I'm all for quantum computers. I think they will eventually become useful especially for biology yet their current and future capabilities like everything else are being way over hyped.
D-wave is not hundreds of billions of times faster neither does 1000 vs 2000 qubits marketing jargon mean anything substantive in and of itself.
To put this into perspective a real 2000 qubit quantum computer should be at least 10^300 times faster than a real 1000 qubit quantum computer. Not a measly billion or trillion or even a googol but a big honking 300 digit number times faster.
Quoting TFA:
"We should note that there are algorithms, such as techniques based on cluster finding, that can exploit the sparse qubit connectivity in the current generation of D-Wave processors and still solve our proof-of-principle problems faster than the current quantum hardware."
If your goal is a self-sufficient colony on mars and your serious about it your opening move will not involve sending people there initially because this would be a pointless waste of resources.
It isn't enough to just preposition supplies you need to develop and transport a highly automated industrial base using technology that does not yet exist to create the things people will need to survive.
The solution today is basic research and development not building space buses and telling riders they are probably going to die.
You can't just ignore reality and subscribe to new age planning doesn't matter we don't need to learn how to walk first nonsense because if you do that you will fail.
If your goal is self-sufficient colonizing of mars then starting by designing space buses to send (unskilled according to TFA) people to mars reflects a depressing lack of planning and vision.
Uh no. The internet is the network and the computers. It's an inter-net-work of computers. The shit that runs over it is likewise therefore also part of the internet. If the internet will happily carry shit traffic, then it's a shit internet.
I love it too, but let's not pretend that it's not grossly flawed.
No I'm talking about the architecture of the network itself and have made that quite clear. You can invent whatever definitions you want and ignore the clear context of parents remarks yet in doing so you are no longer communicating any useful information.
Asserting pipes are shit because you pumped them full of shit is itself worthless shit.
No, it needs a technical solution. Making ISP's liable for outbound traffic that doesn't originate from within their address range would deal with this.
The technical solution is cleaning up millions of owned systems.
The rest can then be tackled by holding the source to blame - if you have an device that's spamming, well it's up to you to shut it down or pay up.
This isn't 1996. Nobody runs botnets where individual hosts overtly "spam" and expect to keep their network intact.
The issue at present is that source IP spoofing is far too easy because the ISP's are routing traffic that can't legitimately be coming from inside their network.
There is no fucking reason for the internet to be this much of a clusterfuck.
There isn't much daylight between Internet we have today and the ideal version of it in my view. Shit that runs over it is an entirely different story.
Spoofed routing updates, IP spoofing, none of this should be possible by design.
If everyone got off their asses and implemented BCP 38 it would be more difficult yet I'm not so sure we would see a better outcome. Preventing reflection is helpful and having more confidence in source addresses important yet I find it hard to believe this is a solution to anything.
With a non retarded internet DDOS attacks could simply be blocked at the source by certified ISPs.
Problem isn't spoofed traffic it is desire and capability to flood others. If you own a botnet you don't need to spoof traffic to cause havoc.
Any ISP who abused that ability, or ISPs which repeatedly allowed spoofed traffic to originate from their network could simply be banned from the internet. Problem fucking solved.
We allowed countless millions of devices and PCs to become owned and now some of us get to pay the price for that. It isn't the Internet's fault we suck.
What I don't understand half people voting in this country are voting for Trump regardless of what you or I think. What gives with companies making political stands like this? How is this professional behavior? How does this help Insomniac win customers and grow their business?
Seems like an exceedingly childish and stupid way to lose customers in an extremely constrained market to begin with.
Insomniac Games condemns all forms of hate speech. While everyone has a right to express his or her political opinion, the behavior and sentiments reported do not reflect the values of our company
This statement is an oxymoron.
a political climate as fragile and horrifying as this one, we cannot tacitly endorse these actions by supporting Luckey or his platform.
"horrifying" and "fragile"... Good riddance douches. Your games are shit anyway.
Pretty much a zero sum equation as far as I see it. Trump uses the same speech tactics that Hitler did.
