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Beep! Beep! You have Broken the Law.

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-what-are-they-doing-with-the-organs dept.

medscaper writes "Authorities in China are using computers to spam mobile phones of law-breakers until they turn themselves in. Apparently, lots of illegal advertisements as stickers with mobile-phone numbers listed are placed around large cities and are becoming an eyesore. So, the authorities call the cell phones incessantly with recorded messages that demand the "businessmen" to turn themselves in."

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  1. We Live in a Time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    "We live in a time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president, Moore said. We live in a time where we have a man who's sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it's the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts."
    1. Re:We Live in a Time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      BUSH: I am pleased with the progress that we're making in the early stages of the war to rid Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction and to free the Iraqi people from the clutches of a brutal dictatorship.

  2. heh..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post

  3. FP!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP fuckers!

  4. ! l0ve 5p@m by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    second post

  5. First Post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i don't think i got it, oh well.....

  6. Re:How it really works. (your sig) by rinderpestofshank · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    as an indian programmer, i must admit that i find your sig offensive. >> Open source development is my way of >> competing with the low-cost programmers in >> India