Comment Re:Whoa.. stop! (Score 1) 1021
I still read books (But not sonnets).
The reverse can work too. Ages ago I built a bot that would answer chat attempts with randomly selected "fortune" quotes, stripped of their bylines and biased by the presence of nouns that matched those found in the other party's message. I left it running as my "away" message on the mainframe at a large university (where people would chat randomly to you all the time)
I didn't bother saving "my" side of the conversation , so I'm sure I missed some hilarious exchanges, but just reading the other side's messages shows that girls, in particular, would keep chatting with my bot far beyond the point where guys would realize it was a bot and give up.
My favorite was a girl who kept a running dialog going for nearly a day and a half. She would occasionally express surprise at how fast I could type (no delay in bot response) but otherwise seemed convinced that the bot was really human.
That conversation only ended when the bot apparently chose to say something incredibly offensive to her (I wish I knew what it was). She told the bot to "stop talking to me" several times, apparently never picking up on the fact that it auto-responded every time she tried to get the last word in.
Where is the evidence that any additional monitoring does any good?
So, if I understand you, you want to see hard evidence that the device, which hasn't been invented yet, actually works before you'll concede that inventing it might possibly be a good idea?
If you write software, you should have the freedom to release it under whatever goddamn terms you want.
You do have that freedom. And the users have to freedom to reject your software in favor of something else.
If you want to use my service and my resources, then you don't get to dictate your terms to me.
Sure. But if you want me to use your service and resources, then I do.
...there aren't many truly international SIP providers...
Really? Even compared to the number of Skype there is?
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.