These cyber-attacks are an act of war (or at least they would be if another country used similar tactics against the US).

Waging warfare is supposed to take an act of congress.

I think the market would be the proper way to deal with this if IP addresses had been allocated by the market in the first place. As it was, they were pretty much lent out for nothing or next to nothing.

Now, taxing IP addresses at a nominal rate might prevent hoarding and encourage those with extra addresses to return them.

If companies can sell IP addresses, they have value. If it has value it's an asset. If it's an asset, it can be taxed.

Sure we should all move to IPv6, but does anyone else think that hoarding a scarce resource just makes it scarcer?

Some of the early players were granted large swaths of IP space and they should return them if they are no longer needed.

Once again, a few greedy players screw things up for everybody else.

This sounds like it could be correlated to other lifestyle choices. e.g., People who have a routine or work in an office and drink coffee are safer than other occupations.

It's really hard to control for all of the other possible factors.

With a Sola ferroresonant transformer.

Put all of the small drives in a JBOD array and use the 3TB as an internal backup because RAID is not a backup solution.

Use FreeNAS or OpenFiler.

Drobo performance sucks (with more than one concurrent user).

Low-end core i3 processor and lots of RAM because RAM is cheap these days.

Sure, all services are "oversold". A classic example is that it would cause havoc if everyone on a city sewer system flushed at the same time.

But advertising "unlimited" plans and overselling is a business model that the provider decided to use. They are none-the-less obligated to provided sufficient bandwidth for who-ever happens to be using the system at any given time. They just can't oversell as much as they would perhaps like to.

Not exactly a placebo (totally inert) but you could test it against the many other psychotropic drugs.

I remember having to recompile SCO to add a COMM port.

First, how about giving email the same level of privacy as postal email?

The problem with these rules are that bad actors don't have to follow them. We need things like actual end-to-end encryption so companies and malicious individuals can't snoop. (see Code is Law, Lawrence Lessig).