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TED lecture - this could save your life!
David wrote:
Did you scroll down, Andy Burns?!!! I did see all the "spoiler space" when I replied, but the "sig" had been stripped by then. |
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TED lecture - this could save your life!
Basil Jet wrote:
Do you really think they chose book, look, boot and loot as four of the words? well 3 out of four, plus a few homophones for good measure https://what3words.com/book.look.boot https://what3words.com/buck.luck.boot It is just too easy to find bad examples with w3w, it's a terrible system |
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TED lecture - this could save your life!
On 23/11/2019 15:05, Andy Burns wrote:
David wrote: Did you scroll down, Andy Burns?!!! I did see all the "spoiler space" when I replied, but the "sig" had been stripped by then. OK - Accepted! :-) |
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[OT]TED lecture - this could save your life!
On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 13:42:17 +0000, David
wrote: Let me check from here. Give me just ONE set of three words for your property and I'll see if I can find you. ................ His phone number would have less digits. Hint: If you want to date, ask for the number. (I don't think he'll accept, though). OT up, thread not Win 10 related. It never was. --------------- BD: I want people to "get to know me better. I have nothing to hide". I'm always here to help, this page was put up at BD's request, rather, he said "Do it *NOW*!": http://tekrider.net/pages/david-brooks-stalker.php 62 confirmed #FAKE_NYMS, most used in cybercrimes! Google "David Brooks Devon" []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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TED lecture - this could save your life!
On 23/11/2019 15:14, Andy Burns wrote:
Basil Jet wrote: Do you really think they chose book, look, boot and loot as four of the words? well 3 out of four, plus a few homophones for good measure https://what3words.com/book.look.boot https://what3words.com/buck.luck.boot It is just too easy to find bad examples with w3w, it's a terrible system I totally lost that argument. Congrats. -- Basil Jet recently enjoyed listening to Fat White Family - 2013 - Champagne Holocaust |
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TED lecture - this could save your life!
On 22/11/2019 23:31, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 22:50:29 +0000, David wrote: *Why you should listen* It's a fundamental logistical problem: not everyone, or everywhere, has a traditional address, and GPS coordinates can be tough to use. While working in the music industry, Chris Sheldrick noticed that bands and equipment kept getting lost on the way to gigs, and he took up the mission to create a better addressing system for the world. He worked with a mathematician friend to devise the what3words algorithm that has named every 3-metre square in the world. Started in 2013, the system is being used by eight national postal services, and has a range of integration partners across the world in fields as varied as humanitarian aid, logistics, and in-car navigation. https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_shel...place_on_earth Chris Sheldrick is providing a precise and simple way to talk about location, by dividing the world into a grid of three-meter by three-meter squares and assigning each one a unique three-word address. How do you tile a sphere in squares? You globetard! -- Basil Jet recently enjoyed listening to Fat White Family - 2013 - Champagne Holocaust |
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TED lecture - this could save your life!
On 11/22/19 5:31 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:
[snip] How do you tile a sphere in squares? The squares would have to be distorted to fit, something related to the distortion that makes Greenland huge on a normal world map. -- 32 days until the winter celebration (Wed, Dec 25, 2019 12:00:00 AM for 1 day). Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "...in matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed." Gore Vidal |
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TED lecture - this could save your life!
On 23 Nov 2019, David wrote
(in article ): On 23/11/2019 14:42, Wolffan wrote: On 23 Nov 2019, David wrote (in article ): On 23/11/2019 14:08, Andy Burns wrote: David wrote: occam wrote: My home, when split into 3x3meter squares, would have around 10 'addresses', some of which fall partially outside of my property. When you examine the ten 3-word 'addresses' for the property, you would have NO clue they belong to the same physical property. Get one letter wrong in any of the words, and your GPS might take you to the other side of the planet. Now would you like to order an Uber? Let me check from here. Give me just ONE set of three words for your property and I'll ... ... stalk you forever Did you scroll down, Andy Burns?!!! No need. Yes, there was. nope. We’ve seen you in action before. Stalking is what you do. That, and lying, and trolling, and drinking to excess, and murdering your own children. Filicide. |
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"nospam" wrote in message
... Get one letter wrong in any of the words, and your GPS might take you to the other side of the planet. Now would you like to order an Uber? that can't happen. Yes it can. I looked up one of the WTW phrases for my house and then typed in the plural of a word instead the singular by mistake. It took me to somewhere many thousands of miles away. That sort of error could easily creep in when the words are read to a 999 operator. I don't think they've weeded out words which are spelled differently but pronounced the same or similarly. Brilliant idea which loses something in the implementation. At the very least it needs some form of checksum to guard against typos and mondegreens. |
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TED lecture - this could save your life!
On 23/11/2019 14:44, nospam wrote:
Get one letter wrong in any of the words, and your GPS might take you to the other side of the planet. Now would you like to order an Uber? that can't happen. Check these two addresses: ///liners.badge.spout and ///lines.badge.spout (easy mistake to make when you are jotting down an address over the phone.) |
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TED lecture - this could save your life!
NY wrote:
Yes it can. I looked up one of the WTW phrases for my house and then typed in the plural of a word instead the singular by mistake. It took me to somewhere many thousands of miles away. That is kind of the point. It's self-checking in a way - if you phone 999 in the UK and you end up with a location in Australia, then you know it's wrong and can re-check. -- Steve H |
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TED lecture - this could save your life!
In article , occam
wrote: Get one letter wrong in any of the words, and your GPS might take you to the other side of the planet. Now would you like to order an Uber? that can't happen. Check these two addresses: ///liners.badge.spout and ///lines.badge.spout (easy mistake to make when you are jotting down an address over the phone.) it's difficult to confuse lines and liners, especially on the phone. |
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TED lecture - this could save your life!
On 23/11/2019 14:42, David wrote:
Give me just ONE set of three words for your property and I'll see if I can find you. ///recliner.sprays.says (only one letter is wrong.) |
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TED lecture - this could save your life!
On 23/11/2019 21.21, Steve H wrote:
NY wrote: Yes it can. I looked up one of the WTW phrases for my house and then typed in the plural of a word instead the singular by mistake. It took me to somewhere many thousands of miles away. That is kind of the point. It's self-checking in a way - if you phone 999 in the UK and you end up with a location in Australia, then you know it's wrong and can re-check. Bad design. Better add a checksum. But I do not see what is wrong in using standard coordinates, latitude and longitude. Could be given in base 28. -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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TED lecture - this could save your life!
On 23/11/2019 21.22, nospam wrote:
In article , occam wrote: Get one letter wrong in any of the words, and your GPS might take you to the other side of the planet. Now would you like to order an Uber? that can't happen. Check these two addresses: ///liners.badge.spout and ///lines.badge.spout (easy mistake to make when you are jotting down an address over the phone.) it's difficult to confuse lines and liners, especially on the phone. Very easy if you don't speak English. -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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