"Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you."
Is that your answer to my question about HGTV?
- Clare Dibble
Before you can program your mind you need to deprogram it, and the best way to deprogram it is to get to the bottom of and master intellectual history -- the invented and artificial but influential ideological tape loops that control collective human behavior among all cultures, and about which most people are entirely unconscious. Fully conscious people create and control cultural and ideological systems and loops, they are not controlled by them.
- Sean McBride
Too much work. Just tell me the answer.
- sofarsoShawn
Thanks imabonehead :) I was being I guess, very lamely sarcastic to highlight that our minds "programming" or its deprogramming comes as a result of the world itself telling us how to. ~ In short, I'd like to thank this quote for telling me how to think, oh shit... kinda back where I started... ~ ~~> Russell's quote, with your 1st link, has much more explanatory relevance
- sofarsoShawn
Many years ago I had a self hypnosis tape and "Every facet, every dept of your mind etc etc...." were the opening words. I can't remember the title of the tape and have been trying to find it. I remembered the opening lines and typed them in when they came up i thought I had finally found the CD i was looking for. can any-one here help me with this?
- Sweetdreams Johnny
I never heard this quote but believe it is a great one!
- Fred Bucheit
Microsoft Research is unveiling technology that turns any surface into a touch screen at a user interface symposium this week in Santa Barbara, Calif. Dubbed OmniTouch, it is a wearable system that allows multitouch input on "arbitrary, everyday surfaces," according to a description on a Microsoft Research Web page.
- Leo Laporte
Changing the world, one bow tie at a time, that's our D-man. If you were a hipster, you'd be saying "I was wearing bow ties before The Doctor proclaimed their coolness."
- Le Slip Anglais
"social networking giant Facebook will publicly unveil its “Project Titan” — a web-based email client — to the world at a media event scheduled for Monday, November 15th. The report cites anonymous sources and alleges that the email service will bring @facebook.com email addresses to its users."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
Mobile phone GPS can generally be activated in 2 ways. First, phone carriers offer a service to track the phone for a monthly fee. The service acts to find the phone if it’s lost or to be used by parent or a spouse to keep tabs on their families. Employers often activate GPS to locate employees. Once activated the carrier sends a text message to the phone alerting the person they are being tracked via the phones GPS. The person paying the bill who is responsible for the contract is usually the person who can turn on tracking.
- Mitchell Tsai
from Bookmarklet
Second, mobile phone spyware. Software is installed on the phone that allows for another level of “keeping tabs”. The software will locate the phone via GPS and also keep track of all the text messages and phone calls too. In this scenario spyware is most often installed manually by someone who has access to the device. Otherwise in rare instances it can be installed remotely.
- Mitchell Tsai
“Stalkers” who use the phones GPS are usually someone close to the victim like a family member or ex- boyfriend/girlfriend that has the capability of turning on tracking.
- Mitchell Tsai
If you suspect your phone’s GPS has been activated by the carrier then call to find out. If you don’t’ like the feature turned on, request it be turned off or get another phone under your own name. If you believe the phone has been compromised by spyware then call your carrier and request they walk you through the process of reinstalling the phones operating system. This will wipe away any spyware that tracks via GPS.
- Mitchell Tsai
No way do I want to be 93 *now*. When I actually *am* 93, there is a good chance that medical technology will have been able to slow or reverse some of the effects of aging in the interim.
- Michael R. Bernstein
44. I'd easily give up 10 or even 15.
- earlyadopter
"If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread over into your work, into your mortality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you." - Bruce Lee
I was allowing myself to get all fired up (not a great idea at 1.25AM Irish time) until I saw the dead guy who's dispensing the inspiration. Perhaps there are limits afterall Bruce.
- JSLeFanu
from FFHound!
There are always limits but sometimes its better to not know what those limits are.....those unknown limits can kill you though.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
@JSLeFanu Don't let Bruce hear you say that - he'll come back & kick your ass...
- Nick Lothian
You know lads this is getting me thinking about quotes. Heavy thoughts. Paul B is, as we know, a smart and successful guy. I'm wondering to what extent have the quotes he's paid attention to contributed to the success bit. I'm wondering because I'm beginning to suspect I've been spending too much time ingesting the wonderful, but cynical, thoughts of H.L Menken and not enough in the...
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- JSLeFanu
from FFHound!