Calling Trump a Nazi is equally absurd. I don't like the guy, and I am not voting for him, but comparing him to Hitler is just silly, and you lose your credibility by making that comparison. You need to read a history book.
I love how "uses the same speech tactics that Hitler did" morphs into "Trump is a Nazi".
Many lessons to be learned from Nazi Germany. Many human deficiencies contributed to and enabled it. Hitler was one person... a whole fucking country went along with his insanity. What enabled that to happen is much bigger than one cause, event or person. Godwin isn't invoked enough.
The question is what would they get out of no longer tolerating the devil they know and would it be worth it? I lack the imagination necessary to see how the answer is anything but nothing and no... beyond nationalistic political bullshit.
A lot of other countries don't particularly like the idea of the US being in charge of this global resources, and they are already preparing their own root DNS servers.
More the merrier.
It's not that hard, mirror the current root node and then start forking. Maybe do a bit of censorship
They can censor whatever they want at their borders using an infinite number of methods all much more effective than operating a root server.
, maybe make sure nothing resolves to google.com without a giant cheque.
The second they do this is the second their root servers are permanently delisted from every other operators root list.
International governance doesn't make the problem go away, censorship already exists to a degree, but it makes it politically easier to keep everyone on the same network.
I despise what ICANN has become and prefer IANA free itself as quickly as possible. Personally fully on board with multi-stakeholder assuming details are sound and not likely to be captured by government and industry any worse than under ICANN's reign.
In my view what we should be afraid of is not so much censorship as it is irrational policy that leads to chaos: (Domain tasting, VeriSign wildcards, domain extortion rackets, copyright/trademark regimes) The TLDs and especially ccTLDs wield all the real power to the extent DNS conveys any at all.
Sarcasm aside, there is a lot of security-related motivation in attempts to lock down the BIOS, UEFI, etc. The problem is that much of this also has consequences, and we clearly can't rely on companies to simply keep our best interests at heart on their own - but that should come as a surprise to no one here.
In this case I don't believe there is any relationship either asserted or implied between taking affirmative action to deliberately disable AHCI and security.
People were still able to boot from live USB sticks and Lenovo spouted some incoherent PR nonsense "it's not our fault Linux doesn't support proprietary single disk RAID".. yet they didn't say anything about security as near as I can tell.
Good God.. I've been sayin it. I've been sayin it for ten damn years. Ain't I been sayin it? Miguel.. Yeah, I've been sayin it.
Who releases a computer that won't run AHCI? From accounts of people who have looked into the BIOS.. AHCI is there but *intentionally* restricted from being enabled by customers. The people who did this knew exactly what this meant when they did it and what consequences of doing it would be yet they went ahead with it anyway.
I gave up on Amazon after minimum purchases and refusal to sell star wars to non-prime members.
When companies start spending that much time and money on ways to maximize profits like this seems better to cut your losses and take your business elsewhere.
Bad enough the "search" function has always been worthless. No matter what you type into the search box even smashing the keys randomly brings up search results. I don't want to wade thru crap in the off chance intentionally not having a rational relevancy cutoff pays off for them. If you want to screw with me that's your right just don't expect me to do business with you.
And in 1986 an average american could get by just fine with nothing more than a high-school education. Give it another 10/15 years and those that don't get a higher education will be living in poverty.
Whether we like it or not. this thing we know as life has become a race. You get to choose if you want to race to the top or to the bottom. Those that sit idol are racing to the bottom even if they don't realize it.
Meanwhile the value of what one knows grows increasingly worthless with each passing year. Enjoy your sinking ship.
Also, having recess is almost optional in my mind. Chinese, Indian, Korean, Japanese and other countries' students spend way more time in school than our students do. Education is valued in those societies and they make sure they turn out well-educated students. Look at some of the university entrance exams from countries on this list and compare it to high school curriculum in the US. Compared to these countries, we're doing nothing near that level of work with students. Visiting faculty from other countries send their kids to private tutors to ensure they receive a level of education on par with their country's system so the kid won't be behind when they return home. I think the school day should be longer and the school year should be year-round. Only 2% of the population works in agriculture anymore, so there's no excuse for students to be out the whole summer anymore
This is just opinions without any merit based justification. I will dismiss it as such.
