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People fear what don't understand, hate what they are afraid of and destroy what they hate...
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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I put people that call for bans in the same group that call for "class action" lawsuits for everything. Most people don't realize that a class action suit lets the company pay a lot less overall, and only the primary plaintiff and the lawyers get any real payout. It costs a company a lot more to deal with thousands of "small claims" cases than one "class action" case.
In the case of people calling for bans, all they are doing is drumming up free advertising for the people they want banned.
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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Seems like, some time back, they decided to save lives on the highway by banning speeding.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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more like speed limits. you are still speeding. but I get your point.
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Penny ante and mostly about revenue. They also banned drugs and guns. But to paraphrase this post[^] from a couple of days ago, markets find a way.
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I have been involved in the recovery from ransomware 4 times. 2 were serious. The first was some 4 or so years ago. The ransom demand was via credit card, not sure anyone had heard of bitcoin yet. They "only" encrypted data files. Don't recall any dingbat journalist suggesting that credit cards be banned.
A couple of years later, another one I helped with took down a domain controller with Exchange. Both clients had air gaped backups less than 2 days old. Both triggered via email, one exchange the other yahoo mail. Both clients maintain strict PCI compliance, no CC info can be retained. Costs money. Causes headaches. Provides income to IT contractors.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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theoldfool wrote: Both triggered via email
Did they subsequently campaign to ban e-mail? I could get on board with that!
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If it wasn't for spam and my daily briefing from Cortana, I wouldn't get much email.
Come to think of it ....
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Thoughts? "There is no connection between crime and thinking you can get away with it". That's your theory.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Normally I like and agree with the WSJ, but in this instance they're showing their bias in favor of current industries. In this case it's the banking industry which hasn't figured out how to handle cryptocurrencies.
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On the front page in the section about new posts, there are links to two posts titled "test" by Vasily Tserekh from 2012. Linkage : The Lounge[^].
That's pretty weird. Did the database have a bit of indigestion?
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I think this person removed some original content recently.
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I had reported it as suspicious but it could be a case of someone cleaning up posts on social media.
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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
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Perhaps it was a regression test.
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No, it didn't break my machine. Unlike so many rant posts about Windows Update here at CP I am one of those who has very, very rarely experienced a problem with a Windows Update. In fact, I think the last time was a Windows 7 update that actually broke my antivirus app's kernel device driver, and caused the machine to BSOD.
That said, here's my rant:
If I wanted to open .html documents in Edge I'd tell you, you overbearing piece of excrement!
Leave my f***ing file associations alone!
I. don't. use. Edge. I. use. Chrome. Every ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing time they update Edge they change the file associations on .html and variants of it to point to Edge. It's not my default browser, so keep your misbegotten, slimy, goat-buggering hands off!
There. I feel better now.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It's not just HTML they do this nonsense with either. I couldn't believe the gyrations I had to go through to change the association for the .jpg and .png extensions. It was thoroughly annoying, just as most things with W10 are.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Like you have has almost no problems with Windows 10 updates. But I have also not seen the aforementioned issue either. My Chrome associations have never been touched (AFAIR).
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Our applications generate .html document files for logging and diagnostic information, so we see this almost immediately. If you don't have cause to double-click on an .html or .htm file in Explorer very often, you may not see it.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I have the situation where all of the links that Microsoft offers (in app settings, control panel, etc) still open in Edge even though FireFox is my default. It's so annoying because then you have a 2nd browser running. Not sure if there is a way around it or not. More time wasted by MS.
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I don't often - or indeed ever as far as I can recall - open .HTML files directly on my Surface, so I just tried it, and Windows politely asked me if I wanted to use Chrome or Edge, together with a "Use this in future" checkbox.
That's with 20H2, the D/L to 21H1 has just downloaded so I'll tell you what happens after a major update when it's restarted ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
modified 26-May-21 14:28pm.
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Restart and update complete: opening a .HTML file in Explorer open it in ... Chrome, exactly as I told it to before the update.
Not a problem for me! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I think this only happens when there are updates to Edge, and it may only happen on certain types of updates to Edge.
21H1 may not have hit the Edge g-spot, as it were.
Software Zen: delete this;
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So what update did you just install?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It's difficult to tell. Our corporate IT yabbos like to do those things in their own sweet time. Oh wait, there's a history:
May 11, 2021—KB5003173 (OS Builds 19041.985, 19042.985, and 19043.985)[^]
Don't bother looking at the link. Like most such things from MS, they use lots of words to provide little to no information. "We made changes, duh."
Software Zen: delete this;
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