The tech drama continues.
The internet archive remains down and offline for yet another day since the hacking..
Internet Archive services archive.org with billions of documents & various data is hacked. The website remained offline since October 11..
Their handle @internetarchive says all data remains safe, let’s hope its that way. That they are correct. And that the archive comes back.
After all there is no internet wayback machine for the wayback machine if the wayback machines stiff offline.
Prepare to be creeped out at the potential here ..
In The Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory report using two different laser-based methods to transmit various tones, music and recorded speech at a conversational volume.
“Our system can be used from some distance away to beam information directly to someone’s ear,” said research team leader Charles M. Wynn. “It is the first system that uses lasers that are fully safe for the eyes and skin to localize an audible signal to a particular person in any setting.”
That means the messages can be targeted.. to specific people.. voices in your head may be purposely on their way..
MORE : https://phys.org/news/2019-01-technology-lasers-transmit-audible-messages.html
I just watched THE THREAD, a pretty good documentary on how the internet completely helped or ruined the Boston bombing investigation, depending on your point of view.. You should really give it a watch..
It forced me into a strange place.. contemplation over what this whole NET thing is doing to the world. To us. To news.. to everything.
I turned 21 a week before 9/11 happened. When that terror attack took place, I went online and immediately began updating –in HTML mind you–my website about the terror attack.. There is still a record of it somewhere on Archive.org. So in that regard, I was immersed in the NET world at 21 before REDDIT and Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. Back then it was AOL Chat rooms and Drudge, along with very basic chats..
But now? Twitter? REDDIT.. The REAL error of citizen journalism is here. And it’s fast, sloppy, messy, and amazing.
But to what end?
The funny thing is after watching THE THREAD, I feel out of the loop. Even though I was a NET kid, it was new then.. it was all new. Now it’s ‘always been’ to the generation born since 2000. Think about that.. Kids of today have no idea what a boring Sunday afternoon watching NICK meant.. Now it’s constant life online. Nothing boring but yet everything is. Kids of today? You don’t KNOW boring..
And even though I was somewhat on the ‘cutting edge’ of media evolution with my VERY OWN DOT COM in the early part of the century, it’s rudimentary when compared to the fast paced information overload of today’s age.
Fast news.
Loose rules..
What you see isn’t what you get.
And the best chance of real factual information may come when the book is written years later.
But we are all experimenting with this old media murder. The journalists of yesterday who are still paying their school loans are watching the carpet pulled from them. YOU. Me. EVERYONE can be a reporter.
Is it too much/ Too much Trump? Too much of a good thing?
Live streaming until it gets dull?
Periscope…And all of the rest of the social networks popping up hourly.
Yes it is changing everything.
Everything.
That moment you log into an email account you forgot you had..
Apparently the kids on the internets decided that Lol was lame enough to stop using it and ‘heheh’ and ‘haha’ were better.
Thus the death of LOL
Ttyl.
I agree with all of the points presented in this.. Mobile is in. Soon it will be even something more. Facebook is more important for a business than their own website.. And APPs are killing internet exploring..
I don’t think I have ever been so entertained by an official Facebook page until I saw the official SPRINT page. I sense you’ll be entertained as well: https://www.facebook.com/sprint
First off, I lost my grandfathered ATT unlimited data a few months ago. So these new ads with Sprint telling me they will give me it back perked my interest.. Until I traveled to the nearest Sprint store only to have an actual honest sales person talk me OUT of switching..
Then I went to the Facebook where I saw the truth.. the unbridled unabashed truth..
Person after person complaining with real stories real events and real tales of Sprint. People saying how horrible things are.. how awful service is.. dropped calls, slow data, phones turning off for no reason, and dishonest fool selling them.. The typical response from Sprint is also laughable: The most popular are these:
We are sorry to have lost you as a valued Sprint customer. If you ever change your mind, please know that you are always welcome back.
And
We certainly appreciate your continued loyalty to Sprint. We would be more than happy to review what options we have available for you, as far as lowering your monthly bill. Please send us a DM with your telephone number, account PIN and the best time to contact you. We look forward to speaking with you.
The problem for SPRINT: They seem to be responding this way to every single message.. The entire Facebook page is dominated by horrible awful comments. People angry–incensed that if they were being attacked by a bear they would be unable to even GOOGLE what to do (this is actually a point often brought up on the page) ..
The public relations nightmare is obvious. Sprint can do what they need to do by posting studies showing a fast networks in certain cities, but the overwhelming response to the company is negative. Even on the Facebook page.
The credit of Sprint, they aren’t deleting comments–at least I don’t think. Unless, of course, there are even ANGRIER and more negative comments not being permitted to last..
On one hand, Sprint is showcasing itself as a company that responds to negative comments with a plan to help. But … they are doing it so often, the negative aspects of the company are more dominant than they responses.
And this is every post.. every link.. every thing.
Unlimited wireless.. Along with unlimited anger and hostility towards a company promising the world without being able to deliver it.
As a friend reminded me, Murphy Brown supported Spring. But that was 1992.