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Big Mac, fries, and a Coke.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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...it's a Master Socket Splitter[^], if that's relevant...Thanks to @DaveAuld for the idea that these even existed, and the Fleabay link.
But...FleaBay offered me a "new way to speed up PayPal payments and improve my FleaBay experience".
Basically, you can link PayPal and FleaBay, so FleaBay retain your PayPal info, and you press "Buy" and "PayPal" and it all happens in the background without an explicit PayPal login.
Um. Is it just me, or does that sound like something I don't want to get involved in to you as well? It isn't that I don't trust FleaBay to be honest and not just sell me anything they fancy; it isn't that I don't want to risk the cat playing with the computer and buying a car... though (FleaBay is permanently logged in, PayPal isn't)
It's that I don't really trust FleaBay security that much. They have never really needed to be "money secure" since they don't deal with money - PayPal does that. So how likely is it that the database code came from QA? 
Any thoughts?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Any thoughts?
There's some tuna in the fridge, but of chilli pickle and it'll make a nice sandwich for my lunch.
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Tuna?
TUNA?
What happened to the BACON, man?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Today I am eating various leftovers. But tuna with a good hot chutney is surprisingly good.
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I've been doing this for a bout a year and it makes it easy to purchase items but if you don't buy a lot there's no point.
As I grow older I've found that pleasing everyone is impossible but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Any thoughts?
Don't do it. That's pretty much the same option as Amazon's OneClick, and on several occasions Amazon added rubbish to the order of the article I wanted to one-click-order without me being given a chance to decide against the added stuff. The good thing is, you can cancel Amazon orders, but this is not so easy on FleaBay.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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OriginalGriff wrote: it isn't that I don't want to risk the cat playing with the computer and buying a car...
Replace 'cat' with 'the kids' and that's exactly why it's a stupid idea.
But I suppose if your single, or with a partner and no kids it's a good idea if you want to save yourself time and effort. As long as it's properly pointed out what your doing.
I think xbox and PS got in trouble recently because they saved your details on FIFA. What was happening was parents were agreeing to buy there kids a £2 player update, and the 1st time they had to enter their details, but after that it remembered them. So kids were running up bills of thousands of pounds, just by clicking a button.
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Yeah...[^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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That is why the kids (or the wife) do not get near my PC's / Laptops and they do not have my account passwords to get onto the computer.
They have their own laptops/tablets/chromebooks etc. sort their own problems out!
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On my tv box, you have to enter a four-digit password to change the video signal settings or to add the ability of showing subtitles, but subscribing to paying channels for 12+ months contracts only requires two keys to be hit on the remote control.
Five years ago, I ordered a 24-months subscription to a package of 17 manga channels by sitting on the remote control.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: Five years ago, I ordered a 24-months subscription to a package of 17 manga channels by sitting on the remote control.
genuine lol moment.
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P0mpey3 wrote: if you want to save yourself time and effort
Time and effort? How often do you buy something on FleaBay or any other online platform? I don't care if I have to login to PayPal etc. on that rare occasion....
It's like optimizing code that needs minutes to execute by a few milliseconds...
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Nicholas Marty wrote: How often do you buy something on FleaBay
Me, never bought anything from them. But the missus buys clothes from there and other similar sites quite regularly and she has a credit card she uses solely for the internet and nothing else. She can never find the card when she wants to buy something so this would save her not only the time entering the details but also the time looking for the card.
The Remote Control was scoffed at when it first came out, people said "wow this saves me getting off the sofa and walking all the way over to the TV to press the button". Now you couldn't do without it.
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P0mpey3 wrote: The Remote Control was scoffed at when it first came out, people said "wow this saves me getting off the sofa and walking all the way over to the TV to press the button". Now you couldn't do without it.
Well... if the TV itself has no buttons (or no buttons except maybe volume up/down and channel up/down) you're pretty limited without a remote. 
Besides, you don't have to (physically) search for a paypal account (yeah, you may forget your login details. But that is, I think, another issue).
Oh and I have a credit card too, which I solely use for the internet. It's a prepaid one. And I otherwise NEVER pay with a credit card. (I mislike the idea of only needing a number to be able to pay for something. Sure, there is a security number on the back of the card. Good thing you have to provide that value to any shop you wan't to pay something for too  ).
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You're welcome!
As for the Ebay/Paypal thing.......they are the 'same company'*1, mine has been linked for a loooong time. Never had any problems.
All these payment services certainly make life easier I have found. Today I even paid for a Kickstarter pledge using Amazon Payment services, i.e. my normal Amazon Account.
Given we are in the UK, we are pretty well protected by all the various consumer protection laws, so if something was to happen, the Bank or the CC company need to sort it out.
*1 - Ok, from a legal standpoint they are not, but you know what I mean!
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I didn't know that - still not sure I want to do it though. The Paypal account has access direct to my bank account, the FleaBay one doesn't. I'd be a lot less happy to be logged in permanently with FleaBay if I connected them.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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DaveAuld wrote: from a legal standpoint they are not, but you know what I mean
I know they share a building near where I work; I need no other proof.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Do it - its good.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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It saves you maybe three clicks and the typing of a password.
You have to balance that immense amount of work against potential security risks, and make a decision.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Wow ! [^]
1450 hotel beds every night !
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100L steroids
2350 EPO doses
517 bags of blood
70 syringes every day
etc...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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And that was just Lance Armstrong
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I wrote that line at the end of my post, and finally decided against to not open the flame war again.
But I am glad you mentioned it ! 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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When the competitors arrange a "sit-down-strike" because drug testing is going to involved in future, you know the sport is rife with it. And I suspect that the situation hasn't changed that much - if Armstrong could escape detection for that long then you can bet he isn't the only one... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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