ThurstonMoore - Slashdot User

Comment I understand now --- (Score 1, Interesting) 18

by noshellswill on Thursday September 25, 2025 @10:44AM (#65682658) Attached to: Apple Asks EU To Scrap Landmark Digital Competition Law

"...and disrupting the simple, seamless way their Apple products work together." --- that any law intruding on Apples monopoly practices ought to be ... unlawful. Did I catch those unspoken words correctly ? Does a bigger entitled KAREN exist within USA public companies.

Comment Re: Rufus (Score 1) 39

by ThurstonMoore on Thursday September 25, 2025 @07:18AM (#65682270) Attached to: Microsoft Offers No-Cost Windows 10 Lifeline

Yes

Comment Rufus (Score 1) 39

by ThurstonMoore on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @07:11PM (#65681554) Attached to: Microsoft Offers No-Cost Windows 10 Lifeline

All you have to do is download the Win 11 ISO from MS then use Rufus to create a bootable flashdrive installer that bypasses the hardware check and creates a local user account. I just installed Win 11 on my unsupported Ryzen 2200u laptop, no problems.

https://rufus.ie/en/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

Comment Re:sad case (Score 1) 44

by noshellswill on Friday September 19, 2025 @01:20PM (#65670800) Attached to: Paris DVD Rental Store in Last Stand Against Streaming Giants

NOTHING is a very big number ... like infinity. Excluding books ... I just checked my sketchpad and recovered names of three "recent" movies I intend to see again: <The Rapture ... Jacobs Ladder ... Beetlejuice >. And almost any film featuring Shirley McClain or Alec Guinness. You really are known by the trails you trek & the company you keep.

Comment sad case (Score -1, Offtopic) 44

by noshellswill on Friday September 19, 2025 @10:37AM (#65670488) Attached to: Paris DVD Rental Store in Last Stand Against Streaming Giants

Parisians have seemingly slid (stumbled?) into the bog of content consumption. I presume France maintains public parks, sea-shores, woodlands and trekking venues. How does some overpaid illusionists fantasy compare to the immensity and beautiful savagery of native environs ? Don't go naming a few creative works of art ... as Picasso observed damned-near every art-form produced after 20-K BC is simple decadence. Create your own joy and endorphin-goading hi! If anyone the French ought to be held to this standard; Alpine meadows & gorgeous Slovenian trout-streams are prolly hours away. Why settle for cultural slops ( streaming media) a wild pig would ignore. Sad sad case.

Comment Re:200 million agents take offence (Score 1) 111

by noshellswill on Friday September 19, 2025 @12:10AM (#65669860) Attached to: China's Future Rests on 200 Million Precarious Workers

That's a damned-funny post. Not everyone bows to the mandarin. You SHOULD get three (3) karma points for leading a verbal "ox" to gore the vastly entitled China-philates.

Comment Re:health (Score 2) 53

by noshellswill on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @11:54PM (#65667532) Attached to: Chimps Drinking a Lager a Day in Ripe Fruit, Study Finds

If you're (simply) correct, then lots of Mediterranean cultures ought to have just-TONS of diabetics. But ... that is not so. You are missing some "hidden" variable that "directs" sugar, carbs and alcohol into their disproportionate USA role.

Comment Re:More Redefining Words? (Score 1) 72

by noshellswill on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @03:26PM (#65666644) Attached to: Is TV's Golden Age (Officially) Over? A Statistical Analysis

Sorry about the tarnished karma, pal. You're gold, but talking to a pack of luzerz who don't know: Spin & Marty, Atom Squad, Playhouse 90 and Omnibus/Dave Garaway. Nor Canadian football , gals roller-derby, Weds-night fights and Bobo-Brazil / Galager Bros. Or Fabians' ( A Lion walks among Us ) brilliant jail-scene. Don't even try.

Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 42

by noshellswill on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @08:05PM (#65664520) Attached to: UK's MI5 'Unlawfully' Obtained Data From Former BBC Journalist

Even the slightest hint of non-wokeness gets zero (0) karma. And conservatives pointing pout that obvious fact, get zero (0) karma. What malevolent insectivorus infestation does Slash-Dot support ?

Comment Re:Must a turbine blade be INSIDE a cargo hold (Score 1) 184

by ThurstonMoore on Monday September 15, 2025 @09:56AM (#65660470) Attached to: 'If We Want Bigger Wind Turbines, We're Gonna Need Bigger Airplanes'

Use drones, eliminate the human error element.

Comment Re: Question (Score 1) 78

by ThurstonMoore on Friday September 12, 2025 @09:19AM (#65655590) Attached to: Apache Software Foundation Unveils Its Branding Overhaul With New Logo, 'The ASF' Name

That was my first thought.

Comment Re:That's cute (Score -1) 20

by noshellswill on Thursday September 11, 2025 @06:15PM (#65654688) Attached to: Britannica and Merriam-Webster Sue Perplexity Over AI 'Answer Engine'

Webster can say whatever it wishes and that text belongs to them. If one book does not give you definitions you want, then buy another book !

Comment Re:Gas has externalities (Score -1) 202

by noshellswill on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @11:07PM (#65652570) Attached to: BMW Says Europe's Gas Engine Ban 'Can Kill an Industry'

If we factor in all the up-stream cultural value derived using cheap energy ( like gas ), then we will not care how many unproductive big-city hotentots or SJWs drop dead early from smoggy skies or acid rain.

Comment Re:Rich folks want to be vampires (Score -1) 93

by noshellswill on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @04:09PM (#65649212) Attached to: Reuters Withdraws Xi, Putin Longevity Video After China State TV Pulls Legal Permission To Use It

You sound like a person who has never produced anything of value. Able humans work for the pure joy of producing; wealth is a natural free-flowing result of any-such production. No doubt, the off-spring of wealthy parents become wealthy themselves W/O effort. The logic of allowing that is the 60% / 40% genetic gifting of ability --- so inheritance and marriage both have the same final cause ... identifying and gifting the most able. Likewise a culture allows wealthy corporations to continue producing wealthy because they are also ( until say Y2K ) the most like to product value. Think old 20-th Century Westinghouse, Ford, DEC, IBM, Amana, RCA, HP etcetc.

Comment Re:A jab at Misk (Score 0) 83

by noshellswill on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @11:15AM (#65648486) Attached to: Sam Altman Says Bots Are Making Social Media Feel 'Fake'

Xs short-term valuations may be hurt, but its long-time existence will be favored. Companies/guilds etc that cater to "discriminating" buyers tend to last much longer than fly-by-night / race to the bottom start-ups. Musk builds for the long-haul and his stock-holders / workers / customers will reap the financial/cultural benefits of quality and stability. Of-course GEN-Q "twitchers" cannot conceive the ansatz.

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