I have very respectfully read and given much kind thought to your very professional and 100 percent correct and above any reproach post, and thought that I would very kindly and humbly offer a possible addition to it, although I want to assure you that if in your wise and considered truth, please accept this humble remark as something not meant to criticize, demean, or castigate your gender nor insult your time honored and proven mastery of intellect that ranks with the highest if not already the zenith in the organization.
So if it please you, and I mean not to criticize, but to help you to acheive your well deserved goals, and further explore and find yourself, I would like to humbly submit, although if you find this overbearing, and bigoted, I apologize in advance. I would certainly be most sorry if I inflicted great harm upon your freedom of expression.
You did not place a period at the end of your post.
My role is to do the best for myself. Their role is to enable me
* the understanding of their difference in *their* level of expertise and that of others
I am not constrained by other people's level of expertise. This is about me. This is about my feelings, and no one has the right to hurt my feelings. Just because some guy has 25 years of experience merely menas that time has passed him by
* the understanding of the *seniority* of themselves (their length of service) and that of others
Seniority means nothing. Senior people are an impediment to me and my ideas.
* the acceptance of reality (no "denial")
My ideology is what is reality, if you deny it, you are in denial
* the acceptance of both guilt *and* merit (no trying to take credit, and no taking away people's right to learn from their mistakes)
Sorry, but if anyone criticizes may mistakes (which I don't make anyhow) that is a personal attack. They need to learn - not me
I'll expand on that below
* REWARDING of achievements (this is *severely* lacking in the software libre world)
* RECOGNITION of achievements
if you think back on every newsworthy horror story on slashdot over the past 20 years, you will find, behind every one of them, that one of the above has been violated in some way.
* codes of conduct: so horrifically toxic that people feel sickened and repulsed by them, and leave. those that don't leave are under a constant cloud of toxicity and "guilty until proven innocent".
Kinda like #metoo, amirite?
Anyhow, I'm tired of all the quoting and unquoting, and I'm sure I've pissed you off enough by now.
The problem with all of this is that enforcing the way that people act always comes down to the most delicate and easily offended and passive aggressive ending up turning the main tasking into not offending them.
I've seen this in every organization and place I've served in. A person comes in, starts being upset at other individuals, and people "walk on eggshells" in order not to upset them. But just as we all like to pile onto the assholes of this world, the precious snowflakes really do have problems of their own. You can bend over backwards for them, appeasing every demand, turn them into the ersatz leader and final arbiter of everything that just doesn't suit, and they will still find problems to get upset about.
The snowflake tends to try to elevate themselves by attacking others. We had a woman who did this, sad thing is it worked until she went after me - She went to the boss bitching about how secretive I was being on a new project, how I was trying to make her look bad by keeping needed information away from her, and how she was the main driver of the project, and demanded that I be punished.
The boss pulled out the 5 inch thick stack of memos from me that were addressed to him and her and another on the project. He asked if we needed to search he computer for the memos, perhaps something was wrong with the email system.
She went absolutely nuts, how dare we question her veracity.
That's what happens when you attack the guy who documents the hell out of everything. And the next turndown cycle, when we let her go, she had a litany of excuses, mainly because she was female. (we'll ignore the fact that the department was majority female at the time.
What do we do about the person who takes even the mildest criticism as an insufferable personal insult?
I've worked with people like that.
What do we do about someone who simply doesn't like someone so decides that everything they they write is a thinly veiled insult?
I've worked with people like that.
What do we do in the case of the inevitable use of the CoC as a bludgeon?
To think that this will not happen is naivety in the extreme.
So here we have it. The Prime Directive is not the project any more. The prime directive is to avoid upsetting the most sensitive person in the group. This person now rules, and all must acquiesce to their demands.
This has actually existed for years. The name for this situation is walking on eggshells. And it has never worked out well.
I actually find the laws in the Rule to be quite simple indeed. So simple that the Order of St. Benedict has a history of taking in dullards and idiots (in the classic sense of the term, people will IQs between 40-100) and turning them into decent human beings.
The question of decency....
The peoblem of course, is who defines it, and how it is enforced.
You have a world renowned authority on whatever your institution's core competency. But he is rude and condescending. Grumpy and argumentative. But his mere name is worth many millions of dollars yearly to the institution.
So you have a group that demands a code of conduct. The genius level tells you that he has no intention of modifying his behavior - that anything that violates laws is actionable, but he has no plans to become a model employee.
So what do you do? Fire him the first time someone gets booboo feelings when he disagrees with them?
