And with the last blog of this year i would like to say, in the words of Rebecka Black "we so excited!" So it look like you probably have heard of the internet's downfall music video Friday by Rebecka Black.
Thats right a video with 256,529 likes, 1,970,591 dislikes ... one of the most disliked videos and potentially the most disliked video on the internet. Will all this hate launch a young womans singing Career? At first my own options would say no.. and i too was one of the many who disliked her video as well but then i saw this:
Which is a video she made with Funny or Die which is a satire of her own song. She gained a lot of respect by poking fun at here song and it shows as the 500k funnies she received for doing this video. Unlike most internet hate she seemed to turn this video in to a viable career launcher. As it turns out she has another cd coming out in the future and the song launched this as well:
A colaberation between Jimmy Falen and Stephen Colbert who actualy make the video Friday sound good. Yet another outlet for potential fan creating material for Rebecka Black. Perhaps people should look in to trolling for a viable marketing scheme.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Speeeeeed
The conversation in class today trended toward the increased thoughtlessness that the internet seems to entice in people on the internet. Though, i believe, this is a time dilation of sorts that is created by the quantity of users who want to make comments. In years past there wasnt the community size that exist now and thus comments would come slower and in these years the internet has increased in user volume. Comments come faster and faster.
Rushkoff, makes the argument that the internet causes a feeling of haste in our lives and causes poor comments such as YouTube comments. I would counter this argument saying that its the surrounding ie the websites that cause poor commenting. YouTube has notoriously bad comments that are in poor taste, but when you look at what YouTube is a collection of mainly dumb videos of people hurting them selves and cats you get equivalently retarded comments. When you visit a more intellectuality based website such as a professional blog you tend to get much more thought our comments that address the blog post and have proper articulation of thoughts. In another spectrum you see comments on reddit, where there is a voting policy on comments, and a constant rise of more intelligent comments because they are more popular.
Anther interesting point was brought up in class that pertained to this topic and that was because comments seems to come faster and faster these days, that it becomes harder to comment due to face that the comments are filled up with crap or anything you wanted to say has been said. Which is true to and extent, but i dont think this is a down side to the internet at all. Having great comments such that you cant comment means that the piece is complete and is perfect in such a way that you cant comment. On the other hand its to be expected that some one who is like you read the article and commented similarly to your self and as Tyler Durden said "you are not a perfect and unique snow flake..." becomes more and more prevent as cultures become more intersecting due to the connectivity of the internet.
Rushkoff, makes the argument that the internet causes a feeling of haste in our lives and causes poor comments such as YouTube comments. I would counter this argument saying that its the surrounding ie the websites that cause poor commenting. YouTube has notoriously bad comments that are in poor taste, but when you look at what YouTube is a collection of mainly dumb videos of people hurting them selves and cats you get equivalently retarded comments. When you visit a more intellectuality based website such as a professional blog you tend to get much more thought our comments that address the blog post and have proper articulation of thoughts. In another spectrum you see comments on reddit, where there is a voting policy on comments, and a constant rise of more intelligent comments because they are more popular.
Anther interesting point was brought up in class that pertained to this topic and that was because comments seems to come faster and faster these days, that it becomes harder to comment due to face that the comments are filled up with crap or anything you wanted to say has been said. Which is true to and extent, but i dont think this is a down side to the internet at all. Having great comments such that you cant comment means that the piece is complete and is perfect in such a way that you cant comment. On the other hand its to be expected that some one who is like you read the article and commented similarly to your self and as Tyler Durden said "you are not a perfect and unique snow flake..." becomes more and more prevent as cultures become more intersecting due to the connectivity of the internet.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Assimilation of Technology
Rushkoff puts forward that technology is some how losing the complexity of life. That somehow we as human-beens lose the idea that not everything is black and white. What Rushkoff is lacking is basic knowledge of the way things work and the interactions that can take place on the internet.
The internet is a monstrously complex engine where millions of people go to absorb, share, and distribute information. Even on a metaphorical level where we view the internet only as a entity relationship mapping. We notice a large complex three dimensional web were connections exist all over the web some brighter than others leading to larger sections where majorities and even minorities of people surf. With this we be can see common ideas and options we can see how people are connected ... a similar phenomenon can be seen on Wikipedia where you can try and click links to see how long it take you to find another subject. The links are very similar to the thoughts of other individuals and could be taken as a hard representation of how people connect seeing as people were the ones who authored the articles instead of one man. It can be taken further in that the advent of the internet has made the world immensely more complex and thus life more complex.