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to go beyond them, into the impossible" (Arthur C Clarke)
- 9000
Limits are there for a reason. In music, they are called rests and without them you don't have the full expression of the music. Limits, properly set and respected, give us our greatest freedom.
- Melanie Reed
If it kills you, you get to come back and trying again anyway :)
- Private Sanjeev
I'm suddenly reminded of my high school calculus teacher, who would often break into the Eagles' "Take It to the Limit...".
- τorƍue
"A man's got to know his limitations" - "Dirty" Harry Callahan.
- Gabe
the Evo has lasted me for 2 days without plugging in
- David Robit Chen
It's really a format question... why isn't there more cross interaction between my three screens: television, computer, and phone/mobile device?
- Chris Aldrich
We're going to buy the 3G. It makes sense to have one that goes on the road.
- Karoli
I'm really annoyed that I pay AT&T $120/mo and not tethering
- Stephen Pickering
Chris, the smaller screens need to control the bigger screens.
- Cliff Gerrish
Task killer? Now that just reminds me horribly of my days prior to iPhone, aka when I suffered with Windows Mobile.
- Nick Wade
I think it's the other way around, the big screens need to allow the smaller screens in for interaction.
- Chris Aldrich
3G is the fill in network. Filling in the cracks between wifi signals.
- Cliff Gerrish
Karoli: Do it. I messed with a tethered WiFi for a bit, then got a 3G... 3G rulez. Not having to worry about another device is worth it.
- Ken Sheppardson
I got the 3G iPad last week. I haven't activated it yet but I like knowing it's there.
- Mike Doeff
Yeah, but why won't AT&T let me get the 3G off my iPhone for my iPad?
- Stephen Pickering
Berkeley/Oakland, no iPad sighting for me yet
- Da
I can't see paying an extra $30 a month for signal if you already have an iPhone. Spend the 20 seconds it takes to run Spirit on the iPhone, then install MyWi, and voila. Easy WiFi Tethering for your cheaper iPad.
- Otto
But then Apple doesn't make as much Brian if they don't tether you to the iTunes store.... That's the real tethering issue.
- Chris Aldrich
I think we'll see iPad sync via wifi fairly soon. That's what the Lala.com acquisition was about.
- Cliff Gerrish
there are over 10k versions of me on Facebook :) - until you start narrowing in on my nicknames
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
What about the issue Leo has about that Facebook is making a "grab" to control the web?
- Stephen Pickering
Didn't we have this same convo last week? And the week before? And the week before that?
- Ken Sheppardson
Facebook has 500 million co-conspirators in its 'grab' for the web
- Cliff Gerrish
I've argued that you should have two separate pages, one public facing the other totally private
- Stephen Pickering
I'm having trouble understanding how Facebook opening up more is a grab for the web. The more public it is, the easier to scrape & repurpose.
- Ian McGee
sounds like Facebook is trying to make the same change that sites like Geocities tried - the move from hobby/personal to hobby/personal/business
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
But even my flower shop should be able to post up drunken photos and have privacy settings to prevent all of my Mormon customers from seeing them.
- Chris Aldrich
I think Leo is talking about the "Like" implementation
- Stephen Pickering
So what do we do when the bad starts to creep up? When the porn sites, smashers, hackers and unethical users begin to leverage this power and blame it on Facebook?
- Jeff Madlock
calling us dumb isn't really great for getting us to listen. do you think we're not aware they sell data?
- Karoli
Banking and Airlines operate in a very strict regulatory regime. Europe has started that regime.
- Cliff Gerrish
I like the "like" button myself but I'm just re iterating Leo's argument. What happens when you like something? Do the users know their data is being collected and funneled through third parties when they "like" something?
- Stephen Pickering
With Facebook and privacy, one can use the cigarette analogy: doing it is bad for you in the long term, but a smoke today feels pretty good. The giving away of privacy today may not have consequences until it kills us 50 years from now.
- Chris Aldrich
Great analogy Chris, I heard someone else make that argument earlier this week. Can't remember who.
- Stephen Pickering
Chris, depending how old you are -- that's not a problem.
- Cliff Gerrish
The "like button" will be an incredible tool for cultural anthropologists at least...
