The Internet in your veins
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One step removed from reality, yet so close to the current state of things.
This would be the moment when the Internet enters your bloodstream, just throw in a couple of more decades and nanotechnology.
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The most interesting internet device i have seen.  Adds another device to home security. I am going to install a second one on the front door.
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This user-friendly reference showing how to use the Internet illustrated  with screen shots and diagrams. Material is arranged in six sections on  connecting to the Internet, browsing the Web, sending and receiving e-mail,  reading and posting newsgroup messages, downloading files, chatting,  Internet phone calls, and creating a Web page. It also features a series of  short, easy to follow tutorials in the proven style and format of the 10  Minute Guide.
Intended for general users, "Internet 6-In-1" is  composed of a series of short, easy-to-follow tutorials. The six major  categories of coverage in the book is Getting Connected, Web Browsing,  e-mail, Newsgroups, Creating Web Pages and Internet Yellow Pages. This  solid book contains practical information that is provided on  "working" not just surfing.
Good job!
4812512
Fun to read in light of the changes in the internet since it was written. Great twists and turns in the plot.
4454435
Pretty decent book about the underground internet, what terrorists, hackers, criminals, and some governments may use to avoid detection. Eye- opening.
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The subtitle "A True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet" made this work irresistible for us at the Berglund Center for Internet Studies. Since the beginnings of the Internet, media and consequently, public, reactions to it have moved between outright fear (Pornography! Virtual Sex! Addiction!) and reckless optimism (Huge profits! Virtual Democracy!). Now Douglas and Singular have added Virtual Serial Killers to the list of our fears... On balance, however, it is difficult to feel that the Internet was a major factor in his killing spree. He had used other means of contacting victims earlier and continued to rely upon the mails more than upon electronic communications for his alibis in accounting for the absence of his victims from their daily lives...

For a full review see Interface, Volume 3, Issue 7.
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I still can't believe they let John publish this book. Try his techniques at your own risk,
Because the majority of them are VERY illegal. Nuff said of that!
 I've been reading John's book for over a month now. Not that I'm a slow reader, but his book is more the size of an encyclopedia.
Not only does John show exactly how networks and the internet connects. He also
Shows the actual penetration techniques hackers use. Then he goes one step further.
John gives you a whole disk of software to try out. If you are really serious about breaking into er,<cough>I mean protecting your system from hackers then this is the only book you will need to read.
This book coupled with a full support forum and John's always-prompt responses to email, makes this book invaluable to anyone connected to a network, or even the internet.
James P
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Its funny and all too close to home. If the internet died today...there would intact be chaos...and if the intnet had a comporeal landscape it would unseeded be 4chan
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This is a fabulous book, well-written and easy to understand even for a lay person. I have no understanding of how the internet works behind the scenes and this was a huge eye opener. It stretches your brain power and some parts may need a second read to absorb different aspects of information, but will read a second time which I rarely do for many books.
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Author Nicholas Carr is a heavy internet user. He senses that his time spent online has fundamentally changed how his mind works. This realization drives the "The Shallow's" scope and narrative. As a preface, Carr is not some dude contemplating his navel on a therapist's couch. He's a Harvard Professor and a serious student of the information technology world. Here's Carr's introductory self assessment:

"I'm not thinking the way I used to think.  I feel it most strongly when I'm reading.  I used to find it easy to immerse myself in a book or a lengthy article.  My mind would get caught up in the twists of the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I'd spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose.  That's rarely the case anymore.  Now my concentration starts to drift after a page or two.  I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do.  I feel like I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."

You too?  This observation and then a recent interview with the President of Google (Eric Schmidt) is motivating my review of this book.  Schmidt was asked what he worried about.  In his list of worries was the effect of the internet on deep thinking.  I thought "hey that's Carr's point".  Indeed it is.  And this book therefore appears to be a addressing an emerging topic for people who care about information technology, society, and their mental acumen.

This book explores how your surfing of the internet is changing your brain (and yes it apparently does). The book tells you precisely how that's happening. Carr integrates a range of research to illustrate how internet surfing stimulates your brain while actually diminishing what you remember and more generally how it is restructuring (and limiting) your ability to analyze. Carr provides a range of factoids, not least of which is that we all read more slowly (and remember less) on web pages because they contain lots of distractions (specifically advertisements in motion, contrasting color, infinite opportunities to hyperlink, and the ever present "bong" of instant messages and e-mail.) The book drives you toward one overarching conclusion: your brain "on Google" is evolving to be a really excellent information hunter gatherer. However it's not evolving in ways that might allow you to actually do something to integrate and apply that information.  You and I are becoming wide but not deep (ie. we're in "The Shallows").  Meanwhile, Carr also runs through research that shows that a mind marinated in the continuous buzz and distraction of an online lifestyle is slower in grasping the moral dimensions of a problem or situation.  Such a grasp requires quiet contemplative reflection and something increasingly not afforded by the Internet use.

