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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Re:Time to make The Internet 2.0

[Orion Blastar]

Mussolinis's Italy is like an Internet where the Internet Trolls hide the comments of people they don't like instead of just for the content of the post.

On Slashdot it is like Mussolini where people abuse their mod powers to mod down a comment they don't like or don't agree with, instead of for the content.

I get modded down by people who don't like me because I am mentally ill so they do personal attacks on me and Slashdot management doesn't do anything about it even if it violates the Slashdot TOS.

All I am saying is enforce the TOS of the ISPs and Web sites so people like me aren't harassed and called a schizo f*ggit and tell me to do a shotgun mouthwash and kill myself. It is called responsibility, you ought to try it some time. Only Internet Mussolinis I see are users like you who don't take responsibility for their actions and behaviors.

Why should a tinpot dictator like you tell me that you don't want to be responsible and want to be evil and immoral and go criminal and tell me to go f*ck myself? It is you who are one of many tinpot dictators who try to control the Internet, and you need to start becoming responsible for your own actions and behaviors.

The UN or some other governoring body that we elect to enforce the TOS terms of service of web sites and ISPs will be the democratically elected group that polices the Internet and keeps the tinpot dictators in check.