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Australia Trials Phone To IP Service

Posted by Zonk on from the telemarketers-only-get-access-to-my-email-spam dept.

daria42 writes "Australia is doing trial runs with a technology which could connect conventional phone numbers with Web pages, Internet fax services and other online resources. Subscribers to an ENUM service register their other contact details, then set up rules that control how and when calls to their phone are routed. For example, calls from anybody but close family could be routed straight to voicemail between 6pm and 11pm. Because it connects to any IP service, incoming callers could also use phone numbers to access Web sites, the Skype VoIP application, faxes and other applications."

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  1. Thank you for... by pintpusher · · Score: 2, Funny

    calling Google. Due to unusually heavy call volume your search will not be executed for approximately .31 seconds. We appreciate your call, please stay online for the next available operator.

    "Thank you for calling Google, how can I help you?"

    "ummm... hi... I'd like to search for anime boobs"

    "Alright, lets see here is the first result out of 807,000 in .31 seconds. Anime Pics. drink my piss hentai pokemon free asian videos. Rikku hentai anime demons inuyasha hentai, hardcore nude anime boobs free shit eating pics. ...
    humman-traffic.erospace.pl/hentai/anime-pics. html - 10k - May 4, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages" ... I don't get it. Wouldn't be easier just to browse to a website?

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    1. Re:Thank you for... by pintpusher · · Score: 2, Funny

      I guess I really don't see the point, unless you can't type? or maybe you want to provide a search page for someone else?

      Seems more like wow that's cool factor than anything of use.

      I'm waiting for the day when I can pick up the mouse, and in a scottish brogue say "Computer? Computer!?" and get a response...

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  2. Re:Adventures in improper English, part 86 by generic-man · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you have some bandwidth this afternoon? I'd like to action a go-round to trial a proposal with you. The key is to be proactive in such a paradigm.

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  3. Hypothetical SPAMMER Scenario by LegendOfLink · · Score: 4, Funny

    You: *picks up phone* Hello?

    SPAMMER: Hey Buddy, your woman wants a big one.

    You: What?! Who is this? Remove me from your... *beeping* Oh wait a sec, I've got a another call. *click* Hello?

    SPAMMER 2: Hi, this is Charles Taylor from Liberia, I need to use your bank account...

    You: WTF!? STOP..*beep beep* Hold on. *click*

    SPAMMER 3: Hi, thanks for the advice. Could you open this file immediately?

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  4. Re:Should be easy... by Avyakata · · Score: 2, Funny

    wtf mate?

    Actually...I highly doubt many people around here have actually ever seen that endless amusing flash cartoon...

    There goes my karma...

  5. Re:Adventures in improper English, part 86 by sbaker · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nonsense! You can verb any word in the English language.

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