Sometimes technical things are complicated, because people don't work or communicate in tidy ways. You could make similar complaints about many of the foundati

Sometimes technical things are complicated, because people don't work or communicate in tidy ways. You could make similar complaints about many of the foundations that make technology possible. Take for example a protocol that enabled you to read this message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol#/media/File:Tcp_state_diagram_fixed_new.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol#/...