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To paraphrase,
"Gone are the days people worked hard to fix bugs. Now they work hard to hardly fix features."
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: The forgot the most obvious work-around...
The most obvious workaround is:
Windows 7. No need to downgrade to Windows 10 or to the PITA of Linux.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Considering that security updates to W7 are due to stop, that is ill-advised bordering professional neglect to suggest at this juncture.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Considering that security updates to W7 are due to stop, that is ill-advised bordering professional neglect to suggest at this juncture.
Considering that MS patches cause more problems than they solve, it is far safer all round to rely on professionals to deal with your security, rather than suffer the utterly ridiculous windows update debacle.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's still viable for another 14 months, but waiting until the last minute to migrate is just adding needless pressure to the situation. That's why I'm migrating now.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I was on Windows 7. They're gonna start charging for security updates in January 2020. Windows 10 is a no-go for me.
Ubuntu just announced that v18.04 is going to a 10-year LTS cycle.
No updates to Linux have broken any of my boxes.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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With the official release of Visual Studio 15.9, developers now have the officially supported SDK and tools for creating 64-bit ARM (ARM64) apps. In addition, the Microsoft Store is now officially accepting submissions for apps built for the ARM64 architecture. Remember when they used to support DEC Alpha and MIPS? Yeah, I'm sure that they'll never drop non-Intel CPUs again..
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If arm ever stops being relevant to the broader PC market I'm sure they'll drop it too.
Alpha got dropped because the architecture was EOL after HP bet big on the Itanic (has MS officially abandoned it yet?).
MIPS while not completely dead has faded into a low popularity embedded world choice and has spent the last decade or so being bounced from one vulture capital company to another. All of whom either got it as a package deal along with something else that was what they really wanted, or got it for peanuts as a speculative buy that didn't pay off when the package buyer unloaded all the odds and ends they didn't care about. At this point, I suspect due to prolonged neglect it's going to just continue to fade into increasing irrelevance. I no longer think that even with a serious investment it'll be able to claw back long term marketshare from arm.
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
modified 19-Nov-18 10:02am.
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Researchers at the National Institute of Technology Patna, in India, have recently devised a tool to identify the geographical location of emergencies and disasters, as well as that of the people involved in them. Better than getting an AI to come up with heavy metal band names
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What could possibly be abused about such a wonderfully benevolent service?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Team Homer teaches TIAGo to autonomously clean a toilet, and it's about time It left hydraulic fluid all over the place last time it was in there
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Good grief. I'd like to see that robot try and fit into the tiny stalls at work. 
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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A security lapse has exposed a massive database containing tens of millions of text messages, including password reset links, two-factor codes, shipping notifications and more. The 'S' is not for 'security'
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... Because using your phone for security stuff is really the most sensible thing to do -- google says so, so it must be right!
Either that, or they just want to add your phone number to all the other "anonymised" data they've reaped from you.
Great things, these "anonymous" phone numbers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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According to Windows executive Joe Belfiore, Microsoft was honored with an Emmy for its role in supporting TV experiences over the web via its new Edge browser. Not for Best Browser for Downloading an Alternative?
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The Be Sharps songwriter had the right attitude about emmies.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft collects and stores personal data about the behavior of individual users of its enterprise offerings on a large scale, without any public documentation — according to a new report by Privacy Company. I'm shocked that anyone thinks it's covert
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If you haven't realized privacy is dead, you're missing the necrophiliacs' party.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Why can no-one see the obvious solution?
Lookit, if you store all your data and everything on MS cloud services, they won't have to sneak around like thieves in the night to get only part of it.
If you then store back-ups of all your data and everything on google and amazon cloud services, and move your corporate web-site to a facebook account, the world will be a better place.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Many of the most damaging hacks in recent history were only possible because someone failed to update software. "Patches, I'm depending on you"
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Glad to read that product liability is not a thing. Boeing, especially, is relieved.
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Quote: Patches were often poorly tested, and far too often they broke more than they fixed. ... Things have changed over the years.
In what world does he live? In some utopian future, methinks.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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I agree totally!
Every problem with every hack, every product incapacitation, and every driver failure is entirely the fault of users!
I wish people would stop blaming the billion-dollar software makers for their software being full of security holes, bugs, and unexpected side effects!
It's YOU PEOPLE, who want to use new printers, video cards, processors, etc. for more than a month who are the problem!
It's YOU PEOPLE, who want your computers to be working whenever you feel like switching them on who are the problem!
You should download every byte of cr@p wonderful update that the billion-dollar software makers spew out benevolently make available to you, even if it's so badly produced that it kills your computer and change your hardware every two months, to match the hardware that the billion-dollar software makers have spuriously decided to support!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Security is failing as a paradigm.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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tl;dr: Because we want to write algorithms, not circuits. I know I've been wondering
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