Slashdot Mirror
ENUM Protocol in Australia?
Master Kai writes "Looks like Australia's thinking about implementing ENUM, an internet protocol that will convert a simple phone number into a URI. The benefits are obvious, use one number to contact you on any communications medium. Your website, fixed phone, fax, mobile (cell) and email address. But at what cost to our privacy? I know that personally I prefer to give out my email address, because I can change it at the click of a button. And what about spam? Not only would spamers have your email address, but your contact numbers too. Eeeep!
Anyway. It looks good nonetheless. Check out the news article , and for the Australian Communications Authority Discussion Paper. "
get phone calls from spammers anyway.
"Sure you can. It's www.555-6789.com"
*Later*
"Yowzer, that mama was hot,hot,hot... Hang on... 555 (dawning on him) GODDAMMIT!!!"
This is an obvious use of the Hegelian dialectic to crack down on liberty.
Though it might sound useful to the uninformed, this will be a disaster for the average citizen as they are deluged with pornographic spam from every single method of communication, and the public will be outraged and will call for revenge.
However, the only way to stop such spam is to enforce outright draconian laws, much like you would have to do to combat piracy effectively. Like with MP3s, spam can be produced and distributed on a massive scale for almost no cost, and it's a force that cannot be stopped without a terrible price on liberties.
Australia's politicians are notorious for trying to crack down on Online Rights, and this is a plot to do so.
I used to put my work phone number in my emails until a stupid guy from a mail list started to call me to discuss some topic that he disagreed... what a pain in the neck!!!
Universal Resource Inibitor?
;-)
Thanks.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
Personally, I think they should match it to your license plate number. That way, you can call people who are driving horribly and then email them about how badly they were driving via your PDA. We could turn road rage into its own medium.
So if you don't have a phone number because you're one of the few people on the planet that doesn't have a phone, would you be unknown to the Australian government?
This space for rent.
Probably better not to, if you have a weak heart.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Great! This makes life much simpler.
According to the ENUM spec my new easy-to-remember all-purpose address will be:
7.2.4.8.7.5.3.2.2.6.8.8.e164.arpa
No longer will I have to use that impossible to remember email address (1st name)@(surname).org
here in Melbourne it seems as though there exists a national Do Call list. in fact I wouldn't be surprised if my government were using their extensive wiretaps to ensure that telemarketing quotas were being met!
But what do I know. I'm just looking for anonymous gay sex.
Just out of curiousity, do you really think the slashdot crowd is going to want to "get paid to read bulk email"?
That's like going into the Vatican and asking if anyone wants to come sacrifice some goats to Baal.
--
pants ahoy
I mean, if some headless quadriplegic is reading the article, he certainly doesn't expect anyone to consider his situation representative of of the world population's. Therefore, he doesn't post a reply saying, "Sadly, I cannot even dial a phone, being without arms, legs, or a head. Until advances in remote stump-controlled robotic monkeys allow me to dial a phone, nothing in this article possibly applies to me as an individual, and therefore it is wrong for Slashdot to have ever posted it."
You're almost as bad as those idiots who complain about Slashdot being too "US-centric." No fucking shit, it's an American website started in America by Americans hosted at an American datacenter and read primarily by Americans living in America. If you want the local news, turn on the "tele" or read the newspaper or take a donkey down to the general store or do whatever you normally do to hear region-specific news. The Web has not yet reached the point of idiocy where all American websites are required to post US-centric disclaimers lest some pale splay-toothed goat-faced layabout living in a hovel in some has-been Eurotrash country of no international consequence (besides UN/NATO membership, tee hee) be offended and be forced to post a whiny complaint along the lines of "Hear hear, chaps, I don't think it's very sporting of you to post news related to America, because I'm not an American. How dare you remind me of my country's complete lack of significance in the realms technology and entertainment! If you continue, I may be forced to wet myself."
In conclusion: you are a loser. If you have nothing to contribute to the conversation except some bitchy little reminder that some people are forced to change their phone numbers every five minutes, you should stop posting, you brainless attention-starved fucktard. Please, never post again. Or, better yet, kill yourself. Or, better yet, kill yourself, and your entire family, and your entire circle of frien -- oops, nevermind. Just kill your family to ensure that further defecation in the genepool is kept to a minimum. And remember to kill your family before killing yourself, brainiac.
Fuckers.
--
I like to watch.