Posted by on under engineering philosophy, inferior system, trust models, defensive measures, future internet, centric approach, millis, twitter, ipv4, software engineering, productivity, alex, networking | 
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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Posted by on under james gleick, settlement deal, authors guild, millis, licensing system, google, snippets, lawsuits, copyrights |
James Gleick writes "Authors, publishers, and Google are announcing a huge settlement deal today in their lawsuits over the scanning of millions of copyrighted books in library collections. Google has agreed to a huge payout for books that were scanned without permission, but now they'll be allowed to scan the books legitimately. Most important, they'll be able to put millions of books online, including those still in copyright — not just for searching and not just in snippets. There is a groundbreaking new licensing system meant to make the books as widely available as possible while protecting the authors' copyrights and enabling them to share in the revenue. Some will differ, but personally I think this is a wonderful outcome, for readers and for authors alike."
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Posted by on under james gleick, settlement deal, authors guild, millis, licensing system, google, snippets, lawsuits, copyrights |
James Gleick writes "Authors, publishers, and Google are announcing a huge settlement deal today in their lawsuits over the scanning of millions of copyrighted books in library collections. Google has agreed to a huge payout for books that were scanned without permission, but now they'll be allowed to scan the books legitimately. Most important, they'll be able to put millions of books online, including those still in copyright — not just for searching and not just in snippets. There is a groundbreaking new licensing system meant to make the books as widely available as possible while protecting the authors' copyrights and enabling them to share in the revenue. Some will differ, but personally I think this is a wonderful outcome, for readers and for authors alike."
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Posted by jason@kottke.org on under millis |
It's time again for The Year in Reading, the annual feature from The Millions that asks a few trusted readers to share what they were into this year, bookwise.
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Posted by on under aim names, aim account, message groups, line tool, pidgin, sending messages, ims, instant message, instant messaging, protocol |
AOL has rolled out an online tool for sending messages to multiple AOL Instant Messaging (AIM) names at once. Even if you're rocking your AIM account through Digsby, Pidgin, or another multi-protocol...
Tagi: aim names, aim account, message groups, line tool, pidgin, sending messages, ims, instant message, instant messaging, protocol