This means a loss of millions of dollars, and he'll be picked up by a competitor.
Genius does not think in the same manner as the person who is just putting in time. If we decide that we must control every aspect of behavior of employees, we'll be changing to a reality TV level of competence in the workplace.
Nope, That doesn't happen. The system is way, way to protective to allow that to happen. The corruption is baked into the federal acquisition regulations, not in back channel dealings.
Not certain if Poeing me or serious. Smiling just the same.
I used to have a manager who was lousy with people below him and great with people above him.
So we decided I would deal with everybody below him and he would deal with everybody above him. Worked great.
Absolutely. Different talents. Sounds like a smart manager.
Quite simple: There's a lot of folks out there, unfortunately, who like to be cunts and then use the "But what's the rule against being a cunt?" canard when called out on it. These are the people who don't know how to fucking behave around their peers, much less their co-workers and colleagues and frankly, are the ones who ruin everything for everyone else. Treat people the way you want to be treated and life would be a much better place. Sounds great. Reading through the comments here is proof-positive that some folks can't fucking get it through their heads that they're cunts. So, here we are.
So are you whining about Linus Torvalds, or the people who want men fired for winking at a woman? Could be both.
The people taking this seriously need to eat more fish or, if they are vegan, some omega-3 supplements, to help their brains work better.
I read the whole thing as specifically performed to purposely piss people off. A warning shot of where you go when you start codification of behavior beyond simple laws.
Good on them. Codes of Conduct are the beginning form of the code of Benedict. The SJW's know it, and that is half of their anger. The other half is their lack of humor because their only tool is anger.
As a general rule, CEOs are not skilled in reading how credible scientists or engineers are, they are skilled at reading how credible C suite executives are. So if you can pitch something in their language, you are more likely to convince them than if you stuck to all that boring science stuff.
It might be boring, but someone really needs to understand that even at 100 percent humidity and a hundred degrees, there is only so much water in the air.
And that darned latent energy problem. I have no idea how people can imagine that the ground won't heat up as you pump hot air into it.
Anyhow, these rulers of the universe CEOs might know a lot about extracting money from people, as the Brits say, they know fuckall about 6th grade science.
Do you remember back when Microsoft first offered updating drivers as well as security fixes? Way way back when? Yeah. They sucked then too and common wisdom was to uncheck updating drivers. Unfortunately, we can't do that anymore and here we are.
Yup. I just found two new drivers it renamed. 20 damned drivers so far.
I use Linux exclusively anymore. I do have dual boot and I boot into Windows every now and then to run updates on it, but I do all of my gaming, coding, etc in Linux. I would do OpenBSD instead, but gaming is important enough to me to leave me on Linux instead.
Linux or any Unixy OS is the way to go. BSD is obviously great, but there's your games. After my wife refused to use her Windows computer, I put Mint on it. She hasn't looked back, and she's barely computer literate. 100 percent uptime for her. I was Windows free until 2016 when I bought a piece of equipment that only had Windows software. Fortunately there is a version for MacOS now, and a really good version of the software for iOS (what the hell?) Next version of MacOS is supposed to run iOS software, so I might take a second amendment solution on the Windows laptop.
But dammit, why no Linux version?
Meanwhile I have my cheap breakfast computer that I take to breakfast, and it had W10 on it. But last week after it had it's third update in the restaurant after it ignored not downloading on a metered connection, it now is Minty fresh.
Currently on Mint 17 but I am in the process of developing my own distribution from scratch that covers most of what I think is important. I may share my distro, but there are hundreds and mine won't offer anything special other than being from my point of view and it certainly won't be as flexible and/or user friendly as Debian/Fedora, etc.
Bravo! I tell folks that they can indeed roll their own, and it is good to see someone doing it.
Except that it is really doubtful the X-prize organization would award the prize to a mere smoke and mirrors gadget. Perhaps they required a couple demo machines to test in different environments.
Not doubtful at all. Remember we live in a country where science is considered a socialist evil. So a CEO, who as likely as not doesn't believe in science is easily fooled into "common sense science". I mean we've all seen water condense on our glass of soda or beer, amirite? So this is just the same thing! Common sense science FTW!!!!
It burns the hydrogen out of timber, and then condenses some of the water released. I mean, interesting concept, but it doesn't really fill the brief.
That said, actually filling the brief is probably impossible. To fulfill the brief, you'd have to, some way, get rid of the 5GJ of latent heat energy per day - in addition to the energy you add to run your equipment. That's 58kW, constantly.
