Christmas 2014

During Christmas 2014, life was not fun. Many people had just received their new gaming console and were eager to try it. So many new Xboxs and PS4s for everybody. But that's not how Lizard Squad felt. In a major Ddos attack that week, the hacking group lizard squad brought down Xbox Live and the PS Network, with no monetary benefit for them. They claimed they did it because Microsoft and Sony should not have that big of security flaws in their networks and were opening their eyes. In October of 2016, two 19 year old members of the group were arrested over the attack. Way to ruin christmas.

The Future of the MIT App Inventer

I do have to admit that the MIT app inventor was a bit of fun. Broadcasting annoying noises across the library was rather entertaining. But how does the inventor fall in place of the curriculum? It is in fact drag and drop, which as advanced intellectuals, we are far ahead of. I still think it should be done in the future, maybe right around christmas time. The Nexus tablets are nice. But whether they're right in the middle of C or python, it may throw things off more than intended.

MIT Blogger and the Future

The MIT blog takes a look at new advances in data science and how they are effecting the world. The article goes in discussion on how almost every device we use is somehow connected to the Internet. How we get closer to the singularity of artificial intelligence and how memes really do control the world. Seeing as I spend a majority of my time on the Internet, its not uncommon for me to come across this stuff. Crowdsourcing is always fun when used correctly, and the huge amounts of data that  computers have to process now. Open access is going to remain important and probably expand from here. The ability of people to have access to apps and such really lends itself to creativity and innovation. Other things such as meta data, and the article referencing Snowden, that's gonna stay also. As the world continues making everything digital, metadata becomes that much more important.