I do not believe it is reasonable to use an OS where you need to do hostage negotiation on a daily basis. If you need to go this far, what will you do when an MS update adds a bypass for the firewall you’re using?
> I do not believe it is reasonable to use an OS where you need to do hostage negotiation on a daily basis.
So much this. It's not that technically minded people can't figure out how to florb the nerfwedge. It's that it shouldn't be needed to begin with, and you have to know about it to begin with (which usually happens by getting burned by not doing it, either with one's own machine, or a friend's or family member's machine).
Again, I don't install updates I haven't pulled from the catalog after they seasoned and tested them myself, again offline. If they don't work offline, I don't install them.
