"One of the best?" Meaning, there's a good hospital or two there somewhere that they send you if you have some rare cancer? Great. But the fact is, Texas is 33rd in health spending out of 50. They've cut and cut and cut. The US has on a national basis, mostly in the last 10 years, but red states of course more than most.

What someone should probably come up with is something between https and http.. that being signed payloads over http... for stuff that is non critical and available via cdn, it would be nice if some of these systems could be used to cache results... the payload could be signed with the private key (used on https), and have that signature added to the header... this way signed http objects could be used via https, without the warnings... the content matches the signature.... edge caching systems can still be used (if they respect the header).. maybe use httpsd as the protocol (http + signed data) and fallback to https if there isn't a signature.

So that means I won't be getting a BJ during my tryout to be an underground super elite hacker dude?

I've flown a depressing amount over the last couple of years. United actually does have pretty entertaining security briefing (although they're less funny the fifth time you've seen them in a week), but they insist on showing you a couple of minutes of adverts after telling you to pay attention for the important security briefing, but before showing the security briefing. If you want people to pay attention, then ban airlines from showing ads before the briefing, because after being advertised to for a couple of minutes, you can bet that I've unplugged my noise-cancelling headphones from the jack and am reading a book until they put the screen back under my control again...

Political terminology in the US is weird. You have the liberals / progressives, who want to resurrect the worst ideas of the 20th century on one hand and the conservatives on the other who want to resurrect the worst ideas of the 19th. Judging from your post about 'leftists' (by which you seem to mean 'authoritarian state capitalists', or as the rest of the world calls them 'the right wing'), the rest of your terminology is equally confused.

My favourite one is:

#include <stdio.h>
int x;
int main(void)
{
struct x { void *a, *b; }foo;
printf("%ld\n", sizeof(x));
}

Try compiling this as both C and C++. It's completely valid in both languages, but the output will be different in each.

There is no such thing as C14. C90 isn't really a thing either (it's C89, with a few errata fixed). C89 was the first ISO standard C. K&R wasn't a standard, it was just the documentation of a specific implementation. To claim that it wasn't implemented is nonsense - it was implemented, it was never standardised.

After C89, both versions of the C standard (C99 and C11) have been backwards compatible. They are not always backwards compatible with vendor extensions. C99, for example, added an inline keyword (which was bad because inline was in the space of identifiers reserved for the user) that had different semantics to the GNU extension. Code compiled by gcc with -std=c89 would work with -std=c99, but code compiled as -std=gnu89 would break. Both gcc and clang have a -fgnu89-inline flag to work around this limitation. Every valid C99 program is also a valid C11 program.

That's the real question. And again, the NSA needs to answer the following question:

Were they sufficiently technically incompetent that they didn't discover an attack that the Russians have been using, or were they sufficiently inept in a more general intelligence sense that they didn't realise that leaving US and allied machines vulnerable might be a problem?

I was surprised that anyone would pay him. He's obviously an idiot, why would anyone think he was worth the money. I'll pay him $1 to shut up though...

Lots of people keep accusing Florian of being a shill. I don't think it passes Ockham's razor. He was consistently saying obviously wrong things long before he had enough public prominence for it to be worth anyone to pay him. It's far more likely that he's just a complete idiot. And, honestly, I don't think Microsoft or Oracle would need to pay him to change his opinions - just giving more free publicity to a drooling moron who claims to represent the people opposed to them is enough...

> the costs of actual treatment but thats already paid by taxes. ...which does not make the overall cost to society zero. Indeed, that's the point of studies like these, to add in the costs on which the one alternative is free-riding. Medical costs like that, and yes, environmental costs...which can be clearly established in many cases, particularly coal-mining. Examination of dropping property values near mining sites is just the clearest one.

I just read this and I don't know who the author is or what the fuck the point of that whole diatribe was. Was this supposed to be an Explain Like I'm 5 for Reddit or was this mean to accomplish something?

That would be delightful, but my 10/100 is still running $200+ridiculous fees/taxes/etc every month and hasn't changed in quite awhile.

Let me get this straight.

Backbone providers want to be paid for proper peering arrangements to allow for the heavy bandwidth time-sensitive transmission of video data for Netflix (let's be honest, this is all anyone on the internet cares about) and everyone loses their fucking minds and wants the FCC to take control of the internet.

Netflix wants to be paid more for giving you much higher quality video at much higher data rates to go over those lines and "aw, gosh guys, that's totally reasonable".

Average electricity consumption per capita in the USA is 1683W. For the EU, it's 688W, which makes 2kW ample for a small household. If my electricity consumption went to 1.5MWh/month, I'd start to seriously worry - my electricity bill would be about three or four times what it currently is. According to Wikipedia, electricity in the USA costs 8-17 cents per kWh. That works out at $120 to $255 for 1.5MWh. Do people seriously spend that much money on power each month?