Show some love for Camelback Music and Split Second

The music revolution is coming. Where Internet and underground music is coming together, great new music is being born. Two examples of this camelbackmusic.com and Split Second.

Camelback Music is a new music blog that provides great music to its readers. They specialize in indie rap, pop, and techno. They are usually about six months ahead of the curve of music. They found out about Chiddy Bang, Ian Carey, and Split Second before anyone had even heard of them. My friend Cam Mullen, who owns the site, showed me "Like a G6" about 8 months before anyone else was jamming out to it. If you want to listen to the music that your friends will be listening too in 6 months, go to camelbackmusic.com.

Split Second is a rap group with hits like Sundress, Lexi ft Cam Mullen, Fall from Grace, and my personal favorite New Hotness which sums up Prep School life fairly well, were all only possible through the internet. They were able to record in the closet of their dorm room, post their songs to the Internet, and gain a loyal following. Polos and Solos is one the best albums I have heard in a long time. Lead by Xavier Louis Reed (Taft), Douglas Profenius (Taft), and Jared D. Jackson (Trinity CT), this group is dropping a new album very soon.

The end of the story is that Camelback and Split Second wouldn't have been successful without the Internet. At most, they would have been regional busts from the Northeast; however, with the Internet, they have been able to share their success throughout the world.

Camelback Music

Split Second Blog aka The Upper Classmen

Split Second Youtube Channel

Now we have to create "Super Passwords"????

Skimming the news today, I "Stumbled" upon a very interesting article on cnn.com. The basic summary of the article is that researchers now want users of the internet to update their passwords up longer than 12 charters with multiple numbers and capitalization. The researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have stated that the 8 character standard on password  won't stand up to the high tech hacking that is occurring today. Now, I have two thoughts on this. 1. I remember when four characters was the standard and that was only six years ago. 2. If we have tripled the number of characters needed in six years, and the advancement of technology is exponential; in just a few years we will all need to have 36 character long passwords in only three years!

Their comes a point in time when convince is going to be more valuable than security of the information that you have on the internet. Trying to remember a 36 characters long password will be like remember a sentence. Now if you think that will be easy, think about this. With in the next 10 years, at this rate, a secure password will have to be about 75 characters long. Within 20 years, a secure password will be around 120 characters long. That's is the same as the space allowed for a text message!! When was the last time you could remember a text message character for character. Try it tonight and I bet you will find it very difficult to remember that structure tomorrow, or even a week from now.

If you don't believe me, you do your own math. Below I will post the article that I used as my source, and all the information that you will need to redo my own algorithm.

CNN Article:

How to Create a 'super password'

Formula Notes:

I used 2002 as my start year. It is the place where I had first real data. So 2002 = 0 on a graph.

Data points I used to create the formula: (-10,0), (0,4), (6,12), (9,24), (10.5,48)

Note: I had 1992 as 0 because internet password security was not a real concern for many users using the internet.

f(x)= (0.2037x)^2+(1.7953x)+1.2948

f(x) fits the data points very well, If anyone else has better data, just comment on the post and I'll try to rework my formula.