There have been a steady stream of articles asking questions along these lines trying to get people to reveal what they are working on. Don't do it. It will only be used against you.
If you have something with potential of being even mildly disruptive and your end goal isn't cashing out then for god sakes keep your mouth shut until your shit is ready.
We've already lost that fight in terms of a truly decentralized Internet. The various governments and large corporations already are fighting to stake out various levels of control. The companies that operate the core infrastructure also have an outsized level of control.
It has never been easier for peers to communicate amongst themselves and never easier for people to host whatever content they want from their own fat pipes. What a single broadband customer has today in bandwidth entire corporations and universities wished they had 20 years ago.
Except when you're in traffic with a bunch of fuckheads and your life is being threatened every few minutes (or seconds, as is more likely around say the Bay Area... or any big city in Texas, or lots of other places) driving is already well below that threshold for anyone who has any actual business driving. Hence the need for more automated driving features...
The idea that driving is too dangerous so machines should do it instead is a nice philosophical concept.
In the real world details matter, implementation quality matters, technological capabilities matter and philosophy is in fact worthless.
Technologies like AEB have a proven track record of significantly improving safety. Others such as LDW/LKS have yet to make the case or shown to be a liability in terms of safety in the aggregate.
The question at hand does feature 'x' provide a benefit or is it in fact a liability? This isn't about some future date where fully autonomous driving is an easy problem nor is it about advancing dreams and wishes. It is about the real world as it actually exists. There is currently NO statistically significant information available to suggest self driving mode of Tesla improve safety regardless of any PR nonsense spewed by Musk et al.
There is human factor research on complacency induced by automation mostly in the context of aircraft. What we know is the issue is real yet to the extent it hurts or helps with regards to Tesla requires real world detailed information and analysis not wishful thinking and philosophy.
Sour grapes from a former vendor. Mobileye would sell cameras to blind people if they could. Vendors are not leading any auto program in the industry... 2nd and 3rd tier vendors are even worse, and require constant attention, or they will deliver poor quality and unsafe products.
More likely they raised their prices and Tesla balked at the price and moved to another vendor.
It was actually space aliens because this seems like most likely reason to me.
There's additional bypass methods in the T-Mobile network. I won't discuss them here.
There's also a bypass method in the Verizon Wireless network, which can be used if you can get their paywall. It involves using a certain low-numbered TCP port, which will pass through the paywall to any server, without any modification, and without any data limit.
"IP literals?" Nope, most web sites use an IP address shared with others
What "most websites" do or don't do is irrelevant. IP addresses are cheap and easy for anyone with good or bad intentions to obtain especially in the future as IPv6 adoption increases. Criminal enterprises are not required to share their address space (e.g. throwaway virtual hosts and botnet victims) with others nor are they required to use DNS.
This could prove to be quite an amusing turn of events. App stores require isolation to protect users from seedy nature of majority of apps available for free or purchase from the store. Without isolation these platforms would fall apart.
Providing an avenue that allows apps to run as normal software would have provided for some very interesting headlines had anyone actually used Microsoft's store.. Since nobody cares it is a moot point yet still quite interesting Microsoft is crazy enough to even contemplate such madness.
I'm so tired of this crap. If you fuck with DNS people will just use IP literals or invent separate control channels to replace DNS.
Security strategies that "solve" a current problem while ignoring the fact your adversaries are thinking humans with a mind just like yours only lead to collateral damage while not solving the original problem.
There is still quite a lot of low hanging fruit still left to be plucked in terms of human factors and system design that would actually be effective beyond screwing with deck chairs of sinking vessels.
If governments really gave a shit they would pitch in resources to effect positive outcomes rather than their panopticon bullshit to monitor and control information flows. Of course they don't so they won't.
Opened the paper and kept reading and reading expecting at any moment for it to reveal what how it is supposed to work and finally just gave up. It was so loaded with this accomplishes x, y and z... while not being like a, b and c... that I gave up. In fact I did skim thru the rest but was unable to locate where that text was hidden if it exists at all.
