Aside from development I trade as a second-job.(I'd call it a hobby but hobbies cost money.) The net result of this valuation is marketing hype. Regardless who think what FB's eyeballs are worth, this is a point-in-time snapshot of FB's worth. Based on trading experience, if this was publicly traded right now I would be opening a vertical put spread.(i.e. be massively short) It feels and smells like an overrated athletic team.

I think this has happened to every freemail provider at some point. Google has a long track-record of borking gmail accounts and worse: logging into other people's in-boxes.

It's more than marketing. OpenBSD is a solid system, second only to a few of the Trusted *NIX flavors and private NSA builds. OpenBSD is secure enough the be on the "you cannot ship this out of the country" list in the US.

No, we'll still get tomcat goodness. There have been murmurs for a while about a massive fork taking place where everyone runs for the openjdk projects and ditches the reference implementations. Changing the licensing on Java toward the end of Sun's lifespan was the best thing that would have happened for the future of Java innovation.

when it was called google wave. I suspect it will have similar measure of success, though that will be hard to measure as it's integrated into facebook.

Mainframe 2.0. See what I did there? Scared?

The summary is disingenuous: the cost is for their IT, not just a single HTML website.

GM is releasing the first mass production EV at the same time the US govt. is subdizing charging stations across the country to charge these things. GM isn't freaking out at all - oil companies are.

you _could_ drive it like any other car, but you don't HAVE to. That's the point of the volt.

what happens when your current car runs out of gas? The volt can have zero gas and still run.

Fact: global warming is real. Fiction: It's caused by humans. In other news, water is determined to be wet.

the power source is all electric. The car does not require any gasoline to drive.

Keep me posted - I'll comp you guys hosting. IMO, games are shit now. All FPS and pretty much cookie-cutters. Lemmings was another great game on the amiga...

The volt is not a hybrid - it's fully electric.

quiet - you'll make all the python/php/ruby kool-aid drinkers cry....