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Comment Re:avoiding COMMONS tragedy (Score 1) 53

American culture has already decided that air/water/sewage are "public" resources. You may-not spew benzine over your own property, because its ill effects of necessity spread to MY property with no benefit to me. Same with water pollution. Now the issue is "energy pollution" ... for want of a better term; really another case of "commons" tragedy, but with energy instead of over-grazing sheep.  Same argument; regulations on energy use are both just and prudent. 

Comment fraud (Score 1) 97

by noshellswill (#65742988) Attached to: Rubbish IT Systems Cost the US At Least $40 Billion During Covid
"States that used an antiquated [unemployment insurance]-benefit system experienced a 2.8 percentage point decline in total credit and debit card consumption"

Any chance that 2.8%  'consumption' difference is due to fraud built-into modern non-COBOL software?  I mean, a time existed when thieving would embarrass ...  thieves. But, post-modern business feels  no such moderating  constraint and corrupted software ( browsers are the trivial example ) is one of the  expressive venues.

Comment Re:What's the big deal here? (Score 1) 72

Factory machines/innovation/automation   improved the hand-crafted GUILD system ? By what means and by what measure ?  The factory owners were supported by Kings/diktators/tyrants and effectively local warlords. In England people were driven off their self-reliant land ( "Corn Laws" ) to feed the machines sweat and blood. Is *.ai any different now ? Perhaps people jealous of their self-reliance will poison *.ai software, like pouring glue into fabric spinning machines.

Comment Re:eyebrow-raising (Score 1) 32

You are enamored of " proper, auditable, tested systems."  Such a mindset is appropriate for supporting "cash cows" with decades of history. Write the C-code/COBOL and get on with it. For clever new ideas chalk+slate or BOTE sketches prove more valuable. I prefer an artists 3'x2' artists sketchpad for my "hobby " calculations. For others an Excel spreadsheet replaces that slate+chalk  in modern business hypotheticals and toy models. Toys are just bigger now  than when Archimedes used sand-tables. BTW//  For extended numeric calculations I do prefer my own  gawdawful hacked C-code rather than Excel. Coding for me is much like writing poetry.

Comment Re:software always broken (Score 1) 93

Yes, you have hit the main-point: computers are much to dependent on "softest software" for basic functions.  A separate omniscient CPU/RAM/firmware "director-chip" or card  is a long overdue part of  ROBUST desktop computer systems.  Single-use read-only hardware is always more reliable than update-this-minute software. Of-course such a chip would return "too much"  power to users rather retain it for  M$/GOOG/META etcetc.  Upgrades to such a chip/card  BTW might be provided by "plug-in" chiplets like the old VICTORS.

Comment Re:Linux on the desktop will happen when (Score 1) 101

by noshellswill (#65736320) Attached to: FSF Reminds Consumers That Truly Free OS's Exist
"WINE actually works" ... in a very obscure bakazz sort of way only a nekbeard could love. I've used in on-and-off for 20 years and still can make no sense of it. I'm trying to get an old copy of TOPSPICE into an Ubuntu-24.04 system, and nothing is natural or obvious. Naturally , obnoxious WINE is NOT meant to be applied  by the casual-computer user, but by a very "nitch" set of Linux pros who are trapped using  some M$-based software program.  Sadly, WINE like the rest of the Linux eco-system has really not improved ease-of-use since RedHat-6. Get 1/2 f*ing-A step off the beaten path and casual lusr is screwed.

Comment Re:Yes. And what is the recommendation? (Score 0) 23

Recently  "... dragged kicking ad screaming ..." euns a bit over-the-top. Do you not think that a ROMAN Centurian carefully watched the design/manufacture/assembly of his centuries ballista "machine" ? Or that  makers of  failing ballista escaped the flog ?  I also understand that maedevil GUILDS were picky about apprentice training not just to limit supply, but because a just G*d was watching them construct the cathedral. Professional certification of engineers  is pretty-much a 19-th Century  anomoly, and was NEVER opposed by practicing engineers until wonkish nekbeards snatched power over computers from the military.

Comment Re:Uh, Wouldn't– (Score 1) 18

I believe current theory says the "strength" of the measurement determines completeness of the wave-function collapse.  Electron hitting a BRICK-WALL is a "strong" measurement. One wimpy X-ray passing thru the virtual-change cloud ?? So collapse is not an all-or-nothing thing.  Always seemed weird that when a particle passes thru a sit  ( in a double slit experiment ) the temporary local fields within surrounding  material couldn't be measured without  wave-function collapse.

Comment Re:bad. (Score 1) 238

by noshellswill (#65729204) Attached to: Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China
You say '... block any imported EVs ...' as if that  tariff action were a bad thing. I'd favor the  retro/contra-tilt: block ALL "industrial" manufactured  imports except medical equipment.  OTOH allow  importied "craft" products like German/Russian sausage , Irish whisky and Italian womens shoes.  Individuals and "guilds" and sweatshops may compete world-wide. A producer/designer  society values much higher than  consumer/investor cultures. Let globalist sociopaths and mercantile pederasts immigrant to China ha...hahaha and watch them howl when Maos' doppelganger rises again. .

Comment Re:It sounds to me... (Score 1) 34

Indonesia is a Muslim country with approx the same population of USA, but sharia-law & a yearly theater  box-office less than 10% of ours. Indonesia really does-not-count as a media mover, so their use of movie.ai fades into noise. When a country ( like China ) with a proven record of world-class films begins slurping *.ai into their art  then movie-goers  can start to worry. BTW// I do not consider integrated CGI-crafted catastrophes as "ai".

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