The Shallows, like several books before it (including "You are Not a Gadget" by Jaron Lanier) questions the unmitigated goodness of information technology and specifically the assumption of the Google-inspired collective global intelligence technologies of our world. While "The Shallows" focuses its gaze down many avenues, it ultimately begs a question: "What should we do about this?"  or maybe "Should we do anything about this - Are these changes actually good or bad?".  Carr lays plenty of foundation for defining the changes in our heads.  However his proposed response to the changes tends to be inwardly directed.  In a sentence, we should narrow the technological distractions in our life and occasionally take a holiday away from computers.  Read this book if you require deep understanding as to why those efforts might be a good idea (for you and for society).
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This is a great little book to put all you internet addresses and passwords.  I'm glad I purchased it.  Now family members will not have to worry about accessing my info should something happen to me.
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The Internet is clearly changing the way we consume information - but is it also altering the "wiring" of our brains?

Nicholas Carr's new book is an intriguing look at the Internet's effect on our thought processes - and how it might actually alter the way our brains work.

Carr's carefully researched book is not alarmist. Instead, it's a level-headed look based on current research (including emerging concepts like neuroplasticity). The result is an interesting peek into brain function, thought, learning - and McLuan's assertion that the "media is the message."

The book follows on the heels of Carr's provocative - and widely circulated - story in The Atlantic titled "Is Google Making Us Stupid."

Carr suggests that every new information technology (oral storytelling, handwritten books, printed books, electronic media, digital media, etc) imposes its own structure on our thought processes, and that the Internet is no exception.

Using studies for fodder, Carr poses some interesting questions - and provides plenty of substance to chew on.

Carr does tend to wander at times, and in two places I found myself wishing he'd get to the point, but overall, this is something you'll find hard to put down.

The Shallows is a powerful read from a thoughtful writer, and while this book will probably have trouble finding an audience, anyone interested in human behavior - from psychologists to marketers - should give it a read.
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Turkle does a magnificant job in illustrating the human persona while online. As our culture becomes more and more internet dependent, and it becomes easier to be a "globalized" person, psychological changes  are sure to take effect. "Life On the Screen" is illustrated with  some wry humor, as well as vivid examples.
Sometimes doing someonething  online makes it seem less "real." For instance, carding  something-aka using a fake credit card number-is less 'real' if you do it  online, to order something, than it is to waltz into say, BestBuy and using  a fake credit card there. Just because you do it in a non-physical area  (what is Cyberspace made up of, anyway?) does not mean that it is still not  a crime, and that it is still not capable of having  reprecussions.
Shirley Turkle captures precisely what someone, as a user  and interacter with the internet, thinks, and does while online. She  acknowledges the existance of the internet being a place where people are  able to forge "cyber-identities"...or get more comfortable being  who they are. She also outlines something that is perhaps one of the most  secure things about the internet in this day and age-that on the internet,  you are anonymous. Therefore, you can do what you wish (good or bad) and  you can interact with others via MUDs or the like...or you can decide  exactly how people will think of you as.
The internet is a secure medium  for an insecure person. It is where many people who feel unaccepted in life  go as refuge, to seek friends and partners who are like them, and who  understand. This is also recognized in this book.
I highly recommend  anyone, either the hacker, or the suit, or the working mother, or the  teenager, to pick up this book and just to start reading. It is disturbing,  almost, to find that there are so many people who interact with the  internet, and so many different things that they do. The globalization that  comes along with the net provokes you to start rethinking many things, and  questioning many others....The internet, as portrayed in this book, also  helps the reader to truly examine themselves as a whole.
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As a technological "layman" I found this to be a great book for everyone who wonders about privacy and security on the Internet - even if you don't quite grasp everything that's going on out there. Personally, I cannot bring myself to disconnect from online professional and social networks, and don't want to deny myself the convenience of online shopping/banking. So how do you protect yourself while still enjoying these modern benefits? The author discusses the threats that exist in all these kinds of activities (and more) and prescribes practical ways of safeguarding yourself from the big bad wolves. The tone is down to earth and you don't have to be a techie to understand the concepts. Fantastic gift for all generations but particularly the "invincible" 15-30 years olds (like myself) who are unaware of the perils (or at least passive about them). Be suspicious and prepared!!
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This book is very easy to read. It takes you through different levels of internet technology using simple language and colourful graphics. It is a very useful material to consult at the moment when you want to get a fast internet conexion at home but you do not know how to do it. This is a book about internet architecture and technologies. Nevertheless, the chapter about how to make phone calls on the internet does not mention nor a software neither how to get a software that can let you make long distance phone calls on the internet. But I learned a lot about how it works!!!
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This book does exactly what it claims to do, so it gets its five stars. If you are making, or trying to make, your living on this thing called the internet then you can only benefit from reading it. Read it with your browser open so you can look at everything that's going on. I agree with the writer that it doesn't make any difference what you're trying to do. It's worth reading every word in this book at least once. I read it through in one sitting, made my notes, thought my thoughts and then, as they say, I sprang into action.
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Anyone that uses that internet and publishes on the internet would be well advised to purchase this book and read through it. It covers many situations that you will encounter and offers valuable resources for areas when direct answers to topics are not available. It also concerns products, purchasing, etc. It's a necessary tool.