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@boomzilla said in Spam phone calls:
But how would you know? All you've done is say favorable things about anti-competitive measures.
Why do you continue to assert that network neutrality is somehow anticompetitive, when literally the entire purpose of its existence is to keep anticompetitive practices in check? As Charles Babbage once famously said,
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a
questionassertion.
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@masonwheeler said in Spam phone calls:
Why do you continue to assert that network neutrality is somehow anticompetitive
It's demonstrably so, in the case of this T-Mobile thing, assuming it's supposed to be violating it.
@masonwheeler said in Spam phone calls:
when literally the entire purpose of its existence is to keep anticompetitive practices in check?
I'm less interested in what its creators thought it should do and more interested in what it actually does.
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@boomzilla said in Spam phone calls:
No, of course not. I'm not a communist like you. If someone is over charging then it's a market opportunity for someone else.
that doesn't work when you have monopolies and cartels
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@boomzilla said in Spam phone calls:
It's demonstrably so, in the case of this T-Mobile thing, assuming it's supposed to be violating it.
what is this t-mobile thing?
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@clippy said in Spam phone calls:
what is this t-mobile thing?
Stuff like youtube or pandora doesn't count against your data usage.
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@boomzilla said in Spam phone calls:
Stuff like youtube or pandora doesn't count against your data usage.
This is fucking bad and anti-competitive, fuck those guys then.
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@clippy you're late to the party. This has already been discussed.
They're not discriminating by singling out certain services to be unlimited; they're making the same offer to any streaming video service. Their only requirements are that they have to be able to detect the video stream to zero rate it, and its maximum average bitrate is a certain level, 1.5 Mbps I think, and video providers have to opt in to get their streams zero rated. And any one, video provider or user, can also choose to opt out; then their streaming videos won't be treated any differently than any other internet usage, which is counted against users' data cap.
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@anotherusername Here we have phone operators with whatsapp and facebook not counting on your very tiny cap, in the most anti-competitive way possible.
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@clippy if they don't offer the same to other similar competing services then yeah, that's anti-competitive. T-Mobile is letting anyone get on board though.
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@anotherusername said in Spam phone calls:
if they don't offer the same to other similar competing services then yeah, that's anti-competitive
Fuck. It's all @Fox dictionaries in here.
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I want to start a mobile data company that offers 20 bytes of free data per TCP packet. Anything beyond that is dropped.
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@boomzilla you just made me have a brain embolism. Thanks.
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@ben_lubar 20 bytes per packet… does that include the TCP/IP headers?
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@drurowin Caveat lector.
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"So Jake, have you talked to your parents about this? No doubt you'd want them to benefit first."
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"Have you checked on your parents lately? Are they okay with you doing this international fraud stuff that you do for a living?"
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"Are you saying the word Hello? is that the word you are trying to say?"
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@Gribnit said in Spam phone calls:
"Have you checked on your parents lately? Are they okay with you doing this international fraud stuff that you do for a living?"
I have asked basically that to some of those Indian scammers pretending to be Microsoft support.
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@boomzilla said in Spam phone calls:
@Gribnit said in Spam phone calls:
"Have you checked on your parents lately? Are they okay with you doing this international fraud stuff that you do for a living?"
I have asked basically that to some of those Indian scammers pretending to be Microsoft support.
Asking for a Brahmin is also generally not replied to.
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@Gribnit I'll have to remember that if I ever get another one on the line. Everything these days seems to be prerecorded junk.
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@boomzilla said in Spam phone calls:
@Gribnit I'll have to remember that if I ever get another one on the line. Everything these days seems to be prerecorded junk.
Dunno, I have to wait a bit to deliver my payload but somehow I must be on exactly the wrong lists.
The capstone payload is "Congratulations! You have been selected for a management position! To complete the process, punch the person next to you very hard in the mouth."
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<sound of urination> <toilet flushing>
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"Jason, I'm okay. I have no need of your services. Please remove me from your list. Goodbye."
The speed of "not a problem" points up the advantages of having the voice of something that is dead.
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"Yeah, it said you could do something about the rates? There must be 3, 4 running around in here, biggest one must be 2, 3 feet long, although half of that is tail. Do you get rates like this in whatever godforsaken hellhole you're running this scam from?"
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I got a call the other day, the usual "we've detected that your internet connection is hacked and you have viruses on your network" type thing.
First off, the scammer said his name was Chris Martin, so I asked him to sing me a song. He didn't get it, so I let him move on to tell me about the terrible risks. He told me I was experiencing slowdowns in my internet, I said it was fine and I'd never noticed any problems. He told me I was wrong.
He then asked me which devices I used to access the internet. I said I only had a smart fridge. The browser is a bit slow for working from home, but it does mean I don't have to go as far to get a snack. He didn't seem to believe me, so asked me if I used a smartphone, laptop, desktop etc. I said no, just the smart fridge. He hung up
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For those who deserve immediate pain: speaker mode, keypad, and spamming
*and#DTMF at the operator with both thumbs - think level 100+ ofRobotron 64. Got a very gratifying "Your line has been connected to-oo-ugh" then disconnect with same.
