Basically anywhere along our southern coastlines - Florida, Louisiana, Texas, etc can and do grow sugar cane.

Interesting to note we have high tariffs in place on all imported sugar because those growers would be prices out of the market otherwise.

They were that way, until telecoms lobbyists had it their way and got telecom providers/ISPs (who are often one and the same) delegated as "information services" with all of the accompanying lack of regulation forthwith.

They do just fine if they are large enough and hit them where it actually hurts - profit margins. Part of the problem is A) the fines are way too low and B) corporations are allowed to not only deduct them from the revenue end, but then profit from being fined by counting it as a loss towards their final tax bill for the year.

This needs to change - the fines need to hurt, and the fines need to come out of the back-end, aka from their declared profits AFTER all taxes are said and done.

XP-64? Egads! WHY?

This braindead attempt at an OS was the fault of a VP who was determined to make her mark at Microsoft.

She did alright, and is now firmly in the disaster zone category of "Carly Fiorina" when it comes to computing history. This is what happens when you promote people with zero technical know-how into these oversight positions where they are allowed to make decisions like this.

Not only that, but it's rather hilarious to hear Verizon and Comcast complain about Level 3, considering Level 3 is how -any- of their customers even contact servers and other infrastructure on the AT&T backbones, Europe, Canada, and South America for that matter. And by customers, I mean also their own various corporate campuses, some of which hilariously enough, lie right in the middle of AT&T territory.

Actually, yes, and with the gun crowd, they've been known to show up on front porches and ringing doorbells (and to do everything they can to run you out of town and out of your job depending on where you live in the US).

While I support the right to bear arms, I also do not think certain types of firearms (I am looking at you, AR-15s, AK-47s, etc) belong in the hands of your average citizen, as our fellow citizens have proven time and again that they can't be trusted to own and operate them responsibly.

I would be shocked if this wasn't intentional maneuvering to use the entire core of Yahoo as part of a tax write-off scheme to pay next to nothing on any profits they make from Yahoo Japan and the upcoming Alibaba IPO.

"We're valued at -$13bn, therefore Mr IRS, take a piss with your tax bill."

If you are using GOTOs and it isn't for a BASIC program running on old hardware (or in an emulator) for shits and giggles, yes, it's bad.

GOTOs are how you end up with endless loops (and other nasties). Do you want endless loops? Because that is how you get them.

Oh, it could, if they hadn't oversubscribed their lines by almost 800% for the last 20 years.

Honestly the entire thing is moot at this point but, from all of the comments I've read, nobody seems to have mentioned that his contribution to Prop 8 could be based on his personal religious beliefs.

If anything (and there is no signs of him doing so at this point), he could press on the Federal level a case of discrimination for violating his Civil Rights based on the religious aspect alone.

He would probably also win if there was even a slight whiff of him having been pressured into resigning because of this. Race, religion, gender = the big three when it comes to discrimination lawsuits and highest on the no-no scale of what companies can fire for/pressure over.

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.