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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by parrellel on Monday May 15, 2017 @12:12PM (#14342717)
God, it's even worse for academic / engineering use.

Nothing is better than running a simulation for twenty hours and waking up to a nice blank desktop. /s

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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by CydeWeys on Monday May 15, 2017 @01:44PM (#14343498)
Wow, yeah, that'd be a nightmare. I hadn't even considered that use case. I was just thinking of typical desktop use cases.

In a similar vein, imagine that you're ill-advisedly using a Windows server to host your node for cryptocurrency mining, and then it restarts when you're not around. You could lose serious amounts of money from that.

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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by torrent-of-ions on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @07:34AM (#14348791)
Why are you even using Windows for this?
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Re:Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update by parrellel on Friday May 26, 2017 @08:15PM (#14428136)
A combination of IT policies and short sighted programmers.
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