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No, they're just saying at a random point in the future your system will stop getting patches become a forever pwnable mass of forever day vulnerabilities (vs a supported config where you've got a specified period of guaranteed future security patches).
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
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Microsoft would be insane to withhold security updates, no matter what the excuse.
On recent years' ongoing performance, Microsoft may well have gone corporately insane.
modified 29-Sep-21 2:03am.
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I am totally stealing "corporately insane". Thank you very much! 
TTFN - Kent
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Agreed to both parts. The real problem is them being so deliberately vague. Their FUD generator has gone haywire and is now attacking their own products instead of the competition.
They seem to be trying to scare people off upgrading with the threat that one patch yesterday they'll get a message saying "LOL no more security fixes for you; enjoy the foreverdays!". The backlash from doing that would be extreme though so I doubt it'll actually happen.
My charitable theory, and what I think is most likely, is that it'd be similar to what happened once or twice early in W10 when some older platforms couldn't upgrade to a new semi-annual feature release and then got 2 (?) years of security patches before the old one went out of support leaving them stranded. I know this happened for some extra low power tablet focused atoms that used non-intel GPUs from a company that normally mobile graphics for arm SoCs. A driver update was needed to work with the newest W10 release; Intel's contract with the GPU IP vendor had ended and no driver update was created. I think this happened at least one other time but don't recall the specifics of what got dropped.
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
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While adding a dependency to your application, can you ensure that this dependency doesn't contain any vulnerabilities, or even ensure that the risk of adding vulnerabilities to your application can be reduced? I avoid being hacked with a little help from my friends
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On the Visual Studio team, we aspire to deliver higher satisfaction across all areas of Visual Studio with greater awareness, connectivity, and productivity. They ran out of icons. Time to fiddle with the menus.
Is it just me, or does putting "Visual Studio" and "Help" in the same sentence cause giggles?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is it just me, or does putting "Visual Studio" and "Help" in the same sentence cause giggles?
I almost prefer it before "we aspire to deliver higher..."
Hopefully it doesn't end as many other of their products 
M.D.V.
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I want ALL CAPS menus that fill the screen.
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Don't forget the rounded corners!
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Quote: we aspire to deliver
Aspirations are easy. Delivery is the hard part. 
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A generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans Little Johnny can't file?
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Quote: They were all getting the same error message...
Am I the only one surprised to see that the cause wasn't simply that they'd all Googled the assignment, copied the code from the first result without even trying to understand it, and then found that it didn't work? 
"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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EU consumers spend more than $2.8 billion annually on standalone chargers. EU: The Standard Standard for Standardizing Standards
Or Standardising, even.
They don't want to tell you where to stick it, but they want to tell you what to stick.
(and insert the xkcd on standards here)
Updated blurb: One cable to rule them all, one cable to find them, one cable to bring them all, and in the darkness charge them
modified 23-Sep-21 15:24pm.
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I got banned on this site once for describing my feelings about the EU and others.
Hope they have fun standardizing standards.
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.. until the next Standard is released.
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It will be just as "successful" as the US requirement for Micro USB charging port was a few years ago.
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Don't most phones use either USB C or Micro-USB nowadays? But was that due to the market deciding it was the sensible option or due to US government dictat?
I don't know about the US government but the problem with the EU is that it will define USB C as the one true connector and then never take into account that technology and markets move on, leaving the legislation months, years behind what the market has standardised on anyway.
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markrlondon wrote: the problem with the EU is that it will define USB C as the one true connector and then never take into account that technology and markets move on, leaving the legislation months, years behind what the market has standardised on anyway.
So sad, but so true...
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markrlondon wrote: Don't most phones use either USB C or Micro-USB nowadays?
Don't about half of them use Lightning?
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The best half - the one that can get milked repeatedly and like it.
GCS d--(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--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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The 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps report from Google Cloud’s DORA group provides insight into the best practices of elite development teams. 50% Dev, 50% Ops, 50% searching
And 100% mathematics!
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Quote: DORA categorizes elite performers as organizations that have a high deployment frequency, with multiple deployments per day and a lead time for making changes of less than one hour.
Seriously? Are they f'in joking? Maybe their [sic] talking about deploying typo fixes.
Quote: Elite performers are also categorized as having a very low change failure rate (less than 15%).
15% is not "very low" in my opinion. I don't want to know the converse, what they think a "very high" salary is.
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Elite performers are also categorized as having a very low change failure rate (less than 15%). Seems really high to me as well, regardless of what "change failure" means.
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Though Microsoft has tried a variety of patching schemes over the past two decades, update problems continue with no end in sight. Maybe the patch system needs a patch?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Maybe the patch system needs a patch?
If it only needed a patch...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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