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.

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.