Wot he said... Dr Peter Lennox School of Technology, Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology University of Derby, UK e: p.len...@derby.ac.uk t: 01332 593155 ________________________________________ From: sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu [sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Ben Bloomberg [b...@mit.edu] Sent: 09 October 2012 16:40 To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] Internet communication
as a young person, I am aware of this.... It blows my mind that my younger sister and her friends use facebook rather than email to communicate. What will be interesting to see is whether this whole "facebook" thing will evolve like AOL, compuserve, etc... Already, many people are working on distributed social networking. Where the AOL walled garden could completely track you and was full of ads, eventually people began to use POP, IMAP and SMTP in other programs for email. Now there are protocols and services like diaspora and tent.io hoping to do the same thing for social networking. As far as NAT and centralized services go, people my age still host their own boxes. NAT doesn't really stop that. The fact is most households still have their own public IP. That's sufficient to get just about anything you need. IPV6 is coming, but its not going to change too much (in my opinion) because people are now afraid of the open web. That's where you get attacked and can't secure any communication. It's easier to have your own kingdom behind NAT where you don't need to worry about running Samba (or windows boxes for that matter). It's like each household becomes its own datacenter. Ben On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Paul Hodges <pwh-surro...@cassland.org> wrote: > --On 08 October 2012 20:45 -0400 "Ronald C.F. Antony" <r...@cubiculum.com> > wrote: > >> You shouldn't need "Google drive" you should be able to access your own >> drive no matter where on the globe you are. > > > I can and I do; but it's no surprise that a centralised facility can serve > my big files faster (I use Amazon S3 for that). I also help run discussion > boards on commercial servers (for performance) but free from advertising - > plenty of that goes on. It's still quite easy to avoid most of the seamier > aspects of the Internet, though I agree that centralised search services are > the most pervasive. > > On FaceBook, I hate its interface, advertising, and intrusive apps, and I > really can't see that its design is truly aimed at any decently useful form > of communication. However, it is the best place for me to look for news of > the activities of my children and grandchildren - so I look there. > Similarly, I will keep an eye on this new group so as not to miss too much. > Frankly, I don't think the mailing list is a much better format for > discussion (in some ways worse), and that the best format is a discussion > board (forum or what have you) - but those set up for this community have > signally failed to catch on, so I suppose that not so many agree with me. > Perhaps it's an age thing (oh, wait, I'm as old as any of you...). > > Paul > > -- > Paul Hodges > > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound _____________________________________________________________________ The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this email was sent to you in error, please notify the sender and delete this email. Please direct any concerns to info...@derby.ac.uk. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
