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Fernando Corbato (yeah, I've never heard of him either) passed away recently at the age of 93. Fernando was instrumental in modernizing computing. You see, back in the day, even before I started getting interested in computers, people didn't have a machine on their desks, much less in their pockets.
One can't turn around in today's time without hearing someone complain about being offended by something. Whether it's "Cultural Appropriation", or the "War on Christmas". Offended? Y'all just need to get over it. Nobody has any kind of right to not be offended.
Many in my generation ("Boomers") are not very eager to adopt new technology. That's what this site is all about. Let's look at pay with your phone services. What it is, how it works, and is it safe.
This article will not include apps that let you order and pay for products, such as Chick Fil A, Amazon, McDonalds, etc. I'll hit those in a later article.
Today I'm talking about using your phone to pay in store for purchases.
It's easy to assume that scams won’t affect us, but as seniors, we need to be especially vigilant. Here are seven reasons why we might be more susceptible to scams.
What Are Mobile Payment Apps? An Explanation
Everywhere you go these days it seems like no one is using cash anymore. Even at the old faithful places like flea markets, festivals, and yard sales, people are using mobile payment apps.
But what are they, how do they work, and how safe are they?
Seniors are especially vulnerable to online scams. I'm going to show you 4 types of scams to avoid and how to protect yourself.
Online scams can take many forms, but they almost always involve the victim calling the scammer.
Gone are the days of scammers calling us, that wasn’t very efficient anyway. It’s more practical to get us to call them.
In 2012, Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy, the son of founder Truett Cathy, made a comment in a Southern Baptist publication that the company supports the "biblical definition of a family unit." That comment and others he made ignited a boycott of the family owned business.
In early 2022, I was diagnosed with throat cancer. Faced with the decision between radiation and chemotherapy, or a laryngectomy.
After spending part of Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Larry watching a few of those HGTV shows about rich people looking for their log cabin / beach front / lake view /tiny house (you know the ones where the husband raises squirrels in the back yard and the wife bakes cookies to sell to the neighborhood and their budget is $500K), I thought we need a show more tailored to a different crowd. I'm going to pitch this to the networks:
We are living in a time like I have never seen in all my 65 years here on this rock. There has and always will be conflict and disagreement. We humans don’t all think and feel alike. But in the past few years disagreement has turned into hatred. In this post I want to discuss why the hate is all around us.