The Convenience Rollup is kept on my keyring USB stick as its just soooo much easier than dealing with a system that may not have had a patch on it in years.

And as far as these new crap "mega updates"? Just turn off Windows Update and use WSUS Offline which last I checked is doing just as you described and grabbing the manual security updates, only you get them nicely bundled with a script that will install them all (and do any reboots required) and shut down the system, hassle free. I highly recommend it.

So in other words you are too uninformed about the issues to name your preferred prospective Supreme Court nominees. This all starts to make more sense, now. You won't address any of these issues directly because you actually have no idea what's going on. See? Asked to name even one prospective jurist, you have to resort to more childish deflection in an attempt to avoid confirming your ignorance. So, now you've had a while to at least look up some names. Let's try again: who do you think should sit on the Supreme Court? How about just one name.

Well, possibly.

While I agree that this would be the best approach, it requires one thing that we are not going to get anytime soon: A significant majority of non-stupid people. IoT has zero reasonable applications at this time. But far too many people are not mentally equipped to see that.

Ah, yes. Academia is trying to copy that "success story". In companies, at some time so much trash will have accumulated from this strategically utterly demented approach that they go down the drain or at least into a major crisis.

Please be self-destructive _without_ dragging the rest of the human race into it. While there surely is some bogus climate-change research, the whole field is not broken and the whole field has a consensus that it is going to be at least pretty bad and may well get catastrophic.

I have seen quite a bit of it and know of several CS PhDs that are based on bogus results. The tragedy is that people doing their research properly will take significantly longer and have much diminished chances at an academic career. And this effect propagates: First PhD students advance on bogus results, then they become professors on fraud and finally the whole research field is broken.

After they mismanaged the company for a few years, trashing our corporate culture and making all the employees miserable I found another job and resigned.

If you were an ethical person, you would have bailed as soon as the acquisition was announced.

miserable, judgemental jerk

Why would I be miserable? I don't have the taint of working for a criminal organization on my conscience.

-jcr

Perhaps you lack the basic information that oxygen is the most abundant element on earth. It makes up close to half of the mass of the planet. We're not going to run out of it.

-jcr

an insurance company that uses Accenture policy administration software

Would you mind telling us what company that is? I want to make sure I never do business with them.

-jcr

I was a Senior Consultant at Andersen Consulting

Hey, thanks for the heads-up. Now everybody knows that you're not someone to trust.

Have you also worked at the NSA or any other criminal organization?

-jcr

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Andersen Consulting split off from Arthur Andersen before the SHTF.

Not before crimes were committed, just before they were discovered.

Andersen remains a pack of crooks, and hiring shills like you to spin the story doesn't change that.

-jcr

"Accenture" is Andersen Consulting under a stupid-sounding name to try to avoid the stench of the Enron scandal. As an organization, they have always been devoid of any ethical qualms, and they should be ignored.

-jcr

no, not like that.