Thats the end of this rant and it has been shown that the internet encourages a more complex life. Even with all the ease and speed of the internet things have become more complex or at least as complex as life before the internet.
The internet is a monstrously complex engine where millions of people go to absorb, share, and distribute information. Even on a metaphorical level where we view the internet only as a entity relationship mapping. We notice a large complex three dimensional web were connections exist all over the web some brighter than others leading to larger sections where majorities and even minorities of people surf. With this we be can see common ideas and options we can see how people are connected ... a similar phenomenon can be seen on Wikipedia where you can try and click links to see how long it take you to find another subject. The links are very similar to the thoughts of other individuals and could be taken as a hard representation of how people connect seeing as people were the ones who authored the articles instead of one man. It can be taken further in that the advent of the internet has made the world immensely more complex and thus life more complex.
Thats the end of this rant and it has been shown that the internet encourages a more complex life. Even with all the ease and speed of the internet things have become more complex or at least as complex as life before the internet.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
The Return
Reading is a fickle thing, in that, it is the act of identifying characters, parsing them, and reassembling meaning out of the input string. In some way reading encourages learning, memorization of parsed strings, and in others its stored temporarily as though it was only read for immediate consumption. Personally i like to absorb all strings that i read in a cool comfortable environment where the act is unchallenged by outside noise. Another ideal when it comes to reading is that i would prefer it be on paper or on eink (like my kindle) though if im just trying to absorb information fast ill take to skimming online documents.
People these days are reading less books, but they are not reading less. People with the notion that reading is exclusive to books have a dated image of what reading is. Whether people want to admit it or not is that they are reading all the time due to the internet not in-spite of it. All those pdf's, blogs, news sites, exc. count as reading. Though the traditional book is making a comeback in a non-traditional form ergo the kindle. The future and present of reading is on the computer and until this is recognized as a legitimate form of reading then people will still be under the blind assumption that no one reads.
The difficult part that people will have to get past is the definition of what is reading and a new challenge is the advent of twitter. The question often asked is 150 characters enough to express your feelings such that its considered reading? The general replay is that a haiku that is general limited by syllables reading?
People these days are reading less books, but they are not reading less. People with the notion that reading is exclusive to books have a dated image of what reading is. Whether people want to admit it or not is that they are reading all the time due to the internet not in-spite of it. All those pdf's, blogs, news sites, exc. count as reading. Though the traditional book is making a comeback in a non-traditional form ergo the kindle. The future and present of reading is on the computer and until this is recognized as a legitimate form of reading then people will still be under the blind assumption that no one reads.
The difficult part that people will have to get past is the definition of what is reading and a new challenge is the advent of twitter. The question often asked is 150 characters enough to express your feelings such that its considered reading? The general replay is that a haiku that is general limited by syllables reading?
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Incomprehensible language: a generational trend
Are the words we write and our speech patterns now a product of the internet? Yes, yes they are, but its not new for the English language to change.
The English language is constantly changing due to regional dialects, speech patterns, and people just creating new words for new thinks. This is a fact that has always amazed or angered people depending on the time period or context. Take for example William Shakespeare who had great innovations on how we speak today and some would say revolutionized the English of his time period. People didnt speak the same as he wrights in his plays, per-say, but much of his logical patterns and words wore copied over and over again tell it was the norm.
Now im not saying we are all on the level of Shakespeare, but every now and then some one misspells something that catches on or creates a shortened version of a word that catches on.
This is an example of a new word pattern that has cropped up in our language more and more. Why? Well thats easy, because its faster. The world has accelerated such that our speech must move forward with it. Many of the words used in this example are just shortened versions of words and expressions that are already in existence. (Oh my god, did you see? *laughing* talk to you later.)
Furthermore things that we take from the internet infiltrate our speech patters. Think back to the last time some one use lol instead of laughing or just said ttyl. Perhaps it hasn't happened to you yet but start listening to younger people talk lol.
tl;dr speech is changing again.
The English language is constantly changing due to regional dialects, speech patterns, and people just creating new words for new thinks. This is a fact that has always amazed or angered people depending on the time period or context. Take for example William Shakespeare who had great innovations on how we speak today and some would say revolutionized the English of his time period. People didnt speak the same as he wrights in his plays, per-say, but much of his logical patterns and words wore copied over and over again tell it was the norm.
