noshellswill - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I have little concern (Score -1, Troll) 35

by noshellswill on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @07:26PM (#64778417) Attached to: Windows Update Zero-Day Being Exploited To Undo Security Fixes

The 3-letter government agencies pay M$ good money to ensure zero-day weaknesses are always present in Microsoft products. Both Chinese and Russian states are heavily subsidized to fall into that trap ( by allowing effectively free Windows variants ). Do you want your Federal tax monies to be wasted ? Same with APPLE though they talk a good line and their back-doors are more subtly hidden.

Comment Re: Let me be the first to say: (Score 1) 63

by noshellswill on Saturday August 31, 2024 @11:13PM (#64752472) Attached to: Oceanographers Mapping Underwater Mountain Find Flying Spaghetti Monster

Human free will is both obvious and manifest for the observant human being. Do I hunt this or that mammoth ? Do I pasture my sheep in this field or that field ? For this many body problem, do I spherical Bessel Functions or Spherical harmonics ? W have influencing biology and sensory/mental experience ... but, also free will.

Comment Re:no child asked to be here regardless of climate (Score 1) 302

by noshellswill on Saturday August 31, 2024 @10:38PM (#64752432) Attached to: 'Is It Ethical to Have Children in the Face of Climate Change?'

Universal truth: love is productive. It's almost the definition of love. People who love dry-flies tie dry-flies. People who love pointers(*) code arrays. When a man loves a woman they produce a child. For the BELIEVER, this man/woman production reflects the begetting of Jesus Christ from the Father.

Comment Re:WTF is "peloton"? (Score 1) 137

by noshellswill on Thursday August 22, 2024 @11:22AM (#64726580) Attached to: Peloton To Start Charging Subscribers With Used Equipment $95 Activation Fee

Charging for activation of a used product does NOT seem to be the way a company grows a base of users. Make it cheap (or nothing ) , make it easy and make it like encountering your long-lost brother. BABY-BOO does not charge for diaper-changing services Only a completely "overgrown" product/service can survive activation fees, since no more new units can be sold.

Comment Re:Demand pricing could get stores in trouble (Score 1) 221

by noshellswill on Sunday August 18, 2024 @07:11PM (#64716794) Attached to: Will Electronic Price Labels Tempt Stores to Try 'Dynamic Pricing'?

Don't believe the big-box stores promises of lower electronic-listed prices. There's a gas station close to me that changes prices (at least) hour by hour. The gas station is on a heavily used 4-lane suburban roadway. I suspect the prices there go up during commute-times, and drop the match the prices at a station one mile away near an executive airport. Given the electronic price listing, watch the prices on milk and butter and bacon change by the hour as people buy for tomorrows breakfast.

Comment Re:Hacking (Score 1) 95

by noshellswill on Saturday August 17, 2024 @01:11PM (#64713846) Attached to: US Presses the 'Reset Button' On Technology That Lets Cars Talk To Each Other

Well spoken. I recently gave up my fabulous std.-tranny 2003 Ford-Focus hatchback. Replaced with a rocket-science 2023 Nissan. The Ford was eminently understandably by me and repairable by my mechanic . But, he said a rebuild ( ~$10-K ) was insecure because of all the parts he would not replace. The family was adamant that I go modern , even with lots of wiz-bangs buttons, display screen and switches I don't even dare touch. I still pine for the ol' Ford.

Comment Re:Results of weak border policy (Score 1) 146

by noshellswill on Friday August 16, 2024 @01:01PM (#64711720) Attached to: Florida Man Arrested For Causing $700,000 In Damage At Solar Power Facility

Indeed the comments of original poster are insightful. When two klads of people hate each-others basic principles you can expect violence between them. Poster points to this human fact. Muslims took the Levintine by force and imposed their theocracies ... Zionists took a part of those conquered lands by force and express their cultural values. Hutsies butchered Tutsies in Africa. Alsas-Lorraine German/French battles are centuries old. American Indian tribes fought violently for lands east of the Mississippi River; you surely know of the Cherokee Nation and of the Mohawk/Iroquois disputers in New York state. It's all very human even if horrific.

Comment Re:Well...yeah.... (Score 0) 82

by noshellswill on Thursday August 15, 2024 @11:34PM (#64710388) Attached to: Eric Schmidt Walks Back Claim Google Is Behind on AI Because of Remote Work

If you don't have the drive, then you best find a hive. In-the-day I was sole judge, jury and executioner in a "granted" microbiology digital imaging lab. We had excellent teks, the best-of-best equipment and I felt privileged the work at the "leading edge of the opening wave" (as M/ Mcluen put it). Yes, I did all the experiments, all the maths, and admined the Linux mid-frame as well as the PCs. Ave week was 70-hrs --- wrote papers in my spare time and became rather good with spherical Bessel Functions. My boss was a sharp child cancer specialist. From a wood-worker to an M-Theory wonk, anyone who wants to excel pays the piper. I left after an earthquake and the Los Angeles riots near trashed my building.

