I could buy the house I currently own in less than two years. What's your point again?

... or toxic waste from the oil industry?

This won't stop the car industry.
I can't easily replace the navigation system in my car, because it controls the air-con.
The whole system is integrated in to the dash, the steering wheel controls, the trip computer and air conditioning.

There are aftermarket options on ebay, but the risk it won't work is high - The car is made in Japan with several options for air con (single/dual zone) and is visibly identical to other models made in USA which may or may not be wired the same. Added to the fact the model name of the Japanese car is the same as a completely different USA model and the one that's physically the same as a different name.

Apple didn't choose clang, they developed it. Therefore all the reasons for its existence are the reasons Apple use it.

But the program performs functionally the same.
That's the rule followed when doing compiler optimisations.

memset has nothing to do with Heartbleed by the way, nor does any compiler optimisation.

You also don't guarantee the original data is overwritten. If your application is paged out of RAM before the call to memset, when it gets loaded back in to RAM it can be pointing to a different physical memory location. You're now overwriting.... something completely different.

Microsoft only support the current service pack level and all those less than 24 months old for Windows Client and Server.
That's the agreement they've given to their customers.
They will drop support for 8.1 in 24 months time.

http://support.microsoft.com/l... .... wait a minute. They should at least update their support policy before cutting support.

and you should accept that down-grading will mean you are vulnerable to any issues later versions have fixed.

I'm sorry, the center you were raised at has unpaid tax bills. They've since shut down so we're recovering all debts from the orphans.

If you call memset on some allocated memory and then free that memory, what (apart from clearing sensitive data from physical RAM) functional difference does removing the call to memset make? None?

It depends why you're hiring an American to do your security audit.

Is it stupid for someone in China to hire an American to look for back-doors that may have been added by a Chinese Government agency?

Why does it rule those countries out?
You you perform your audits in all 3 countries, the only things being missed are backdoors put in by all 3 securities agencies cooperating together.
Add in China or some other "we don't like USA" country and you get better odds.

You didn't check any of those "free energy" campaigns did you? They're all actually scams.
The first one scammed $18k
The second one is only at 100 euros
The third one, which isn't anything more that a stone reached $1166

Indie gogo flexible funding campaigns are totally legit

https://www.indiegogo.com/proj...
https://www.indiegogo.com/proj...
https://www.indiegogo.com/proj...

Yeah, people like browsing book stores.
Not so many people like buying books at book stores.

Exactly

Basically, as soon as they get enough money, they're going to blow it all on fancy Silicon Valley office space.

More money, bigger offices.

At least they're honest.
They don't promise to work on physical prototypes until $8M