Now im not saying we are all on the level of Shakespeare, but every now and then some one misspells something that catches on or creates a shortened version of a word that catches on.
This is an example of a new word pattern that has cropped up in our language more and more. Why? Well thats easy, because its faster. The world has accelerated such that our speech must move forward with it. Many of the words used in this example are just shortened versions of words and expressions that are already in existence. (Oh my god, did you see? *laughing* talk to you later.)
Furthermore things that we take from the internet infiltrate our speech patters. Think back to the last time some one use lol instead of laughing or just said ttyl. Perhaps it hasn't happened to you yet but start listening to younger people talk lol.
tl;dr speech is changing again.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Reflections
Go back and reread the older blog post then return and you will get the feeling this blog has many good and great ideas and insight. Though this blog has been lacking in spelling and grammar. The only way that this flaw can be improved is by outside review.
It is also worth noteing that many of my topics were random. Random in that anything that was blogged about was chosen at a whim. Nothing, blog by blog, is consistent. Only two post can be considered professional and both those were recent and the idea was congered by a combination of this class and my computer securities class. Future post will be geared towards a professional sense.
Most likely nothing will be edited. Old post will be considered bench-markers for further post and will be used to build future and better post.
The only other complaint is the lack of links in each post. Though, most post were purely thoughts of my own and dont use other sources. When other sources are directly used or referenced then they are linked in the blog.
It is also worth noteing that many of my topics were random. Random in that anything that was blogged about was chosen at a whim. Nothing, blog by blog, is consistent. Only two post can be considered professional and both those were recent and the idea was congered by a combination of this class and my computer securities class. Future post will be geared towards a professional sense.
Most likely nothing will be edited. Old post will be considered bench-markers for further post and will be used to build future and better post.
The only other complaint is the lack of links in each post. Though, most post were purely thoughts of my own and dont use other sources. When other sources are directly used or referenced then they are linked in the blog.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
User Control Model
This week we explor the idea of Usage Control Model or UCON another type of security that effects most if not all types of security. The idea of UCON was first introduced (to me) in a paper called The UCONabc Usage Control Model by Jaehong Park George Mason University and Ravi Sandhu NSD Security and George Mason University. The abc stand for Authorizations, oBligations, and Conditions. Yet again it will be related to the social network Facebook and its security protocols along with some that dont currently exist but perhaps should be implemented.
The first and most widely used is the repeat password lock out. Everyone has put in the wrong password every now and then and when you do so it locks you out after so many tries. This is an example of usage control. In that it controls your usage based on the amount of failed attempts. Taken a step further we could say that if the ip that these failed logins is different (say in another country) we can have it notify the user of unauthorized access and make the user create a new password after they follow a link that is sent in the notification.
Another way to think of the UCON model is a basic control issues of consumer usage on a digital object. Along these lines, note Facebooks already built in dissemination protection of pictures, as it stands now Facebook has options to keep User pictures from being viewed by people the User designates. Taken a step further would be to say that the people who view these pictures cannot save them or friends of friends cannot view these pictures. Another way to approach this issue is by putting trackers or watermarks on the pictures once downloaded so that further dissemination is hampered or can be easily tracked.
To avoid writing a 10 page paper thats all for this week tune in next week for more.
The first and most widely used is the repeat password lock out. Everyone has put in the wrong password every now and then and when you do so it locks you out after so many tries. This is an example of usage control. In that it controls your usage based on the amount of failed attempts. Taken a step further we could say that if the ip that these failed logins is different (say in another country) we can have it notify the user of unauthorized access and make the user create a new password after they follow a link that is sent in the notification.
Another way to think of the UCON model is a basic control issues of consumer usage on a digital object. Along these lines, note Facebooks already built in dissemination protection of pictures, as it stands now Facebook has options to keep User pictures from being viewed by people the User designates. Taken a step further would be to say that the people who view these pictures cannot save them or friends of friends cannot view these pictures. Another way to approach this issue is by putting trackers or watermarks on the pictures once downloaded so that further dissemination is hampered or can be easily tracked.
To avoid writing a 10 page paper thats all for this week tune in next week for more.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
How the internet uses us
There are many ways that most people disregard on the internet that the users are used for other to make money, but is this a mutually beneficial connection? This creates a symbiotic connection where the users feed the content creators.
Basically it works though data mining and advertisement. The content creators: bloggers, search engines, and streamers create content then they attach advertisements or general information to profit off of. The general information is collected and used for things like advertisement and product placement. Basically for better targeting of advertisement to individuals so that these individuals go out and buy a product.