Amazing isn't it? The whole concept belongs on Youtube with the perpetual motion and the "heat your house with 2 tea candles and a clay flowerpot" videos.
So it seems he is able to survive without smaltalk just fine.
So now you know that if you ask him a question you will get an anser, even if you don't like the answer. You will even get an answer without asking a question.
If you think it will be different, I have to ask: what have you been smoking?
I have a bit of Linus in me, where I work to surround myself with those who are not precious and easily insulted. I'm certainly not prone to his level of profanity, but don't deal much in smalltalk.
But if I were to offer him a suggestion, (damn, how's that for conceit) appoint someone to deal with problem people in a better way.
You can't run an organization catering to people who use bitching and moaning as a workplace tool. I've been in enough groups to understand that once the whiners get a toehold, the focus and goal of the group becomes making certain that the whiners are appeased.
I've found that the whiners are also adroit at making themselves look "good" by character assassination. Whisper campaigns need stomped out quickly - they are the second tool of the whiners.
But there is a problem. They are difficult to get rid of. You have to make certain that there is never a situation where you can be accused of sexual harassment - the third tool.
Just a workplace fact of life these days. Regardless, if you can transfer a problem co-worker out, that's a win. Otherwise, you isolate them as best you can.
"Either tests do not exist at all for this code (and I've been told that yes, it's permitted to integrate code without tests, though I would hope this isn't the norm)"
Oh my, so so so so much to unpack in that one sentence.
The fact that this bug got shipped should tell you a lot, and none of it's good.
Remember though, there are bigger problems according to darting - iPhone antennas.
You can always move your hand, perhaps The almighty asses from Redmond can wave their hands, and all will be well again.
Apple shipped hardware if you hold it wrong, the cell radio doesn't function.
Seriously, you just defended Windows fuckups.
What the fuck kind of asshole defends Windows deleting files, rendering computers inoperative, and renaming drivers so that they fail with stupid fucking Apple's antenna problem?
Are you stupid, being [paid by Microsoft to make retarded comments, or what?
Whataboutism of your level is only effective with peopel weho are as stupid as you.
My good laptop that I use for several audio applications stopped functioning after this update.
For reasons unknown, Windows in it's infinite wisdom, went through all of the audio drivers, and renamed them the with one of the driver's name, with a number appended to them. Then after deleting and reinstalling the drivers, continued to rename them incorrectly
The problem is so whacked that the company I bought the equipment and software from did a Teamviewer session with me to show how to fix the problem. Explaining would have taken all day.
Which I suspect is fixing it until the next update. In the meantime, I'm going through the computer to see what else they screwed up.
This is not a matter of running in VMs, or performing arcane tricks to disable updates.
This is a matter of a company so incompetent that their updates are an attack upon it's customers. Attacks so nasty that malicious virus writers must be in awe.
Where an old operating system like W7 is more secure because it doesn't get updates.
Meanwhile, I've switched everything except that one laptop to Linux or MacOS. Where any update that screws the OS will be the first.
I'd be concerned that nainstream status for Windows 8 ended on January 1, 2018. While you can get extended support for years longer, I'd not expect mainstream software releases to be thoroughly tested or necessarily compatible with it.
Not getting updates from Windows is a security plus.
Seriously, I have had more problems with machines being rendered malfunctioning, files deleted, drivers renamed on Windows 10 than I have had in my entire life.
Windows 10 updates are a worse virus than any blackhat virus.
To start with government should not be telling companies what kind of technology they should be using. If what is wanted is universal coverage then say that and let the company decide how to meet that universal coverage requirement. Set standards for bandwidth, cost, etc. and require the companies to meet them, but leave the how to them.
And make it a law, not a regulation so that political appointees can't change them with the political wind.
You're cute! First get government out of technology, then put them right back in via a law.
As well, setting standards is regulation under a different word.
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So if it please you, and I mean not to criticize, but to help you to acheive your well deserved goals, and further explore and find yourself, I would like to humbly submit, although if you find this overbearing, and bigoted, I apologize in advance. I would certainly be most sorry if I inflicted great harm upon your freedom of expression.
You did not place a period at the end of your post.
* the right to belong (to feel welcome)
I only feel welcome when I am not criticized.
* their role and the role of others
My role is to do the best for myself. Their role is to enable me
* the understanding of their difference in *their* level of expertise and that of others
I am not constrained by other people's level of expertise. This is about me. This is about my feelings, and no one has the right to hurt my feelings. Just because some guy has 25 years of experience merely menas that time has passed him by
* the understanding of the *seniority* of themselves (their length of service) and that of others
Seniority means nothing. Senior people are an impediment to me and my ideas.
