…to prevent your partner from texting, it is indeed a sad day.

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In the apartment building I live in, there is a policy to frequently test the fire alarm. If I am right, they test it monthly, and every year they test each unit's alarm individually. The testing is done so frequently that I have been conditioned just like the boy who cried wolf, by having heard approximately 150 fire alarms in the past 3 years always due to testing, to ignore them. No matter what. If I have 150 false positives and 0 true positives, you filter it out.

So what will happen the day the fire alarm is real? I will ignore it and burn to ash. Too much testing can be a bad thing.

Every now and again I stumble across some long forgotten memories. This time it was triggered by my daughter's quest to learn more advanced mathematics. She was busy playing on a web site where they ask for answers to equations like:

I agree, security updates are necessary to continue protecting us from hackers and viruses. I understand and acknowledge that software will continue to have security related issues in the foreseeable future. I do NOT agree that software have to have as many security issues as they do. I firmly believe most software is written not from sound engineering principals. If it was, then security would have been a prominent part of the SDLC and software would have been much more secure - not impenetrable, but much better than now.

I digress. The issue I have with security updates is when this happens: