technobot

I like the idea of Paypal and the safety of it. They can help when it comes to fraud. Anyways I have a prepaid credit card that I put money on right before I actually buy something. The problem I have with Paypal is that I live in Canada and when I buy something for US dollars I found there Canadian to US exchange is way off and that I ended up paying way more for a US dollar than the regular exchange rates. The last time I used my credit card the rate was not all that bad and even when the Canadian Us rate where at par I found the rate to be almost twice that of non paypal transactions.

Back in the win98 days GeoCities was pretty good and useful fot personal web sites. The GeoCities add panel is something that degrades the users site. I used to like the communities and the ability to browse subjects for other users pages. Now a warning about registering with GeoCities. Do not use your main email address to register for a site for Geocities and I would recommend using a disposable email address. About a year ago I played around with a Geocities website and found out that when you register your email with them that it is available for spammers web spiders that lift your email address from the registry. The end result was that the email address I registered with the Geocities web site recieved up to 1,000 spam mails a day. It got to the point where I had to delete that email address.

Apparently the number one way to stay off of a telemarketing phone number list is to have a unlisted number. Also in Canada they have special lists that you can register to stay off of a telemarketing list but do not think it works that great. I also remember seeing a device a long time ago that would catch the telemarketing calls and hang up on them. Problem is if there is money to be made they will do it such as the cellphone stuff which can only be stopped with legal action so they will no longer be allowed to do this. The problem is that there might be one person willing to buy something and I do not think they care that they bother another 20 or more people who are not interested till they are made to through legal channels.