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SFW
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning
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Never mind Windows, how many times does VS2017 need to update?! "Too many, too often" is the answer.
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My Android is always wanting to update. So is my Linux. And neither are particularly fast at it. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Was about to write the same thing. Even worse with Android is that it will declare there isn't enough memory, so the update can't be completed, even though there clearly is enough memory.
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011111100010 wrote: My Android is always wanting to update.
Whereas my Android finally got upgraded to Nougat in October last year, and hasn't seen a security update since. (The previous security update was from April.)
Guess I'll just have to live with all the security vulnerabilities discovered since... 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You have an Android device that updates itself??? Or do you just mean individual apps?
Apps, sure--but I have 4 Android-based tablets here; one from Dell, two from Acer, and I forget the last one...running Android 2.1, 4.3, 4.4 and 6.0. None of them has ever got a single OS update, which means that things like Heartbleed (now long patched elsewhere) are still a problem, and are most likely not to be resolved, ever.
Yet my "dead", "unsupported" Windows phone still got updates earlier this month.
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I prefer frequent updates to being exposed to malware and hackers. Yes, it's a never ending struggle. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I prefer getting work done, it's a rewarding use of time
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Come now. Do the updates really take so much time out of your work week?
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actually no idea, haven't run an update for a few years, there was nothing in them I needed, nothing useful.
you do realise all the latest scary stories, wannacry, meltdown, spectre included are weaknesses, but still rely on operator stupidity to be effective - they still need you to run something on your machine to give the access, download something, double click an email attachment... as has always been the case with every virus since the 1980's (which btw is when I first got into computers). OK, there were a few exploits found in mailservers and similar but those are long gone, and I don't run a server.
There's actually nothing very new in those "new" viruses, trojans, malwares except perhaps the way they instantiate themselves (yes because with updates the older holes are closed). It's like new cars are far better then the old ones and have less [old] problems, but they're still 5 wheels and an engine - the "new model" is just that - a new model of the same thing, improved yes, but not a completely new item. wannacry is just the new bleeding hearts which was the new iloveyou which was the new ... Same crap, different name.
Short version: I don't need crap designed to protect idiots slowing me down. I mean do you still use training wheels when you ride a bike? No matter how you say it, it's the same bloody thing.
If my computer is on it's because I'm using it, when I'm not using it it's switched off, and so yes, the time taken for updates is my lost time, it wastes my time, and I gain nothing from it.
Oh and yes, I've got zero sympathy for anyone that gets infected, because only one thing is true: it was their own fault, and I'll happily tell them exactly that too.
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Well, I think I was attacked 3 times (it may have been 4) with some variant of Ransom malware, when I visited malicious websites. Every time I was surfing, searching for information on some programming issue I was having. Every time it took me less than 30 minutes to recover, because I always have a fairly recent systems drive image that I could restore.
I have a strategy to recover when attacked. I am not going to cower in some safe little corner for fear of the nasty low lives that stink up the Internet.
Does that make me an idiot? I think not. I stay prepared! 
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So what you say is your backups helped you, not so much the updates.
As to malicious websites, never had a problem even when warned the site was malicious. If the settings are correct it's not possible; there are settings to block or at minimum ask before downloading and/or running anything - it's that simple.
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I believe updates help also, but backups are *vital* regardless of other protections.
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+5 for winning the Internet with that message. 
Jeremy Falcon
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The last frame is wrong. It should be present tense there. 
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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...What is your train of thought on this one???[^]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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You seem to want our esteam.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Restoring that will require some enginuity.
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It remembers me on my childhood.
My birth down was at one of the two last routes where steam locomotives where servicing passenger trains in Germany. So the DB (Germany Railways) collects a lot of the remaining locomotives to be located at those routes. Instead of repairing defective locomotives, they where parked on the tracks of an disused freight depot in my birth town. They parked there rusting for many years until removed one after another. It was a sad sight.
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I cannot help but wonder if there isn't enough steel in those engines to make scrapping them and selling the parts as scrap worthwhile?
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There is and it was usually done. But once the condition has reached those from the photo it is often not worthwile anymore because it has to be done on-site or you need an expensive heavy weight truck.
The locomotives from my childhood with better condition has been finally moved for scraping and the others has been scraped on-site. Interestingly they modified many of the tenders on-site to become snowploughs.
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I thought I'd track down the problem but got tied up on a couple of things while conducting the investigation.
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I don't think that is ready to service any pull requests.
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"Politicians promises reduced to a list." (8)
Good luck.
Andy B
modified 18-Jan-18 4:01am.
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Manifest
Reduced Manifesto.
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