FTFY.

Get another email account externally, and configure your email server to send all your outgoing email via that account (using POP3/SMTP authentication). Comcast might already provide an email account/server you can use like that...

I expect that most of those poor famous artists and scientists were interested in amassing sufficient wealth, but were unsuccessful; very few people choose to be poor.

Microsoft are simply copying what Apple does. IBM and others are doing it too.

They're all hoping that they can get the tax law changed so that they can repatriate the profits without paying the current tax rate.

You adjust the timetable to match reality. The trains aren't any faster, but the timetable no longer lies.

Yes, Facebook is the hosting platform, just as email once existed within computers and didn't travel between them. We don't yet have a Social Media Transport Protocol that allows peering between providers, but one day we will, and Facebook will follow AOL & CompuServe to the big walled garden in the sky. But, IMHO, that day is not in the near future.

If you're a bank or finance company, borrowing and lending on your own account, then yes, customer funds are liabilities. But stockbrokers, lawyers, accountants, et al. keep their customers' funds in a segregated trust account, and Mt.Gox and all the other exchanges should be following this model.

Solar UV

No. A rubber sheet is a flawed *model* for the shape of spacetime; as an *analogy*, it's still reasonable...

Presumably the latter -- they paid $200M for it in 2009. (Ouch.)

... are too specific. The concept of an Atomic Operation is important; database transactions are just a domain-specific example.

In the list of concepts, along with OO, closures & functions, recursion is essential knowledge. If in doubt, see this post.

Popular Mechanics have a transcript and analysis of the final 10 minutes.

If the returns are really as great as they want you to believe (*), then private industry will be rushing in. The federal seed money has done its job and no more is needed. Voila!

(*) Except that the numbers they've published are gross, and it's the net that counts.

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