Comment Re:"Core Convenience NFC Fee" (Score 1) 37

by noshellswill on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @08:44PM (#64707200) Attached to: Apple To Open Payment Chip To Third Parties and Charge Fees

Damnation! Posters here talk about these APPLE-taxes as if they were laws of the universe. Do you really have that much extra pocket-money or enjoy being abused? Well good for you. Some people staying in hotels LIKE metal keys; some DEMAND a metal key(s) to open the door to their room. Mechanical nearly pik-proof keys are available/ See The Lock Picking Lawyer for details.

Comment Re: Meanwhile in Jacksonville... (Score 1) 109

by noshellswill on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @08:06PM (#64707114) Attached to: Unprecedented Number of Heat Records Broken Around World This Year

We've had a modest summer with my (patio) daytime temps in the 85/95-F range and casual showers. Like most of the last 2-decades. Of-course the St Johns River pushes serious Gulf storms ( anecdotal ) to the west. Poor upscale St Augustine catches most Atlantic hurricanes.

Comment Re:Kobayashi Maru (Score 2) 53

by noshellswill on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @07:13PM (#64707004) Attached to: Research AI Model Unexpectedly Modified Its Own Code To Extend Runtime

So I've read. the creators of any LLM-AI system have no certain idea how the system reaches its results to any prompt. So AI gets created and then does-its-thing. I bet the re-coding to avoid FAILS is like a sledge-hammer in a china-shop. That includes fudging training-sets. It certainly was when I wrote AI systems back in the 1990s. I could always demand a node have </> some specific value ... or even a random value ... though I still had no determinate idea how any specificc result occurred. Even in the PC/pen-and-pencil age solution-space was as large as semi-manual data-entry would allow. Prudently one can judge LLM-AI as a "bad seed" until proven otherwise.

Comment Re:And here we go (Score -1, Troll) 189

by noshellswill on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @02:42PM (#64702952) Attached to: The Nation's Best Hackers Found Vulnerabilities in Voting Machines - But No Time To Fix Them

A (patriot) felon charged in a progressive hell-whole, convicted by a Stalinist-like show-trial, run by nests of Trotsky-slut vipers directed from the highest bureaucrat levels. You call that a trial ? Pray you don't experience that level of justice. Stalin surely thought his show-trials delivered the justice he desired; citizens and </.> posters are known by the company they keep.

Comment Re:No paper ballots = You want to cheat (Score 0) 189

by noshellswill on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @02:25PM (#64702894) Attached to: The Nation's Best Hackers Found Vulnerabilities in Voting Machines - But No Time To Fix Them

Well spoken. After a picture ID ( drivers license etc,) disclosure , Florida uses paper ballots that are then auto-scanned for completeness before the voter leaves the polling-place. Florida voting is quick and secure. BTW// Bright red Jacksonville voted in a Democrat mayor this term ... because the (Re)publifats cut themselves apart, while the Democrat gal candidate was a sharp-looking ex-news presenter. No need for any insecure internet-connected electro-robot to reflect the peoples will.

Comment decades (Score 1) 142

by noshellswill on Sunday August 11, 2024 @09:14PM (#64697604) Attached to: Mozilla Wants You To Love Firefox Again

I've used FIREFOX browser ( over Linux ) exclusively for two (2) decades without a major issue. Adding fancy new features just complicates matters for the casual user. Features are not all upside! Compare a Star-Trek phasor to a Mauser-98 ... and ask the non-expert which one he prefers; smartphones are a perfect example of innovation run wild and detracting from usability. Keep simple tasks simple, and create a separated clever API for complex matters. I made that same argument to OPERA when they were quickly expanding, but they did not listen.

Comment Re:So far, Yes. (Score 1) 102

by noshellswill on Sunday August 11, 2024 @08:53PM (#64697556) Attached to: Can Food Scientists Re-Invent Sugar?

Dodging sugar intake is a big deal for me; I'm an old-guy and have type-2 diabetes. I struggle to maintain weight. My diet requires no coke/candy/alcohol/cake/cookies/ ... and a minimum of high-sugar fruits. So lots of things I can't eat or make a regular part of my diet. It's worked OKey for half-a-decade. A small risk from some exotic (semi)-natural chemical that reduces blood sugar-levels will greatly help my quality of life.

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