It isn't just the U.S. Navy, but the IRS and a bunch of other government offices that are still on XP for legacy reasons. Let's face it, Vista was an abortion from the get go, and Windows 8 wasn't much better. In fact every even numbered OS from Microsoft is horrid. Hence why business uses Windows 7 now.

On my cell phone the only time I get voicemails is from callers that aren't in my contacts list. They get automatically dumped to voicemail and I'll listen to it at my convenience.

Android is wonderful in that respect - prior call blockers required you to whitelist individual entries. Now they blacklist everything but your contacts. Really nice.

Have they ever heard of Netstat, TCPDump, Wireshark, etc? Jesus Christ on a stick.

Because the oil that can be drilled out is almost tapped out. Of course we could start scraping all the plastic out of the ocean and using thermal depolymerization on it. But fat chance that'll happen.

Instead we'll start mining the asteroids and gas giants for methane.

I have to train my replacement because they're laying me off. I'd tell them to kiss my fucking ass.

Well - some move on electrons now.

Agreed - if we stop wasting money on say military misadventure we can start building interstellar ships in low earth orbit now.

Indeed - back in the late 90's I worked for a company that sold POS software. It was installed on Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 machines.

Nowadays I believe XP is the dominant system.

Actually they're making a Muslim Martyr out of the guy. That's not going to work out very well.

An email address that ended in notaol.com

Until you've seen a pole pig aka power transformer explode on a pole. All I saw was this huge flash of light and then could see the transformer itself launched through the sky.

That was immediately followed by watching the connections arc until the circuit breakers kicked in.

I wonder that too. I can recall the heady days of Windows where smart admins would test updates on a system with all their software to see what it broke and how to fix it.
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But the versioning can't be an worse than Ubuntu lately. Constant updates. I understand it's to correct functional and security issues. But perhaps once every couple weeks?

I'm tangentially working for a defense contractor. The whole business is awash in money.

Because every state pretty much requires and emissions test annually or bi-annually. It involves plugging a reader into the OBD-II port and downloading any condition codes, and then the standard tailpipe sniff.

What makes it so gross polluters are still out there is because after failing said emissions check, a waiver can be obtained.

Several years ago why would I want any Microsoft pseudo product on my Linux servers?

Not as if Linux doesn't already have a Power Shell called BASH or Bourne Again SHell for you noobs.