There is a free distributed protocol backed by multiple large and smaller players: email.

To see what it could lead to you have to look at what we have now with: gmail, yahoo mail and hotmail. And a bunch of smaller players. And a lot of companies and individuals have their own domain. They run their own servers or pay a hosting provider.

But if a company like Google starts it, all you will have is the large players. There will be no smaller players.

It will be like much more like Google Talk and XMPP/VoIP situation.

WebRTC is an other protocol which we'll have to see what will happen to it. I think it might be more like browser wars, where by the large players will add more features in the free, some even open source, clients. And the small players might benefit.

And everything would be fine, if we didn't have Bufferbloat:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Self driving cars isn't done based on looking at still images only. They have LIDAR which helps identify where objects are and what the size could be. Also they have very detailed maps of the roads, these are all taken into account when identifying objects.

Have a good look at the limitations section on Wikipedia:
"...that the lidar technology cannot spot potholes or humans, such as a police officer, signaling the car to stop."

"The vehicles are unable to recognize temporary traffic signals. ... They are also unable to navigate through parking lots. Vehicles are unable to differentiate between pedestrian and policeman or between crumpled up paper and a rock."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Does that seem like a system that solved computer vision ?

Supposedly it has gotten a lot better in recent versions:
http://owncloud.org/blog/owncl...

I think this is what makes Bitcoin and Dogecoin and the other cryptocurrencies so interesting.

There is hardly any overhead in paying people, it's fast.

It's like paying a street performer with cash.

Loved the talk at FOSDEM about OpenLDAP and LMDB:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I was hoping it would be adopted by the Influxdb developers but it seems to not be a perfect (performance) fit:
http://influxdb.com/blog/2014/...

Well, maybe if you send duplicate VPN packets 1 over each connection.

But I don't think modern iptables has a MIRROR-target.

Anyway, as someone mentioned above LACP is like RAID-0, not RAID-1 which is what he/she needs.

If you only use it for loadbalancing with static iptables/ip rule/ip routes, it won't help in any way.

It would need some kind of dynamic component.

The person that asked the question mentioned 2 mobile providers.

Of course his connection is going to suck, it's wireless.

The question is:

Can you use 2 mobile connections to get the best of the 2.

The first thing to try would be if he/she started 2 pings, would they both go bad at the same time. If so he/she doesn't have to try any of the tricks mentioned.

I specifically meant OpenVPN, because it can encapsulate Ethernet packets.

That can easily be solved, use 2 VPNs.

Yeah, I forgot about that one.

I believe the Linux kernel has built-in support for High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR).

If he/she sets up a Linux gateway to his/her Windows-machine he could test it.

First of all, I doubt you'll find anything that already works on Windows.

So it would have to be something like Linux on both sides. So you'll need a Linux machine as a gateway if you want to use Windows.

Now that said, there are 2 things I've seen which are available for Linux:
- multipath-TCP could do this, but TCP is usually pretty bad as a tunneling protocol if you want good latency.
- a better way might be a routing protocol with a weight for the latency (=round-trip time) and with very fast convergence to be useful. Their is existing code and a IETF draft for babel(d): https://tools.ietf.org/html/dr...

That could work.

Luckily I'm seeing more and more of these issues being solved with newer CSS standards:
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mult...
http://caniuse.com/#feat=multi...
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flex...
http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexb...