There are definitely fencerow areas in the Midwest where no tillage has been done and you can see elevation differences of a few feet in some locations on one side of the fence versus the other. It also says as much in the original article.

Those white dots are most likely confined animal feeding operations. I used to work in one and they almost all have white steel roofs. They're all over Iowa but not as much in Nebraska and Kansas.

I still run a Windows 7 box since I have WMC on it. WMC can record an OTA or cable channel (those that aren't restricted) with my CableCard and then I (or most likely my kids) can watch it anywhere, cell service or not. A partial end run around the cable's DVR monopoly. I'm going to miss it; my Tivo is good but it can't do that. :-(

Posting for the second time - my AC first post gets filtered and I wanted to vent again! ArcGIS' arcpy Python package deleted about 15 TB of my data (about 90% backed up, some hadn't been yet) and two commercial disk recovery programs, Recuva and Eraser, failed to recover ALL the files, got about 95% back, about six months ago. They created a bug when doing parallel processing where they wrote temp directories for this purpose to the root of the drive and when doing this it deleted data on the drive, I'm guessing when it ran out of temp space. I wiped out two hard drives before I figured out an error in their programming was wiping out my data. I have never gotten the full story on what was happening as they don't let users talk to the developers, just the support people. I had to spend three weeks of my time troubleshooting it for them because 'my script was too complex'. That's what it took to trigger this ridiculous mess, a fairly complex process to trigger the right functions in the right order. We shouldn't be liable when a program deletes something in an area other than what was commanded, whether it was backed up or not. As was noted above with contract law, their EULA isn't a complete get out of jail free card. https://my.esri.com/#/support/...