At the scale it's getting, i don't think anyone in microsoft want to be "the ones at fault for lockheed martin getting hacked", or worse, disney.
A decent point. It seems however, that Windows will soon be running Office 365, and not much else.
"the presumably insecure MacOS and Linux don't seem to have this issue."
Excuse me?
I use a Red Hat Linux clone/derivative called Rocky Linux on all of my computers (desktops, laptops, server) and there's currently a discussion on the Rocky message board about how there are suddenly so many kernel updates being issued as a result of bugs found (presumably by AI) that the Rocky maintainers are having difficulty maintaining the pace.
Here's the discussion if you're interested: https://forums.rockylinux.org/...
Were there 500 security updates a month after there were 200 updates? I have Linux Mint as well as Raspbian, and keep track up updates. Perhaps I didn't count correctly.
And no where did I say that MacOS and Linux don't have security flaws. There is no perfectly secure OS. If can be written, it can be compromised. But to suggest that Windows is the equal of the other two, well, that needs a whole lot of proof.
It's bad, but Microsoft has a awfully large number of lines of code to run through Mythos or whatever
You mean the famous Microsoft bloat? That's a feature I guess.
On the upside, we're probably going to get several months of this while everyone with access to Mythos et al runs their existing code through it and integrates into their release processes for new code, and the end result will be things being much harder for all the bad actors in the world.
So the last couple years of destroyed functionality, are suddenly going to end, and we'll have the secure OS they've been telling us is the most secure and it'll be puppy dogs and rainbows?
Meanwhile, the presumably insecure MacOS and Linux don't seem to have this issue. I'll believe it when the other Os' end up gone, and Microsoft is so secure, all the AV providers go out of business.
To find a security flaw, you only need to be right once. So if you have a machine that has a shitload of false positives, and have a way to filter em quickly, you end up with a bunch of true positives. Now to code, you ideally want to always be right, which is not quite ideal for a machine that does a lot of false positives. It's a pretty fun scenario, specially if you're not the only one running the security flaw finding machine.
Does it even matter any more? It is the Microsoft way, and their "patches" tend to just turn needed things off. Meanwhile the faithful can continue the claims that Microsoft is every bit as secure as any other OS out there.
The problem with Microsoft's "security" updates that they turn off features that many programs need. The ain't security, that's just a march toward the only programs workingare the ones Microsoft sells you. And they aren't secure either.
That actually seems worse than the alternative. If everyone's going to be shuffling times around, just sort it out centrally rather than having a month of incredibly vexing minor synchronisation errors.
Or, you know pick hours for when it makes most sense when there's least sun (winter) and just leave it there?
When I see the many solutions offered in here, it becomes clear that everyone should have their own personal time. 8^)
To be serious, I would hope most people in here would admit we need a Universal time (I've had a few conversations with people who see no need for it.
So it is also reasonable to understand that the earth being an oblate spheroid that rotates on a spherical axis around a light giving star is going to have a constantly changing day/night cycle with a rate of change from very small near latitude Zero, to huge at latitude 90, with varying shifts of Daylight/Dark as the planet rotates on its tilted axis in its journey around the sun.
Other than Universal time, which completely ignores the Dark/Light cycle, the latitude based seasonal differences incurred by the physics of the situation, the diurnal nature of humans shaped by millions of years of evolution, there is simply no one size fits all solution.
So yes, any and all solutions for time is a compromise. the Daylight savings Time solution is one of those solutions. It makes sense for those who work outside at the higher latitudes during the summer. Permanent DST will make an issue for those in the same situation during the winter. If they require daylight, they will need to alter their work schedules. And indeed, that is forcing some to have an ever changing workday.
Standard time was compromise, it's all a compromise.
We have DST, but only some states. But the sun coming up at 4:45am in summer sucks up near the tropics and makes no sense. I've often thought we should simply introduce it year round in all states.
Right, because your personal situation must be forced on the rest of the world. Everyone needs their own personal time. Making the world have time zones, and DST/Standard time is Nanny State government overreach. If I say it is 3 PM while others say it is 2 in the morning, IT is my personal truth!
