Neither Linux nor FreeBSD were willing to enable ASLR by default and other similar technologies because they broke so much code. OpenBSD came along and did it, took it on the chin, and everyone benefited.

You also need PAE aware drivers, which was an implementation detail since drivers were not marked as PAE. Pretty much only server grade hardware had PAE drivers, even then you had to ask the manufacturer or they had to advertise it somewhere. Otherwise enjoy random memory corruption and bluescreens for seemingly no reason.

What's your definition of "low income"? I lived in a household that made less than $25k/year because my dad was trying to go to school, but because he was going to school, our family was not eligible for welfare. My mom tells me of stories where she would purchase a watermelon because it was cheap at the time, and that one fruit had to last her for dinner for an entire week. As a child, we only went to the movie theatres twice, EVER. Jurassic Park was one, I forget the other.

Now that you have an idea of how poor we were, my brothers are 4.0 students in college and I managed a lowly 3.6 in my major. Escaping poverty is simple in any decent society.

And to think, their hardware is still better than most out there. They still get the fewest complaints on NewEgg for much of their stuff for a reason. Their appliance like hardware anyway, SSDs, monitors, etc.

Incorrect. A "large" amount of traffic may be going back upstream, but the ratio of down to up is about 35:1. Just ACK data, nothing special. Someone may think 10Gb up is a large amount of data, but relative to the 350Gb/s down, it's nothing.

Hey now, "up to" 10 gallons of gas. Five is greater than zero, so it fulfills that requirement.

When you tax something it's negative. It's stupid easy to find examples of regulations increasing consumption. Why, food is a great example. The government says you can't sell poisoned food, so people are more willing to eat anything from anywhere.

You're saying that if you queue up a bunch of torrents and download for 2 hour strait, from 8pm-10pm, you'll never see your one minute average drop below 55Mb/s? I was reading an ISP bandwidth research paper and even FiOS showed on average about a max of 120% of advertised, a min of about 80% of advertised, and an overall average of about 105% of advertised. Yes they deliver their advertised bandwidth on average, but with violent fluctuations. +-20% is quite bad, but still better than what many other incumbents provide.

My mom lives in a town of 200 and has 45/45 fiber for $50.

Many places around here are starting to tax plastic bags in an effort to curb their usage.

If you decoupled the last mile sunk costs from being an ISP, then contracts would be pointless. Do month to month. It designed correctly, it is no cost to activate or deactivate a customer. Just a click of a button.

ISPs and last mile are two separate issues. I think we should leave ISPs as they are, but socialize the last mile. A Google fiber type approach. Every user gets 100% of their speed to the core network. Let the ISPs plug into the core network. I wouldn't mind having several ISPs being serviced over the same fiber.

Spectrum is a national resource. Are you saying we should give it away to whomever wants to use it? Maybe I want to use the GPS spectrum to run my 1kilowatt wifi base.

Lightbulbs are still more dangerous. Much higher frequency with much higher wattage. The main danger of a cell phone is localized heating, more so from heat given off from the battery than the RF.

Your cellphone would go dead is no time at full rate. The main benefit is your phone can do quick bursts of wifi and conserve battery life by going back into a low power state quickly.