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Caller ID Falsification Service
Dan writes "
A US website will offer Caller ID falsification service...Slated for launch this week, Star38.com would offer subscribers a simple Web interface to a Caller ID spoofing system that lets them appear to be calling from any number they choose. [...]
SecurityFocus took the site for a test drive, and found it worked as advertised. The user fills out a simple Web form with his phone number, the number he wants to call, and the number he wants to appear to be calling from. Within two seconds, the system rings back, and patches the user through to the destination. The recipient sees only the spoofed number displayed on Caller ID. Any number works, from nonsense phone numbers like "123 4567" to the number for the White House switchboard."
screw you all. i hate you.
Love Always,
News For Turds
-- You are such a fucking fag
FP?
As in fourteenth post?
This is just fantastic; now one could make the caller ID say "CNN" or some other news source to ask questions like:
"What do you think about Sen. Kerry's
illict affairs while he was married?"
or,
"What do you think about Sen. Kerry's
history of spoucal abuse?"
normally, these could be rejected as crack-pot, but if it's coming from... CNN... wow.
So you were Amy's dad, right? How old was Amy? How pissed were you that Amy was (a) lying to you and (b) getting banged all the time by Carl?
Or did Amy just give you some BS story about how she was "still a virgin", and that she and Carl "wouldn't even sleep in the same bed, and besides, his mom said it was OK, and even so, if I want to make love to Carl I will, and you can't stop me"?
What'd Carl's parents have to say? Single mom, works the night shift? New agey parents, encourage sexual exploration? Dangerous "older" boyfriend, living in his own apartment, but happens to have a thing for young quiff?
Does she feel bad now for losing her innocense to some 2-minute teeny bopper who couldn't even find her magic button?
On the other hand, who gives a shit if Castro is pissed off about being broadcast without being told??
Oh, wait. I forgot - nobody is responsible for the consequences of their own actions anymore
I think you and I both know where you can stick your pompous head.
The people running up debts they can't afford to pay are to blame
That's the type of mentality that charges $10 for a glass of water to a man dying of thirst. What's worse is that you probably get some sort of self-satisfaction out of your profit margin.
It is quite possible the parents "should" have done a better job of teaching their kids how to handle money
That's pretty tough to do when the parents didn't have any money either and were born into a debting system. I imagine that your generation of financially priveleged and secure individuals will go to your death beds reveling in how much more financially knowledgeable you were than those irresponsible heathens who couldn't pay their bills. You'll picture, over and over, all the spoiled teenagers who picked up credit cards to buy clothes, CDs, cars, alcohol, rent hotel rooms for prom or homecoming parties, and won't think for a moment that your self-imposed shortsightedness only served to further empower banks and credit agencies to withhood cash from the population by keeping it locked tightly in top-level corporate and government coffers.
Let me guess. You're of the mentality that everyone who was suddenly plunged into debt in 1929 did it to themselves, right? There wasn't a single bank or stock broker or insurance company that saw the whole fiasco as a perfect way to continue to hamstring the society and reap huge amounts of profit. Not at all. In your mind you glorify at always having been priveleged enough to receive opportunities which enabled you to stay ahead of the debt curve, if only so that you could take pleasure in ridiculing people who weren't as lucky.
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I don't even HAVE a credit card
I'd like to congratulate you on being both priveleged and perfect. You are fit to rule in supremacy over your fellow man who was unfortunate enough not to be given your golden seat.
It doesn't mean that little morons must play along
It is so much easier to call your fellow Americans morons than it is to recognize that there is a problem with the precious system. The average American household has something close to $8k in credit card debt alone and yet they're all morons. There's no foul play on the part of the financial companies. Why, they're perfect, and they wouldn't even dream of exploiting loopholes in the concrete tower of iron laws that keeps you safe and warm at night.
It's because people like to live beyond their means - they like to live in huge houses, they like to have 3 big cars instead of one normal (European or Asian) car, etc
The vast majority of people with huge houses and three cars are precisely those people manipulating the financial market to ensure that the people with no house and half a used car continue to rely on the credit which they can afford to extend. Maybe you're disgusted with the rich and pompous nature of American society but you're not doing any good by taking your derision out on those who are left fighting over the table scraps.
you don't have money, you don't spend money - you work harder and you save
Once again, you are perfect and fit to rule in supremacy over your fellow man. The rest of us need to eat. Since we're not at war, there's no famine in the US, and we're willing to put in an honest days work there's no reason why we should subsist on oatmeal gruel just to please the likes of you.
It's the careless parents and the stupid kids
That is the viewpoint of a bitter old man. It's not careless parents and stupid kids. It's parents at the end of their own financial rope and kids who are seduced by marketing and offered a drop of fresh water from which everyone drinks deeply. It is predatory lenders who keep their funds locked solidly away in self-promoting investments for the explicit purpose of justifying ridiculous interest rates, inflation, and the rapacious fines and fees that come along with an infraction no worse than wanting butter on the bread.
it's the new and competitive 21st century
Is this the century where we starve our neighbor to increase the profit margin on our apple pie? Is this the century where the middle class finally realizes that it is not an equal citizen in this nation but rather a cash crop of willing debtors who are browbeaten into feeling guilty for enjoying life above the lot of the Catholic Irish during the potato famine?
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