Simple truth is there is as a political matter no possible workable QOS strategy across administrative domain on the scale of the Internet the same as there is no workable security strategy so I give up trying to decipher TFA.
What people CAN do is control egress from their OWN networks and intentionally drop incoming packets to manage ingress. Thanks to all of the snazzy congestion algorithms baked into TCP users have leverage to prioritize both outgoing and incoming flows by themselves. Consumer routers and popular third party firmware have had these features baked in for quite some time.
Where I strongly disagree with what little I have read is view CDNs are not a solution. ISPs used to run proxy servers that would accelerate ALL web traffic without special backroom deals back when cost of bandwidth was high enough to warrant but generally it sucked, often slowed things down and tended to cause a lot of breakage. My opinion with following minor tweaks this model can be made to work to the benefit of everyone. Operators, Users and Content.
1. Explicit browser configuration for upstream proxy servers where configuration is downloaded to provide browser managed load balancing/failover/sharding... This is opt in only. No transparent bullshit possible.
2. ALL content must have a current digital signature to keep ISPs honest.
3. Only content explicitly marked EXTERNALLY cacheable goes thru upstream cache everything else is bypassed.
4. Upstream has veto power to say FU go get it yourself to protect itself and keep content honest and ensure caches do not devolve into liabilities for ISPs. No I will not cache piecemeal 2k files, no I will not accept content with a lifetime of 30 seconds, nobody else is asking for this file so take a flying leap and get it yourself.
5. Cache only retrieves content when browser provides a current digitally signed proof of authorization by originating server. (No Legal traps/DMCA/redirect bullshit)
I don't know about the economics of massive ISPs my guess they may not be interested yet many midsized and small ISPs actually do invite CDNs into their networks just to save bandwidth operating on a purely mutually beneficial basis.
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I'm all for quantum computers. I think they will eventually become useful especially for biology yet their current and future capabilities like everything else are being way over hyped.
D-wave is not hundreds of billions of times faster neither does 1000 vs 2000 qubits marketing jargon mean anything substantive in and of itself.
To put this into perspective a real 2000 qubit quantum computer should be at least 10^300 times faster than a real 1000 qubit quantum computer. Not a measly billion or trillion or even a googol but a big honking 300 digit number times faster.
Quoting TFA:
"We should note that there are algorithms, such as techniques based on cluster finding, that can exploit the sparse qubit connectivity in the current generation of D-Wave processors and still solve our proof-of-principle problems faster than the current quantum hardware."
If your goal is a self-sufficient colony on mars and your serious about it your opening move will not involve sending people there initially because this would be a pointless waste of resources.
It isn't enough to just preposition supplies you need to develop and transport a highly automated industrial base using technology that does not yet exist to create the things people will need to survive.
The solution today is basic research and development not building space buses and telling riders they are probably going to die.
You can't just ignore reality and subscribe to new age planning doesn't matter we don't need to learn how to walk first nonsense because if you do that you will fail.
If your goal is self-sufficient colonizing of mars then starting by designing space buses to send (unskilled according to TFA) people to mars reflects a depressing lack of planning and vision.
Uh no. The internet is the network and the computers. It's an inter-net-work of computers. The shit that runs over it is likewise therefore also part of the internet. If the internet will happily carry shit traffic, then it's a shit internet.
I love it too, but let's not pretend that it's not grossly flawed.
No I'm talking about the architecture of the network itself and have made that quite clear. You can invent whatever definitions you want and ignore the clear context of parents remarks yet in doing so you are no longer communicating any useful information.
Asserting pipes are shit because you pumped them full of shit is itself worthless shit.
No, it needs a technical solution. Making ISP's liable for outbound traffic that doesn't originate from within their address range would deal with this.
The technical solution is cleaning up millions of owned systems.
The rest can then be tackled by holding the source to blame - if you have an device that's spamming, well it's up to you to shut it down or pay up.
