Which country, out of curiosity? I'd figured phones all just behaved like this, not giving it a second thought. With my fax machine friend (caller id blocked... gotta get a cheap fax machine), and the stupid Republican "Do you support pedophiles and international terrorism by voting Democrat" polls, I'd love to be able to hang up and have my phone back:)
Tell you what. Try it yourself. Grab a cell phone and call your land line (assuming you have one). Pick up the land line. Hang up. Pick it back up a few seconds later... unless things are handled differently in your part of the world, your cell will still be there.
If your experiment doesn't work as I predicted, let me know. I've had it happen on more than one line, and yes, I am sure no one on my end picked up a receiever.
Maybe call-waiting would get around it, but if you didn't have it, I know I could tie up your line to where you couldn't make an outgoing call. Same as VOIP.
Actually, I could. How hard is it to set up an auto-dialer to lock up your phone line? Ever try hanging up on someone who has dialed your number? I get the freaking "this is a thinly veiled political announcement wrapped in a cheesy poll" phone calls. I hang up. I pick up thirty seconds later... still blabbing away.
Try clicking the receiver a bunch of times... no good. If there is a way to free the line, I don't know what it is. Since you are such a brilliant fellow, I am sure you know.
Point is... if you are getting a denial of service attack when needing 911, the odds are it ain't a coincidence. Someone is breaking into your house, and preventing you from calling the cops. A DOS attack can be thwarted. Someone clipping your outside phone line really can't be.
Does VOIP have flaws? Yes. But the ggp post wasn't an example of a VOIP weakness.
But thanks for your well-thought out response. It really made me sit and thing.
Then make sure you explain that 2/3 of the "catch projects" will be abandoned as folks decide to do something that will actually pay money. So, 1/3 of the demonstrations WON'T result in concussions.
Slashdot plays into the "bread and circuses" mentality that has gripped our nation for the past couple of decades. This is a real non-event designed to buy political karma for a select few, and drum up business for the folks on the other side of the argument.
While our nation continues to decline in its engineering education, falling behind "second world" nations, we focus on the nerd version of "Entertainment Weekly". Fortune had a wonderful article talking about this, and what the U.S. must do if it wants to stay #1... their focus was on engineering (imagine that... business folks recognizing the need for engineers).
Will we see this type of article on Slashdot? No. But will we see more articles like this one? Yup. Will we see stories on what breakfast cereal Google endorses? Probably.
Mod down accordingly. Don't get me wrong, we need articles of all types to make the "Slashdot salad" complete. But it seems this site ignores articles that really make you think, and go for the gratuitous knee-jerk articles instead.
Google has now invented RSS! I told you that Google rocks. I just googled the net, and found out that thousands of other web sites have picked up on this latest googlism! Google's influence is so great that I would bet that international standars committees might pick up on this soon.
Novel idea: You'd actually go read the sources. No, you can't quite get back to the beginning in most cases, but the level of scholarship you are after determines how far back you'd trace.
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And to begin today's Google worship service, please open to page 152 of your hymnal. Let's begin
"Amaaaaazing Google.... is a search engine
That helps a geek like meeeeeeee
Iiiii once was lost, in the interweb
But now you've show the waaay
T'was Sergey who made the Google god
And Larry who helped him ooooout
How precious was that interface
So simple yet so compleeeeeeet
Through many popups, porn and 404's,
We have already brooooowsed
T'was Google that brought us safe thus far
and Google will lead us home.
Google has promised more to me
Like gmail, maps and blogs.
They own all of our web dayayata
But Google "does no evil"
When we've been browsing for ten hours
and don't know how to thinnnnnnk
we'll log onto Slashdot again
to hear more about Goooooogle."
-- Pastor Google
"Slashdot -- Serving freethinkers since never"
I replied to this post which has nothing to do with what I want to say because I want my post to be up top where it can be seen by all.
I hope no one else comes up with this brilliant idea!
Slashdot does have hope for sex yet!
:(
Come to think of it... even the droids will probably shoot us down
You are quite right, and should be modded insightful. However, this phenomenon is not unique to software.
N/M... Read your profile... UKer.