So far it sounds like the user is being used and they get nothing in return and many people feel as though this is true, but think about the content creators. The creators weather or no they are a large corporation, such as Facebook, or the normal YouTube video host and by proxy Google who wouldn't be there without these advertisement and wouldn't get any money without them.
This symbiotic information sharing is what drives the internet and to some extent innovation. For example where would the internet be if the content creates were no longer around? Well it wouldn't be anywhere. The internet would still be only a forum for IRC users and academics and perhaps a store since that would be the only source or revenue for content creation.
I dont have much this week so heres this funny image :P specially due to the disappointing grammar of last week
Basically it works though data mining and advertisement. The content creators: bloggers, search engines, and streamers create content then they attach advertisements or general information to profit off of. The general information is collected and used for things like advertisement and product placement. Basically for better targeting of advertisement to individuals so that these individuals go out and buy a product.
So far it sounds like the user is being used and they get nothing in return and many people feel as though this is true, but think about the content creators. The creators weather or no they are a large corporation, such as Facebook, or the normal YouTube video host and by proxy Google who wouldn't be there without these advertisement and wouldn't get any money without them.
This symbiotic information sharing is what drives the internet and to some extent innovation. For example where would the internet be if the content creates were no longer around? Well it wouldn't be anywhere. The internet would still be only a forum for IRC users and academics and perhaps a store since that would be the only source or revenue for content creation.
I dont have much this week so heres this funny image :P specially due to the disappointing grammar of last week
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Citations Citations
So there are many ways to credit people within documents or at the end of documents and yes its important, but how important is it? When it comes down to it in this day and age; how much citation is relevant?
Take the old citation methods the people relied on for years such as MLA and APA which can be found at the owl at perdue. Did you see what happened there, enough information was given so that you could find the information you are looking for without much hassle. All this is required is that you use any search engine to type in the name of the article and you can find it easily. example: Click me
Now that brought you exactly to the website and the article that was in question. Which brings us back to the previous question that ask how important is it to use full citations that MLA ask for. There for it is proposed that new guidelines be drawn for further citations. These new citations should be minimal meaning that if all you need is the title of the article and the authors name and for the majority of the cases this is all you ever need to find any article online whether its a book thats in print, a video, or web-article (such as a blog).
Though these guidelines are not perfect due to changes that may occur in older printed writings and some web-sources. More specifically it wont help you with any article in question that doesn't have a title or author and thus a direct link my be in-order or at the very least a link to the main website with directions to find the article in question.
All in all the old MLA and APA styles are antiquated, but there aren't great substitutions so the dilemma becomes this: you choose. Yes thats right. You choose how to site it and make educated assumptions on how to site something and make sure some one else can find it easily and with out hassle.
Take the old citation methods the people relied on for years such as MLA and APA which can be found at the owl at perdue. Did you see what happened there, enough information was given so that you could find the information you are looking for without much hassle. All this is required is that you use any search engine to type in the name of the article and you can find it easily. example: Click me
Now that brought you exactly to the website and the article that was in question. Which brings us back to the previous question that ask how important is it to use full citations that MLA ask for. There for it is proposed that new guidelines be drawn for further citations. These new citations should be minimal meaning that if all you need is the title of the article and the authors name and for the majority of the cases this is all you ever need to find any article online whether its a book thats in print, a video, or web-article (such as a blog).
Though these guidelines are not perfect due to changes that may occur in older printed writings and some web-sources. More specifically it wont help you with any article in question that doesn't have a title or author and thus a direct link my be in-order or at the very least a link to the main website with directions to find the article in question.
All in all the old MLA and APA styles are antiquated, but there aren't great substitutions so the dilemma becomes this: you choose. Yes thats right. You choose how to site it and make educated assumptions on how to site something and make sure some one else can find it easily and with out hassle.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Role-based Access Control
Role-based Access Control or RBAC is a security control model bases on user roles in the system. The roles are usually job function or titles that authorize the user to preform specified actions. In this model users are not assigned particular clearances and functions, but are given a role or many roles that come with these clearances and functions.
This is an older model of security, but is still applicable to day and many systems still use RBAC. For example Facebook is made up of many different roles such as: you the user, people who create groups, and Facebook administrators. Each role has its own permissions and accessibility in the system. The one with the least power are the users though they can create groups and have some rights that allow them to uses the website as they see fit. The users don't have access to change anything that they didn't put in meaning that they cant change other peoples photos or force people to be there friends. Leaders of groups are users but they also have new accessibility over there group to add, delete and modify the group as they wish but still they cant change the fundamentals of Facebook. Last and most importantly in this example are the administrators who moderate Facebook and have the power to remove users and delete peoples photos and information.