This isn't 1996. Nobody runs botnets where individual hosts overtly "spam" and expect to keep their network intact.
The issue at present is that source IP spoofing is far too easy because the ISP's are routing traffic that can't legitimately be coming from inside their network.
This just happens to be the low hanging fruit.
There is no fucking reason for the internet to be this much of a clusterfuck.
There isn't much daylight between Internet we have today and the ideal version of it in my view. Shit that runs over it is an entirely different story.
Spoofed routing updates, IP spoofing, none of this should be possible by design.
If everyone got off their asses and implemented BCP 38 it would be more difficult yet I'm not so sure we would see a better outcome. Preventing reflection is helpful and having more confidence in source addresses important yet I find it hard to believe this is a solution to anything.
With a non retarded internet DDOS attacks could simply be blocked at the source by certified ISPs.
Problem isn't spoofed traffic it is desire and capability to flood others. If you own a botnet you don't need to spoof traffic to cause havoc.
Any ISP who abused that ability, or ISPs which repeatedly allowed spoofed traffic to originate from their network could simply be banned from the internet. Problem fucking solved.
We allowed countless millions of devices and PCs to become owned and now some of us get to pay the price for that. It isn't the Internet's fault we suck.
What I don't understand half people voting in this country are voting for Trump regardless of what you or I think. What gives with companies making political stands like this? How is this professional behavior? How does this help Insomniac win customers and grow their business?
Seems like an exceedingly childish and stupid way to lose customers in an extremely constrained market to begin with.
Insomniac Games condemns all forms of hate speech. While everyone has a right to express his or her political opinion, the behavior and sentiments reported do not reflect the values of our company
This statement is an oxymoron.
a political climate as fragile and horrifying as this one, we cannot tacitly endorse these actions by supporting Luckey or his platform.
"horrifying" and "fragile" ... Good riddance douches. Your games are shit anyway.
Pretty much a zero sum equation as far as I see it. Trump uses the same speech tactics that Hitler did.
Calling Trump a Nazi is equally absurd. I don't like the guy, and I am not voting for him, but comparing him to Hitler is just silly, and you lose your credibility by making that comparison. You need to read a history book.
I love how "uses the same speech tactics that Hitler did" morphs into "Trump is a Nazi".
Many lessons to be learned from Nazi Germany. Many human deficiencies contributed to and enabled it. Hitler was one person... a whole fucking country went along with his insanity. What enabled that to happen is much bigger than one cause, event or person. Godwin isn't invoked enough.
You're assuming the US has a choice.
The question is what would they get out of no longer tolerating the devil they know and would it be worth it? I lack the imagination necessary to see how the answer is anything but nothing and no... beyond nationalistic political bullshit.
A lot of other countries don't particularly like the idea of the US being in charge of this global resources, and they are already preparing their own root DNS servers.
More the merrier.
It's not that hard, mirror the current root node and then start forking. Maybe do
a bit of censorship
They can censor whatever they want at their borders using an infinite number of methods all much more effective than operating a root server.
, maybe make sure nothing resolves to google.com without a giant cheque.
The second they do this is the second their root servers are permanently delisted from every other operators root list.
International governance doesn't make the problem go away, censorship already exists to a degree, but it makes it politically easier to keep everyone on the same network.
I despise what ICANN has become and prefer IANA free itself as quickly as possible. Personally fully on board with multi-stakeholder assuming details are sound and not likely to be captured by government and industry any worse than under ICANN's reign.
In my view what we should be afraid of is not so much censorship as it is irrational policy that leads to chaos: (Domain tasting, VeriSign wildcards, domain extortion rackets, copyright/trademark regimes) The TLDs and especially ccTLDs wield all the real power to the extent DNS conveys any at all.
Sarcasm aside, there is a lot of security-related motivation in attempts to lock down the BIOS, UEFI, etc. The problem is that much of this also has consequences, and we clearly can't rely on companies to simply keep our best interests at heart on their own - but that should come as a surprise to no one here.
In this case I don't believe there is any relationship either asserted or implied between taking affirmative action to deliberately disable AHCI and security.
