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When visiting a friend last weekend, I mentioned as a side remark that lots of people never gave a thought to the name 'Edge' - similar to the old days when lots of people using the Lynx browser never associated it with anything but a big, wild cat. My friend knows a lot of math, including a fair amount of graph theory. Yet, he gave me a puzzled look: What do you mean? Is that name supposed to mean anything special?
Well ... Yes. Like Lynx. And the little Ford Ka (that's some years ago, isn't it?). And the arrow below the Amazon text in the logo. One common brand of Californian raisins imported to Norway had the brand name 'Sun Maid' (with a picture of a young woman carrying a basket of grapes) - my mother never ever would accept the idea that 'Sun Maid' was a play of 'Sun made', ripened in the sun. Marketing folks come up with lots of bright ideas in this class, and 99% of the audience ignores/overlooks it. I am sure that they are prepared for that  .
I guess that a fair share of the Lounge audience has had their share of graph theory. So let me ask: Have you ever been considering the name 'Edge' as related to hypertext graphs? Or are you considering it to be just a random name picked out of the blue?
(If you care to indicated whether you feel familiar with graph theory, that would be an interesting additional piece of information!)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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In my part of the world*, a dissected plateau, there are many clifftop lookouts and walking trails.
There is a lot of signage encouraging people to keep away from the edge, which I consider excellent advice.
* The coincidence between my postcode and an ancient IBM RJE device/protocol I find amusing.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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So, these days I have a few medical issues I'm working on... I try to login to my doctor's portal, and it's unable to handle Opera. Oh really? 40 years after all this got started, and you won't handle opera? Get it to come up in Edge - finally - and the f'ing icon is using my login information. I think not.
Off to vpn for me.
You're not paranoid if they really are listening and harvesting your data. I'm sure FISA will keep me safe.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: the f'ing icon is using my login information.
What do you mean?
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when I go to edge, the login photo for me is in the upper left.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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OK I give up, what is a login photo?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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charlieg wrote: I'm sure FISA will keep me safe.
Absolutely, they have only your interest and safety in mind. 
Definition of a burocrate; Delegate, Take Credit, shift blame.
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.1 JaxCoder.com
Latest Article: EventAggregator
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If history has taught us anything, we can always trust an authoritarian government. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Assuming it's not just a cache issue from a previous visit...
One of the things Microsoft always did with IE and now Edge was integrate it with Active Directory. You ever notice on some internal sites at work you don't have to login when using Edge but you do in other browsers? That's on purpose. That's usually through AD though, so just guessing even if it's a un-authenticated or non-domain login that peeps can still query enough data to get some account info in Edge regardless.
It's supposed to be a "feature", but it's always been there in some form.
Mo' Info
IMO Firefox and Brave are the only browsers that even remotely pretend to care about your privacy. I say this as a dude who uses Chrome.
Jeremy Falcon
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Imagine if it was ... margin-left: 150px;
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I have seen things like that in real life... and it is not funny.
Or seeing how water is coming out from a plug socket at the wall (one hotel room I had a couple of years ago ).
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I remember a hotel in Bangladesh where you felt a certain tingling sensation when taking a shower.
No, not what you maybe think... it came from the electric water heater and one recognized the open wiring 
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Wordle 1,038 5/6
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Wordle 1,038 2/6
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Wordle 1,038 3/6*
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 1,038 5/6
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Wordle 1,038 4/6
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Kinda wish I could show my guesses... they were good guesses. For reals. 
Jeremy Falcon
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no reason why you can't - by the time we post our attempts, we've all done it
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I'm convinced Wordle is messing with us. It's either a super easy word that you over guess or a word nobody ever heard of. No in-betweens.
heart
dream
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caper
saber
laser I mean... how cool would saber be?
Jeremy Falcon
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