They really want you to stay current on the JRE.
They really really want you to get off the dangerous, broken JRE 6 version.
They're maintaining the most dangerous client software in the world, and they can't break the language with quarterly releases of exciting new features. They have to love people forward into new releases, or maintain the old releases forever. TZUPDATER is maybe the only thing they can kill to incent people to upgrade. And they're not killing it, they're letting you pay to keep running old, vulnerable versions of software.
Slashdot OP misses the point. You're supposed to upgrade your runtime periodically. They're years behind.