[PRL] Layers of indirection

[Mitchell Wand]

As everybody knows, every problem in computer science can be solved by
adding another layer of indirection... except for the problem of too many
layers of indirection.

And every layer of indirection is a join point.  Case in point:

http://mike.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/27/633799-hacking-john-mccain

If you visit John McCain's MySpace page
<http://www.myspace.com/johnmccain>(as of 9am PST Tuesday morning),
you will notice an interesting announcement
> from him. He's apparently reversed his position on gay marriage as well as
> revealed a bias towards attractive lesbians.
>
> Why would a presidential candidate make such an important announcement on
> his MySpace page?
>
> The answer? He wouldn't.
>
> *But I would.*
>
> You see, John McCain's people commandeered my world-renowned MySpace
> design template<http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2006/04/hacking-myspace-layouts>and did a few things wrong:
>
>    1. They did not credit me for the template, even though the template
>    explicitly requested credit.
>    2. They used my own unmodified imagery, specifically for the
>    "Contacting John McCain" table.
>    3. As if #2 wasn't bad enough, the McCain crew is actually *pulling
>    their image directly from my server* on each page load. So every
>    time someone visits the McCain MySpace page, my bandwidth is being used to
>    deliver part of the page! Bad McCain!
>
>  So...
>
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