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Some alien has sued NASA for violating its privacy. Now the counterstrike has begun. Google is already sneaking up on them to bombard them with ads and Mickeysoft will force update them to Win10 A.E.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: Win10 A.E.
Alien Edition?
I'll go a tenner that they screw up the keyboard driver.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Si.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Actually, I was really surprised.
Before the AE update, the touchpad on the (optional) keyboard for the WookieTab was unusable - oversensitive, double registering, useless.
After the AE update (which happened automatically the same day I got the device, took under an hour, and was hassle free) it started working like a charm! Now, it just works, and - for a touchpad - is not half bad.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Now, it just works
... If you've got phlanges. Tentacles are another matter.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Always makes me think of the film "Battleship". How, exactly, were they able to get the radio signal to go faster than the speed of light? A deep, dark mystery! 
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They used the speed of dark, which is much quicker. Think about it, whenever light gets somewhere, it finds that dark got there first...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Is this supposed to be dark humor? 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Anything to do with the Dark Side of the Force matters!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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So yesterday my work OS install got hosed and needed to be reloaded.    
As part of that process I launched Edge for the one thing it's good for and searched for "Firefox".
At the top of the bing page was an item marked as an ad. Mozilla's official download page.
Immediately below that was a second item marked as an ad. Microsoft's pitch begging users not to stop using edge.
A minute later I repeated the above process searching for "Chrome". I got an equivalent pair of ads.
I'm not sure what's more pathetic: That they resorted to buying ads in Bing to try and retain user share, or that having done so they let Google and Mozilla outbid them for the top slot on the pages.
Edit: Added screenshots of binging for Chrome in 4 browsers[^] The IE11, Edge, and Firefox ones were done via the search box, I didn't care enough to figure out how to Bing directly in Chrome, so I did that one by going to the website first.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
modified 22-Feb-17 10:18am.
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I tried with the same search with FF and there's not a single beg, so I believe it's part of Edge and not Bing.
As for the ads, I hate them anywhwere.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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An advertising delivery service hard-coded into the browser?
How much lower can they stoop?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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With "An advertising delivery service hard-coded into the" operating system.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: An advertising delivery service hard-coded into the browser?How much lower can they stoop?
Uh, you've never heard of google or chrome?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I don't use google, even on my phones (reverted to factory version, and never updated or opened), and I don't use chrome.
Next question.
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I'm sure you can show ads depending on user agent, without having to hard code anything.
Jeremy Falcon
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Probably, but it's not an avenue I'd ever explore, because I treat my customers with respect.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Respect... what a concept, eh? 
Jeremy Falcon
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Things become more precious with rarity.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Searching for Firefox or Chrome in Edge's search box/address bar returns nothing but downloads links for these respective browsers, as would be expected.
That's because my default search engine in Edge is DuckDuckGo.
Therefore I have to conclude it's a Bing thing, and not an Edge thing.
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Somehow, on a similar note:
Where I live, there's a bank, the "TD BANK", who is amazingly generous with their dark green pens. They are in use absolutely everywhere, it seems.
Well - they are now:
I took a hand full and left them at some of the desks at a nearby branch of the Chase Bank in case the chained pens were missing.
The Devil made me do it, and I'm glad
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It has to do something with Edge... Searching with Bing on IE11 shows no begging...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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