I'm way too straight-forward of a person in a sense that I rarely keep anything I'm thinking to myself, to a fault. But that also means I'm not afraid to be rejected and people can always expect honesty from me. Charisma goes along way with people like me, because without it, we're just assholes.
Yea but we don't put them in a building full of other violent offenders to rehabilitate them. We do that to get rid of them with zero care for whatever they will do once they serve their sentence because, yet again, we can get rid of them and whatever damage they do while they are outside of the prison is considered unimportant in the grand scheme of things.
Siderant: I find it funny how humans work. On a very personal level, we love each other (you <> your parents or significant other), but the further the connection goes to other people the less we care. Whereas if we cared about everyone in a very loving way, we would probably not get rid of people we don't like.
As a web developer, this is not true. An large number of clients I've worked with have used IE and thanks to Win 10 shipping with Edge (which in itself is a decent browser) I've noticed a huge decline in "but it looks odd in my browser" comments from clients. So while I don't like Windows, or Microsoft in general, I do like the push to get rid of legacy stuff by them.
Yes it is, but lots of companies have upgraded to 10. Of all the offices I visit I see Edge open a lot. Chrome of course is the most popular, but I'm happy the awful web rendering engine that is IE is soon gone.
I know this must be a stupid question to ask, but why does a document writing tool need security updates? Can someone hack in and write documents on your behalf?
Macros are the really obvious one. But generally you need security patches any time you are running untrusted content from the internet. What happens if a malicious document overflows a buffer and gains code execution?
This is a particularly big concern with Word since its data format is essentially a direct binary copy of its memory structures.
That's mostly the old DOC, XLS, etc. which is a binary file format. DOCX, XLSX, etc. are XML-based, I believe?
But yeah, to the parent of yours, Office has a lot of features of embedding and triggering dynamic content, and people are constantly finding creative new ways to infect Office files. Security updates for Office is a critical as security updates for your PC.
As my overall Facebook usage had naturally gone close to "check once per week" in 2017, and do even that because of habit, I decided to delete it entirely from my life as soon as 2018 came around. The only thing that I'm not 100% happy with is that without Facebook you also don't have Messenger, which was the main thing I used to communicate with people. However, I still use Instagram to share Stories and photos and, luckily enough, it has a chat built in as well which works wonders.
On the company, sure. On the website, no. I didn't delete my Facebook account because I hate the company or something, I just simply didn't use it much anymore.
I just made a new account a few months ago so that I can keep up with event listings. I use m.facebook.com with JS disabled, which is tolerable. I have about 300 friends, 98% of them being Indian spammer accounts, whose friend requests I approve indiscriminately, so I have no reason to keep up with my feed. I did not use my real name, obviously. Works great now!
Just so you know, Messenger can be used standalone.
It tethers to your phone number, and backs up an account key to Google Drive/(iCloud for iOS?)
Functionally, it's the same except you don't have a profile of course. The only missing thing is that messenger.com doesn't support this so your only point of access is mobile.
Ah, did not know that. All tho' I do bet Facebook will do everything they can do clickbait you into making a Facebook account once you already have Messenger as well.
