You'll probably get mod'd "troll" around here with such sensible comments, but I agree. Agent Orange, Aroclor xxxx - PCB, "corn", Terminator seeds, rBGH.
WTF's next? Genetically Modified Lobbyists?
Ok Slashdot; are you listening? Here's a suggestion for a potentially great post: Publish an analysis of all the IP-addresses connected to down-moderated controversial political comments. Hint: Be thorough and honest and enjoy a very successful article.
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are as good as it gets. I could've had Hugh Hefner and all subordinates beating furiously upon my door, but with Strugatsky and a few Warsteiner dunkels, nothing could stop me until the final word. I was thrilled.
PS: Thanks Kolyma!
Might just be an awkwardly configured system on my part, but youtube and even vimeo work well enough. I'd never heard of ooyala before posting the parent.
..The operating system configures you. What we is really need is a super solid Linux distro named Putin. Of course, sudo would be aliased with putin, e.g. "putin do", and/dev/null would be/dev/oligarch. You wouldn't need a firewall if Putin was root -- and rootkits wouldn't even dare. And if you were running low on resources, you could just FSB into the NSA's data center and use their's. And yes, the bold is obviously obligatory.
You know, I thought things were going too far when I began seeing Starbucks on every street corner, and now I hear they're in the Pacific Ocean too! Fucking progress! Maybe some of the plastic islands and BP oil-globs will absorb the coffee and save the whales from the jitters. I must confess though, I'd like to see a porpoise after a few dozen shots of espresso.
~ Comment copy & pasted from original "anonymous" submission
Basically, cellphones in any area signal to nearby wireless-router access-points (like your home wireless router) and send their own geo-location along with their signal-strength and MAC-address of the router to a database. Over time and multiple cellphones/smartphones, etc. doing the same thing, the router's MAC becomes traingulated and is mapped to a database. I think the database is managed between Skyhook and Google, which can be querried with the MAC address for the info. I'm pretty sure I've done a poor job describing this, but it's an interesting idea and a possible privacy issue. The only link I could find quickly is this: http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/get-the-physical-location-of-wireless-router-from-its-mac-address-bssid/
Sorry; I can't pardon someone who waits for their own action. Feel free to click on any of the links in the parent thread. You might also consider other sources.Sometimes research doesn't jump into one's lap and read itself out loud. In such instances, I do not recommend waiting.
PS: I am truly fond of James Randi, even though his work mostly targets the undeserving. It would be very interesting to have him discuss the subject with someone like Dr. Daryl J Bem, instead of some spoon-bending twit. I'll leave this thread forever after saying: I honestly sympathize with your contempt for the subject. But you will be very surprised at what you find if you really look, with your own mind doing at least some of the work. For a clue on how to go about the task, examine the work of Jacques Vallee. He is a very interesting exception amongst researches on the subject of (redacted until you look), because he never fell into the trap of speculating on what they were. Instead, he focused on proving that whatever they were, they were certainly NOT hallucinations, and that they indeed were actually something/s. Interestingly, there has been far more respect for the man in the scientific community than refutation, primarily because he forensically proved his cases. I have no doubts that many a man could meander along at barf criticism at him, but no reasonable person could do so and not be ashamed. His approach would do great service the subject of ESP or anyone else suffering from lack of initiative.
For now, while animals still dwell in all their mightiness -- I mean meatiness -- and stand high above their future insect saviors, there's Meat-Glue, aka, transglutaminase, or Activa! Such things could have one more open to a bug in the mouth.
yes it has.....or let's try something different: Read, or otherwise peruse the available data that exists before claiming that. Have you? I can assure you haven't. It also may be helpful to approach the subject forensically.
"Intelligent people don't DO that."
I guess Galileo kept his mouth shut.
"You're comparing cows to humans."
Which is, as I'm sure you at least secretly admit, not all that unfair. But practically, the divide between the able and unable humans as you described it, might not be far off.
I think your speculation is interesting, but I don't think it includes all the complexities of psychology, strategy, circumstance and all the other subtle factors involved in living on the planet. Surely I don't expect you to do so either; that would require an enormous effort. It's just that you are unlikely to persuade me with the (mutually shared) frailty of conjecture when I have beside me the solid results of study, experimentation and....even experience. I don't mean to sound arrogant -- which is quite difficult to do on this subject with any force anyway -- but really, please consider that you'll have to conjure something at least close to 'equally compelling' if you wish bathe my brain. I offer no impunity to idiocy for credentials alone, but in this case I think you'll pardon me for paying more heed to the PhD qualified folks in the field -- which there are more than a few of.
Also, I forgot to mention what might be obvious. A primary consideration when looking for a clean and unbloated setup is your desktop/window manager. Many distros could be slimmed down by using something like LXDE, XFCE, Openbox, Awesome, or even Mate. If you don't need a digital Cirque du Soleil, you can probably avoid KDE and Gnome. I was pretty impressed by XFCE on Arch.
And to correct the typo in my last sentence from the other comment; I see no reason not to try DSL Linux.
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You'll probably get mod'd "troll" around here with such sensible comments, but I agree. Agent Orange, Aroclor xxxx - PCB, "corn", Terminator seeds, rBGH.
WTF's next? Genetically Modified Lobbyists?
So I see you've been to Florida lately. It works well enough here, doesn't it?
Thanks for the recommendation. Happen to be a fan of Roger Zelazny too?
Ok Slashdot; are you listening? Here's a suggestion for a potentially great post: Publish an analysis of all the IP-addresses connected to down-moderated controversial political comments. Hint: Be thorough and honest and enjoy a very successful article.
Seriously.
