Um ... time travel? :\

Linux From Scratch. If you really do want to learn the ins and outs, and you really don't mind spending all the time ever.

That seems a bit of a sad method ... selling it as a cable, anyway. It's deceptive.

As soon as there are alternatives ... (in my area, there are literally None)

Let's see ... as a non-moron, I use (during normal browsing) a Proxy, a VPN, NoScript and AdBlock+ plugins, and popups are utterly disabled ... I'm a Comcast customer, but I've never once seen my own Comcast email. Wouldn't this entire thing be utterly pointless and never noticed in my position?

Technology is Wonderful. I'm not saying weapons are good intrinsically - but neither are People.

Right now, bitcoin has a huge presence in the news and other outlets to the masses ... I think a lot of the reason for the current increase in value has much to do with the very same folks that destroy basically all monetary systems. We've got prospectors jumping ship from the dollar to the bitcoin, increasing the difference between the two artificially.