I wasn't really talking about download speeds on the Victor. As far as I
can tell the downloads go just fine on that. But then, I don't exactly
watch them either. I just turn on wifi when I am using my Bluetooth
speaker and the downloads proceed in the background. I have the progress
announcements turned off. When I am ready for a podcast they are waiting
for me in the podcast folder. I was talking about downloading something
on the computer. It really does work a lot better if I unplug it for a
while every day. I can be downloading an Accessible World podcast, for
example, and it downloads very slowly and sometimes just hangs up. Then
I remember that I haven't unplugged my modem for a while, so I unplug it
and sit there for about five minutes and plug it back in and the
download is then almost instantaneous. But, as a matter of fact, aside
from download speeds my wifi works a lot better that way too. When
listening to a radio station I often get a lot of please wait
announcements and the station failed to announcements. Doing a search on
BARD, Bookshare or podcasts and radio stations can do the same thing
like I just experienced with finding this podcast. I can't say that
unplugging the router completely clears up the problem, but it does help
just like it did in this instance. I think I would recommend a regular
unplugging. I take five minutes and that could be done when you are
doing any number of other things. And, yes, I am using a Victor Reader
Trek. I don't know that that would have anything to do with how well the
wifi works with it, but I also don't know a lot of things about these
devices. My guess, though, is that if you tried disconnecting the power
from your router on a daily basis you just might find that things that
you thought were working perfectly well will start working even better.
___
Sam Harris
“Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen
yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence
as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell
him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who
will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every
incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what
so ever.”
― Sam Harris,
On 3/1/2020 9:34 PM, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have only had to unplug the modem rather often when I was using Internet
Explorer on the windows 7 computer because periodically, I E wouldn't work. I
almost never have a problem with the stream in relation to downloading. But I
have a second gen stream. You bought the newer version, didn't you? My download
speed with the stream is usually fine. Very occasionally, there's a problem
with a download of a specific episode of a podcast, usually Flashpoints from
Pacifica Radio. But usually, everything goes smoothly. Now that I have the new
computer which Londa set up with Google Chrome as the browser, I have had no
problem with internet connectivity on my computer. I just learned something
from you. I didn't know that the 5 key would give a description of the podcast.
There are 10 episodes of mint cast. I've listened to three and I chose 2 more
to download and will listen to them.
Miriam
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I was able to get it. I had to unplug my modem for a few minutes and then when
I entered Mint Cast four results came up. One was obviously not the one I
wanted, so I subscribed to the other three. I forgot to press the five key to
check on the content first before I subscribed.
But when I remembered it turned out to be the second one. I suppose I will have
to go back and unsubscribe from the other two. It is recommended that the
modem/router be unplugged for a few minutes about once a week, but I find that
my wifi works better if I do it every day.
My downloads improve on speed if I do it every day too. I just don't seem to
get around to it every day. I find myself doing something when I think about it
and telling myself that I'll do it when I get finished and then I get finished
and forget about it and don't think of it again until I am in the middle of
something else.
___
Sam Harris
“Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen
yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence
as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell
him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who
will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every
incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what
so ever.”
― Sam Harris,
On 3/1/2020 4:21 PM, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
That's really bizarre. My paranoid side says that West Virginia
doesn't want you to receive this podcast. (smile)
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I just keep getting please wait and then, eventually, service error. I may have
to unplug my router for a few minutes.
___
Sam Harris
“Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen
yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence
as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell
him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who
will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every
incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what
so ever.”
― Sam Harris,
On 3/1/2020 9:50 AM, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I hope it worked for you. I didn't use any capital letters, just two words,
mint cast.
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Okay, I tried that and it didn't work. Perhaps I somehow entered the letters
wrong. I will try again when I get off the computer and back to my Victor.
___
Sam Harris
“Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen
yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence
as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell
him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who
will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every
incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what
so ever.”
― Sam Harris,
On 2/29/2020 9:07 PM, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I found it by typing mint cast, with a space between the two words, and then
pressing the pound key. It was the first result.
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I did a search for that Mint Cast. So far I only searched for it on my Victor
Reader rather than Googling for it. But I was unable to find it.
I searched for the two words together and got no results. I searched for the
two words combined into one word and that didn't work either. Then I searched
for just the word Mint. For that I got a long list of results and browsing
through them I saw that most of them could not be the one I was looking for,
but a few looked like they might be possibilities. I am supposing that you are
listening on your Victor, So I am wondering if you have the spelling right on
this list or if you do then how did you find it?
___
Sam Harris
???Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen
yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence
as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell
him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who
will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every
incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what
so ever.???
??? Sam Harris,
On 2/29/2020 3:40 PM, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Well, it turns out that it isn't only Democracy Now which is being
subverted. I have, for almost a year, been hearing discontent from
the journalists whom I most respect, about The Intercept. I know,
from my own experience, that there are a few Intercept reporters,
whose reporting I trust and others, not so much. Well, today I
listened to the Mint Cast episode which was an interview with Yasha
Levine, the author of Surveillance Valley, a book that I've read
and which is on BARD. His Russian Jewish family emigrated here when he was a
child.
Did you know that this country had special rules for Jews
emigrating from Russia to make it easy for them like the provision
of housing and welfare benefits? That isn't because America loves
Russian Jews, but because they were used as pawns in this country's
cold war against the Soviet Union. Levine is a technology expert
and he knows a lot about the history of how the internet came to be
and how it has evolved. But one of the things that he talked about
today, and that was in the book, is Edward Snowden. You probably
remember that Snowden gave all of the NSA material that he had, to
Glenn Greenwald who, at the time, was working for the Guardian. The
Guardian and the Washington Post published some of Greenwald's
stories about the material, and then Greenwald, along with Jeremy
Scahill, started The Intercept as part of First Look Media, a project funded by
the billionaire owner of Ebay.
The Intercept published more of Greenwald's stories about Snowden's
material, and then it published other secret material given to it
by two other whistle blowers who were very quickly exposed and arrested.
But what the Intercept didn't do, was to publish the majority of
Snowden's NSA documents. So Snowden ended up stuck in Russia,
unable to leave because the US will immediately arrest him for
treason, but only a fraction of the material for which he risked
his life, has been revealed. Levine also explained that Snowden
believes that change should only come through technology, not
through political action or any other kind of citizen action.
Because his life and safety are now dependent on the Russian
government and The Intercept, he cannot complain about the fact
that the Intercept hasn't followed through on its commitment to him. I should
also note that he's involved with The Freedom of the Press Foundation, which is
doing nothing for Julian Assange. The fact that he has said almost nothing
about Assange, was also mentioned on the podcast.
There's a lot more of interest in the podcast.
Miriam