You can't change the universe, nor the solar system.
There's very specific reasons why the Sun reaches its zenith(daily peak) at mid day(12:00). You can say that the number is arbitrary. But that just illustrates your lack of understanding of the planet, what we use time for, and just how important it all is.
Cue the willfully ignorant with their 'what about $obscure timezone or $extreme longitude'.
The solution if for those few to move.
I don't know about them being willfully ignorant - perhaps just a little dull? I've had discussions with people in here who think when it is light where they are, it is light everywhere around the globe - so why not just make it the same time everywhere. Or people who acknowledge there is a globe, with day/night cycles, but believe that their day/night cycles be the universal work/not work times. Sounds specious, but a lot of people have a solipsistic worldview.
In my work, I need to know both UTC and local times around the world.
You are 100 percent correct. The earth is an Oblate spheroid, rotating around a tilted axis, orbiting a star. There is no perfect day/night/time cycle, nor can there be. DST/ST is a fair compromise. I fear people think that it will be light until 9:00 P.M. in December. when in reality they will drive home in teh dark instead of driving to work in the dark.
We should stay on permanent STANDARD time, not daylight. I can't wait for to not see the sun in Dec and Jan until 9am. And screw the global time zone map.
As I've patiently described to many, the closer to the equator, the less Daylight savings time makes, because the axis tilt near the latitude axis makes light/dark hour of the day differences less extreme.
But as the latitude increases, the shift becomes more extreme. Here in Pennsylvania, right now, the sun is setting around 8:45 P.M. so it's useable light until ~ 9, and it is getting light around 5:00 A.M.
Wintertime, the times of daylight shrink a lot. So what we'll do is simply trade darkness from one end of the workday to the other. Which is a lot like wanting to make a piece of clothes longer by cutting the top off and sewing it onto the bottom.
Don't like driving home from work in the dark in the winter? Okay, but permanent DST means you only traded that for driving to work in the dark.
We have the political will, we have the military might, make it happen. Nuke the sun if it doesn't comply/
It means they'll fix it for the EU but won't do anything for the USA.
I feel badly for you. When people can only post with one angle, it usually involves deep seated trauma. Have you considered therapy?
Gotta admit, 99 percent of his posts indicate a fixation on one single thing. And that is an actual issue for some people. The term "Psychological Fixation" is a rigid and persistent preoccupation with an idea, object, person, that resists changing even when it no longer serves any useful purpose. Ideation fixed on repeat, as it were. Not untrue sometimes, but consuming the mind of the sufferer.
I keep all my clocks on UTC now. I can't be bothered to change them twice a year.
Yeah mate that's frankly nuts.
Firstly, you have to go to effort to stop you phones and laptops changing their times automatically. Secondly, your clocks are now mismatched from literally everyone around you half the time. 95% of the point of clocks is to synchronise things with other people. That's why we got the concept of centralized time in the first place.
Scotland only has six hours of daylight in the winter - so you're either going to work in the dark or coming home in the dark.
Or both! I'm further south (London) and in the depths of winter I was going to school before sunrise and would often/usually arrive home after sunset. And work is usually longer hours than school.
That actually seems worse than the alternative. If everyone's going to be shuffling times around, just sort it out centrally rather than having a month of incredibly vexing minor synchronisation errors.
Or, you know pick hours for when it makes most sense when there's least sun (winter) and just leave it there?
Not getting any sunlight until past 10.00 AM is so annoying,
Well not getting any sun past 4:30 in the afternoon is also so annoying. I live at the same latitude: the number of hours of sunlight is too short and all you are doing is shuffling it around.
and the cost of road maintenance because rush hours is when everywhere, there is still ice on the roads, will be prohibitive.
You what?
People complaining have simply no clue how it is to have DST in the winter, and can't imagine.
Or maybe people just don't agree with you? Or maybe you also didn't read the article title? The plan was to KEEP DST, so winter is unchanged.
Interchangeable parts won't.
