You really want to amaze people? When your cell phone rings look at it and hit the hang up button to send them to voicemail and say "I'll get that later when we're done, right now I'm with you."
... is it really that unusual to do that? I do it all the time, as do many people I know.
Everyone complains about Telemarketing calls. Thing is, my home gets exactly zero. Ever.
Why? We've got an unlisted phone number. By paying Telstra whatever it is for the privilege of not having our number in the phone book (go figure) we don't appear in any telemarketers databases, so no annoying phone calls.
Of course we still get calls at work. We've just set up a special asterisk extension which plays some lovely "hold music" from artists such as Hanson until they hang up. "Can you hold please? I'll just put you on to the person who handles purchasing."
Uh, hello???
The letters were asking for support to have the trademark accepted, they specifically said "this is not a letter of demand". One would think it would be fairly pointless asking for help to have a trademark accepted after it's already happened?
No one's asked for any money yet.
Credit cards already does somethign like this. mym dad got a call one day and was asked if he was buying car stereos in Maryland.
Actually banks here in.au already do what you're saying. Last year my work transferred some money to Spain for registration of a European trademark or somesuch. A few hours later we got a phone call from the bank to confirm that we did actually request that. It wouldn't require too much to flag suspicious online transactions and confirm them (even by email to alert a user that it's happened, ie "We have recieved a request to transfer $x to account number Y in Nigeria. If you did not request this please contact the bank immediately.")
Australia is a good example of how this sort of thing is handled elsewhere. If you want a credit card or bank account, you need to provide 100 points of identification
I didn't need to when I applied online for a credit card with my bank. Although, I was a current customer so I'm not sure if that made a difference (didn't seem to based on the pages I filled in).
Um, I'm on a Telstra $20/month plan and I own the phone outright... no contract. I think you'll find that it's not just vodafone that do that (whether they advertise it or not).
And all you need to do with Telstra at least to get a sensible flat rate plan is get yourself an ABN, then they'll let you go on a "business" plan.
Can't comment on customer service though, never had to call them (about my mobile at least... if it's anything like the experiences I had with telstra trying to get ISDN connected a month or so ago it's probably, shall we say, not wonderful...)
If the damn media hadn't convinced the world that everything ends in.com, then we could have only companies have a.com domain, and we'd create some other TLD for people's personal sites. And Ford Motors could have ford.com, and I could have ford.me or ford.personal or something. The TLDs are now totally and completely useless for determining what kind of site is what now that.com,.net, and.org are used for everything. And it's totally the media's fault. A not insignificant number of people have tried to add.com onto the end of my.edu e-mail address when e-mailing me. It's pretty darn sad.
This is where Australia (.au) does it right I think:
.com.au = businesses, you have to have a registered business name or company and the domain name has to relate to your business name.
.id.au = personal domain names, the domain name has to relate to the person's name.
So if they have a challenge and response system, it will make it into your inbox, because you e-mailed them first
How does it know if an email it happens to get back from me is a challenge/response email?
I used to have a home-grown procmail script to do this (I removed it because of some of the reasons above, but mainly because half the people who emailed me either "couldn't be bothered" hitting reply and send to the challenge email, or "didn't understand" the instructions in it and just deleted it). But how does your system recognise a challenge email when it sees one? A database or something of common challenges? What happens when it's not a common program? You could end up (like I did a few times) with 2 challenge/response systems each sending challenges back at each other because they don't recognise that the email it's challenging is itself a challenge (I'm confusing myself here).
Apart from that it's great technically but I've actually found it doesn't work because people are stupid and/or lazy (see above)
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Being able to dial with the keypad locked can be a Bad Thing. I lock the keypad on my phone for a reason. A few times I've noticed that I've called 000 (the emergency number in Australia) when my phone's been keylocked and in my pocket...
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Everyone complains about Telemarketing calls. Thing is, my home gets exactly zero. Ever.
Why? We've got an unlisted phone number. By paying Telstra whatever it is for the privilege of not having our number in the phone book (go figure) we don't appear in any telemarketers databases, so no annoying phone calls.
Of course we still get calls at work. We've just set up a special asterisk extension which plays some lovely "hold music" from artists such as Hanson until they hang up. "Can you hold please? I'll just put you on to the person who handles purchasing."
Uh, hello??? The letters were asking for support to have the trademark accepted, they specifically said "this is not a letter of demand". One would think it would be fairly pointless asking for help to have a trademark accepted after it's already happened? No one's asked for any money yet.
Someone didn't read the FAQ. It apparantly doesn't apply to you anyway.
Okay so I haven't read TFA yet, but... First they're leaked (title), and then it's from a press release?? Huh?
as opposed to..........?
Yeah, I can really see myself getting addicted to that coughing that I get often from second hand smoth (athsma).....
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Um, I'm on a Telstra $20/month plan and I own the phone outright... no contract. I think you'll find that it's not just vodafone that do that (whether they advertise it or not). And all you need to do with Telstra at least to get a sensible flat rate plan is get yourself an ABN, then they'll let you go on a "business" plan. Can't comment on customer service though, never had to call them (about my mobile at least... if it's anything like the experiences I had with telstra trying to get ISDN connected a month or so ago it's probably, shall we say, not wonderful...)
Except for the whole easy-to-remember idea of domain names....
This is where Australia (.au) does it right I think:
How does it know if an email it happens to get back from me is a challenge/response email?
I used to have a home-grown procmail script to do this (I removed it because of some of the reasons above, but mainly because half the people who emailed me either "couldn't be bothered" hitting reply and send to the challenge email, or "didn't understand" the instructions in it and just deleted it). But how does your system recognise a challenge email when it sees one? A database or something of common challenges? What happens when it's not a common program? You could end up (like I did a few times) with 2 challenge/response systems each sending challenges back at each other because they don't recognise that the email it's challenging is itself a challenge (I'm confusing myself here).
Apart from that it's great technically but I've actually found it doesn't work because people are stupid and/or lazy (see above)
Being able to dial with the keypad locked can be a Bad Thing. I lock the keypad on my phone for a reason. A few times I've noticed that I've called 000 (the emergency number in Australia) when my phone's been keylocked and in my pocket...
Not if the reason is limited to, say, 20 or 30 characters.