The Universal Service Fund was originally used to subsidize the up-front cost of installing a phone line when the cost exceeded the average. For example, in rural areas where long lines of wire are needed for every customer. If that were still the case, I would be 100% in favor of applying it to broadband.

The USF changed under Clinton. It's now used to subsidize general IT in rural schools and programs that pay ISPs to provide freeish service to poor people. It doesn't even do the modern version of its original job. You've heard reports of Comcast proposing to build cable Internet to someone for tens of thousands of dollars. If that were a "pots" phone line, the USF would have subsidized it, but it just doesn't do that any more.

So, as long as the USF is misused and required by law to be misused, the FCC is correct to refuse to add it to broadband lines.

I've never understood the value of C++. Basically everything C++ gets used for would be better done in Java or now Rust.

The same does not hold true for C. C is basically a friendly wrapper around assembly language and their remain lots of tasks for which staying close to the hardware is the best choice.

C++ started many moons ago as an enhancement of C, but it has long since evolved to a very different programming language. One that has the baggage of C without the advantages of a language whose authors could apply decades of newer learning to its basic design.

Abdeljawad lives with her Egyptian immigrant parents in Oklahoma but has frequent stints teaching overseas in the conflict region. This means extended stays and significant income from foreign sources entering and leaving her bank account. Combine this with social media posts that were extremely pro-Hamas, a terrorist organization.

If FBI agents weren't asking questions, they wouldn't be doing their jobs.

With the exception of the cell phones and whatever the heck it was that Mr. Anderson was selling at the start of the movie, every bit of tech *inside* the Matrix was at least 5 years out of date. I thought the point was to create some cognitive dissonance in the tech savvy audience that that the environment didn't quite align with the world as we know it even before we found out that it in fact wasn't the world as we know it.

The modern commercial Internet exploded onto the scene in 1995 becoming ubiquitous by 1999. Before that was NSF version of the Internet that nowadays is known as a "research educational network" or REN.

It was the public, commercial Internet which was missing from the Matrix's 1999. They didn't email. No web was browsed. It just wasn't there.

You're right, Morpheus did say, "You believe it's the year 1999 when in fact it's closer to 2199."

Nevertheless, the technology was wrong for 1999. The tech inside the Matrix was deliberately retro, even for its release date.

That was in the Matrix Reloaded. Released in 2003. Four years later.

So was I. Because I had access through my school. The Internet as a commercial venture with public awareness happened in 1995.

They entered and exited with "hard lines," aka plain old telephones. Inside they communicated with cell phones. Not, SMS or email, cell phones.

Says who? The movie didn't specify the year and the tech inside the matrix was somewhere between 1989 and 1994, not 1999. It was already dated when the movie was released, and intentionally so.

How do I know it was before 1995? There was no Internet inside the matrix.

U.S. courts are not fans of anything resembling a Bill of Attainder.

Thank you. That was my question and you answered it.

Don't you run into quantum limits at some point where the circle can no longer be perfectly circular causing further precision in Pi to fail to reflect the actual object?