* the acceptance of reality (no "denial")
My ideology is what is reality, if you deny it, you are in denial
* the acceptance of both guilt *and* merit (no trying to take credit, and no taking away people's right to learn from their mistakes)
Sorry, but if anyone criticizes may mistakes (which I don't make anyhow) that is a personal attack. They need to learn - not me I'll expand on that below
* REWARDING of achievements (this is *severely* lacking in the software libre world) * RECOGNITION of achievements
if you think back on every newsworthy horror story on slashdot over the past 20 years, you will find, behind every one of them, that one of the above has been violated in some way.
* codes of conduct: so horrifically toxic that people feel sickened and repulsed by them, and leave. those that don't leave are under a constant cloud of toxicity and "guilty until proven innocent".
Kinda like #metoo, amirite?
Anyhow, I'm tired of all the quoting and unquoting, and I'm sure I've pissed you off enough by now.
The problem with all of this is that enforcing the way that people act always comes down to the most delicate and easily offended and passive aggressive ending up turning the main tasking into not offending them.
I've seen this in every organization and place I've served in. A person comes in, starts being upset at other individuals, and people "walk on eggshells" in order not to upset them. But just as we all like to pile onto the assholes of this world, the precious snowflakes really do have problems of their own. You can bend over backwards for them, appeasing every demand, turn them into the ersatz leader and final arbiter of everything that just doesn't suit, and they will still find problems to get upset about.
The snowflake tends to try to elevate themselves by attacking others. We had a woman who did this, sad thing is it worked until she went after me - She went to the boss bitching about how secretive I was being on a new project, how I was trying to make her look bad by keeping needed information away from her, and how she was the main driver of the project, and demanded that I be punished.
The boss pulled out the 5 inch thick stack of memos from me that were addressed to him and her and another on the project. He asked if we needed to search he computer for the memos, perhaps something was wrong with the email system.
She went absolutely nuts, how dare we question her veracity.
That's what happens when you attack the guy who documents the hell out of everything. And the next turndown cycle, when we let her go, she had a litany of excuses, mainly because she was female. (we'll ignore the fact that the department was majority female at the time.
I've worked with people like that.
What do we do about someone who simply doesn't like someone so decides that everything they they write is a thinly veiled insult?
I've worked with people like that.
What do we do in the case of the inevitable use of the CoC as a bludgeon?
To think that this will not happen is naivety in the extreme.
So here we have it. The Prime Directive is not the project any more. The prime directive is to avoid upsetting the most sensitive person in the group. This person now rules, and all must acquiesce to their demands.
This has actually existed for years. The name for this situation is walking on eggshells. And it has never worked out well.
I actually find the laws in the Rule to be quite simple indeed. So simple that the Order of St. Benedict has a history of taking in dullards and idiots (in the classic sense of the term, people will IQs between 40-100) and turning them into decent human beings.
The question of decency....
The peoblem of course, is who defines it, and how it is enforced.
You have a world renowned authority on whatever your institution's core competency. But he is rude and condescending. Grumpy and argumentative. But his mere name is worth many millions of dollars yearly to the institution.
So you have a group that demands a code of conduct. The genius level tells you that he has no intention of modifying his behavior - that anything that violates laws is actionable, but he has no plans to become a model employee.
So what do you do? Fire him the first time someone gets booboo feelings when he disagrees with them?
This means a loss of millions of dollars, and he'll be picked up by a competitor.
Genius does not think in the same manner as the person who is just putting in time. If we decide that we must control every aspect of behavior of employees, we'll be changing to a reality TV level of competence in the workplace.
Nope, That doesn't happen. The system is way, way to protective to allow that to happen. The corruption is baked into the federal acquisition regulations, not in back channel dealings.
Not certain if Poeing me or serious. Smiling just the same.
I used to have a manager who was lousy with people below him and great with people above him. So we decided I would deal with everybody below him and he would deal with everybody above him. Worked great.
Absolutely. Different talents. Sounds like a smart manager.
Quite simple: There's a lot of folks out there, unfortunately, who like to be cunts and then use the "But what's the rule against being a cunt?" canard when called out on it. These are the people who don't know how to fucking behave around their peers, much less their co-workers and colleagues and frankly, are the ones who ruin everything for everyone else. Treat people the way you want to be treated and life would be a much better place. Sounds great. Reading through the comments here is proof-positive that some folks can't fucking get it through their heads that they're cunts. So, here we are.
