The internet is used today for a myriad of tasks and everyday human life has exponentially grown to the point where syncs like I hope and pray for an event that cuts the worlds population so in theory the rest of the people here have more resources and can thrive and their kids and their kids kids can kill it. In a good way. The way our data can be stored and sifted through for corporate gain and the one percent. In 1994 when congress legalized commerce to be traded online for corporate gain what was once a free and natural entity became a money cycling enterprise that ultimately burst and the year 2000.
The internet is a controlled space by that I mean the characters on the keyboard always stay the same so what is entered into the internet is always from the same set of keys and anyone from any computer can type code and it has essentially leveled the playing field for everyone with access to the internet. Since every key stroke is captured and saved the log of the computer is concrete but the users intent cant be determined but what they searched for in a internet search engine. If a user typed in how long does it take to drown and someone close to them drowned after the link is made and it is possible that malicious intent was acted on or perhaps the her was watching a movie where a character drowned and it happened rather quickly and the user was curious if that was plausible. Sounds like court room jargon where facts are debated and ultimately a persons future freedom or incarceration is at stake. digital forensics is a needed and computer keys and logs are conducive towards analyzing and grouping the internet into like interest. Advertising based on what a person searches for seems logical and is an excepted business model that can't be denied. This is invasive without a doubt but doesn't that user give up that right by using the technology. if the user ultimately objected to every key stroke documented and possibly analyzed wouldn't the user not us technology.
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Monday, June 6, 2016
In 2009 elections in Iran were disputed and protestors took to the streets. One was a woman named Neda, Neda in arabic means "the calling" a single shot to her chest took her life and a bystander with a cell phone captured her last moments. Speculation and anger over who ordered that shot and why was this action perpetrated by those in power. It sounds like a hollywood movie and sadly her story will probably be exploited buy the one percent for the masses entertainment and to increase their wealth. I was glued to aljazeera live stream of the protest around tahrir square when the people other through Hosni Mubarak. I am still sad that the live stream is no longer available in this area. My cynical nature likes to speculate that it the government censoring us but my economic nature takes over and its more likely they no longer wanted to be a free stream and wanted viewers to pay to watch. Press tv is a live stream i find interesting at times. It is ran by a news agency in Iran and their coverage of events in the middle east is often similar and quite different from the CNN/Fox news reports.
I thinks its safe to say that one the most watched news are sports related. ESPN airs show sport center that caters to the twenty four hour seven days a week public craze for new informations with regards to their cherished teams and players. The super bowl and world cup are two of the highest rated events of the year. The oscars, golden globes, state of the union are all events that capture the public eye but I would bet the Kentucky Derby had a higher T.V. rating. The internet and social media has provided the public a new way to share and experience news.
Recently I have paid more attention to the news that is being reported and the news that doesn't get reported. Over memorial day weekend there was almost one hundred shooting incidents in Chicago. The people who live there have asked for the national guard to patrol the streets and yet the main media story over the memorial day weekend was at a zoo and a four year old boy who fell in the gorilla pit and ultimately led to that gorilla being shot and the child being "rescued." I understand that the editors have a tough decision when they get so many news stories and they need to pick which ones to show. I see the appeal of showing a gorilla and child and how it is news that would fall into the safe category, not controversial, almost all the audience will feel the same way towards the story, there will not be an outcry of injustice and fuel racial prejudices. So I see why the news is airing what it is but I do not agree with it.
I thinks its safe to say that one the most watched news are sports related. ESPN airs show sport center that caters to the twenty four hour seven days a week public craze for new informations with regards to their cherished teams and players. The super bowl and world cup are two of the highest rated events of the year. The oscars, golden globes, state of the union are all events that capture the public eye but I would bet the Kentucky Derby had a higher T.V. rating. The internet and social media has provided the public a new way to share and experience news.
Recently I have paid more attention to the news that is being reported and the news that doesn't get reported. Over memorial day weekend there was almost one hundred shooting incidents in Chicago. The people who live there have asked for the national guard to patrol the streets and yet the main media story over the memorial day weekend was at a zoo and a four year old boy who fell in the gorilla pit and ultimately led to that gorilla being shot and the child being "rescued." I understand that the editors have a tough decision when they get so many news stories and they need to pick which ones to show. I see the appeal of showing a gorilla and child and how it is news that would fall into the safe category, not controversial, almost all the audience will feel the same way towards the story, there will not be an outcry of injustice and fuel racial prejudices. So I see why the news is airing what it is but I do not agree with it.
