<quote>As long as the contract stipulates payment only after confirmation of findings, who cares if they use geology or dowsing?</quote>
Because digging for water costs money (or time if you do it yourself). If you're going to bear the cost of each failed attempt to find water, you'll want a good reason for each spot you try. You won't get a good reason from dowsing because it's quackery.
How long is this really going to be a problem? I assume that voice over IP will eventually replace the traditional phone system. Once that happens getting calls from telemarketers could be a thing of the past.
Currently you have no control over what happens when a call comes into your house. Any service like caller ID has to be performed by the phone companies.
But with VoIP, you could set up those services for yourself, to some degree. You can store the IP addresses of your friends, parents, etc. on your computer, and when a call comes in, software running on your computer, which you configured, can check to see if this might be someone that you would want to talk to.
Perhaps you can do an nslookup on the IP address of the sender, and if it is from any.com domain, you can silently discard it.
If VoIP is going to replace the traditional phone system, then we might want to hold off on making any laws restricting what can be done with the phones. Once they're on the books, it'll probably be very difficult to get them off, and placing restrictions on the phone system now might keep some currently unseen advantages of VoIP from seeing the light of day.
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<quote>As long as the contract stipulates payment only after confirmation of findings, who cares if they use geology or dowsing?</quote>
Because digging for water costs money (or time if you do it yourself). If you're going to bear the cost of each failed attempt to find water, you'll want a good reason for each spot you try. You won't get a good reason from dowsing because it's quackery.
How long is this really going to be a problem? I assume that voice over IP will eventually replace the traditional phone system. Once that happens getting calls from telemarketers could be a thing of the past.
.com domain, you can silently discard it.
Currently you have no control over what happens when a call comes into your house. Any service like caller ID has to be performed by the phone companies.
But with VoIP, you could set up those services for yourself, to some degree. You can store the IP addresses of your friends, parents, etc. on your computer, and when a call comes in, software running on your computer, which you configured, can check to see if this might be someone that you would want to talk to.
Perhaps you can do an nslookup on the IP address of the sender, and if it is from any
If VoIP is going to replace the traditional phone system, then we might want to hold off on making any laws restricting what can be done with the phones. Once they're on the books, it'll probably be very difficult to get them off, and placing restrictions on the phone system now might keep some currently unseen advantages of VoIP from seeing the light of day.