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The Internet Is 'Built Wrong'
An anonymous reader writes "API Lead at Twitter, Alex Payne, writes today that the Internet was 'built wrong,' and continues to be accepted as an inferior system, due to a software engineering philosophy called Worse Is Better. 'We now know, for example, that IPv4 won't scale to the projected size of the future Internet. We know too that near-universal deployment of technologies with inadequate security and trust models, like SMTP, can mean millions if not billions lost to electronic crime, defensive measures, and reduced productivity,' says Payne, who calls for a 'content-centric approach to networking.' Payne doesn't mention, however, that his own system, Twitter, was built wrong and is consistently down."
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Secure information stolen
Have a nice day.
SHIT! This internet is not secure!
Go go Gadget Nailgun!
Hi mom. Also, goatse.
Oh wait, that was my report on the last software project I took over. EVERYTHING is built wrong, but don't worry, I'll do it perfectly this time.
and auto safety
by voting against John "I was a P.O.W." McCain.
Moreover, McInsane wants to redistribute your wealth to the military-industrial-Congressional complex.
Cordially,
Kilgore Trout
P.S.: Slashdot, please allow Cyrillic font. Thanks.
well the problem with snmp in particular, is that a lot of small devices use snmp, such as routers, switches, sensors, etc. And those don't tend to get a lot of upgrades that add stuff like pgp, so instead they have to be vlan'd off to some dark corner or just have snmp disabled entirely.
You miss the point. A good designer and a bad coder creates better output then a poor designer and a good coder.
The focus on Open Source really misses the point. Open Design and Open Specification are far more important then Open Source. With Open Source you get software and if the programmer quits you you will need to reread the code try to get in the mind of the coder to continue development, hense why a lot of good open source projects do die. Open Design and Open Specs means if the program stops we have the information to create a new code. For the bulk of the Small to Medium sized apps rewritting it to meet the specs is quicker then maintaining existing code. Open Source doesn't equate to Open Specifications. You can write you code to do what it does but without letting others know what you plan to acomplish what doors for future development you left open.
It is like making a chasy for a car without letting anyone know what the final car is sopposed to be. Open Spec gives the person how the car is made and what each part does. Then a builder can follow the spec and build the car to the origional concept.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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That's what the government is for, duh!
It wouldn't surprise me if big "accidents" happen with the internet in the next 4 years. Then corporations and the government (what's the difference now a days?) will come out with an idea similar to Internet 2.0 and cloud computing. It'll look a lot like cable TV subscriptions. You won't have control over your content and will lose most of your anonymity and 1st amendment rights.
The governments primary function is to prented to fail. Then it says, we need more money and power in order to fix our incompetence! Then the government gets more control and a few big corporations get a little bit more guarenteed profits. There, I just explained most of human history for you. Good day sir!
If you have something that you dont want anyone to know, maybe you shouldnt be doing it in the first place -Eric Schmidt