Granted, off by one. Too bad they charge $75-100.

Funny then how at the first hint of Google moving in, my ISP managed to triple the cap without upgrading the last mile or raising the price. Either the laws of physics changed or...

Given what we know now, the lard was a good choice. If anything there is a problem, it's the sugar.

But since they have 100 people sharing that 100Mbps line, they should be charging $1,200/100 = $1.20.

Note that a T is going to include better than fine nines uptime in the SLA. A careful reading of the TOS in residential cable internet shows no uptime guarantees.

I'm sorry sir, we have no record of a payment on your electric bill for last month. Either pay up now or we are going to shut you off....

What, you paid using BitCoin? Can you prove that sir? I didn't think so.. (click)

I'm not speaking of the right answer, I'm speaking of what teachers and councilors are saying to the students (many of the parents as well).

Perhaps they SHOULD be talking to graduating high schoolers about the substantial risks of student loans and the benefits of avoiding them even if it means taking an extra year or two, but they're not.

There honestly isn't. Especially if they use the system's TCP library. I say that as someone who has implemented a few network stacks.

Stupid or inexperienced?

Even back when I was about to graduate high school, the message was clear that the next step is definitely to get into a school (any school) and you will be needing a student loan or three. That was a strong message from pretty much any and every "adult influence" in your life. And that was before helicopter parenting and other think of the children measures had removed many of the opportunities a teen might have to operate semi-independently where they would gain some experience that might help them see through the scam.

Even a session wouldn't help. Many communications over the net are machine to machine. Also there's the whole solve the CAPTCHA by mechanical Turk (paid for with copied porn).

I wouldn't be surprised if within a year of setting up such a scheme, CAPTCHAs for certain websites would develop a very high failure rate.

How would a search engine spider the web?

Sorry, there's really no difference. An attacker can easily appear to be the browser of their choice.

Going to CAPTCHAs that would actually work would be as bad as shutting the routers off and going home. Are you really willing to solve a captcha every time a daemon on your system wants to do a DNS lookup of check in with a time server? Besides, they can actually be solved by putting up a porn site (solve the captcha, see the next image).

Actually, the anti-vaxxer movement was started by underhanded profit motives. Andrew Wakefield was paid to sow doubt about the MMR vaccine, so that a competitor vaccine could be sold to the British government while the investigation into Wakefield's allegations was conducted.