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  1. Re:Lenny by arglebargle_xiv · · Score: 1 · on New Apps Fight Robo-Calls By Pretending To Be Humans (nola.com)

    taking a look at apps like the $4-per-month RoboKiller

    Or you can use the $0-per-month, two-decade-old, open-source Telecrapper 2000.

  2. Re:Every input method needs thinking. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Slashdot Asks: Can Anything Replace 'QWERTY' Keyboards? (technologyreview.com)

    At first. Qwerty is a historically green mess, just one we've all gotten used to. An alphabetical keyboard would be objectively better.

    Not for touch-typing. Why? Because QWERTY has several of the most-frequently used letters (A, D, F, G, H, J, K, L) on the home row, and while not as good as Dvorak in that respect, it's better than an alphabetical layout's home row (K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S)

    People like to say that Dvorak offers no objective advantage over QWERTY, but it reduces finger travel by 38% (read: reduces effort).

  3. Telecrapper 2000 TC2K by sims+2 · · Score: 2 · on A Bot That Drives Robocallers Insane

    Sounds like a reimplementation of the telecrapper.
    tho the telecrapper is over 10 years old now I can understand how people would forget..
    http://www.engadget.com/2005/0...
    http://myplace.frontier.com/~p...
    http://soundbytes.org/forums/t...

  4. Not a new idea by laing · · Score: 3, Informative · on A Bot That Drives Robocallers Insane

    The Telecrapper 2000 is my favorite example of how to torture telemarketers.

  5. Re:Why are they bothering? by PPH · · Score: 1 · on Comcast Launches Superfast Internet To Fight FiOS

    Verizon dumped their land line service in my area (soon after installing FiOS). Its now owned and operated by Frontier Communications.

  6. Re:What nonsense by Solandri · · Score: 1 · on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone

    Airspace violations happen all the time. Usually all that happens is planes are scrambled to intercept and escort the offending craft out, and a formal protest is filed at the embassy of the country who did the violating. Iran is just milking this for all that it's worth. (Which is not to say they're unjustified in doing so, if the drone was in fact on a spying mission rather than malfunctioned and flew over on its own. Unfortunately that's probably something we'll never know for sure.)

  7. Re:Isn't that kind of the point? by Solandri · · Score: 1 · on Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone

    The point is that sending aircraft into someone else' airspace without permission is an aggressive act forbidden by international law and treaties that the US is a party to.

    It's something that happens all the time. Usually all that comes from it is the intruding flight gets intercepted and escorted out, then the country later files a diplomatic protest.

    Hostilities arising from such intrusions are the exception, not the norm, and almost always happen after visual confirmation of the target by a pilot in a chase plane. A shoot first, ask questions later policy leads to terrible incidents like Iran Air 655 and Korean Air 007. Given the size of the RQ-170 (wingspan estimated at 60-90 feet), it could easily have been a small commercial airliner or a civilian business jet.