Everyone knows database systems designed for concurrency and parallel processing across threads, cores, servers, and data centers are best used as a bit bucket for a warehouse full of Java VMs.

" Those scientists who were able to throw off the yoke of established knowledge and break new ground on their own are revered and respected."... many years later. Their contemporaries often criticized and ridiculed them, even threatening excommunication if they didn't recant.

They use the term "hacking" when they mean "coding". They use the term "Day" when they mean "weekend". They hope to have an event in a city in "all 50 states and territories". Someone is bad at geography, math, grammar, or a mix of the 3.

You seem to be confusing storm surge and a big*ss rain cloud with sea Levels rising. A few mm of sea rise didn't flood Manhattan. Your underlying point may well be valid, but your supporting argument of it doesn't float.

It's not the fracking, its the wastewater. Simply prevent earthquakes by dumping the wastewater on the ground or the nearest river or kiddie pool. What could possibly go wrong?

The cafeteria The break room The watercooler A conference room, with catering A conference room, bring your own food.

Funded by taxpayers doesn't infer the taxpayer has open use of what they funded. The B2 was taxpayer funded, but I can't just walk onto a base and ask to fly one, or get plans to build my own and offer joy rides for my own profit. I know there are probably several large holes in my analogy; maybe a car analogy would be better?

I, for one, welcome our new Bovine Overlords. Without their primary predator, cattle will take over the world.

None of which matter in Google's general architecture. It's not like they're running a bunch of W2k8 RAID5 servers. Everything is massively redundant and replaceable.

I often need to be in 2 places at once. With this "service", now I can!

Because anyone would guess his bank account password matches the first 5 markers? Medical info, ok sorta, but otherwise I'm missing the privacy issue here that could be exploited. Then again: " From:pharmco... Re:your genetics... We see in your genes you are due to have "performance" issues soon. Order your v14gra today! "

1. Patent college football playoff system.
2. Sit on it so nobody else can.
3. Create the BCS.
4. PROFIT!

I don't see a merge as feasible in any way. The two RDBMSes have drastically different architectures. I could maybe see some moves toward common programming syntax, but a merge doesn't make technical sense.