Large trucks, heavy equipment, aircraft, ships aren't likely EVER to be electric.

Most modern freight trains ARE electric; hybrid, to be exact. They use diesel generators to power the electric motors that move the wheels.

...flight dwarfs?

Does their dimunitive size make them immune to the radiation?

You pay for your DVDs and have the audacity to want to watch them too?

No, with Audacity, you can only listen to them.

I heard the same "joke", except with baby diapers.

high-performance brake pads that are loaded with known carcinogens

You mean like the Raybestos company that doesn't--heh-heh--sell their asbestos brake pads over the counter anymore?

An SHA-512 hash of my luggage combination?

That would be SHA512(12345), right?

Lumpy, this is the same thing that the LaBrea honeypot did, in a TCP/IP manner, to automated scanners of our university network. We chuckled that some scanners held on for DAYS, essentially playing the "Uhh, are you still there?" "Sure--just a second, I'll be right back." game over and over on every possible TCP/IP port on a machine. It kept them busy so they wouldn't be scanning someone else. And, the reporting (for abuse lists, admins and sharing the blacklists) was automatic! It was named after the LaBrea tar pits in Los Angeles California.

But the voices in my head told me what you might have said...no, sorry, that was the TV.

Yeah. Know what the spammer would do? Leave the number of a 900- or 976- overseas service that bills $10-per-call. That would make much more money than the crappy crap they are selling. No shipping or products. Just selling a few seconds of phone time for $10. Ahhh, the profits just roll in...

Good idea for the phones, Stiletto! This is how SpamGourmet (a free service) already handles email.

The disposable, dynamically-generated addresses can optionally die after a specific number of received emails, and you can specify a single "trusted" sender for that address. If they or anyone else give out that address, it only works so long, then those emails stop. Now if we could just get authenticated information from the phone spammers, instead of blank or spoofed numbers, it might work.

Problem: Foreign switches originate the call (dial tone). Solution: Code donotcall.backdoor exploits into the switch firmware, or have Anonymous do it.

Political calls and charities are immune from the Do Not Call list.

Unlikely a politician would ever vote for a solution where their SuperPAC couldn't call and bother a constituent whenever it felt like it.

Publish the home phone numbers of the people who run robocall businesses.

And just how does one get the home phone numbers of overseas owners who hide behind foreign shell companies?

And for calls that originate overseas, the subscriber gets billed for that call-forward back to the caller? That doesn't sound like a good plan.

I searched Amazon for do not call and a few things came up. The $70 Call Blocker got 4/5 stars for the 22 people that bought one. The $120 discontinued TeleBouncer had a better technical functionality, and, reportedly is still available on eBay. I might try that Call Blocker (after reading each of the reviews) or investigate running Asterisk on a Raspberry Pi.