I'd love to know what you propose would do better and still scale to tens of thousands of page requests per second, and can deal with malicious network nodes and nodes dropping off the network without notice. You do realize that TCP is also doing sessions on top of a sessionless protocol, right? Is TCP poorly designed?

If the web was designed to be pixel-perfect, browsers would be as messy as Win32, trying to maintain backward compatibility with all sorts of different displays. Either that, or everything would be monochrome at low resolution.

Yeah, the name "JavaScript" was stupid. So what?

The only language I can think of that has arbitrary functions like RPC built-in is PHP. If you think PHP is the epitome of language design, then we have nothing more to discuss. Most good languages separate the language itself from the standard library.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

Sure, on the whole, it's not the best that we could do, but if you think nothing about it is well-designed, well, what would you propose? Flash?

The last thing anyone needs is Microsoft reinventing the web.

She has. You just disagree.

How do you know that? Is it possible in your worldview for your God to disagree with you?

"ought" != "is"

What? What makes you think that would work?

Plausibility FAIL.

• Protocol 2
• Set PermitRootLogin to "no" or "without-password"
• ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
• PasswordAuthentication no

And then just ignore the attempts. fail2ban can sometimes be ok, but be aware that it creates a denial-of-service vulnerability that is exploitable by attackers who can can spoof source addresses.

I'm pretty sure there's a corollary to Godwin's Law about comparing copyright infringement to physical violence.

Whenever people say that Microsoft products are easy to use, they are conveniently ignoring stuff like this.

And geeks wonder why normal people are intimidated by computers...

The damages might be more than you think: How many people paid more for lids due to a lack of competition?