Re: [FRIAM] Monitoring Data Usage

2016-08-01 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Hi Nick I guess you want to identify the sites / processes on your Win-7 PC which are hogging your bandwidth. You will have to use the aptly named Win-7 "Task Manager" for this which is accessed by pressing the "Ctrl-Alt-Del" keys simultaneously. After "Starting the Task Manager", click the

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Steven A Smith
/... //Must be terrifying to someone like Putin. Almost feel sorry for him. Merkel and Clinton to telling him what to do all the time. //J/ /Marcus/ If only we could get Stephen Colbert and Tina Fey on the ballot... and into the oval office... sure we'd have to fill the

[FRIAM] Monitoring Users..

2016-08-01 Thread Joe Spinden
Some here might find this of interest.. https://theintercept.com/2016/07/29/a-famed-hacker-is-grading-thousands-of-programs-and-may-revolutionize-software-in-the-process/ -- Joe FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Marcus Daniels
“It has been suggested that Nixon and Coolidge were the only card carrying introverts with Jefferson and Madison being functionally introverted because of there extreme scholarly nature. Adams (senior, not JQ) also gets a nod. The rest are pretty likely not particularly introverted. It

Re: [FRIAM] Monitoring Data Usage

2016-08-01 Thread Gillian Densmore
Hail Nick! Ah I see you have met one of the many Dwarfs of a Above Average Phone! On my Android I ask it to yell realy loudly. When it yells realy real loudly (uses WIFI) mine doesn't use data. May haps that's one option If your house there has (regular) internet that might work. Else you'll be

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Marcus Daniels
What if the age of the middle class is just gone?It seems inevitable that robotics and gradual improvements to machine learning and then artificial intelligence will displace more and more workers.What the trend toward concentration of wealth is really just the first sign of a necessary

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Steven A Smith
Damn Nick! That is one enormously disarming and persuasive argument! Good luck with your distraction... I have a small clutch of freshly fledged Ravens in my trees acting up right about now... they made me think of you (and your interests, not your nature)! Most if not all of you will be

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Jochen Fromm
I don't understand everything you said but there seems to be a lot of anger in the air. So you would consider voting for Trump? My impression is that the old "American Dream" seems to be broken. No health care system can indeed fix a fast food culture which makes people sick because they

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Marcus Daniels
If individuals want to communicate they should be prepared to negotiate terminology.If there is a terminology established in some community, then an outsider's inability or unwillingness to adopt that language is suspect. There may be good reasons for insiders to tolerate that, but there

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Nick Thompson
Dear Friammers, As often happens, this list again throws up an interesting thread just when I am trying to concentrate on something else, and so cannot properly participate. This thread is about communication, which I spent my career studying, and communication in writing, in particular,

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread glen ☣
Of course. But knowing/deciding how much to cite and how much to place in context is also part of the problem. Because everyone has a unique interpretation of words (and a unique graph of concepts), it can be difficult to know how much must be spelt out and how much one can rely on common

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Jochen Fromm
Possibly, yes. Yes, interesting. Take Hitler, he attacked nearly every European country in WW II. First using words, then with his guns, tanks and rockets. His 'Blitzkrieg' was like a rampage killing on a national level. He was in fact a loser, a failed Austrian postcard painter who was

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread glen ☢
Well, sure, competence in communication involves both abilities: 1) to compress/abstract out detail so as to state your point clearly and 2) to place such a point inside a use case, a narrative. And although I think of abstraction as one of my skills (at least I tend to do it all the time,

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Steven A Smith
Gil - I second Glen's statement here. I personally value the fact that I know many people from many walks of life with many modes of apprehending and being in the world. This FriAM/WedTech Crowd is an important part of that (even though I rarely make a showing at either table in person).

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread glen ☢
Thanks for sharing more of your story! I believe it's our duty to share stories, the more personal the better. It's how we understand our and others' place in the world. Too many people are too terse and present context-less thoughts. It's possible that part of the steady increase in the

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Gillian Densmore
Hmmm well I apear to be the groups simple-person-type. Sure having some guesses as to why people are frankly snapping could be handy. I suspect as a simple-ol'fation kind of Countery-Bumpkinish type. These people had some frustrations that didn't get met. It possibly sat in there head while doing

Re: [FRIAM] Monitoring Data Usage

2016-08-01 Thread Nick Thompson
Thanks, Joe, Yes. HP Win7 PC, for my sins. There are a couple of things that may do it . Glasswire being the most promising. Being what Owen calls a "citizen", I am very slow to download exe's on spec. Until I get desperate. I don't like to be the first penguin off the floe.

Re: [FRIAM] Monitoring Data Usage

2016-08-01 Thread Joe Spinden
Nick, I assume you use a Windows system ? On a Mac you can look at the System Monitor to get information which seems to be what you are looking for. Perhaps others here can suggest a similar program on a Windows system. Joe On 7/31/16 11:34 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: Hi, Sarbajit, Thanks

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Tom Johnson
Yes, and it also could explain Trump's "verbal violence." === Tom Johnson - Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, NM SPJ Region 9 Director t...@jtjohnson.com 505-473-9646 === On Aug 1, 2016 2:53 AM, "Jochen Fromm"

[FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Jochen Fromm
Recently there has been an increasing number of rampage killings and suicide attacks in Europe and America. One theory says that rampage killings are related to pathological narcissism. The perpetrators are often offended narcissistic outsiders who want to restore their crippled sense of

Re: [FRIAM] Monitoring Data Usage

2016-08-01 Thread Marcus Daniels
One idea would be to configure your web browser to use a proxy server that was a parental control router. http://www.blocksi.net/parental-control.php Then you could use the analytics in the router software to study your own behavior (instead of a child’s). There may be cloud-based services for