Which country, out of curiosity? I'd figured phones all just behaved like this, not giving it a second thought. With my fax machine friend (caller id blocked... gotta get a cheap fax machine), and the stupid Republican "Do you support pedophiles and international terrorism by voting Democrat" polls, I'd love to be able to hang up and have my phone back :)
he expect the Playstation 3 to have a ten year life cycle.
Not withstanding that it should be 'expects', is the PS2 supposed to have the 10 year life cycle, or the PS3 as the article title states?!
Nice interpersonal skills.
;)
It's "you're" by the way
Tell you what. Try it yourself. Grab a cell phone and call your land line (assuming you have one). Pick up the land line. Hang up. Pick it back up a few seconds later... unless things are handled differently in your part of the world, your cell will still be there.
If your experiment doesn't work as I predicted, let me know. I've had it happen on more than one line, and yes, I am sure no one on my end picked up a receiever.
Maybe call-waiting would get around it, but if you didn't have it, I know I could tie up your line to where you couldn't make an outgoing call. Same as VOIP.
Actually, I could. How hard is it to set up an auto-dialer to lock up your phone line? Ever try hanging up on someone who has dialed your number? I get the freaking "this is a thinly veiled political announcement wrapped in a cheesy poll" phone calls. I hang up. I pick up thirty seconds later... still blabbing away.
Try clicking the receiver a bunch of times... no good. If there is a way to free the line, I don't know what it is. Since you are such a brilliant fellow, I am sure you know.
Point is... if you are getting a denial of service attack when needing 911, the odds are it ain't a coincidence. Someone is breaking into your house, and preventing you from calling the cops. A DOS attack can be thwarted. Someone clipping your outside phone line really can't be.
Does VOIP have flaws? Yes. But the ggp post wasn't an example of a VOIP weakness.
But thanks for your well-thought out response. It really made me sit and thing.
Because there is no way in the world I could just go to you telephone access box with a phillips head screwdriver and pull your connection.
Reading is fundamental.
Try re-reading the post.
Then make sure you explain that 2/3 of the "catch projects" will be abandoned as folks decide to do something that will actually pay money. So, 1/3 of the demonstrations WON'T result in concussions.
My native country of Elbonia! We think it is the coolest new show since 'Different Strokes' (last year).
So for all you AC's who mock this fine show, I just have this to say: "Watchu talkin' 'bout Willis?"
Slashdot plays into the "bread and circuses" mentality that has gripped our nation for the past couple of decades. This is a real non-event designed to buy political karma for a select few, and drum up business for the folks on the other side of the argument.
While our nation continues to decline in its engineering education, falling behind "second world" nations, we focus on the nerd version of "Entertainment Weekly". Fortune had a wonderful article talking about this, and what the U.S. must do if it wants to stay #1... their focus was on engineering (imagine that... business folks recognizing the need for engineers).
Will we see this type of article on Slashdot? No. But will we see more articles like this one? Yup. Will we see stories on what breakfast cereal Google endorses? Probably.
Mod down accordingly.
Don't get me wrong, we need articles of all types to make the "Slashdot salad" complete. But it seems this site ignores articles that really make you think, and go for the gratuitous knee-jerk articles instead.
From the link: sic also sick
It is harder than replying to the proper message, which you haven't mastered yet...
Google has now invented RSS! I told you that Google rocks. I just googled the net, and found out that thousands of other web sites have picked up on this latest googlism! Google's influence is so great that I would bet that international standars committees might pick up on this soon.
I just love Google! It's googlicious!
When do we get our next Google story?
my god your dumb
:)
I found this more funny than any of the other posts
I don't mind neghbors who blast Metallica, as long as I have a shot gun capable of blasting louder than the Metallica...
And if you cite the source without reading it (which is what I think was implied in ggp), that seems every so slightly unethical.
That wasn't what I meant.... unless, of course, you work for the New York Times...
Have I read about quiet PCs on Slashdot?
My contest: who can post the most links to prior articles on this one? Winner gets their name in my sig line for a week.
Did you know the word 'gullible' is not in the dictionary? I didn't believe it myself at first.
These are not normal times.
Beware, or this may become the "normal times".
Novel idea: You'd actually go read the sources. No, you can't quite get back to the beginning in most cases, but the level of scholarship you are after determines how far back you'd trace.