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I wonder if that's not going to happen sooner or later. I'm sure we do have laws against installing software for more or less shady purposes without the computer owner's permission. Personally I don't care from whom the spyware and malware comes. I also don't care about their intentions or wether or not it's bad. My computer is part of my home or my business. Nobody just walks in uninvited, feels right at home and starts telling me how we are going to do things.
If they at least came personally, I could handle this Texas style.
"Hello! We are from Mickeysoft and have come to take care of your computer!"
"Oh! Do you happen to know what 7.62×51[^] is?"
"389.13?"
"Wrong answer!"
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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Well, if you had made a Macrium (ie like Ghost) of the hard disk you could just pout it back. ie NEVER trust Windows updates/rollback.
As for your bug, boot off a USB stick/CD into any OS, Hieransa boot CD has an XP on it, Ubuntu on a USB stick, etc, and get the crash file (either memory.dmp in the system or a minidump file in the minidump dir, and debug the crashh to find out which driver is the cause. Hopefully you can rescue the situation, but it looks a bit grim.
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That's #2!
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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No.11, atcherley.
Ilya was No.2
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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...and Mr. Waverly was #1.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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just remember there are people who are at this very moment getting paid to put indicators on BMWs 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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What's an indicator?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Aha! From your question I see you must be an American driver. This makes sense.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Or a BMW driver 
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Something that is never used on a BMW
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or Volvo or Saab..
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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If you guys are talking about turn signals, I have seen BMW drivers use them on the Autobahn. They are going +200 km/h in the fast lane with their left turn signal on.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Don't feel too bad. I read the replies to your question and still don't know what they are talking. However, I have already lost interest, so I will just assume it is a turn signal even though that does not make me get the point of the original post.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Yep, they turn signals. Or as the joke goes. Just don't ask an Irishman if they working. Yes they are, no they not, yes they are, no they not...........
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Boom-ting! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Speaking of cars, in the U.S., General Motors used to have a place called the Jobs Bank, before their bankruptcy. Back then, GM had much more capacity than demand; so entire shifts of people who had nothing to do would go to work at the Jobs Bank. I have heard of numbers in the 5000+ range. I believe all they were doing was sitting around and playing cards and watching TV. GM was not allowed to lay them off, because of union contracts.
So I am lucky, though I forget it sometimes.
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jgakenhe wrote: I believe all they were doing was sitting around and playing cards and watching TV.
We had a similar situation in our motor manufacturing days. It was called "British Leyland".
The night shift used to bring mattresses, apparently.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Somehow you made me think of Andy Capp!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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But they got paid to produce crap. 
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No, they got paid.
Producing crap just happened in the background!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Turn signals, rear-view mirrors, headlights, ... the list goes on. My experience as a cyclist is that BMW drivers are asshats by choice, not by chance or innate talent.
Software Zen: delete this;
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