RBAC is an easy and sustainable security control model that allows for easy monitoring in system changes. Though, if there are a convoluted number of roles the model starts to deteriorate. For example if Facebook started giving out different types of accounts, gold accounts, silver accounts, exc. the web of security becomes multi-layered and it might be hard to detect users who constantly change access control since thousands of users can change every day. New types of restrictions would have to be placed on those who are administrators or even the creators so that people cannot change there access without prescribed preconditions that the administrators layout and suddenly the security control becomes hard to manage.
In short RBAC is great though it is best when there are a low number of security layers.
This is an older model of security, but is still applicable to day and many systems still use RBAC. For example Facebook is made up of many different roles such as: you the user, people who create groups, and Facebook administrators. Each role has its own permissions and accessibility in the system. The one with the least power are the users though they can create groups and have some rights that allow them to uses the website as they see fit. The users don't have access to change anything that they didn't put in meaning that they cant change other peoples photos or force people to be there friends. Leaders of groups are users but they also have new accessibility over there group to add, delete and modify the group as they wish but still they cant change the fundamentals of Facebook. Last and most importantly in this example are the administrators who moderate Facebook and have the power to remove users and delete peoples photos and information.
RBAC is an easy and sustainable security control model that allows for easy monitoring in system changes. Though, if there are a convoluted number of roles the model starts to deteriorate. For example if Facebook started giving out different types of accounts, gold accounts, silver accounts, exc. the web of security becomes multi-layered and it might be hard to detect users who constantly change access control since thousands of users can change every day. New types of restrictions would have to be placed on those who are administrators or even the creators so that people cannot change there access without prescribed preconditions that the administrators layout and suddenly the security control becomes hard to manage.
In short RBAC is great though it is best when there are a low number of security layers.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
New Post for a New Semester
I think i would like to start things off by explaining that i have a new Atec teacher and their for i am required to take up the virtual pen once more in my quest of 'not failing a class because i want to graduate quest' .. which i know sounds dumb but THATS OK. Ah, and Barbra .... i believe you were the TA for my last Atec class and were forced to drudgingly read over ever one of my obnoxious post -- well that just sucks for you, but theres a good side to this. Ha, so the good side is that im going to graduate at the end of this semester.
A quick recap of the class:
THE INTERNET
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...
Yup that about sums up what has happened so far. Though this seems like a base assessment of the class it is intriguingly layered. For those who read between the lines this assessment is the the old saying goes 'a painting is worth a thousand words' so like a picture this two word assessment is equivalent to a thousand words. (currently this post is over 1000 words)
Something New:
Have you ever seen a cute animal on the internet? If you havent clearly you have never truly been on the internet. Its okay just settle down. You are an internet noobie. To become 'pro' on the internet just start visiting forums and most importantly just take it slow. A few tips to get you started is 1) search for something your interested in and find a community around it 2) dont just click on any link some of them are traps and will scar you for life 3) spell correctly. I know spelling doesnt seem important and yes i have probably made a few mistakes in this blog, but people cant hear you and depend on your spelling to understand what you are saying.... and if you dont the spelling Nazies will get you.
>>>>> So i will probably gear this more towards technical stuff so enjoy these post lol
A quick recap of the class:
THE INTERNET
..
...
Yup that about sums up what has happened so far. Though this seems like a base assessment of the class it is intriguingly layered. For those who read between the lines this assessment is the the old saying goes 'a painting is worth a thousand words' so like a picture this two word assessment is equivalent to a thousand words. (currently this post is over 1000 words)
Something New:
Have you ever seen a cute animal on the internet? If you havent clearly you have never truly been on the internet. Its okay just settle down. You are an internet noobie. To become 'pro' on the internet just start visiting forums and most importantly just take it slow. A few tips to get you started is 1) search for something your interested in and find a community around it 2) dont just click on any link some of them are traps and will scar you for life 3) spell correctly. I know spelling doesnt seem important and yes i have probably made a few mistakes in this blog, but people cant hear you and depend on your spelling to understand what you are saying.... and if you dont the spelling Nazies will get you.
>>>>> So i will probably gear this more towards technical stuff so enjoy these post lol
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