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VOIP to be Made Illegal in India
Krish writes "Providers like Skype, Yahoo, Net2phone, Dialpad, etc. will not be able to offer VOIP in India under the proposed govt. clampdown. BPOs and other call centers will face the axe if they use any of the VOIP services provided by the above companies. It is not clear if this clampdown will affect regular home users."
Call your VOIP carrier's helpdesk and you might get hold of some guy in India.
Trolling is a art,
There needs to be something like a math problem presented as a slightly distorted image whenever you try to post on Slashdot. That way only those with reasonable intelligence can post.
Ask yourself, self, how could this happen?
Some rich and powerful government leaders were sitting around saying, "How do we keep India poor?" After many weeks of deliberation (They aren't very intelligent, of course.) they decided, "That's it! We'll interfere with cheap communication."
And that's exactly why we have strong cryptography.
Government: You're illegally calling people.
You: No, that's e-mail.
Government: Oh.
My other car is first.
Here's the revised Government with half a brain:
Government: You're illegally calling people.
You: No, that's e-mail.
Government:You're sending e-mail for 8 hours a day and sending and receiving the same amount in email bytes?
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
So when people play everquest and chat it should be taxable to?
And the irony of the low cost labor provider of the world being mad because of low cost (FREE) products is priceless.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Government: He's illegally calling people. Get him! You: No, that's e-mail. Government: He's sending e-mail. Get him!
If VOIP is illegal, only criminals will have VOIP.
Me: I like to keep my email bytes uniformly sized. It makes them flow through the tubes much more smoothly and prevents clogging.
Government: But it's unintelligble noise, suspiciously like untaxed VOIP calls to Osama.
Me: Ummm....and it prevents kiddy porn too.
Government: Well in that case, someone ought to sponsor a bill right away. Good work, citizen.
I have found there are just two ways to go.
It all comes down to livin' fast or dyin' slow. -REK, Jr.
As well as all those who recognize that it is a ghostbusters quote.
Me: I used IPSec with a one-time pad. Go f*** yourselves.