The only reason that they charge more right now is... because with only one provider in most areas, there is no competition and they can charge what ever the hell they like, because what are you going to do, not have internet access?

For privacy.

If I have sufficiently many users, it becomes quite possible (with reasonably simple-to-set-up systems) to make it virtually impossible to reconstruct any user's complete clickstream.

With each machine broadcasting a publicly accessible IP address that includes the full MAC address, it becomes trivial to permanently track the full clickstream of every user on my network -- and even to track that user's clickstream between all of the networks that they ever participate in, since the (publicly-broadcast) MAC will still be quasi-unique.

Clearly because then you would be destroying the perfect beauty of his internet.

What, by leaving the one and only ISP in the area?

Yeah, that'll work.

So wait, standard policy will be for all devices to be publicly accessible from the internet, with its *device-unique* IP Address exposing the HW (MAC) address of the device, with no ability to shield machines from publicly broadcasting their existence so that it becomes trivial to isolate each individual device's traffic, no ability to block this behavior, no ability to segment the network or have any devices that aren't publicly accessible.

This is better, how?

which means the very carefully hidden patents that mean you will be sued into oblivion as soon as everyone finished their roll-out still have 10 years left.

Fine. I take my $3 app (my cut: $2), and list it as "MSRP: $9.95". Amazon sells it for $3. I get $2.

All this does is encourage unreasonably high MSRP values. Maybe that's what amazon wants... that way they can list everything at 60-70% "discount" off of a fictional MSRP all the time.

Is there a reason you can't put a router with NAT behind the mifi?

Just what we need. Everybody deliberately voting for the biggest idiot on the other side instead of the best candidate on their side. That will definitely lead to a new era of intelligence in government policy.

Or you just make everybody so afraid of the terrists that they won't leave their homes^H^H^H^H^Hbunkers. Then there won't be anybody to drive the trucks.