - did the author put that in their just to drive traffic to their version of the video?

Unlike majoring in English, where anything goes, apparently

Could we have someone, maybe an editor, tighten up the summary a bit? Here's what I see:
idea : # times it occurs
"Let's mention this on /." : 3
"It's done" : 2
small runtime : 2
features : 3 (plus that laundry list of actual features)

Instead, let's try this:
"The Dao language has recently made its first beta release, and we think you Slashdotters will Eff'ing love it. Dao is an optionally-typed programming language that supports many advanced features (probably as many as Python ) with a small runtime (closer to Lua than Python). Besides optional typing, Dao also has built-in support for concurrent programming for multicore computers, very friendly C programming interfaces for embedding and extending, an LLVM-based JIT compiler, a Clang-based module for embedding C/C++ codes in Dao, and a Clang-based tool for automatic binding generation from C/C++ header files."

See? That wasn't so tough, probably took 5 minutes, and is much more readable....

+5 INFORMATIVE? What do you people do in your free time?

that Mr. Page was talking about!

Even if the farmer is technically a businessperson it's still clear that the SCOTUS ruled in favor of the large corporation (at the expense of everyone else), as they're now wont to do:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/business/pro-business-decisions-are-defining-this-supreme-court.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Whoops - this was funny but I accidentally mod'd it as "Overrated"

I can't seem to find a way to undo/change my moderation.

So I guess I'll do this, instead :/

Could I? Yes!
Will I? Dude - this is clearly an attempt to crowd-source something that would be awesome, but that I'm too lazy to do ;)

First, I want to say that XKCD rocks, and I do enjoy it when people post links from /. to there so I don't have to.

That said - can't someone come up with a script to do this for us? I'm thinking something like the UNIX fortune program (kinda like the one at the bottom of /.). We could even spruce it up with better and better AI/pattern matching over the years to provide better results.

Personally, I think this would be awesome!

Just earlier today I read on Slashdot that MIT is having trouble scaling up manufacturing here in the US (http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/02/28/2149244/when-its-time-to-scale-us-manufacturing-hits-a-wall) - it looks like they're already working on a solution :)