On 4/22/2018 10:02 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
. . .
Paypal had corrupted my account for the fourth time in 12 months, this
time rolling it back to an account that had been compromised and supposedly
closed five years ago. It still had the Mastercard account that had been
closed four years ago.
I think you may live in an alternate, but overlapping, universe from most of us. I've been using PayPal since 2000, for
thousands of transactions, and NEVER had a problem with it.
So I tried to pay for it by way of the B&H secure payment page, but it seems
that it was offline as at was still buffering after an hour.
You imagine that this was happening to others at the same time, I imagine it
was not.
I resorted to their 800 customer service number. In about two minutes time the
item was paid for and will be shipped tomorrow.
When all else fails, jump into the WAYBAC machine and used trusted, reliable,
offline technology to get the job done.
I don't know about your service. Twisted pair phone service here became UN-reliable years ago, as the punch down metal
and the wires became incompatible with age and slowly gave in to entropy. The most reliable "land lines" here are over
Comcast cable. Fiber is coming, some day in the not too distant future, but they'll never redo the old twisted pairs.
Offline isn't a viable option. We rely on cellular. At home, our phones mostly hitchhike on our WiFi, automagically,
minimizing data charges and avoiding the sometimes weak cellular signals here.
On 4/22/2018 10:45 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
To make a long story short, I have a ZTE N817 smart phone that a homeless
person threw at me. Yeah. I did try to contact the person it was stolen from,
but the contact number had been disconnected.
Once again - alternate universe. :-)
So, . . .
There is an app called LocOf, which is a real-time GPS tracker. It does
not need an internet connection to collect the GPS data. I'm going to look
into this as it would be very useful.
There are several such apps, for Android and iOS. I've been using them for years. Virtually all my photos away from home
for years have been geocoded by syncing geo-tracks from phone or dedicated GPS tracking device to image files. GeoSetter
is a great, free app for this.
My Own U Moose
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