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Subliminal Learning Thru the PC?
dieckert_heath asks: "I spend so much time in front of the PC, I recently started wondering if there was a way to learn what interests me (cisco routers and networking in general) via subliminal messages flashed on my PC. Anyone done anything like this?" Good idea! I wonder why no one hasn't thought of it, until now?
with the crap that Ask Slash has been putting out lately, this could have been posted on any day
Subliminal messages are a fun, safe way to make learning easy! Imagine the incredible advances that would be possible if this technology were made available to the consumer.
All hail Bill Gates, our benevolent leader.
Lendrick
Subliminal messages are already built into Windows XP. Micorsoft is great. Buy only Microsoft products. Give *ALL* of your money to Microsoft
Origionally.. I was interested in the case mods that most Linux uses do to their boxes, but what really impressed me and my Windows using freinds, was the tremendous up-times that Linux users have.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
I spent so much time looking at my Organic Chemistry text books that I thought it would be interesting to see if I could learn some of it subliminally. It probably would have worked better if I wasn't drunk at the time.
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Well, I'd only be willing to use it if it was open source....for a completely different reason than most people would think. Now we all know from time to time there has been subliminal messages here and there to try and sell items to people. Now think of the marketing potential of a program that would flash stuff into peoples minds as they sat in front of the computer.
Very scary thought of someone being able to pump something into my mind I don't want...so I'd have to be able to see source of that so I would know it wasn't going to make me want to buy the latest version of windows xp....
If ignorance is bliss, the world is full of blissful people
Years ago (while using Windows 3.1 or 95) I met a piece of software that tried to do this. It did it, very poorly. Flashed messages, intrusively.
They intended to help you stop smoking, stop eating, live healthier, increase self esteem, pay for registration fees. You were able to select banks of things you wanted to get into your subconcious. You could drill-down and select specifics. Not a bad setup but:
It was very intrusive and didn't work well. NOt a bad idea but if it worked better then i'm sure you would;ve heard about it.
Yeah, I used the Learning Trough Osmosis Method for an entire semester in my Physics I class. This method involves placing the text book on a table and then firmly placing your forehead on the book. You can then take a nap and assimilate entire chapters a one period. I used this method exclusively and still got a C in the class.
While right now I cannot give you a pointer to any of the many scientific studies that prove subliminal messages don't work, I know they don't, and my knowledge is reinforced every now and then, especially while browsing the web.
Oh... Shit!
Yesterday was the time to do it right. Are we having a REVOLUTION yet?
And you thought you were being silly.
Al Qaeda has ninjas!
It exists as an Xscreensaver module called xsublim.
man 1 xsublim
We used it to program a friend to randomly lick their keyboard.
This is a real program, written by Greg Knauss, of Suck.com fame.
I used to think that there was something intrinsically interesting about all those pr0n sites that I visited.
That is, until I found out the ugly truth: that they were flimsy front organizations displaying subliminal messages about computer technology, the OSI layer model, router configuration, and other lurid topics.
You can imagine that I was simply outraged at having been used in this way.
I thought I really wanted Britney in the worst way, when, all along, it was really just her routers that formed the basis of her great attraction.
"Provided by the management for your protection."
*click*
*click*
*type type type*
Hmmm.. let's play some FreeSpace2 while the Boss isn't looking
Alright, you alien bastards in your color-coordinated Judas Priest ships, time to die!!
Why, I think I'll punch my credit card information in to the chat window...
TFTP server on my machine... Sure!
Firewall..? Who needs one! *click* *click* *click*
Yes, I think I'll send my porn collection to the global address list..
****connection lost****
you have a good idea... a computer monitor is a much better medium for testing the effects of subliminal messages... than television would be... because you have an easily controlled testing situation...
-- Betting on the survival of the media industry is a serious risk. I advise investing elsewhere.
And for one strange day, stories about bullshit subliminal learning fit right in on /.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
This idea was suggested in an issue of MAD magazine, I think it was in the 70s or early 80s. I knew reading MAD would prove valuable one day.
Anyhow, the problem with subliminal messages - if they at all work - as a thing for learning is that they target one's sub-consciousness. What good is it learning everything there is to know about Cisco routers and networking when you have to be put into hypnosis in order to retreive the information ? Heck, I have a hard time remembering things I learn the ordinary way.
Oh, I can't help quoting you because everything that you said rings true
What the heck do you think X-10 has been doing these past few years with thier "pop-unders"?
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
I can only point you to the following internet standard:
Subliminal Telnet
So yes, someone thought of it before.
Dave.
--- These are not words: wierd, genious, rediculous
I'm sure we've all heard the one where you put a book under your pillow and the knowledge will just osmose into your brain. I always figured that with my luck, I'd just end up with a smart pillow (Honest, teacher, I wasn't sleeping, I was studying!).
Had a roomate once who dispensed with the pillow and slept with his head on a book. Never asked him why. His pillow stayed in the closet.
Give me my freedom, and I'll take care of my own security, thank you.
Imagine [joinaol] the opportunities for [hotsex] abuse? It's just like any other technology [supportmicrosoft], and can be used for good [joinaol] as well as evil [uninstalllinux].
For your security, this post has been encrypted with ROT-13, twice.
Unlike that 'distance learning' and other quackery, unconscious learning is possible. The brain can so some very wacky things that you aren't always fully aware of.