More like the warning is : Never code malware in the US unless you work for the US government.

And if you blow the whistle on them you better be on a flight to Russia (which won't get grounded by the US, like they did trying to nab Snowden).

"As we define it" - that's the problem.
50 years ago they defined climate change as heading into a new ice age.
Now they are defining it the other way.
What are they going to be saying in another 50 years?

I'm not denying we don't have an effect on the climate, I just don't think it's as much as it's made out to be.
The Earth has been around billions of years and survived and corrected for volcanic eruptions that threw way more garbage into the atmosphere than we have.
I think we should stop all the air pollution because millions of people die from lung cancer every year because of it.
I grew up right next to a coal power station, you could see the acid rain from the Sulphur eating the galvanizing off of fences.
We did that, melting ice caps... not convinced that's just us, or that we can stop it.

Didn't MS themselves say that Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows?
Did that change or did I understand it wrong?

Everything going forward will just be incremental changes to Windows 10.


It does/did seem unlikely though, at some point there will be a major change in hardware that will require a rewrite/new operating system.

Well if you were old enough you would remember how everyone laughed at the name "google" back in the day, although I do actually agree with you.

Actually searching for .Net coding stuff is better on Bing than google.
It also has less DMC take down notices for when you are searching for stuffs that might be copyrighted.
Other than that I still use google.
Google search is slowly getting worse and worse as they keep getting forced to nerf their own search results.

Go to google/youtube in any browser other than chrome and see how it nags you to change.

"Global climate change" - like it always did. If we think we can stop global climate change we are in for a rude awakening.
We need to focus on adapting to the changes, not trying to stop them.

Because they relied on a stupid study

Oh really?
How many other studies were stupid?
Or manipulated?

About 99% of these could be prevented by not using MS Windows, where the overwhelming majority of attacks are targetted

True, but only initially. If everyone switched to Linux then all the attacks would target Linux, and we would see the same penetration as we do in Windoze.
At least with Windoze there is only a few versions of the operating system to update, if it was Linux it would be untold versions of the operating system spread across how many devices and microwaves and calculators. In an odd way we can be grateful they haven't targeted Linux seriously yet.

There is still no excuse for their IT people for not having decent backups that are themselves air gapped.
I do it all the time at home and all I am backing up is family photos.

Zero day hacks.
And look up how anitmalware identifies malware.
If someone rebuilds the payload (with tweaks) just for you then no antimalware is going to stop it.

That would be funny, and since I know of several hacking groups from there it's not beyond the realm of possibility.

What the hell are you whaffling about?
Predict what finger I'm about to hold up.

How do these people get money to do dumb studies like this? It boggles the mind. I bet there would be even more deaths if we went through another major ice age.

Then why the fuck do we have to do social distancing while outside and standing in lines?
There are pictures of protestors standing apart in wide open squares to adhere to social distancing?

That is a dumb analogy.
Remember that when I shoot you between the eyes because there are too many Queens in play that your incentive no longer matters.