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Umm... ok. I thought it was because the king
claimed that only he via his tower had the
right to be God's intercessor... or the possible
real case: crooked contractors cut the
hay and the drying time of the mud bricks but
found the "Act of God" a good defense under
Babylonian justice. The Titanic was constructed
of faulty steel and the designer overreacted when
he counted the number of flooding compartments.
As it turns out, while she still would have gone
down, the leaks were pluggable. The British
inquiry blamed everyone but the responsible parties
but to be fair, they used the testimony of experts
and it is only in the last decade that better
technology revealed the facts. It's ok to wait
for the next generation of technology as long
as you aren't betting the farm on the current one.
The problem of the web is that we have to make
these bets at scales such that a massive failure
would be rather Titanic like. If indeed it
turns out that REST is inherently insecure,
there aren't enough lifeboats. ;-)
len
From: Strolia-Davis Christopher Contr MSG/MAT
Claude L Bullard wrote:
>As I recall and that was when I was younger, it was
>the tower and the king that were smoten, but the
>people were scattered babbling. So when XML comes
>to full dominance, we can likely expect the Internet
>to crash once and for all.
Actually, they were only smote down because they
tried to compare the tower to God.
You'll notice that a similar thing happened with
the Titanic when they dubbed it the "unsinkable" ship.
I think if everyone keeps an open mind about all this
and does not consider XML or any other technology to
be the end-all, be-all of existence, the technologies
will probably be relatively safe from divine retribution.
:)
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