i think it's ridiculous that it's expected to have to apply security updates. install the software, have a firewall protecting the inside, everything should be fine. most places have seemed to adopt this policy of auto applying patches every week or so regardless of weather the updates affect their usage. potential security issue found in the usb print drivers and puts it on the patches list. what's the probability of a security violation happening due to this potential risk? it's inside the corporate network! if some guy in data entry wants to be disgruntled and hack into the print server, you've really got bigger issues. management issues. maybe he's the same guy who turns on the bathroom faucet every night before leaving to let the water run and drip the company of some money.

ff's auto update really annoys and disrupts my personal workflow. i just learned to turn it off. i only use ff for some functions that don't see to work in chrome right now, citrix is one. it's really sucks to have your computer constantly remind you that it wants to disrupt your work so you have to close your browser and restart the browser to click through some authorize dialog boxes and finally be restored to the prior state.

my understanding is that the reason they don't take the patches is because there isn't a single point of license assignment for the patch source. if RH has a large patch, then RH doesn't take on the role of copyright assignment, but rather allows each single code creator to keep that duty. warm and fuzy of them, but not very practical at all i'm guessing

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i'm with you on this. I had a jeep Cherokee that insisted on locking the doors when it got over 15 mph. some way to keep car jacking down i suppose. i got so tired of being locked out of my car and not being able to find the spare key that i ended up putting one underneath the car with a magnet holder. i lock the doors on purpose when i leave a laptop or other valuable in the car and go to the grocery.

airport security is a total joke. its a facade to give the wall marts shopin' (i resemble that sometimes), suv wheeling country a warm fuzzy that the govt is doing their job of protecting the borders. i can't take a 20 oz bottle of water past the security checkpoint, but can get a metal knife when seated in first class. i'm sure there's countless examples of folks who take small razor or personal knives in their bathroom bag past security all the time... detonate a bomb on a plane? light speed is too slow. prepare for ludacris speed. i don't have numbers, but my gut tells me that 5 planes could go down per year and it'd still be safer than driving on the public highway system. would less people fly? some initially perhaps. every day on the freeway someone falls asleep and causes fatal accidents all over the country and we're not leaving our cars in the garage. still we get on the freeway and take the risk. schools all over the country are having people killed each year. i just read today one where a teacher's estranged spouse came in and attacked the teacher. the school went into lock down, the attacker ended up getting home and committing suicide in the garage later. we should all go under ground where it's REALLY save and secure.