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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[ShieldW0lf]

Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep meet to decide who is for dinner. Liberty is when the sheep has a gun.

Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep meet to decide how to co-operate on the food supply as free wolves and sheep. Tyranny is when the sheep has a gun, controls the food supply utterly, creates a legal structure that doesn't allow the wolves to go anywhere near it, and offers to allow the wolves to have some food if they find some way to make themselves useful, and he'll let them know when and if he thinks that they are.