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Microsoft will sell Windows 7 security updates after the operating system reaches end of service, but it's going to cost you. Pushing the deadline is a bad idea. An upgrade in time is worth nine (service packs)
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But what about Windows 3.1 security updates?
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Windows 3.1 security updates
Is that even a thing?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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they come in floppy disks
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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And just this morning I realized that the stands at the gas station running Win 7...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Undoubtedly many IT administrators are wondering if, given that they are being told they must spend a lot of money on a complicated transition, they should take a step further and move away from Windows.
If they're smart, that's EXACTLY what they will do. There are fewer and fewer compelling reasons to keep Windows. In two years, that will probably be REAL obvious to IT admins, if it isn't already.
".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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As Windows-like as a lot of the distros have become, I think you're right. Add to that the better command-line, and many tasks moving in that direction. The biggest reason to stay with Windows seems be becoming, "because we've always done it like that".
Oh, and Office. Gotta use our Excel macros! 
TTFN - Kent
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: There are fewer and fewer compelling reasons to keep Windows. In two years, that will probably be REAL obvious to IT admins, if it isn't already.
This will be the year of Linux on the Desktop! Yes!
Seriously, people will remain with MS, for the same reasons they had when preferring Windows ME and Vista over Linux.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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But it's tax-deductible, and they'd rather give their money away to some mindless corporation than to the needy.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has launched a campaign to persuade governments, companies and individuals to sign a “Contract for the Web” set of principles designed to defend a free and open internet. "More what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules"
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When government runs things, "free and open" are merely a fond wish by mere mortals, such as ourselves.
".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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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: "free and open"
free - we can interfere with you data whenever we wish to
open - we can openly discuss all of it if we wish to
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Irony being that the people/organizations/governments who wish you harm or at least to not do well by you, tend to be liars who happily sign such nonsense with one hand while violating what they sign with the other.
"And what happens if I violate this 'contract'?"
"Nothing"
"Okay, where do I sign?"
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"a sense of optimism about the internet had been damaged by abuses of personal data, online hate speech, political manipulation and the centralization of power among a small group of major tech firms"
Actually, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript damaged my sense of optimism long before all those others did, and not just in the internet
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Apparently the contract just says;
"Don't be evil."
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There has also been some speculation that based on its shape, 'Oumuamua might actually be an interstellar spacecraft It *could* also be a large block of marzipan
But it might be stale by now
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I have serious problems with that theory. A light sail would undergo identical accelerations on the way in and out unless it reconfigured itself, which would show up as a change in rotation rates, etc.
OTOH if the crust of tarry gunk on the surface was thick enough it could be on its way out before the suns heat worked its way through the insulation to start sublimating anything.
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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ProcDump is a Linux reimagining of the classic ProcDump tool from the Sysinternals suite of tools for Windows. It provides a convenient way for Linux developers to create core dumps of their application based on performance triggers. Finally, Linux developers will have some useful command-line tools
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Physicists have developed a new technique for quantum memories, a crucial element for quantum communication How do they fit all the cats in there?
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I have realized there is no cat until it is checked upon.
You must integrate the truth that Spoon Boy revealed to Neo.
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Safety by design, security by design, privacy by design. As software capabilities continue to evolve, developers need to adapt the way they think and work. No animals were harmed in the creation of this blurb
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I AM TRYING TO MAKE MY CURRENT SQL QUERY BE NICE TO CHILDREN AND SMALL FURRY ANIMALS. pLZ SEND CODEZ.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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ConsenSys, a blockchain company created by Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin, has bought Planetary Resources for an unspecified sum. Bringing potential new meaning to 'blockchain crash'
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With Chrome 71, Google is stepping up its fight against the internet’s abusive ads problem by blocking every ad on a site that persistently shows them. We could run out of internet at this rate
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