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entangled quantum pairs?
You can't send information with quantum entanglement. This is one of the no-go theorems of quantum information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem >
I think solving the "last mile" problem in the US is our greatest problem, especially in rural areas. Too many state and local governments have been paid off by lobbyists to pass laws to block any competition from offering cheaper and better options. Too many people are stuck with slow, expensive, and unreliable cable and/or DSL ISPs. Some have no choice whatsoever. Some others get to choose only from two equally awf…
What I don't quite understand is how these rural areas got electricity. If it's so expensive to run something to a rural area, who ate the cost of providing grid access? Or is cable/fiber just significantly more expensive per mile compared to electricity?
Those companies were not created to solve those problems, but to profit by them. Do you think that, say, Cloudflare would like a better web protocol which would be impossible to DDoS?
If such a thing was possible we'd be the first to roll it out. DDoS is a scourge which is why we made DDoS mitigation unmetered on all plans including free: https://blog.cloudflare.com/unmetered-mitigation/
Cloudflare has absolutely no reason to invest in solving DDoS because the existence of them is one of your best sales leads. DDoSes are cancer and you run a cancer treatment center. Gotta make sure you can treat cancer well but you wouldn’t want people to avoid it in the first place.
How do you detect and block coordinated troll farm attacks when they use arrays of LTE modems and look like a a bunch of passionate users?
That should be relatively easy for the mobile carrier, they're always in the same spot.
Three things spring to mind: 1. IPv4 will persist, possibly forever. There's really no compelling reason to migrate to IPv6 other than address space and we've had decades at this point of getting around this problem with various flavours of NAT. 2. Ossification. We've taken the quite reasonable step of discarding any packets or traffic we don't understand from a POV of minimizing threats. For example, there were case…
A message in Netflix/Google/Facebook home telling “we see your network is blocking X, that may result in a not optimal experience”
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entangled quantum pairs?
You can't send information with quantum entanglement. This is one of the no-go theorems of quantum information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem >
This is like saying you can’t send information with electricity. You couldn’t at first (FYI), but then someone invented Morse code and the absence and non-absence of electricity made all the difference in the world.
Inter-planetary internet... How do you play a game when few of the players are on Mars?
How do you even reconcile time between locations that far apart? Syncing your system clock with an off-planet NTP server will be.. problematic.
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So cloudflare?
Please prove you are human. Not what we really want from the internet, but thanks to these companies it's what we have to endure. As a consequence nothing is automation friendly, stupid netblocks are in place on many sites and an array of VPNs are an almost a requirement now just to obtain information.
That blog post was released on April 1, but it isn't a joke (Cloudflare announces things that seem crazy but are real on April 1 instead of doing a joke)
Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at Cloudflare, but not on a team related to this.
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> Routers work because ISPs require them. ISPs however aren’t fond of supporting the home server use case. This is the obvious and simplest solution. A built-in self-hosting platform right in the router, extensible with an external USB drive if the user needs it. But ISP's are notoriously terrible at everything and certainly can't be trusted with something like this.
Why not ? Free (for instance) went pretty far in this direction 11 years ago (v6) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebox