Heck, I've run Ubuntu on machines from 2000. Arch Linux is pretty lean and can be configured to your liking. Arch is pretty loyal to the KISS principle too. For distros, Arch is my favorite and they arguably have the best documentation available. If 762MB is not too large, you could try TAILS Linux, which is a privacy-oriented distro based on (I think) Ubuntu, and is preconfigured to run all protocols through the TOR proxy. Of course, for that reason, I'd not trust the security of it. It's pretty cool though; I have TAILS on a little USB keychain drive and use it on occasion. Wouldn't use it for online-banking or anything though. If you are super paranoid, there's even TinfoilHat Linux, but you've given no indication of such. I think DSL should work quite well and see reason not to try it.
It sure would be an advantage! But let me first say that implications of its existence are far more speculative than its existence alone, which has to the satisfaction of many erudite and rational people and in many detailed tests, been verified. That being said, I fail to see why "displace"ment would have to be overt. I also think that intelligent people have advantages over 'stupid' people; but walk into the wrong trailer park -- or country -- and spout too much intelligence ~ and you're toast. Also, most humans have significant advantages over cows, yet what displacement do they suffer that proves humans don't exist? Since this is such a highly conjectural direction for this subject, I'll only add that in my opinion, we are already about as displaced as we can be while not dropping like flies, as a species. This little phase of middle-class standards for the world is going to be short, sadly. But sincerely, it pleases me that you ever considered it (Remote Viewing).
Well, maybe not; but for those with a moderately open mind, you really should -- before concluding -- examine the works of two people. Dr. Lawrence LeShan and Dr. Daryl J. Bem have done some tremendous work on the subject of ESP. LeShan, in his early years went further, working with some extraordinary people, under genuinely scientific conditions. I simply can't imagine someone reading LeShan's The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist and having anything negative to say.
If ESP ever does prove itself an authentic protocol, then its tendency to allow the mind to accurately observe remote locations could suggest a breach in the presumed dependency of consciousness on the form. I also recommend visiting the CIA's CREST database and searching amongst the many thousands of Remote Viewing documents that have been released. Despite rational assumption, there's more than redaction lines to look at.
This is a fascinating subject and I am not telling anyone to make any assumptions either way, but please look at quality research that's available before making conclusions.
Since much of our thinking is actually affected by language, and language structures vary sometimes greatly (e.g. Chinese vs English), integrating an additional language into a mind seems highly likely to expand general mental capacity. Perspective is perhaps an underrated element. I am no linguist, but as I understand, a language such as English suffers a lot of nouns. Since most 'things' are actually not nouns, but motions in space/time, a language centered more around the verb may offer advantages. I find Alfred Korzybski's E-Prime quite intriguing. I think one interesting example might be the Chinese word for "fist" -- which i think in Cantonese is something like (pinyin) quan? -- , a noun in English, but an action or verb in Chinese. Maybe I am going a bit far with this, but it would seem to me that any form of exercise and added pliability would offer more capacity for mental tasks. But of course, not in all matters, i.e. mathematics.
I remember taking introductory German as a teenager and thinking differently because of it. While it didn't have me asking random strangers for their papers or hording bratwursts, I did feel more capable and confident because of it. Though I suppose this may be true of any substantial exercise, whether linguistic or otherwise.
If we could look at this with the same objectivity through which we see Father's Day and Mother's Day, perhaps we could have two; one for each gender. I'm pretty sure I'd celebrate one of them by staying home though.
"....and you threaten to ditch the browser in favor [of] Chrome." No I don't, ever; not since etherape & I watched Chrome (and Chromium) phoning home to google while I was completely idle, with nothing but a blank page before me. I'll stick with a browser that isn't sentient, at least until AI makes a few more advances. It's also hard to beat about:config, unless you're pretty savvy. Here's a car analogy, sort of: There are two tool sets. Chrome gives you some armorall, windex, a little swiss army knife, and an air-freshener. Firefox gives you steel tools and a hammer.
While it is super neat to see this being done with routers by mere humans, it hardly compares to what our overlords have been doing for a long time. An old friend who was a low-level translator for the NSA (spying on Russians), had once described a patented device which was used for remote eavesdropping. For example, it would use the radiation from something like a television, or a monitor, etc., and through extremely sensitive observation, determine words by the electro-magnetic interference caused by the collision of sound with EM-fields. I'm pretty sure similar principles have been applied to objects for a while too.
Hate me if you will, but I can't remember the name of the apparatus mentioned by my old friend. This excerpt from a pretty interesting documentary about the quiet zone, in Western Virginia, I think fits the subject very well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWqfVq5Wn0I I definitely want to make one though.
I wouldn't hesitate to make it a center-piece in my home. Reminds me of a time I -- as a lifeform -- entered the final moments of, where things were built by people who knew damned well how to build things. That's all I have to say, other than it's the first time I've seen one.
..without warning or good reason: http://eccentricintelligenceagency.info/archives/6373 -- You may find reason behind the suspension, but according to their own stated reason, I didn't meet the criteria for it. And logically, ethically, and for all practical purposes, their action was completely absurd, especially considering that you can easily watch videos of people being eaten by lions in front of their own families, gators tearing off arms, and scores of other terribly violent things -- without even logging in!
In my most arrogant opinion: Google = DoD, NSA, and before long, probably fascism too, if not already.
... it always occasionally sucks regardless
As many comments have mentioned, such things as copy/paste can be helpful, if not essential in finding the problem. In other cases where the ol' phone is required, the results may vary depending on language efficiency, knowledge, personality, the problem itself, etc. But something can definitely be said for the spoken word over that of text: Much of communication is not in the words alone, but in other expressions like facial, tonal, and so on. For someone who hasn't a great command of the terminology behind the problem, other nuances of communication may be very helpful in troubleshooting. But of course the nature of support varies a lot and so does the customer -- and each situation.
Not so much for "technical" support, but when I am forced to call in for customer service, I often find huge differences in efficiency when going directly to a supervisor. And for some issues, it makes me cringe to imagine the text-based versions of them.
I use Linux and the cli a lot. I was really giddy the day I finally forced myself to learn vim. But I've wasted many hours over the years exchanging problems over text that could've been much less by voice. I've also cast air before swine.
Because Yahoo and other similar services pimp the image of being both sophisticated and virtually omnipotent, while offering to manage your affairs, organize your life, provide targeted news headlines and personal suggestions regarding your personal life, and then covertly subpimp your personal data while indifferently and deeply mining your grazing habits -- I think this lawsuit is, compared to others, reasonable, if a lawsuit without grievous injuries or loss can even be so.
Not everyone has a degree in IT. Perhaps instead of guerrilla advertisement, Yahoo (and other similar services) could cough up at least a token effort for their cattle, I mean customers. Maybe they could reserve some extra ad-space to discourage unknowing subjects from having shared passwords. Maybe they could do a lot more in general, and a lot less too, in a good way.
I sympathize with neither side in this case, but can empathize with only one. Altruism, despite modern Goliaths, doesn't always need an ulterior motive. Yahoo preys on the sea of humanity, and a few minnows nip back. Pardon me whilst I desiccate myself with tears.
For fear that if I fail to comment on this subject, I'll be automatically labeled a terrorist by Authoritarian Intelligence, I half suspect that facebook can now predict the future of its many children. They will comply. And if they don't, well, they can advertise for free on their wall at Guantanamo bay. Be sure to "Like" this comment.
Maybe the judge will also rule that HP must stop binding their hardware to BIOS to prevent users from customizing their own systems. Yeah, a little off topic, but HP sucks big enough to bitch anywhere their ugly name is found. "System cannot boot. Unsupported hardware" Hardware Pugnacity, louts!
There has been a mysterious bug causing total system freezes for many thousands of Mint users. A lot were attributed to Muffin/Cinnamon and allegedly solved for those particular users, but many others (like me, using Mate) seem to be graphics related and they persist. After updating to kernel 3.3.6 from 3.2.6, the issue seemed to go away. But after upgrading to 3.4.6-generic, it seems it may be back. The only thing close to a consensus is that it is graphics related. Many report that disabling nvidia drivers solves the issue, but my intel is affected too. I am not savvy enough to know, but whatever the hell is going on, it's pretty bad. Having your system completely crash every other hour is a genuinely terrible bug, or suite of them.
Unity has been ready. Oh, pardon me; you're actually serious. Oh, you mean I have to pay for this one? So, it's like a more authoritarian Unity, but with a colossal license agreement, viruses and malware? What's this about DVDs? The Start Menu wasn't really removed you say? It was just ported to the subterranean Apple facility.....where? I've had enough.
The housing section is appalling. It is so bad that crazed customers are forced to counter-spam just to fight back against the spammers. There are many instances of duplicate ads numbering in the 100s, and the only thing craigslist has done is set a feeble timeout function for the particular advertisers. There are also many ads which are unique, but are little more than external links to more spam.
One group of spammers/scammers lists hundreds of housing ads per month with clearly erroneous images showing, for example, heavy snow in Florida. They also like to trick people into credit reports, which they go to elaborate measure to accomplish. I traced them to the Netherlands, gathered all the other info I could and sent it to a particular handle at craigslist.com after sending it to the FBI too. Craigslist replied acknowledging the issue, but never did anything about it. The FBI never replied.
Something really did needed to change, but I doubt this new TOS will have any positive effect. Craigslist started as something truly fantastic, but which avoided things like redundant taxation. I guess it went sour when people began murdering people and such. Though I sometimes wonder if in its earlier stages it wasn't enough of a threat to certain groups that it was passively attacked. My conclusion is that it remains useful as a service, but has generally gone to shit.
I don't see why ISPs can't follow suit of the London Olympics and install missiles on customer rooftops. Hell, I'm sure the DHS & DoD would happily give a grant for that here, and Verizon would be delighted to manage them, while Haliburton could do the rebuilding for a fair price when some fool gets brave. Who's gonna use a proxy with a missile on their roof?...or...we could just use drones. But we've got to do something!
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Heck, I've run Ubuntu on machines from 2000.
Arch Linux is pretty lean and can be configured to your liking. Arch is pretty loyal to the KISS principle too. For distros, Arch is my favorite and they arguably have the best documentation available.
If 762MB is not too large, you could try TAILS Linux, which is a privacy-oriented distro based on (I think) Ubuntu, and is preconfigured to run all protocols through the TOR proxy. Of course, for that reason, I'd not trust the security of it. It's pretty cool though; I have TAILS on a little USB keychain drive and use it on occasion. Wouldn't use it for online-banking or anything though. If you are super paranoid, there's even TinfoilHat Linux, but you've given no indication of such. I think DSL should work quite well and see reason not to try it.
It sure would be an advantage! But let me first say that implications of its existence are far more speculative than its existence alone, which has to the satisfaction of many erudite and rational people and in many detailed tests, been verified. That being said, I fail to see why "displace"ment would have to be overt. I also think that intelligent people have advantages over 'stupid' people; but walk into the wrong trailer park -- or country -- and spout too much intelligence ~ and you're toast. Also, most humans have significant advantages over cows, yet what displacement do they suffer that proves humans don't exist? Since this is such a highly conjectural direction for this subject, I'll only add that in my opinion, we are already about as displaced as we can be while not dropping like flies, as a species. This little phase of middle-class standards for the world is going to be short, sadly. But sincerely, it pleases me that you ever considered it (Remote Viewing).
Well, maybe not; but for those with a moderately open mind, you really should -- before concluding -- examine the works of two people. Dr. Lawrence LeShan and Dr. Daryl J. Bem have done some tremendous work on the subject of ESP. LeShan, in his early years went further, working with some extraordinary people, under genuinely scientific conditions. I simply can't imagine someone reading LeShan's The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist and having anything negative to say.
If ESP ever does prove itself an authentic protocol, then its tendency to allow the mind to accurately observe remote locations could suggest a breach in the presumed dependency of consciousness on the form. I also recommend visiting the CIA's CREST database and searching amongst the many thousands of Remote Viewing documents that have been released. Despite rational assumption, there's more than redaction lines to look at.
This is a fascinating subject and I am not telling anyone to make any assumptions either way, but please look at quality research that's available before making conclusions.
Since much of our thinking is actually affected by language, and language structures vary sometimes greatly (e.g. Chinese vs English), integrating an additional language into a mind seems highly likely to expand general mental capacity. Perspective is perhaps an underrated element. I am no linguist, but as I understand, a language such as English suffers a lot of nouns. Since most 'things' are actually not nouns, but motions in space/time, a language centered more around the verb may offer advantages. I find Alfred Korzybski's E-Prime quite intriguing. I think one interesting example might be the Chinese word for "fist" -- which i think in Cantonese is something like (pinyin) quan? -- , a noun in English, but an action or verb in Chinese. Maybe I am going a bit far with this, but it would seem to me that any form of exercise and added pliability would offer more capacity for mental tasks. But of course, not in all matters, i.e. mathematics.
I remember taking introductory German as a teenager and thinking differently because of it. While it didn't have me asking random strangers for their papers or hording bratwursts, I did feel more capable and confident because of it. Though I suppose this may be true of any substantial exercise, whether linguistic or otherwise.
Do you think you could say that with straight face while gazing into the empty eager eyes of a Microsoft lobbyist?
If we could look at this with the same objectivity through which we see Father's Day and Mother's Day, perhaps we could have two; one for each gender. I'm pretty sure I'd celebrate one of them by staying home though.
"....and you threaten to ditch the browser in favor [of] Chrome." No I don't, ever; not since etherape & I watched Chrome (and Chromium) phoning home to google while I was completely idle, with nothing but a blank page before me. I'll stick with a browser that isn't sentient, at least until AI makes a few more advances. It's also hard to beat about:config, unless you're pretty savvy. Here's a car analogy, sort of: There are two tool sets. Chrome gives you some armorall, windex, a little swiss army knife, and an air-freshener. Firefox gives you steel tools and a hammer.
While it is super neat to see this being done with routers by mere humans, it hardly compares to what our overlords have been doing for a long time. An old friend who was a low-level translator for the NSA (spying on Russians), had once described a patented device which was used for remote eavesdropping. For example, it would use the radiation from something like a television, or a monitor, etc., and through extremely sensitive observation, determine words by the electro-magnetic interference caused by the collision of sound with EM-fields. I'm pretty sure similar principles have been applied to objects for a while too.
Hate me if you will, but I can't remember the name of the apparatus mentioned by my old friend. This excerpt from a pretty interesting documentary about the quiet zone, in Western Virginia, I think fits the subject very well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWqfVq5Wn0I
I definitely want to make one though.
I wouldn't hesitate to make it a center-piece in my home. Reminds me of a time I -- as a lifeform -- entered the final moments of, where things were built by people who knew damned well how to build things. That's all I have to say, other than it's the first time I've seen one.
Gee, why don't we just outsource calculations like these directly to Wall Street, or Phillip Morris, or R.J Reynolds?
..without warning or good reason: http://eccentricintelligenceagency.info/archives/6373 -- You may find reason behind the suspension, but according to their own stated reason, I didn't meet the criteria for it. And logically, ethically, and for all practical purposes, their action was completely absurd, especially considering that you can easily watch videos of people being eaten by lions in front of their own families, gators tearing off arms, and scores of other terribly violent things -- without even logging in!
In my most arrogant opinion: Google = DoD, NSA, and before long, probably fascism too, if not already.
I'd be more inclined to flash the old routers, put on tomato, make catchy AP names, then limit all outgoing IP activity to goatse.
... it always occasionally sucks regardless
As many comments have mentioned, such things as copy/paste can be helpful, if not essential in finding the problem. In other cases where the ol' phone is required, the results may vary depending on language efficiency, knowledge, personality, the problem itself, etc. But something can definitely be said for the spoken word over that of text: Much of communication is not in the words alone, but in other expressions like facial, tonal, and so on. For someone who hasn't a great command of the terminology behind the problem, other nuances of communication may be very helpful in troubleshooting. But of course the nature of support varies a lot and so does the customer -- and each situation.
Not so much for "technical" support, but when I am forced to call in for customer service, I often find huge differences in efficiency when going directly to a supervisor. And for some issues, it makes me cringe to imagine the text-based versions of them.
I use Linux and the cli a lot. I was really giddy the day I finally forced myself to learn vim. But I've wasted many hours over the years exchanging problems over text that could've been much less by voice. I've also cast air before swine.
Because Yahoo and other similar services pimp the image of being both sophisticated and virtually omnipotent, while offering to manage your affairs, organize your life, provide targeted news headlines and personal suggestions regarding your personal life, and then covertly subpimp your personal data while indifferently and deeply mining your grazing habits -- I think this lawsuit is, compared to others, reasonable, if a lawsuit without grievous injuries or loss can even be so.
