Seems to me that the simple solution is to change the model in the US to the one that the rest of the world uses. I.e If I call a cell phone I pay for the call. If someone calls me they pay for the call (or use their allocated minutes). Cell phones have different area codes to landlines so you know you are calling a cell phone.
Seems a completely fair system to me. The concept of the person recieving the call paying is just warped and open to abuse.
Great, except having to pay for bandwidth usage would mean I get charged to receive spam that I don't even want in the first place. Now if I could charge this back to the spammers then it might work.
As it is Australians are effectively paying to receive spam.
Why are there so many problems implementing a do not call list in the United States. We have had a do not call list (called the telephone preference list) in the UK for several years now and it works a treat. You can sign up to it whenever you want (no closing date for joining) and since joining it over 18 months ago I haven't had a single advertising call.
There is no issue over freedom of advertising in the UK as the courts took the stance that the consumer pays the phone rental so they have the final say over whether they want to receive advertising calls or not.
At Dungeness B nuclear power station in the UK they still run the reactor control systems with BBC B computers. The reason is that the operating system and control code is so small (ca. 32KB) that the engineers have gone through it by hand and manually checked every possible scenario.
A complete flow chart exists that details all errors that can occur in the code and what the solutions are. Try doing that with Microsoft Windows or Linux. Sometimes the simple solutions are the best.
We've had a "Do Not Call List", called the "telephone preference list", in the UK for over 3 years now. It works a treat. I haven't had a telemarketing call for over a year and if someone does call you just tell them you are on the list and they leave you alone sharpish.
Has it been devastating to companies in the UK? I don't think so. Maybe just to the shady ones that can only sell stuff over the phone because no advertisers will deal with them. I don't know about you but I think this is a good thing.
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Seems to me that the simple solution is to change the model in the US to the one that the rest of the world uses. I.e If I call a cell phone I pay for the call. If someone calls me they pay for the call (or use their allocated minutes). Cell phones have different area codes to landlines so you know you are calling a cell phone.
Seems a completely fair system to me. The concept of the person recieving the call paying is just warped and open to abuse.
Great, except having to pay for bandwidth usage would mean I get charged to receive spam that I don't even want in the first place. Now if I could charge this back to the spammers then it might work.
As it is Australians are effectively paying to receive spam.
And one assumes from this that the chinese government can infiltrate the NSA mainframes.
Does that make you feel safe?
Why are there so many problems implementing a do not call list in the United States. We have had a do not call list (called the telephone preference list) in the UK for several years now and it works a treat. You can sign up to it whenever you want (no closing date for joining) and since joining it over 18 months ago I haven't had a single advertising call.
There is no issue over freedom of advertising in the UK as the courts took the stance that the consumer pays the phone rental so they have the final say over whether they want to receive advertising calls or not.
Kids keep getting arrested here for dropping breeze blocks off motorway bridges.
Do you think someone should sue the makers of Tetris?
Ah, but the RIP bill makes it an offence not to decrypt a message when requested.
Saying you forgot or lost the encryption key is not a defence.
Remember, under this law you are assumed guilty and have to prove your innocence.
Just think how many CD's this poor girl will have to pirate and sell on the streets to try to raise the money to pay her fine.
At Dungeness B nuclear power station in the UK they still run the reactor control systems with BBC B computers. The reason is that the operating system and control code is so small (ca. 32KB) that the engineers have gone through it by hand and manually checked every possible scenario.
A complete flow chart exists that details all errors that can occur in the code and what the solutions are. Try doing that with Microsoft Windows or Linux. Sometimes the simple solutions are the best.
We've had a "Do Not Call List", called the "telephone preference list", in the UK for over 3 years now. It works a treat. I haven't had a telemarketing call for over a year and if someone does call you just tell them you are on the list and they leave you alone sharpish.
Has it been devastating to companies in the UK? I don't think so. Maybe just to the shady ones that can only sell stuff over the phone because no advertisers will deal with them. I don't know about you but I think this is a good thing.
Wow, they will have to start downloading MP3's, burning them to CDs and then selling them at car boot sales to afford those fines.