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How To Make Your Friends Call You More
B0bReader writes, "Simply sign up to something called jajah (a VOIP service that connects real telephones) using your friend's number (mobiles included), then log in and dial your own number. Your friend's phone will ring and after they hear a brief 'Jajah is connecting your call' they will be calling you and incur all charges. As an added bonus you will quite probably receive your friend's latest voice-mail message as your own (at least on Irish networks), which you may or may not wish to hear. There is even a Jajah Firefox extension — which at the time of writing is the Firefox featured add-on — so you can do it right from your browser. This is about the best example of a bad idea, with terrible implementation, that I have seen all day. And with the wonderful publicity the Firefox page offers it should reach a wide audience in no time."
This is Slashdot. Nobody RTFA.
- Dave
Do you know what slashdot is? It's a feed of nouns. Stories are posted, and when one looks like it could be about something interesting, you plug the nouns into google, and get something much more like the truth. The adjectives and verbs are extra, and occasionally related.
It's doesn't quite have quite the volume of a noun-feed like digg, though it does have a few more top-level categories.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
I love how this is currently modded overall as 'Insightful', rather than 'Funny'.
Trust me, it was meant to be "Funny", but "EmbeddedJanitor"'s response was much funnier.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
So use a call forwarding service. With most providers in Australia, you can hit a button on your land-line and it will divert all calls to your mobile. You pay for the redirection as if you're calling from your land-line. The caller just pays for the local call.
In reality though, it's really common for small businesses to use mobiles (especially tradespeople). AFAIK, no one really worries too much about the cost of a mobile call - it's really not that much money in the scheme of things.
The story is eroneous, the call charges are incurred to the jahjah account, neither phone get's charged, so unless you can get access to your friends jahjah account (on par with getting their email password and using it to spam their friend's inboxes) it's not going to cost them anything.
In fact, all that the story is talking about is a rather weird way of calling your friends. If you want to jump through so many hoops in order to say hi to people, you probably deserve to be lonely, just call them ffs!!!