"Increasingly...","any more"...Why be such a downer about the present? Aren't you just describing the way things have always been? Otherwise Europe would have had stirrups long before Jesus

Well to be fair, I could buy the Pythagorean Theorem thing, that could have been discovered and forgotten, only to be dug up later. But the aviation claim is ridiculous, especially when one reads the rest of the claim where the vehicles could visit other planets.

Any solution would violate net neutrality.

South Africa has 48 million people though

I often book 2 one way trips instead of a round trip since the first airline often does not have a return flight at the time I want. I like to take the red eye flight back home so I will look for the one way trip back with the best (for me) departure time. Flying out at 11 PM gives me an effective extra day at my destination.

I guess this works with carry-on only. Or is there some way to get checked luggage at the layover?

I see, thanks for clearing that up, mods well deserved.

Isn't this old hat? I was in China a few months ago and could not get to any of Google's services.

Draw your own conclusion. At least he didn't throw in the old 'we have other information we won't reveal' claim the government always uses to mask its own speculation.

"actually build a WAN between themselves that isn't the Internet" - They have, this is how the financial system works.

There were a good number of theaters that were willing to air the film, as evidenced by the chains that were going to air 'Team America' until it was pulled by the movie company.

Their next step will be traffic sniffing to monitor all your DNS traffic, regardless of destination.

I like to say, the Internet does not exist to guarantee the viability of their business model.

I don't think they care too much about what /.ers may do, I am sure at least some of them understand that technically savvy people will just route around the damage. It seems to me what they want to do is make it just difficult enough that Joe Average will shell out the bucks rather than figure out how to use Tor et al. In other words, scrapping the old 'sue 6 year olds for file sharing' approach. Instead taking a page from physical security and trying to make it just hard enough to maximize revenue.

I agree. "Malvertisement" is a real problem and I see it almost every day working in security monitoring. In the old print days the publication vetted the ads and hosted them directly. If some site went back to this model I would be happy to have ads. But when the site has no way to vet the ads and they are all hosted by other domains which are tracking me and who knows what else, I will continue to block them.