If only there was some solution which involved, oh, I don't know, shaping the traffic to each subscriber based on a refilling bucket of tokens or something. Maybe they could pay for it by not having to pay for extra complexity in the billing and customer complaint system.

What is good for ISPs in an environment which lacks competition has nothing to do with what is good for the customers.

The ISP's solution is *designed* to increase revenue with fines created because the ISP does not provide real time usage information to the customer and the customer is subject to unsolicited traffic (incoming UDP among others) anyway. You know how telephone companies charge customers for unsolicited calls and text messages? It is the same thing.

And the reason you cannot do this with radio is that the noise from the transmitter is greater than the received signal.

Yes, using the internet is like eating Oreos except for that part about paying ahead of time for a specific number of Oreos, eating one more so I now have negative Oreos, and getting fined for it. At least with Oreos, I can unambiguously count the number of Oreos I have left.

Tell me again why pay as you go internet does not end when I run out of bytes that I paid for?

Sure NAT is still possible although I would not put it beyond them to eventually try getting people charged with violations of the CFAA or some other law for using it without permission.

And why wouldn't they want to break the internet? We are after all talking about companies like AT&T who once told me that they were blocking IPv6 tunneling because otherwise customers could get free static IPv6 IPs without paying for them.

It is not fascism when they do it.

And the manufacturers will start sending false data to competitors.

They were made really awkward by the conspiracy to prevent usage.

Better to kill AH now to prevent people from thinking they have a right to any unapproved and secure cryptography. Plus there is the whole wanting to inject false traffic issue.

No worries, ISPs will soon figure out how to issue single IPv6 addresses or at least block all but one unless you pay for the feature of having a complete allocation.

Oh good. So only 1% of the time will I be injured or worse. And only in 1% of of the time when people are detained or arrested will they be injured or worse. That percentage is completely unacceptable.

The guards in the Standford Prison Experiment were reasonable human beings. This problem has nothing to do with the character of the officers. They are *trained* to act like thugs, to steal property, to evade the law, and extenuate circumstances to justify their own actions. The difference between law enforcement and common criminals is law enforcement expects your sanction of their actions. Common criminals are more honest.

The only recourse is to *always* exercise your 4th, 5th, and 6th amendment rights during *every* interaction with law enforcement with absolutely no exceptions. Of course doing this will get you injured or worse as well.

So you mean let your lawyer handle burying you in your grave?

Ya, I can see the CFAA being used against a user who bypassing the company's root kit.

I am not.

The sensitivity of DRAM actually leveled off a few generations ago. I think what happened is that there is a minimum capacitance needed per DRAM cell so as the cells became smaller and the dielectric constant was increased to make up for it, the charge stored in a given volume became *greater* so an ionizing radiation impact spreading charge over a greater number of DRAM capacitors without enough charge to affect them individually.

High performance SRAM used for integrated caches became more vulnerable and has been protected by parity and ECC for a long time now.

I am not sure about high performance logic.

The SRAM structures used for integrated high performance processor cache are orders of magnitude more sensitive than discrete DRAM to radiation induced soft errors. Some of this is simply because the bandwidth is so high which exposes a greater capture area of logic. And so high performance processor cache has included parity and ECC protection for a long time.