internet

This is being discussed in the Computers and the Internet sub-forum as a technical issue. But the impact is far wider than that. Global IT chaos persists as Crowdstrike boss admits outage could take time to fix I think this illustrates a severe vulnerability in that civilization has come...

I more or less accidentally downloaded TikTok, but I don't think I made an account. I am suspicious of the Chinese state which is per my understanding the owner of TikTok. What better way of surveilling the US public than to get them all using a mobile app to look at funny cat videos or...

Once upon a time the Internet was a free and open place inhabited by individuals who liked and trusted each other. Then along came its commercialism and it was taken over by entities who only want to make money. Is it possible we may get control back? Lawsuit against Meta asks if Facebook...

Police take down $249-a-month global phishing service used by 2,000 hackers . . . Monetize your fraud services.

The Dead Internet Theory. Mostly true or mostly false? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

I keep reasonably tight control of my Internet activities and really only get a little volume of spam (who knows what is filtered out upstream?). I always read my email first as text and go to the HTML version when I think I know the sender. For the curious ones I'll read the message source...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/researchers-id-12k-microsoft-servers-that-are-a-ddosers-best-friend/ Is the war to secure the Internet winnable? What would it take?

A curious tale in the Toronto Star today, Meet Jason Young. The man who can’t stop getting your email https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/01/30/meet-jason-young-the-man-who-cant-stop-getting-your-email.html Behind a paywall (I subscribe) ” and further, How common is this? I've been...

I've always been suspiciously wary of dedicating my computing and data to the ubiquitous cloud. I want real programs running on my computer and my data in a box within my sight. I often get laughed at as some sort of dinosaur; yearning for the days of command lines and removable disks. And...

This is probably not a good idea, but I have been seeing a lot of weird ads on the internet, and I thought I'd talk about some of them. 1. The pictures that reveal a lot different side of history than we thought. I see this one everywhere, and as best as I can tell, we are supposed to be...

I have a loose understanding of DNS and related concepts, with emphasis on "loose". :) I read this and this (both on the same topic) and am unclear what it means for me as an www consumer. What might it do for me, if anything.

Calling out the networking experts here, I'm sure there are some of you here. :) So a few days ago we switched ISP, moving from regular DSL (2.5 mbps) to Bell's FIBE (Fiber optics, 7 mbps). A Bell technician came over and made some changes to our phone plugs and everything, and we setup the new...

With all the people projected to be out sick with the flu or home telecommuting, there are fears that the Internet could be overburdened with all the traffic of telecommuters working from home and people who use the Internet for...recreation. What failsafe is/are in place to keep the system...

History: Visited a link a friend sent me to look at his Picassa album. I left the computer on that site for an hour or so while I was doing other things. My friend then sent me a message that his Picassa site had been hacked by "Russians" because all of his picture names and captions had been...

Sorry, just a rant of mine I need to get out. Several of my close family and friends have the habit of whenever they have a disease for which they get some treatment to look up the details on the internet to know what they are dealing with. Now I understand that, of course you want to know some...

I listen to music at home almost exclusively through my laptop now, mostly just scanned CDs, torrents, and streaming radio, but with spring approaching I'm wanting to see if I can improve things a bit. So I thought I'd poll you all to see how you're using the internet to listen to music. Do...

I can't recall where I read/heard this, but recently there was something which speculated about the possibility of non-biological life evolving via the Internet. Needless to say, I'm certain this would involve something having to do with emergent properties and whatnot, but it's a topic I was...

English Hippies Want Local Wi-Fi Network Turned Off :rolleyes:

Just out of curiosity, is anyone else experiencing this little glitch? My "Network and Sharing Center", under Windows Vista has an "X" icon between my house icon (which represents the local network), and the globe (representing the Internet). The globe icon, itself, is faded gray. My network...

Democrats now actively support net (internet, network) neutrality. Will net neutrality be constricted? Other recent reports? Ensuring freedom and the internet? As a few other posts briefly mentioned, Big business (telecommunication companies) are trying to change how the internet works. As...

Is anyone here familiar enough with the bowels of XP to know what settings the Network Setup Wizard changes? Every time I switch between wired and wireless internet, I have to run Network Setup Wizard to tell my browser which connection to use. Otherwise, in essence, the connection (be it wired...

Hi everyone, I have a question about a particular website: http://nas-architecture.faa.gov/ This website contains information on the Federal Aviation Administration's National Airspace System - radar sites, ATC centers, and so forth. I had been using this site earlier this year for some...

All my Yahoo throw-away anti-spam mail aliases. Gone. Poof. Ffft. Guess what? I've used them for forum registrations. Like, here. Now I've got to surf around and update all of them, if only to get the notification mails working again. Just because the nice guys at Yahoo decided to make this...

Does anyone have any pointers to good data about worldwide belief in 911 stuff? Survey responses are fine, but what I'm really after is some indication of how much webnoise there is in various different languages - particularly those used by more distant cultures. I know there's a fair bit of...

The Grid is the latest thing. It's hard to imagine where such technology could lead. I think it's exciting.

Anyone used one? Is it any good?

Hello gang, I'd really like to learn how to build/design web sites. What are the programming languages that I'll need to learn and what are some excellent books to read on the subject? Eventually I'd like to design websites with nice graphics, have comment sections written by guests, maybe some...

I said "science" in my title, but what I meant was the science of thinking (psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, etc.). Which is what I think many of the readers of this forum are interested in, anyway. A little while back, I wanted to do an experiment about birth order effects. That is, does...

I have an ADSL broadband connection which has been having occasional drop outs in the last week. I realised these had only started happening since I'd installed two new fluorescent lights in the loft. Amazingly, a bit of experimentation today has shown that it is indeed these new lights which is...

All right, I'm trying to coordinate installation of a new network-based building lighting controller at my work site. The components are 2 Windows XP computers, 1 in the control room and one in the security office about 200 yards away, and the controller itself which will also be located in the...