Napoleon (2023)
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Save your money and wait for it on free tv.
The only thing good was the costumes.
And, if you weren’t anti-war before the movie, you would be after it. Marching lines of people into cannons is the height of stupidity. And, why would Joe Grunt do it?
Argh!
Dona Nobis Pacem
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Took my order and never delivered. I had to make three phone calls and two emails to find out.
Argh!
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I need a YouTubeKids app and the portal to interoperate with non-messenger contacts.
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It’s great for an old relative but imho it’s too tightly tied to Facebook Messenger ands very limited apps.
With a toddler, it’s too hard to restrict him to YouTubeKids.
Argh!
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What3Words Sends Legal Threat To a Security Researcher For Sharing an Open-Source Alternative (techcrunch.com) 133
Posted by msmash on Monday May 03, 2021 @11:38AM from the how-about-that dept.
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A U.K. company behind digital addressing system What3Words has sent a legal threat to a security researcher for offering to share an open-source software project with other researchers, which What3Words claims violate its copyright.
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But security researcher Andrew Tierney recently discovered that What3Words would sometimes have two similarly-named squares less than a mile apart, potentially causing confusion about a person’s true whereabouts. In a later write-up, Tierney said What3Words was not adequate for use in safety-critical cases.
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Maybe Google’s system is better?
40.48453468598731, -74.42346811440515
As opposed to:
safety freed solo
AKA https://w3w.co/safety.freed.solo
WhatFreeWords should NOT be suppressed.
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What3Words Sends Ridiculous Legal Threat To Security Researcher Over Open Source Alternative
(Mis)Uses of Technology
from the never-use-what3words dept
Mon, May 3rd 2021 10:47am — Mike Masnick
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The only proper response to this is never, ever use What3Words for anything that matters. Beyond not giving in to censorial, abusive bullies, their legal reaction to a security researcher doing reverse engineering work to help find potentially dangerous problems with What3Words screams loudly to the world that What3Words has no confidence that it’s products are safe. They’re scared to death of security researchers being able to really test their work.
Both of these reasons means that What3Words should be remembered as little more than a failed.dumpster.fire rather than the cool.mapping.idea it could have been.
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FROM HOME DEPOT
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How many stars would you give your recent online purchase?
View as web page
RATE & REVIEW
YOUR HOME DEPOT PURCHASE
Ferdinand, How many stars would you give Kidde Pro 340 3-A:40-B:C Fire Extinguisher?
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A used old and discharged one was delivered. Of course, it was returned and I will not be ordering online from Home Depot again!
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PLEASE STOP —
The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo
For P2P users, the new app has fewer features, is less convenient, and has more fees.
RON AMADEO – 3/7/2021, 9:30 AM
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For long-term Google users, the new Google Pay is yet another annoying transition they’ll have to explain to friends and family. This is an occurrence that’s getting more frequent and more annoying in recent years, thanks to similar Google shutdowns of Google Play Music, Cloud Print, Inbox, Works with Nest, the ongoing Hangouts situation, and many others. That’s to say nothing of the crazy history of this payment service, which used to be Google Wallet, then Android Pay, then Google Pay, and now it’s a totally different Google Pay. Just like we’ve been through a million times now, some people won’t think this is a big deal because their use case is supported on the new product, while for other people, the new Google Pay will be a much bigger deal, because their use cases will be ripped-out from under them and no longer supported.
The worst part of it all is that, like the move from Google Music to YouTube Music, there is no reward at the end of this transition. Google is blowing stuff up and making users switch apps and set things up again only because of internal politics and infrastructure concerns. There aren’t any great new features to sell people on—it’s just Google’s constantly shifting priorities reaching into your life to remind you, “This is what being a Google user is like now. You’d better keep up!” It gets exhausting.
There is one new feature in the new Google Pay. I swear I’m not making this up: new Google Pay is yet another Google messaging app! Once you add someone via their phone number, the three options are “Pay,” “Request,” and “Message.” The “Message” option will bring up a full messaging app with the usual back and forth replies, push notifications, and emoji support. You can even start a group chat!
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Luckily, I never got into Google Pay. And, I dropped Google Fi for Altice’s unlimited mobile offering.
YMMV
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Just nuked my paytrust account!
… … due to the lousy Use interface.
And they don’t forward the mail.
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Order #26-05258-77719
BlackBerry Keyone – BBB100-1 32GB – Black (AT&T + GSM Unlocked) – MINT INBOX
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Except it’s locked!
And it’s no one’s problem but mine!
They all suck!
I am about ready to cancel my PayPal account over this.
And, obtw, you can leave negative feedback because the Ebay system is screwed up.
Argh!
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@ToyotaFinancial
Your “customer service” needs work. Your technology is archaic. The process to transfer a title is opaque. And, the turnaround times of interactions is measured in weeks. And, you force everyone to call in. Argh!
#ToyotaFinancialServices #ToyotaFinancial #Toyota
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This does NOT live up to the hype. I read the articles, some from reputable tech journals, and bought in.
After trying to install it, and could not, I find out there are all sorts of problems.
* Doesn’t work with CHROMEBOOKS (No one mentioned that.)
* Doesn’t support shared Users on a computer.
* Doesn’t install easily
And there support site has many pages of questions form Users globally.
I was looking for a POGOPLUG replacement and I think I’ve bought a pig.
More to follow.
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