So are you whining about Linus Torvalds, or the people who want men fired for winking at a woman? Could be both.
The people taking this seriously need to eat more fish or, if they are vegan, some omega-3 supplements, to help their brains work better.
I read the whole thing as specifically performed to purposely piss people off. A warning shot of where you go when you start codification of behavior beyond simple laws.
Good on them. Codes of Conduct are the beginning form of the code of Benedict. The SJW's know it, and that is half of their anger. The other half is their lack of humor because their only tool is anger.
I can see the Slashdot headline now: "Are Computers on a Chip a money-grabbing attempt to bypass right to repair laws?"
All I know is that it sure was better when we had vacuum tube smartphones.
You know a few technical guys and a decent manager and want to bid on a contract? Not so fast!
1. First you must figure out what contract vehicle it's on.
2. Then you must spend money getting onto that vehicle by bidding.
3. Then you must bid to get that contract.
You missed one step...
4. You must pay someone to hand out the appropriate bribe ^H^H^H^ baksheesh, errrm contribution to the appropriate guardians of democracy.
As a general rule, CEOs are not skilled in reading how credible scientists or engineers are, they are skilled at reading how credible C suite executives are. So if you can pitch something in their language, you are more likely to convince them than if you stuck to all that boring science stuff.
It might be boring, but someone really needs to understand that even at 100 percent humidity and a hundred degrees, there is only so much water in the air.
And that darned latent energy problem. I have no idea how people can imagine that the ground won't heat up as you pump hot air into it.
Anyhow, these rulers of the universe CEOs might know a lot about extracting money from people, as the Brits say, they know fuckall about 6th grade science.
So it is sort of fun to watch them get scammed.
Do you remember back when Microsoft first offered updating drivers as well as security fixes? Way way back when? Yeah. They sucked then too and common wisdom was to uncheck updating drivers. Unfortunately, we can't do that anymore and here we are.
Yup. I just found two new drivers it renamed. 20 damned drivers so far.
I use Linux exclusively anymore. I do have dual boot and I boot into Windows every now and then to run updates on it, but I do all of my gaming, coding, etc in Linux. I would do OpenBSD instead, but gaming is important enough to me to leave me on Linux instead.
Linux or any Unixy OS is the way to go. BSD is obviously great, but there's your games. After my wife refused to use her Windows computer, I put Mint on it. She hasn't looked back, and she's barely computer literate. 100 percent uptime for her. I was Windows free until 2016 when I bought a piece of equipment that only had Windows software. Fortunately there is a version for MacOS now, and a really good version of the software for iOS (what the hell?) Next version of MacOS is supposed to run iOS software, so I might take a second amendment solution on the Windows laptop.
But dammit, why no Linux version?
Meanwhile I have my cheap breakfast computer that I take to breakfast, and it had W10 on it. But last week after it had it's third update in the restaurant after it ignored not downloading on a metered connection, it now is Minty fresh.
Currently on Mint 17 but I am in the process of developing my own distribution from scratch that covers most of what I think is important. I may share my distro, but there are hundreds and mine won't offer anything special other than being from my point of view and it certainly won't be as flexible and/or user friendly as Debian/Fedora, etc.
Bravo! I tell folks that they can indeed roll their own, and it is good to see someone doing it.
Except that it is really doubtful the X-prize organization would award the prize to a mere smoke and mirrors gadget. Perhaps they required a couple demo machines to test in different environments.
Not doubtful at all. Remember we live in a country where science is considered a socialist evil. So a CEO, who as likely as not doesn't believe in science is easily fooled into "common sense science". I mean we've all seen water condense on our glass of soda or beer, amirite? So this is just the same thing! Common sense science FTW!!!!
It can't fail! Except when it does.
It burns the hydrogen out of timber, and then condenses some of the water released. I mean, interesting concept, but it doesn't really fill the brief.
That said, actually filling the brief is probably impossible. To fulfill the brief, you'd have to, some way, get rid of the 5GJ of latent heat energy per day - in addition to the energy you add to run your equipment. That's 58kW, constantly.
Amazing isn't it? The whole concept belongs on Youtube with the perpetual motion and the "heat your house with 2 tea candles and a clay flowerpot" videos.
So it seems he is able to survive without smaltalk just fine.
So now you know that if you ask him a question you will get an anser, even if you don't like the answer. You will even get an answer without asking a question.
If you think it will be different, I have to ask: what have you been smoking?
