Phoenix needs readjusted - there are massive water issues, and frankly, the size of that city isn't sustainable for the area it is in.

I would imagine that such info is kept in some sort of database using variables. Such metadata is more than likely easy to manipulate or make "disappear" if one has enough knowledge of how the entire system works. I would also make a guess that there are also some master keys and master locks in the entire thing where they can change the access level of such metadata, where by all intents and purposes it vanishes and never exists unless you've been assigned the permissions to access it.

I don't use git or github, so have no inside knowledge of how it works specifically, but I've seen similar systems in use on the backend at enough corporations to know how some of these systems work (and have seen entire data trunks seemingly vanish out of the streams when someone up the chain made it so).

Of course it has, hence why all of the export controls on and other restrictions for encryption products that are actually useful, let alone the silly limitations certain OSes and other products use for key lengths.

We can't have people using encryption that actually keeps their systems and data safe, now can we. /s

As far as text editing, etc goes... Notepad++

*cough*

Only because I've done hand-editing of web pages, etc for years now using it and would never, ever go back to using emacs, vim, or the rest. It's also highly extensible, which is a big plus.

I can attest to this, in that I've had pages on Microsoft websites fail to render properly or function properly in Internet Explorer, but worked just fine in Chrome, an older version of Opera, and Firefox. I about pissed myself laughing before letting them know about the issues.

I cut GOG some slack, because they are a much, much smaller shop than Valve, and they keep their releases for each platform as a separate cost/price in order to A) pay the publishers/copyright holders B) pay the teams that port/package those releases to the OSes they offer them for.

They just don't have that kind of bank account or manpower to be handing out free extra copies just because you run Linux AND Windows.

It's pretty much vastly superior to anything else when it comes to writing programs involving fluid dynamics for gas/sewer/water/chemical companies, especially when you're designing pipe and valve flows for pump stations and the like, as well as taking extremely accurate measurements in already operational installations. The front-end of said programs can be written in just about anything, but the heavy lifting (meat) for many of these companies is still done with programs written in FORTRAN (due to program size, speed, stability, etc).

The only caveat to this is in the cases of the following:

1) Medical devices

2) Aeronautical devices

3) Emergency Response devices

4) Milspec devices

For these, the owners CAN go after the licensee of the spectrum if their operating even slightly out of spec interferes with the operation of these devices.

Except that this particular person would be immigrated to the USA to do their work, meaning for a top sales person at Oracle, $50k is not just an insult, but a crass injustice based on cost-of-living, let alone the rest.

Comcast and Xfinity are one and the same. So you get to use NBC-Comcast or NBC-Comcast.

It wasn't optional for me, as they refused to allow me to log into my Gmail account at one point without first giving them permission to change my Google account into a G+ account.

Now they have some stupid page where they are trying to get me to enter my other Google/Gmail accounts in an attempt to link it directly to my main Gmail/G+ account. No. Just no.

It does matter, because if Operative A is in Indonesia and sends a message to Financier C in Yemen requesting funds, then that email is going to leave the local Google server farms (I believe they have some in Bali and another few sets in India, NZ, and AUS that are "backup") and can be recorded/intercepted even if they end up on another set of Google server farms to be retrieved later (I believe Israel, Egypt, Turkey and a few others have the ones that serve most of the Middle East).

What is disturbing, is that NFC/RFID chipped cards are basically just a band-aid, and fall to the exact same pitfalls of being able to be read and copied with relative ease using parts you can purchase and assemble at your local equivalent of Radioshack as your average NFC/RFID employee badge or door keycard.

The funny thing is, is that some of these parts are illegal to sell to the general public in the EU, but Canada, AUS, US, Mexico, etc all have them widely available.

There's already been demonstrations by university students & their professors, etc about the dangers of relying on chip & pin for anything (witness the fiasco a few years ago when they showed how easy it was to ride the tube in London for free by exploiting the inherent weaknesses in this particular combo).

I believe it may be because they use Apple's native player for iOS when the Netflix app detects an iOS device so it bypasses the normal Silverlight/Windows Media Player requirement for VC-1 (VC-1 is also supported under Apple's native media player on iOS due to cross-licensing from MS).

I know the player itself seems to work a bit differently between my Nook (Android) and my PC or laptop for instance (and the load/seek times are vastly different as well).

Back in the late 1980's, the USC stood at over 300 (and grows by an average of 25 volumes per year) hardbound volumes of regulations, laws, and suggested penalties of around an average of 800 pages per volume. The indexes themselves stood at 26 volumes of a bit smaller size, and included the names of the Congress members who submitted, amended, voted for/against/abstained each as well as vote totals for each by party.

On a sidenote: The books are of such a size, that if laid end-to-end at that time, they would have gone from Washington DC to New York City, New York. The volumes are not the typical size of your average hardbound novel, for sure.