A Number For Everything

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Posted by timothy on Monday September 3, 2001 @01:03PM from the at-least-there's-no-potential-for-abuse dept.

jtcampbell writes: "Whilst reading the Times today I found this article about a U.S. government idea to give everyone a unique 'ENUM,' that serves as a universal phone number, email address, and fax number. Quite a cool idea, but will everyone adopt the standard? besides, i thought we left numeric email addresses with compuserve a few years back. And remembering these 11 digit numbers could be fun ..."

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shit by Anonymous Coward · 2001-09-03 13:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The shit has hit the fan
Re:Think, child! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-09-03 13:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic

If you want to do this right, you'd have some form of "Personal Name System" to act as an equivalent to the "Domain Name System" we already seem to use quite successfully.
Famous dates in history:
September 3, 2001: Slahdot user General_Corto invents the telephone directory.
Re:Zionism is racism by Anonymous Coward · 2001-09-03 13:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Hey, old sport, glad to see you're back on the trolling circuit. How ya been?

-Ariel "Ralph-hater" Sharon
Re:Think, child! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-09-03 13:44 · Score: -1, Offtopic

That's fucking funny.
Re:Zionism is racism by Anonymous Coward · 2001-09-03 13:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Do not be deceived by this bold-faced backstabbing!

The expression is bald-faced, moron. Flamers like you lose all credibility when simple mistakes like yours are made.
Re:How is this different? by Anonymous Coward · 2001-09-03 13:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic

LOL

For that, Kevin, you get a cool number, like 69.
Re:/. by Anonymous Coward · 2001-09-03 14:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Did you ever notice taht the symbol for slashdot, "/." is an ideogram/pictogram for an (erect) cock and balls?

One has to wonder about the person that thought it up. Cock worship is not a laughing matter- that person should seek some help. :P
Re:Revelations 13:16 - 18 by abischof · 2001-09-03 15:37 · Score: 4, Offtopic

660
Approximate number of the Beast

DCLXVI
Roman numeral of the Beast

666.0000
Number of the High Precision Beast

0.666
Number of the Millibeast

/ 666
Beast Common Denominator

(-666) ^ (1/2)
Imaginary number of the Beast

6.66 e3
Floating point Beast

1010011010
Binary of the Beast

6, uh... what was that number again?
Number of the Blonde Beast

1-666
Area code of the Beast

00666
Zip code of the Beast

666mph
The speed limit of the Beast

$665.95
Retail price of the Beast

$699.25
Price of the Beast plus 5% state sales tax

$769.95
Price of the Beast with all accessories and replacement soul

$656.66
Walmart price of the Beast

$646.66
Next week's Walmart price of the Beast

Phillips 666
Gasoline of the Beast

Route 666
Way of the Beast

666 F
Oven temperature for roast Beast

666k
Retirement plan of the Beast

666 mg
Recommended Minimum Daily Requirement of Beast

6.66 %
5 year CD interest rate at First Beast of Hell National Bank, $666 minimum deposit.

$666/hr
Beast's lawyer's billing rate

Lotus 6-6-6
Spreadsheet of the Beast

Word 6.66
Word Processor of the Beast

i66686
CPU of the Beast

666i
BMW of the Beast

DSM-666 (revised)
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the Beast

1232 Octal, Apt. 29A
Beast's hexed address

668
Next-door neighbor of the Beast

333
The semi-Christ

665.9997856
The Number of the Beast on a Pentium

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