I have a bit of Linus in me, where I work to surround myself with those who are not precious and easily insulted. I'm certainly not prone to his level of profanity, but don't deal much in smalltalk.
But if I were to offer him a suggestion, (damn, how's that for conceit) appoint someone to deal with problem people in a better way.
You can't run an organization catering to people who use bitching and moaning as a workplace tool. I've been in enough groups to understand that once the whiners get a toehold, the focus and goal of the group becomes making certain that the whiners are appeased.
I've found that the whiners are also adroit at making themselves look "good" by character assassination. Whisper campaigns need stomped out quickly - they are the second tool of the whiners.
But there is a problem. They are difficult to get rid of. You have to make certain that there is never a situation where you can be accused of sexual harassment - the third tool.
Just a workplace fact of life these days. Regardless, if you can transfer a problem co-worker out, that's a win. Otherwise, you isolate them as best you can.
Whether he'll be a kinder and gentler Torvalds remains to be seen.
Which is part of the problem with these public confession/appeasement things.
Someone can always claim you didn't get "woke" enough.
No one is ever woke enough.
But yeah, I'm expecting a Linux Social Justice distro any day.
"Either tests do not exist at all for this code (and I've been told that yes, it's permitted to integrate code without tests, though I would hope this isn't the norm)"
Oh my, so so so so much to unpack in that one sentence.
The fact that this bug got shipped should tell you a lot, and none of it's good.
Remember though, there are bigger problems according to darting - iPhone antennas.
You can always move your hand, perhaps The almighty asses from Redmond can wave their hands, and all will be well again.
Apple shipped hardware if you hold it wrong, the cell radio doesn't function.
Seriously, you just defended Windows fuckups.
What the fuck kind of asshole defends Windows deleting files, rendering computers inoperative, and renaming drivers so that they fail with stupid fucking Apple's antenna problem?
Are you stupid, being [paid by Microsoft to make retarded comments, or what?
Whataboutism of your level is only effective with peopel weho are as stupid as you.
We need a -5 troll mod.
They still had Windows 7 boxes. The same box with Windows 10 pro cost $20 less. I chose to pay the $20.
Wise move. Windows 10 is a liability, worse than most viruses.
Wow, that's Microsoft quality!
"either tests do not exist at all for this code (and I've been told that yes, it's permitted to integrate code without tests
That pretty much tells it all. Violation of the prime directive.
For reasons unknown, Windows in it's infinite wisdom, went through all of the audio drivers, and renamed them the with one of the driver's name, with a number appended to them. Then after deleting and reinstalling the drivers, continued to rename them incorrectly
The problem is so whacked that the company I bought the equipment and software from did a Teamviewer session with me to show how to fix the problem. Explaining would have taken all day.
Which I suspect is fixing it until the next update. In the meantime, I'm going through the computer to see what else they screwed up.
This is not a matter of running in VMs, or performing arcane tricks to disable updates.
This is a matter of a company so incompetent that their updates are an attack upon it's customers. Attacks so nasty that malicious virus writers must be in awe.
Where an old operating system like W7 is more secure because it doesn't get updates.
Meanwhile, I've switched everything except that one laptop to Linux or MacOS. Where any update that screws the OS will be the first.
I'd be concerned that nainstream status for Windows 8 ended on January 1, 2018. While you can get extended support for years longer, I'd not expect mainstream software releases to be thoroughly tested or necessarily compatible with it.
Not getting updates from Windows is a security plus.
Seriously, I have had more problems with machines being rendered malfunctioning, files deleted, drivers renamed on Windows 10 than I have had in my entire life.
Windows 10 updates are a worse virus than any blackhat virus.
he didn't say get government out of technology, he said prescribe goals instead of methods.
Let's say you have 10 companies wanting to provide cellular coverage. They have 10 different implementations, Codecs and frequencies.
But in a deregulated world, it is evil to tell them that they should have standards. That is socialism and nearly communism.
But hey, laws will fix that. Amirite?
To start with government should not be telling companies what kind of technology they should be using. If what is wanted is universal coverage then say that and let the company decide how to meet that universal coverage requirement. Set standards for bandwidth, cost, etc. and require the companies to meet them, but leave the how to them.
And make it a law, not a regulation so that political appointees can't change them with the political wind.
You're cute! First get government out of technology, then put them right back in via a law.
As well, setting standards is regulation under a different word.
They should spend their resources fixing this problem instead of maintaining lightly used but expensive legacy infrastructure.
And that fix is?