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When Telemarketers Harass Telecoms Companies
farnz writes "Andrews & Arnold, a small telecoms company in the UK, have recently been hit with an outbreak of illegal junk calls. Unlike larger firms, they've come up with an innovative response — assign 4 million numbers to play recordings to the telemarketers, put them on the UK's Do-Not-Call list and see what happens. Thus far, the record is over 3 minutes before a telemarketer works out what's going on." The sound quality (and the satisfying humor) of the recording gets better as it goes on.
Off-topic thought:
Every time I am outside on a public sidewalk waiting for public transportation and someone lights up a cigarette and I can smell it, I simply wish I had a gas attack within me to let out. After all, if the smoker thinks it is okay to make bad smells around me for his pleasure, I should think the smoker would have no problems with other people doing the same thing. So to you smokers out there who thinks it should be okay to smoke in such areas because it is "outside?" I fart in your general direction! Seriously. Smoking stinks. Forget about second-hand-smoke or any other technical issues. Even if there were no risk of cancer for anyone, I hold that one person does not have the right to stink up the air I breathe! Quit smoking! Take a frikken shower! Quit eating whatever the hell it is you've been eating that makes you sweat that toxic waste dripping from your pores and let's all participate in what we all like to call "polite society."
(An interesting sub-note for reflection -- when I was writing "polite society" I found that I accidentally wrote "police society"... I make typos all the time and sometimes I fail to notice them... this time I did, but police society made me think some...)