Sorry, CBS should be MTM which was merged with 20th Century Fox.
It's ok, soon, all the media companies will merge (probably into Disney/Fox), and then one company will own all music and TV, making rights sales obsolete.
If only the goddamn telecom companies would block EVERY number coming from an exchange that doesn't own THAT number. It would stop the local number spoofing immediately.
It would. But that's also the technology that lets you travel abroad and make calls that use your cell phone number. None of those exchanges that the call is going through own that number. It lets you take your phone number when you move. Everything about not spoofing a number, everything about "neighborhood spoofing" assumes a 20th-century understanding of phone prefixes, that they refer to a specific geographic location. We've been slowly uncoupling ourselves from that paradigm.
You're so mad about something that you're rejecting logical arguments. So, "breaking how phones work properly" is a good answer to exactly what?
The phone system is already that broken, thoroughly broken. Imagine how completely unusable email would be if there was no spam filtering. This is what the phone system is now. I don't answer calls unless it's a number that has been whitelisted in the past. I don't bother with voice mail anymore because the scammers leave messages on it full of static, multiple times a day.
Yeah. There are some legitimate businesses that might be impacted, as well as a few non-business edge cases that won't affect 99% of the people out there.
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Sorry, CBS should be MTM which was merged with 20th Century Fox.
It's ok, soon, all the media companies will merge (probably into Disney/Fox), and then one company will own all music and TV, making rights sales obsolete.
If only the goddamn telecom companies would block EVERY number coming from an exchange that doesn't own THAT number. It would stop the local number spoofing immediately.
It would. But that's also the technology that lets you travel abroad and make calls that use your cell phone number. None of those exchanges that the call is going through own that number. It lets you take your phone number when you move. Everything about not spoofing a number, everything about "neighborhood spoofing" assumes a 20th-century understanding of phone prefixes, that they refer to a specific geographic location. We've been slowly uncoupling ourselves from that paradigm.
You're so mad about something that you're rejecting logical arguments. So, "breaking how phones work properly" is a good answer to exactly what?
The phone system is already that broken, thoroughly broken. Imagine how completely unusable email would be if there was no spam filtering. This is what the phone system is now. I don't answer calls unless it's a number that has been whitelisted in the past. I don't bother with voice mail anymore because the scammers leave messages on it full of static, multiple times a day. Yeah. There are some legitimate businesses that might be impacted, as well as a few non-business edge cases that won't affect 99% of the people out there.
They start at $65k now? Damn, I'm glad I got mine when they were available at $49k!