Nobody said it was a small thing.

... or any other outbreak, for that matter.

So where is this variety of competitors? My area has one cable company and one phone company, which isn't what I would call a 'variety'. Or are you asserting that all the customers in this area are perfectly happy with one of these two? Because I can tell you right now, it isn't so; I would switch to pretty much anyone but Time Warner in a minute.

Not a bad idea. I like it. Doesn't address GP's assertion that "he shouldn't have been able to get here", but it seems more feasible than anything that I can think of that would address that.

How would you implement a system to prevent it? Preferably without completely blocking all traffic from Liberia to the rest of the world, because there's a fair number of foreigners there who will want to come home someday, and (at the time of this particular incident) no cases outside of Africa have been seen yet.

*shrug* I print out email messages from my phone fairly regularly (reservation confirmations, for example). I could go into the other room, boot up the computer, bring up thunderbird, and print from there, but I like not having to spend that much time on it.

They were. The guy lied on his paperwork. Had he survived he would have been facing criminal charges in two countries for that.

You've gone into a good bit more detail than I was thinking (or aware of :) I had been thinking the data would have to be encrypted to keep folks from watching stuff they hadn't paid for but that's because for some reason I was thinking in the cable model where everyone gets all the bits, rather than a switched network model where you only see the bits that are sent to you. I must need more coffee.

I seem to be misunderstanding as well. How exactly do they modify the command without DPI?

It's more like you make long calls every night to your mom and she tells you all about her day. You pay for local service, she pays for local service, you pay for the call, she does the talking. Only now your phone company wants to charge your mom because she's doing all the talking.

The point is that traffic that is on the network because of my request is my responsibility. I'm paying Comcast to shovel bits from Netflix to me. I'm paying Netflix to answer my requests. Netflix is doing their job. Why isn't Comcast?

Now, if Netflix hands off to Level3, they have to pay Level3 because I don't. But Comcast and I have an arrangement. If they really need more than I'm paying them to handle the traffic that I have caused, they should talk to me about it. Instead they try to get it from Netflix, which will eventually cause Netflix to increase what they're charging me. The net result is the same, but Comcast is hoping that I'll get mad at Netflix. And sadly many of their customers probably will.

By "compete to offer services" I think he meant that each of them gets to put their bits on the fiber (there's enough capacity) and the end user chooses whose bits they pay to decrypt.

Delta had these on my last trip. They added some humor so I was actually motivated to watch it, unlike the... literally 50 other trips I've taken in the past 8 years.

True, and definitely an important point. Building such a generator into a key manager doesn't seem like it should be too difficult, however. Building one as a web service seems even easier (except of course for paying for the hosting :)

Sure. Mine's substr(md5(date()), 5, 15).