- Chris Aldrich
Jay Rosen said Zuck's WP Editorial was "a bunch of crap"
- Stephen Pickering
I love the expectation of public roadmaps now. Can't think of anyone doing it 5-10 years ago, but it's incredibly useful. Little hard to mesh with constant iteration though.
- Ian McGee
I'm starting to feel like a rat who gets a treat for clicking on ads... Who is it that's doing the research on us?
- Chris Aldrich
Yes, but he build his network on privacy and then pulled the rug
- Stephen Pickering
I don't know why anyone is surprised by this. Free stuff has a price.
- Karoli
Yes, Karoli, but TV and Radio don't share are data surreptiously
- Stephen Pickering
just be selective with what you put on the internet
- Da
Stephen, TV and Radio made assumptions, reached a small fraction of who they could reach. I like seeing ads that I might be interested in.
- Karoli
Somebody needs to have a long talk with Robert about self-selection. People who don't want their calendars public don't sign up for public calendar services. The fact that those who do make their calendar's public doesn't speak to what "we" want.
- Ken Sheppardson
Now I do agree that Flippy or whatever it is, is silly. No way would I do that.
- Karoli
Oh sure, Karoli, I'm all in favor of the Google model
- Stephen Pickering
Public signaling is playing with masks. It doesn't represent a true state of affairs.
- Cliff Gerrish
re:Blippy - isn't it interesting that Orwell et al.'s visions are coming true, only it's in the guise of cute/whimsical Web 2.0 names and Facebook games about sheep...
- Alex Schleber
But far more people spend far more time on Facebook than Yahoo...
- Ian McGee
Yahoo Buzz gets large volumes of traffic too... I'm not sure why though.
- Chris Aldrich
People spend 7hours a month on Facebook, no other site is even close, the problem is they can't monetize it and that's why they haven't gone public and had to take DST's money
- Stephen Pickering
BTW, for me UStream is constantly re-caching when I have the browser tab in focus (my connection is plenty fast); works OK as just audio in the background.
- Alex Schleber
Why doesn't Yahoo build a great social network? Did you see that POS they tried a few years back? Build one that's cool and works and does everything FB does
- Stephen Pickering
Will Yahoo buy a location-based platform?
- Wayne Sutton
yahoo answer to get homework answered is great
- Da
Sooner or later the individual user will have the tools to control and maintain their own infrastructure on the web and will link out into the world instead of relying on FB and other social media sites.
- Chris Aldrich
Facebook NewsFeed is getting meatier iwth all the new-media news groups I've been adding to my stream -- TechCrunch, VentureBeat, etc. plus a bunch of affiliation groups. I'm finding more stories there and on Twittertim.es lately..
- Ian McGee
Chris, totally agreed, everyday there are new tools for "average" users to build there own sites with advanced features. Scoble interviewed Buzzr which is a usability layer on top of Drupal
- Stephen Pickering
I was just watching that Buzzr interview just before this started. It's definitely a good start...
- Chris Aldrich
All this talk about user built apps makes me miss hypercard...
- Cliff Gerrish
Yeah, that kind of thing I believe could disrupt a Facebook in the next 5-10 years, maybe less
- Stephen Pickering
I mean Drupal just rocks, but its so hard, give the average person that kind of power easily, and I feel something new developing
- Stephen Pickering
The central social index gives facebook an advantage over distributed systems.
- Cliff Gerrish
HyperCard is locked in Steve Jobs's basement; thats the trouble with building on one company's code
- Kevin Marks
I love the potential of projects like Webfinger to be one of the enabling strategies for all of this.
- Chris Aldrich
Hypercard turned into javascript and then jquery...
- Cliff Gerrish
The only reason Facebook is important is because we have a dearth of connectivity. When everyone has a fiber connection a totally new peer to peer type of revolution will happen, I believe, decentralized, with the intelligence at the edges of the network
- Stephen Pickering
We will each be our own facebook page, connected to each other with the same or even better features
- Stephen Pickering
there is an architectural imperative because of NAT against distributed clients; My hope is that IPv6 will change this again
- Kevin Marks
I also think FB has removed a lot of the "force" behind someone's desire to build their own page. They're effectively already doing it with FB, so something new has to have real benefits.
- Ian McGee
Da, that's already going on. Many developers are taking a close look at Android to replace; just takes more Android units out there to make it clear.
- Ian McGee
And most of all, THANK YOU Steve for always putting these together!
- Chris Aldrich