- A very sincere and convinced "troll"
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are as good as it gets. I could've had Hugh Hefner and all subordinates beating furiously upon my door, but with Strugatsky and a few Warsteiner dunkels, nothing could stop me until the final word. I was thrilled.
PS: Thanks Kolyma!
Alfred Bester was certainly excellent. I quite digged Tiger, Tiger.
..It'll get moderated down to -1 if it goes anywhere near Virginia.
Might just be an awkwardly configured system on my part, but youtube and even vimeo work well enough. I'd never heard of ooyala before posting the parent.
Running Linux Mint 13 (Mate ed.) and it plays neither on firefox or midori. Is there another source to watch this? wget -O taco http://player.ooyala.com/static/cacheable/444fd7076af0334709af3684f7f0e127/player_v2.swf -- (fail). Any suggestions?
Oh, don't worry about that; any excuse will do!
It's just David Petraeus chewing on the FIOS cable. It'll all be over when he's full.
..The operating system configures you. What we is really need is a super solid Linux distro named Putin. Of course, sudo would be aliased with putin, e.g. "putin do", and /dev/null would be /dev/oligarch. You wouldn't need a firewall if Putin was root -- and rootkits wouldn't even dare. And if you were running low on resources, you could just FSB into the NSA's data center and use their's. And yes, the bold is obviously obligatory.
Yeah, I'd spend a mod-point on that. pretty damned funny
Think of the effect it'll have on Schneier's Friday squid blogging!
A refreshing voice of sanity in the vast [be]wilderness of conniving tea-drinkers and corrupted decaf peddlers!
You know, I thought things were going too far when I began seeing Starbucks on every street corner, and now I hear they're in the Pacific Ocean too! Fucking progress! Maybe some of the plastic islands and BP oil-globs will absorb the coffee and save the whales from the jitters. I must confess though, I'd like to see a porpoise after a few dozen shots of espresso.
~ Comment copy & pasted from original "anonymous" submission
Don't let Richard Hoagland get a hold of this!
Basically, cellphones in any area signal to nearby wireless-router access-points (like your home wireless router) and send their own geo-location along with their signal-strength and MAC-address of the router to a database. Over time and multiple cellphones/smartphones, etc. doing the same thing, the router's MAC becomes traingulated and is mapped to a database. I think the database is managed between Skyhook and Google, which can be querried with the MAC address for the info. I'm pretty sure I've done a poor job describing this, but it's an interesting idea and a possible privacy issue. The only link I could find quickly is this: http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/get-the-physical-location-of-wireless-router-from-its-mac-address-bssid/
Sorry; I can't pardon someone who waits for their own action. Feel free to click on any of the links in the parent thread. You might also consider other sources.Sometimes research doesn't jump into one's lap and read itself out loud. In such instances, I do not recommend waiting.
PS: I am truly fond of James Randi, even though his work mostly targets the undeserving. It would be very interesting to have him discuss the subject with someone like Dr. Daryl J Bem, instead of some spoon-bending twit. I'll leave this thread forever after saying: I honestly sympathize with your contempt for the subject. But you will be very surprised at what you find if you really look, with your own mind doing at least some of the work. For a clue on how to go about the task, examine the work of Jacques Vallee. He is a very interesting exception amongst researches on the subject of (redacted until you look), because he never fell into the trap of speculating on what they were. Instead, he focused on proving that whatever they were, they were certainly NOT hallucinations, and that they indeed were actually something/s. Interestingly, there has been far more respect for the man in the scientific community than refutation, primarily because he forensically proved his cases. I have no doubts that many a man could meander along at barf criticism at him, but no reasonable person could do so and not be ashamed. His approach would do great service the subject of ESP or anyone else suffering from lack of initiative.
Faith, brother Coward, faith.
Sorry, I forgot the closing quotes in the href:
Meat-Glue,
transglutaminase">
For now, while animals still dwell in all their mightiness -- I mean meatiness -- and stand high above their future insect saviors, there's Meat-Glue, aka, transglutaminase, or Activa! Such things could have one more open to a bug in the mouth.
"Not it hasn't."
.....or let's try something different: Read, or otherwise peruse the available data that exists before claiming that. Have you? I can assure you haven't. It also may be helpful to approach the subject forensically.
....even experience. I don't mean to sound arrogant -- which is quite difficult to do on this subject with any force anyway -- but really, please consider that you'll have to conjure something at least close to 'equally compelling' if you wish bathe my brain. I offer no impunity to idiocy for credentials alone, but in this case I think you'll pardon me for paying more heed to the PhD qualified folks in the field -- which there are more than a few of.
yes it has
"Intelligent people don't DO that."
I guess Galileo kept his mouth shut.
"You're comparing cows to humans."
Which is, as I'm sure you at least secretly admit, not all that unfair. But practically, the divide between the able and unable humans as you described it, might not be far off.
I think your speculation is interesting, but I don't think it includes all the complexities of psychology, strategy, circumstance and all the other subtle factors involved in living on the planet. Surely I don't expect you to do so either; that would require an enormous effort. It's just that you are unlikely to persuade me with the (mutually shared) frailty of conjecture when I have beside me the solid results of study, experimentation and
Well then, I guess I can trust Apple with the fate of the universe. Never did trust bash anyway.
Also, I forgot to mention what might be obvious. A primary consideration when looking for a clean and unbloated setup is your desktop/window manager. Many distros could be slimmed down by using something like LXDE, XFCE, Openbox, Awesome, or even Mate. If you don't need a digital Cirque du Soleil, you can probably avoid KDE and Gnome. I was pretty impressed by XFCE on Arch.
And to correct the typo in my last sentence from the other comment; I see no reason not to try DSL Linux.