Not everyone has a degree in IT. Perhaps instead of guerrilla advertisement, Yahoo (and other similar services) could cough up at least a token effort for their cattle, I mean customers. Maybe they could reserve some extra ad-space to discourage unknowing subjects from having shared passwords. Maybe they could do a lot more in general, and a lot less too, in a good way.
I sympathize with neither side in this case, but can empathize with only one. Altruism, despite modern Goliaths, doesn't always need an ulterior motive. Yahoo preys on the sea of humanity, and a few minnows nip back. Pardon me whilst I desiccate myself with tears.
...in this new epoch of bath-salts and cannibalism! This is a prime example of the dangers of open-source information.
For fear that if I fail to comment on this subject, I'll be automatically labeled a terrorist by Authoritarian Intelligence, I half suspect that facebook can now predict the future of its many children. They will comply. And if they don't, well, they can advertise for free on their wall at Guantanamo bay.
Be sure to "Like" this comment.
Maybe the judge will also rule that HP must stop binding their hardware to BIOS to prevent users from customizing their own systems. Yeah, a little off topic, but HP sucks big enough to bitch anywhere their ugly name is found.
"System cannot boot. Unsupported hardware"
Hardware Pugnacity, louts!
There has been a mysterious bug causing total system freezes for many thousands of Mint users. A lot were attributed to Muffin/Cinnamon and allegedly solved for those particular users, but many others (like me, using Mate) seem to be graphics related and they persist. After updating to kernel 3.3.6 from 3.2.6, the issue seemed to go away. But after upgrading to 3.4.6-generic, it seems it may be back. The only thing close to a consensus is that it is graphics related. Many report that disabling nvidia drivers solves the issue, but my intel is affected too. I am not savvy enough to know, but whatever the hell is going on, it's pretty bad. Having your system completely crash every other hour is a genuinely terrible bug, or suite of them.
Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. - Bierce
Perhaps we should be scanning the cabbage instead?
Unity has been ready. Oh, pardon me; you're actually serious. Oh, you mean I have to pay for this one? So, it's like a more authoritarian Unity, but with a colossal license agreement, viruses and malware? What's this about DVDs? The Start Menu wasn't really removed you say? It was just ported to the subterranean Apple facility .....where?
I've had enough.
The housing section is appalling. It is so bad that crazed customers are forced to counter-spam just to fight back against the spammers. There are many instances of duplicate ads numbering in the 100s, and the only thing craigslist has done is set a feeble timeout function for the particular advertisers. There are also many ads which are unique, but are little more than external links to more spam.
One group of spammers/scammers lists hundreds of housing ads per month with clearly erroneous images showing, for example, heavy snow in Florida. They also like to trick people into credit reports, which they go to elaborate measure to accomplish. I traced them to the Netherlands, gathered all the other info I could and sent it to a particular handle at craigslist.com after sending it to the FBI too. Craigslist replied acknowledging the issue, but never did anything about it. The FBI never replied.
Something really did needed to change, but I doubt this new TOS will have any positive effect. Craigslist started as something truly fantastic, but which avoided things like redundant taxation. I guess it went sour when people began murdering people and such. Though I sometimes wonder if in its earlier stages it wasn't enough of a threat to certain groups that it was passively attacked. My conclusion is that it remains useful as a service, but has generally gone to shit.
PS: handle = jim
Especially if you are handling security. I deduce this not from experience, however; I deduce it from Verizon.
Yeah, I keep dropping that link. Can't help it.
..the wheel, of oppression?
I don't see why ISPs can't follow suit of the London Olympics and install missiles on customer rooftops. Hell, I'm sure the DHS & DoD would happily give a grant for that here, and Verizon would be delighted to manage them, while Haliburton could do the rebuilding for a fair price when some fool gets brave. Who's gonna use a proxy with a missile on their roof? ...or...we could just use drones. But we've got to do something!
Those FCC folks -- just a buncha narcissistic vulnerability pimps I tell ya.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/23/verizon_narcissistic_vulnerability_pimps/
They should have also ruled that Verizon sucks.