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Google Voice Opens To All
An anonymous reader writes "Google Voice is now open to anyone in the US, removing the need to search for an invite. At the Google Voice site, anyone with a US IP address and a US phone number can sign up for an account. Non-US IPs are blocked, and non-US-based phone numbers are prevented from attaching to Google Voice (with the single odd exception of the 403 area code of southern Alberta)." Good timing on the part of Frontier Communications Corp., which just filed a lawsuit claiming that the Google Voice feature connecting a user's home, work, and cell phone numbers to another number infringes one of their patents.
What is the fucking point?!?!?!?!?
"New Ubuntu resealed for all!!" (South Africa only) / "Skype available for all!!" (Finland only IIRC) / "Wikileaks discloses shit for all" (Iceland only). Nobody questions that /. is US-centric, that's a straw-man. People question the use of "for all" to refer only to the superior, as in "All men are created equal". Douglas Hofstadter once wrote an incendiary piece in which he changed male-centric words (man, guy) for white-centric words, with things like "White lands on Moon". He did this to show, in the most incendiary way possible, how much we categorize some and gladly leave others away from the party. I for one think this is funny weird language, but I was just pointing out a funny thing, not really into a political mood for such rant today.
.....Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S..... There they go again... 'vast majority' (of around 5% of the world)...like it is an impressive number or something... It is one thing to be proud of your nationality (but aware of your position in the world) - but quite another to be defiantly and parochially hillbilly... and smugly content with it...