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Could be? It wouldn't be hard to do that. I'd think an ESPN would not do that stuff, but you never know.
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Organisations with bosses who know about technology are more likely to implement a successful digital transformation. This news brought to you by the Glaringly Obvious magazine
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Consumers are uneasy about being watched, listened to, or tracked by devices they place in their homes, consulting firm Deloitte found in a new survey it released Wednesday. Or maybe they realize they're just not useful?
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Does anyone actually believe that's the reason? 
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Windows 7 – KB4048957
Windows 8 – KB4048958
Windows 10 – KB4048952 KB4048953 KB4048954 KB4048955
These updates stop older Printers from printing full stop. In Ireland all 1,600 doctors practices were rushing to uninstall these updates as public prescriptions are printed on multi-layer pre-print tractor feed paper. Most practices uses Epson L?/300 or similar printers.
No word from Microsoft yet...
modified 16-Nov-17 13:28pm.
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Wow... I bought an Epson RX 80 FT+ in 1984... and I see Epson LX 300 printer are being offered for sale at big box stores.
Solutions are being offered - uninstall the update, but it begs the question: shouldn't a computer that prints prescriptions be prevented from auto-updating?
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Tim Carmichael wrote: Solutions are being offered - uninstall the update, but it begs the question: shouldn't a computer that prints prescriptions be prevented from auto-updating?
Just the opposite, they handle very sensitive Patient Medical Information and thus need to be as secure as possible and thus auto-update.
Also, these computers are managed by under paid doctors and nurses not IT managers. Most doctors practices have a staff of around 3-10 people.
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'Secure as possible' in my world means 'test before implementing'.. in this case, have a second computer that does NOT auto-update and remains under lock and key and disconnected from the network until needed.. as it appears to be.
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What MS does not seem to understand since they dropped Windows 8 on an unsuspecting world, is that many people around this world are using Microsoft OSs on the front line and we expect them, barring hardware failure to elephanting work like they did yesterday.
You would think they would be happy with their standing in the world but no, they'd rather screw us up on purpose as if sport.
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This also affects Windows 7, so why bring up Windows 8?
To me, this more points to the problem with Microsoft (and many other companies) reducing testing departments (in favor of automated tests.) Automated tests are great, but are only as smart as the tester who wrote them. (Here, I'll guess the tester didn't even think of adding dot matrix printers to the suite.)
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Never in the history of ever has this been a good idea where stability is concerned in a professional environment. Sure, for the average home user, but not for professionals that depend on rock solid stability. Try running an ISP where the OS just magically changes for instance. See how far you get.
Jeremy Falcon
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I agree with you fully and, as someone who has dealt with this issue for decades, Microsoft is doing a really good job of convincing people that Windows 10 is not the OS to use in those situations.
On the computers we deploy we ALWAYS remove W10 and install W7 and we always disable auto-updating. At this point in time, we do not trust W10 for anything more than laptops and only because it's our only option on these machines. We are a manufacturing company and so far I don't know of any systems deployed using W10 and I do my darndest to avoid it.
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Totally. And I think updates are a good idea, but controlled and allowed for testing before being sent out to production. Glad to see I'm not alone in this regard.
Jeremy Falcon
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Member 3717204 wrote: and thus need to be as secure as possible
Member 3717204 wrote: these computers are managed by under paid doctors and nurses not IT managers.
A disaster waiting to happen, if all you do is rely on OS updates to ensure security. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: A disaster waiting to happen, if all you do is rely on OS updates to ensure security.
And an even bigger disaster if they listen to pretentious tech snobs, turn off auto-updates, and inevitably fail to manually patch their systems promptly each month. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Hmm. I resemble that remark. 
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Dan Neely wrote: and inevitably fail to manually patch their systems promptly each month
Then hire people that will do their jobs.
What you call pretentious, I call experience. I've seen more servers go down over an update that wasn't planned for than I've seen servers get hacked due to lack of updates.
It's not about being a snob. Try running the servers that run banks or the stock exchange. Sure for a mom and pop shop no big deal. But for something that requires the utmost reliability it's a problem.
Anyway, I know this is moot considering you can disable it on Windows Server at least. I just gotta defend the snobs. 
Jeremy Falcon
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If you have an IT dept, yes test first and deploy a day or two later instead of letting an OS auto-deploy run. The 99% of people and small businesses whose "IT dept" is the service desk at their local computer boxmart aren't going to here the almost universally unvoiced "If you have an IT dept" and if they try to listen to what they heard will end up in with the >95% of people who're pwned by a virus exploiting a bug that was fixed months or years ago because they turned off auto-updates a year ago and last patched 3 months after doing so.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Oh btw, this day and age you can automate the manual triggering of updates to install them across an entire infrastructure instead of letting Windows do it willy nilly. Which I'm all for because that way you get time to test and review them before sending them out to production.
Jeremy Falcon
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It's better not to listen to them: every time an update create millions of dollars of damages a lot of contractors are paid to fix them.
Auto updates are our job security.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Which beggars the question, why not use a secure OS?
OpenBSD for example, which has "Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!" (20 years now)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Learn how pioneering software engineers helped NASA launch astronauts into space, and bring them back again -- pushing the boundaries of technology as they did it. Because someone had to light the fuse
I now have the William Shatner version going
through
myhead.
Aaaaaand now so do you (I hope).
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don't know where this comes, but ...
1969:
-what're you doing with that 2KB of RAM?
-sending people to the moon
2017:
-what're you doing with that 1.5GB of RAM?
-running Slack
I'd rather be phishing!
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Today we released a prototype of a C# feature called “nullable reference types“, which is intended to help you find and fix most of your null-related bugs before they blow up at runtime. string? int? Why?
Mental note: need a macro for
if({foo} != null){}
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Oh goody. More warnings to turn off. 
(Actually, I treat warnings as errors, but some of these warnings seem a bit over the top, particularly if the inputs to the method have been validated beforehand.)
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