People were still able to boot from live USB sticks and Lenovo spouted some incoherent PR nonsense "it's not our fault Linux doesn't support proprietary single disk RAID" .. yet they didn't say anything about security as near as I can tell.
Good God.. I've been sayin it. I've been sayin it for ten damn years. Ain't I been sayin it? Miguel.. Yeah, I've been sayin it.
Who releases a computer that won't run AHCI? From accounts of people who have looked into the BIOS .. AHCI is there but *intentionally* restricted from being enabled by customers. The people who did this knew exactly what this meant when they did it and what consequences of doing it would be yet they went ahead with it anyway.
"Machine learning" is apparently the new nanotech.
I gave up on Amazon after minimum purchases and refusal to sell star wars to non-prime members.
When companies start spending that much time and money on ways to maximize profits like this seems better to cut your losses and take your business elsewhere.
Bad enough the "search" function has always been worthless. No matter what you type into the search box even smashing the keys randomly brings up search results. I don't want to wade thru crap in the off chance intentionally not having a rational relevancy cutoff pays off for them. If you want to screw with me that's your right just don't expect me to do business with you.
And in 1986 an average american could get by just fine with nothing more than a high-school education. Give it another 10/15 years and those that don't get a higher education will be living in poverty.
Whether we like it or not. this thing we know as life has become a race. You get to choose if you want to race to the top or to the bottom. Those that sit idol are racing to the bottom even if they don't realize it.
Meanwhile the value of what one knows grows increasingly worthless with each passing year. Enjoy your sinking ship.
Also, having recess is almost optional in my mind. Chinese, Indian, Korean, Japanese and other countries' students spend way more time in school than our students do. Education is valued in those societies and they make sure
they turn out well-educated students. Look at some of the university entrance exams from countries on this list and compare it to high school curriculum in the US. Compared to these countries, we're doing nothing near that level of work with students. Visiting faculty from other countries send their kids to
private tutors to ensure they receive a level of education on par with their country's system so the kid won't be behind when they return home. I think the school day should be longer and the school year should be year-round. Only 2% of the population works in agriculture anymore, so there's no excuse for students to be out the whole summer anymore
This is just opinions without any merit based justification. I will dismiss it as such.
There have been a steady stream of articles asking questions along these lines trying to get people to reveal what they are working on. Don't do it. It will only be used against you.
If you have something with potential of being even mildly disruptive and your end goal isn't cashing out then for god sakes keep your mouth shut until your shit is ready.
We've already lost that fight in terms of a truly decentralized Internet. The various governments and large corporations already are fighting to stake out various levels of control. The companies that operate the core infrastructure also have an outsized level of control.
It has never been easier for peers to communicate amongst themselves and never easier for people to host whatever content they want from their own fat pipes. What a single broadband customer has today in bandwidth entire corporations and universities wished they had 20 years ago.
Except when you're in traffic with a bunch of fuckheads and your life is being threatened every few minutes (or seconds, as is more likely around say the Bay Area... or any big city in Texas, or lots of other places) driving is already well below that threshold for anyone who has any actual business driving. Hence the need for more automated driving features...
The idea that driving is too dangerous so machines should do it instead is a nice philosophical concept.
In the real world details matter, implementation quality matters, technological capabilities matter and philosophy is in fact worthless.
Technologies like AEB have a proven track record of significantly improving safety. Others such as LDW/LKS have yet to make the case or shown to be a liability in terms of safety in the aggregate.
The question at hand does feature 'x' provide a benefit or is it in fact a liability? This isn't about some future date where fully autonomous driving is an easy problem nor is it about advancing dreams and wishes. It is about the real world as it actually exists. There is currently NO statistically significant information available to suggest self driving mode of Tesla improve safety regardless of any PR nonsense spewed by Musk et al.
There is human factor research on complacency induced by automation mostly in the context of aircraft. What we know is the issue is real yet to the extent it hurts or helps with regards to Tesla requires real world detailed information and analysis not wishful thinking and philosophy.
