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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."

Blogger says sorry for wrong infomation

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA: Some of them got it wrong but only one sociopolitical blogger apologised to his readers for suggesting that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will defend his Umno president's post at the party's election in March.

Bank charges ruling 'was wrong'

The Court of Appeal has been told that a High Court judge was wrong in making a crucial ruling on bank overdraft charges.

Virginia High Court Wrong About IP Addresses

Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes "The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that the state's anti-spam law, which prohibits the sending of bulk e-mail using falsified or forged headers, violates the First Amendment because it also applies to non-commercial political or religious speech. I agree that an anti-spam law should not outlaw anonymous non-commercial speech. But the decision contains statements about IP addresses, domain names, and anonymity that are rather basically wrong, and which may enable the state to win on appeal. The two basic errors are: concluding that anonymous speech on the Internet requires forged headers or other falsified information (and therefore that a ban on forged headers is an unconstitutional ban on anonymous speech), and assuming that use of forged headers actually does conceal the IP addres

Political predictions: we all get proved wrong sometimes

It's a good week to be proved wrong. Most people expected the SNP to take Glenrothes. Nick Palmer, the Labour MP for Broxtowe said the day before: "I don't know any Labour MPs who are expecting us to win - the range of opinion is from "Well, we've given them a run for their money" to "Bloody byelections, what can you expect?"

Homing pigeon takes up wrong home in N.H.

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- A New Hampshire couple are trying to figure out what to do with a homing pigeon that came to the wrong home - theirs. From an identification band, Don and Fran Roy of Manchester have traced the bird - which they have named "Trouble" - to a Pennsylvania man who races pigeons.

Hospital group says doc operated on wrong knee

State health officials were investigating how a surgeon operated on the wrong knee of a patient Friday at the Miriam Hospital, part of a medical network that was reprimanded and fined $50,000 last year for three mistaken surgeries at another of its facilities.

Man who was sold the wrong phone on eBay is sued by seller after leaving 'negative feedback'

But when the phone arrived a few days later, he was disappointed to find it was the wrong model and appeared to be damaged.

Blog cafe : Economists got it wrong

Last night Mrs. Businomics and I were doing things we hardly ever do. I was admitting that I had been wrong. She was agreeing with me.

Blog cafe : Economists got it wrong

Last night Mrs. Businomics and I were doing things we hardly ever do. I was admitting that I had been wrong. She was agreeing with me.

RI hospital group says doc operated on wrong knee

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- State health officials were investigating how a surgeon operated on the wrong knee of a patient Friday at the Miriam Hospital, part of a medical network that was reprimanded and fined $50,000 last year for three mistaken surgeries at another of its facilities.

Astronomers looking for life in all the wrong places: study

OTTAWA (AFP) - Astronomers searching for solar systems capable of supporting life may be looking in the wrong places, according to a new study that suggests our sun is far from its origins in the galaxy.

Jenner queries White call-up

IF Beau Casson is wondering what he has done to upset the selectors in the four months since he made his Test debut in the West Indies, the answer is simply that he bowls with the wrong arm and turns the ball the wrong way.

The Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Is Something to Fear

Randall Stross at The New York Times goes to bat for the Google/Yahoo search marketing deal, saying there’s “nothing to fear� from the two companies linking their search products. I believe most of his analysis is wrong, and he also skips the publisher side of the market entirely. In short, I feel that he is exactly wrong in both his approach and his conclusions.

MotorStorm Mondays: The MotorStorm Festival, Demo Coming This Week

Since Day 1, I knew it wasn't going to be easy to put a soundtrack together that would have the right vibe for a festival of racing like MotorStorm. You see, Music is one of those things that no one is ever "wrong" about. Everyone has an opinion, and everyone knows best, but no one is ever wrong! After countless discussions with various people involved in creating the Festival Infrastructure around the MotorStorm racing events, my challenge was set: I needed to put together a lineup that not only fit with a racing game, but one which could feasibly be the Festival line up to end all Festival line ups. It had to be Anarchic, Aggressive and Raucous. That was the easy part. The tough part was making sure that the soundtrack became as much a signature of MotorStorm as the racing itself was.

Trader Joe's! You let me down AGAIN.

I don't really like most Trader Joe's products, but I was there the other day and thought I'd buy a few things.  I bought a box of Trader Joe's Buttermilk Bisuits.  Next to the freezer section there was a little sign that said that the instructions on the box were wrong (8 - 10 minutes at 400 was replaced by 14 minutes at 375).  That should have been my first clue that something was definitely wrong.

4 Easy Fun Useful Things You Can Do With Linux

"When you get a bunch of remote SSH sessions going it's easy to lose track of where you really are, because all you see are boring old generic prompts. Sure, they show the hostnames, but it's still easy to get confused. Which can be a bit amusing when you issue a reboot command to the wrong computer, or send a cranky broadcast message to all users on the wrong system. An easy way to keep track is to colorize and customize the Bash prompt on your remote systems, so you can easily differentiate them from your local login. You can assign different colors and text for different machines and accounts. For example, you can make the prompt turn green and display the text "THIS IS AN SSH SESSION"..."

Don't Sell Bad Shuttle Parts to NASA

It appears that NASA has been the victim of a fraud that could have caused the loss of a spacecraft and of its crew. A 60-year-old man named Richard Harmon, working at Cornerstone Machining Inc., close to Houston, Texas, was involved in the development of a complicated part for a NASA space shuttle, called a passive flight releasable attachment mechanism interface plate (FRAMIP). Unfortunately, something went wrong along the way. Very wrong.

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

Hugh Pickens writes "Researchers have found that the winner's curse may apply to the publication of scientific papers and that incorrect findings are more likely to end up in print than correct findings. Dr John Ioannidis bases his argument about incorrect research partly on a study of 49 papers on the effectiveness of medical interventions published in leading journals that had been cited by more than 1,000 other scientists, and his finding that, within only a few years, almost a third of the papers had been refuted by other studies. Ioannidis argues that scientific research is so difficult — the sample sizes must be big and the analysis rigorous — that most research may end up being wrong, and the 'hotter' the field, the greater the competition is, and the more likely that published research in top journals could be wrong.

Nothing wrong: Ponting defends tactics

Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting vigorously defended his controversial decisions in the final Test against India and declared confidently his side could bounce back and win all six home Tests this summer.

Nothing wrong with banter: Ponting

Gautam Gambhir (right) clashes with Australia's Simon Katich during the third Test in Delhi. (Getty Images: Michael Steele)

Britain: `Wrong` Colour house painting risks a fine

A woman who painted her idyllic cottage a subtle shade of blue has been ordered to repaint it bright yellow or face prosecution.

What's wrong with studying video games?

I don't know what's weirder, that a politically right-leaning biweekly like National Review would pick up on an LA Times three-parter about majoring in video games, or that they'd ultimately wind up defending the idea. Well, maybe not so weird when you consider their defense (after making a specious distinction -- more on that in a minute) stems from a pretty simple business calculus, a sort of primitive baseline concession that you can make a whole lotta scratch as a game designer these days.

What's Wrong with Studying Video Games?

Video game designers make up to $73,000 a year on average, but some folks see that figure as the only good reason to pursue a career in gaming.

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