Sunday, May 29, 2016
the history of the internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eea61LpkCdg
The History of the Internet
Sir Tim Berners-Lee worked for the european equivalent to the Manhattan project in the early 1980's. A dozen or so countries were working together to harness the power of the atom. Tim needed a way for all dozen countries to link their computers in their own countries to each other to share information. Since the countries used different operating systems linking them proved to be impossible the way the system was constructed. The United States integrated their military and academic computers in the 1960s in attempt to share information but it was not until Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the hypertext transfer protocol (http) their ideas became a reality.
Personally I never new the existence of the well before watching this documentary but as a kid of america online chat rooms I see the appeal. No surprise that the government made the decision to merge business and the internet in the 1990s when the economy could always go for boom. Napster was my childhood and the amount of time I devoted during the day was a lot more then it is now. My friends would take pride in their libraries and playlist and everyone was their own disk jockey for the cost of a computer and internet connection.
Wikipedia provides a perfect example of how the internet empowers the masses but ultimately a hierarchy makes decisions on what content is deemed acceptable. At first wikipedia was a free flowing ideology where people could edit the information on pages with hopes that the correct information will rise up from the people instead of being forced with information from the powers that be. As you can imagine this led to disagreements by editors who may have disagreed on what content should be included. The site has 12 members at the top who make judgements on what content should be shared to the world. An example of how the even the best pure hearted intentions need to be regulated.
The internet has provided a way for humanity to share a level playing field by providing the same readily available information to the masses. Governments have tried to censor and control the information shared over the internet. The elections in Kenya in 2008 was a prime example. Ushahidi was established to allow citizens to report what they were witnessing first hand in their communities because the government chose not to report what was truly going on with the contested elections. Middle east countries like, Tunisia and Egypt had similar occurrences during the Arab Spring when the people took to twitter, Facebook, youtube, etc to get the massages out of what the regimes were doing to its people.
The internet in its purest for is a way to level humanity and disperse the information to anyone who is looking. Unfortunately, the internet has turned into a business that is being ruled and regulated by those in power and those people in power have the ability to censor and control what is decimated to the public. As seen throughout history there is a group of people who will always check to see if what is being told by the government and news agency to be true but if the truth is hard to find and the information provided is readily available my concern is that people will be lazy and get their information but the easiest most accessible sources instead of trying to dig and find if that in fact is the truth of the report.
The History of the Internet
Sir Tim Berners-Lee worked for the european equivalent to the Manhattan project in the early 1980's. A dozen or so countries were working together to harness the power of the atom. Tim needed a way for all dozen countries to link their computers in their own countries to each other to share information. Since the countries used different operating systems linking them proved to be impossible the way the system was constructed. The United States integrated their military and academic computers in the 1960s in attempt to share information but it was not until Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the hypertext transfer protocol (http) their ideas became a reality.
Personally I never new the existence of the well before watching this documentary but as a kid of america online chat rooms I see the appeal. No surprise that the government made the decision to merge business and the internet in the 1990s when the economy could always go for boom. Napster was my childhood and the amount of time I devoted during the day was a lot more then it is now. My friends would take pride in their libraries and playlist and everyone was their own disk jockey for the cost of a computer and internet connection.
Wikipedia provides a perfect example of how the internet empowers the masses but ultimately a hierarchy makes decisions on what content is deemed acceptable. At first wikipedia was a free flowing ideology where people could edit the information on pages with hopes that the correct information will rise up from the people instead of being forced with information from the powers that be. As you can imagine this led to disagreements by editors who may have disagreed on what content should be included. The site has 12 members at the top who make judgements on what content should be shared to the world. An example of how the even the best pure hearted intentions need to be regulated.
The internet has provided a way for humanity to share a level playing field by providing the same readily available information to the masses. Governments have tried to censor and control the information shared over the internet. The elections in Kenya in 2008 was a prime example. Ushahidi was established to allow citizens to report what they were witnessing first hand in their communities because the government chose not to report what was truly going on with the contested elections. Middle east countries like, Tunisia and Egypt had similar occurrences during the Arab Spring when the people took to twitter, Facebook, youtube, etc to get the massages out of what the regimes were doing to its people.
The internet in its purest for is a way to level humanity and disperse the information to anyone who is looking. Unfortunately, the internet has turned into a business that is being ruled and regulated by those in power and those people in power have the ability to censor and control what is decimated to the public. As seen throughout history there is a group of people who will always check to see if what is being told by the government and news agency to be true but if the truth is hard to find and the information provided is readily available my concern is that people will be lazy and get their information but the easiest most accessible sources instead of trying to dig and find if that in fact is the truth of the report.
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