Sour grapes from a former vendor. Mobileye would sell cameras to blind people if they could. Vendors are not leading any auto program in the industry... 2nd and 3rd tier vendors are even worse, and require constant attention, or they will deliver poor quality and unsafe products.
More likely they raised their prices and Tesla balked at the price and moved to another vendor.
It was actually space aliens because this seems like most likely reason to me.
There's additional bypass methods in the T-Mobile network. I won't discuss them here.
There's also a bypass method in the Verizon Wireless network, which can be used if you can get their paywall. It involves using a certain low-numbered TCP port, which will pass through the paywall to any server, without any modification, and without any data limit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"IP literals?" Nope, most web sites use an IP address shared with others
What "most websites" do or don't do is irrelevant. IP addresses are cheap and easy for anyone with good or bad intentions to obtain especially in the future as IPv6 adoption increases. Criminal enterprises are not required to share their address space (e.g. throwaway virtual hosts and botnet victims) with others nor are they required to use DNS.
This could prove to be quite an amusing turn of events. App stores require isolation to protect users from seedy nature of majority of apps available for free or purchase from the store. Without isolation these platforms would fall apart.
Providing an avenue that allows apps to run as normal software would have provided for some very interesting headlines had anyone actually used Microsoft's store.. Since nobody cares it is a moot point yet still quite interesting Microsoft is crazy enough to even contemplate such madness.
I'm so tired of this crap. If you fuck with DNS people will just use IP literals or invent separate control channels to replace DNS.
Security strategies that "solve" a current problem while ignoring the fact your adversaries are thinking humans with a mind just like yours only lead to collateral damage while not solving the original problem.
There is still quite a lot of low hanging fruit still left to be plucked in terms of human factors and system design that would actually be effective beyond screwing with deck chairs of sinking vessels.
If governments really gave a shit they would pitch in resources to effect positive outcomes rather than their panopticon bullshit to monitor and control information flows. Of course they don't so they won't.
Opened the paper and kept reading and reading expecting at any moment for it to reveal what how it is supposed to work and finally just gave up. It was so loaded with this accomplishes x, y and z... while not being like a, b and c... that I gave up. In fact I did skim thru the rest but was unable to locate where that text was hidden if it exists at all.
Simple truth is there is as a political matter no possible workable QOS strategy across administrative domain on the scale of the Internet the same as there is no workable security strategy so I give up trying to decipher TFA.
What people CAN do is control egress from their OWN networks and intentionally drop incoming packets to manage ingress. Thanks to all of the snazzy congestion algorithms baked into TCP users have leverage to prioritize both outgoing and incoming flows by themselves. Consumer routers and popular third party firmware have had these features baked in for quite some time.
Where I strongly disagree with what little I have read is view CDNs are not a solution. ISPs used to run proxy servers that would accelerate ALL web traffic without special backroom deals back when cost of bandwidth was high enough to warrant but generally it sucked, often slowed things down and tended to cause a lot of breakage. My opinion with following minor tweaks this model can be made to work to the benefit of everyone. Operators, Users and Content.
1. Explicit browser configuration for upstream proxy servers where configuration is downloaded to provide browser managed load balancing/failover/sharding... This is opt in only. No transparent bullshit possible.
2. ALL content must have a current digital signature to keep ISPs honest.
3. Only content explicitly marked EXTERNALLY cacheable goes thru upstream cache everything else is bypassed.
4. Upstream has veto power to say FU go get it yourself to protect itself and keep content honest and ensure caches do not devolve into liabilities for ISPs. No I will not cache piecemeal 2k files, no I will not accept content with a lifetime of 30 seconds, nobody else is asking for this file so take a flying leap and get it yourself.
5. Cache only retrieves content when browser provides a current digitally signed proof of authorization by originating server. (No Legal traps/DMCA/redirect bullshit)
I don't know about the economics of massive ISPs my guess they may not be interested yet many midsized and small ISPs actually do invite CDNs into their networks just to save bandwidth operating on a purely mutually beneficial basis.
MIC itself is a tribe of disproportionately intolerant young people who explicitly view attention whoring as a legitimate pathway to success.