They're all buggy commodity routers which are never getting updates.

Exactly ... is there some perverse incentive at work which makes backbones not try to implement ingress/egress filtering at the internet edge?

AFAICS it would be trivial for them to require it through new contracts, put some fines on not implementing it and all this disappears ... I'm sure there are some owned computers on core networks but I doubt the owners would want to expose them on a vindictive DDOS attack.

I don't think the free market is in and of itself very good at allocating finite resources, rent seeking is a fundamental problem which it can not deal with. The purest implementation of anarcho-capitalism which has ever existed was feudalism.

If you just dont give a fuck about weight or efficiency you can put CVT on it, which would pretty much give them all the gears.

Progressiveness is more about public charity ... ie. putting people through college even if the economic benefits to that person will never outweigh the costs.

The justification for public charity is the publicly granted privilege of enclosure BTW.

I think it has a better chance than anarcho capitalism, which needs land to magically appear infinitely cheaply.

You can use a single payer voucher system, the university will compete for the vouchers (either by excellence or by ease, some type of supervision might be necessary to keep the easy ones from turning into 4 year vacations). Of course the republicans don't like single payer and democrats don't like vouchers, so that doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell.

AFAICS the university will only verify your GPA, without verification your transcripts are just easily faked paper.

The tuition subsidy scheme in my country already makes part of the gift a loan if you don't graduate BTW.

You can put a temperature protection on the voice coils, you can measure the power in the signal and reduce volume (either on the digital or the analogue side).

Fuck lawyers, if you lose you're out a fuckton of money ... if you lose in small claims court you're just out some time and a small fee.

Playing a youtube video with some heavily compressed sound could do the same thing.

One failed conversion project can pay for a whole lot of cobol programmers to keep that back end running ... as highly paid as cobol programmers are it's nothing compared to the multitude layers of management in outside contractors for most IT projects ... which of course mostly fail to begin with.

You mean last gen consoles ... current gen consoles are nearly an order of magnitude removed from the K1.

It's roundabout taxation and debt relief for a government too grid locked to supply those with fiscal means.

It has some unfortunate side effects, allowing interest rates to rise would as well though ... sure a deep enough deflationary bust can clear the US debt overhang, I'm betting fascist would come to power before it runs it's course though because it's not going to be pretty.

Intel has good technology ... but everyone is going to be a loser in the coming years and Intel is becoming a tempting target for a leveraged buyout, which might well destroy them as an IDM.