How To Make Your Friends Call You More 233
B0bReader writes, "Simply sign up to something called jajah (a VOIP service that connects real telephones) using your friend's number (mobiles included), then log in and dial your own number. Your friend's phone will ring and after they hear a brief 'Jajah is connecting your call' they will be calling you and incur all charges. As an added bonus you will quite probably receive your friend's latest voice-mail message as your own (at least on Irish networks), which you may or may not wish to hear. There is even a Jajah Firefox extension — which at the time of writing is the Firefox featured add-on — so you can do it right from your browser. This is about the best example of a bad idea, with terrible implementation, that I have seen all day. And with the wonderful publicity the Firefox page offers it should reach a wide audience in no time."
Drinkdrink (Score:5, Funny)
Irish police are still investigating any correlation between the popularity of Drinkdrink and a sudden spike in Irish homicides where in most cases the victim new their assailant prior to the fatal encounter. Similar incidents are on the rise--possibly due to Jajah.
Seriously, if I tried this on one of my friends, not even a surgeon would be able to locate my cell phone.
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In fact, all that the story is talking about is a rather weird way of calling your friends. If you want to jump through so many hoops in order to say hi to people, you probably deserve to be lonely, just call them ffs!!!
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That's why comments that are moderated up are more visible, plus the poster gets karma.
When we are dealing with funny, that balance is broken, because the poster doesn't get a karma reward.
A +5 Funny is not as much of a reward as a -1 Offtopic, or -1 Overrated is a punishment, because the last two affect your karma, and funny doesn't.
When you see "Funny" moderations, it's mostly stuff that people want to mak
Hey, this is Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Is that a Firefox plugin? (Score:5, Funny)
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http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Friends [wikihow.com]
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Step 1: Decide what kind of friends you want and make a plan to make these types of friends....
So to make friends, my first step is to figure out a plan for how to make friend. Gee thanks, if I knew how to do that I would already be able to make friends on my own.
Next WikiHow: How to get rich
Step 1: Decide how much money you want to have and make a plan for how to get it....
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The Answer (Score:5, Funny)
Let that be a lesson in structured design (Score:3, Funny)
And this, kids, is why you should use getters and (if needed) setters instead of making an Orkut-inspired design where everyone is "friends" with everyone they ever heard of. If anyone needs your private parts, they can ask nicely and you can give it to them in a civilized manner.
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Oh, that's easy. In your class declaration you just put:
where "foo" is a function that's outside of the class in question. Of course, the friend can't call you, because it's a friend of the class, not any of its methods.
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Come on, people - someone give this guy points. It was the perfect response!
I can prevent this happening to me (Score:3, Funny)
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Hyper-reaction! (Score:3, Informative)
This service however does not cause your friends phone to call you, thats rediculous. The service calls you localy, and calls them localy, and then links your calls with VOIP, saving any long distance calls. Thats about it.
I would use it for International Calling (Score:2, Informative)
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It's going through the telephone system. Of course you don't have privacy. At least not if you're living in Bush Country (the United States). This has nothing to do with the fact that it's VOIP.
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The rates they are offering are much lower than any other service I know of.
google: skype
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?file not found (Score:2)
Although Googling for "jahjah voip" does return hits, so whatever.
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WRONG! (Score:5, Informative)
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- Dave
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By raffle.
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I got that two out of two tries.
P.S. Like the summary says, it wasn't my voicemail.
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Let me get this straight - because all calls must cost the same, you have better price competition? If they all have to cost the same, then you have no price competition!
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U.S. system also has its advantages. (Score:4, Interesting)
The area code of where you transfer the number from (the original geographic exchange) will determine which people pay for it as a "long distance" call, but that's far less expensive for most people than European mobile airtime is, I think.
I wouldn't be willing to keep a mobile phone as my only phone number, if doing so required everyone who wanted to call me pay extra. That just seems rude. I'm quite content to pay for people's incoming calls to me, since I'm the one deciding to attach the number to a mobile, rather than fixed phone.
From the caller's perspective, the U.S. system puts land and mobile numbers on equal footing, which seems more logical to me.
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IMHO,t his JahJah service actually looks pretty useful...
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No, in the US the one who's mobile pays, unless he's within his free minutes deal (e.g., free nights and weekends). This has nothing to do with making or receiving and everything to do with "airtime".
(In the US the person making a long-distance call also pays, but that's different and usually very small.)
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Didn't think of adding friends numbers though. The problem I see if after they rack up a bill they link it to your IP. That and of course, your friends would notice,"One moment please. Jajah is connecting your call" auto
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The call is not free for either side if you have to pay for airtime. If your friends pay for airtime and you have a free incoming calls deal....
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Give it a few days and scuttlemonkey will repost it as breaking news....
Jaj
Go on Mr Monkey, then I can link back to this post!
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Actually, some cell phones in the US have free incoming calls. At 2.5 cents a minute for a mobile-to-mobile call, that's a pretty good deal.
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U.S. cell phone service is dirt cheap compared to places like Japan. People in North America and Europe like to pretend that Asia is some electronic utopia where all the experimental features are enabled on all phones and using them is free, but it's not. The typical calling plan in places like Tokyo is US$60/month for 100 minutes but unlimited texts. The typical calling plan in the
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Right now, in the US ALL of the major providers have the SAME plans. $40 a month gets you 450 minutes of daytime calling and either unlimited or thousands of night/weekend minutes. No included text messages, but you can get 200 (text or picture) for about $5 (US).
This whole thread is confusing to me because I am being mindful of exchange rates. I'm wondering what "90 pounds worth" of value translates to, as well. To illustrate:
On Cingular, if you do prepa
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The American cell market grew slowly because our landline service is insanely cheap compared to anything on the continent or UK. And it's not as if we're getting ripped off on our cell phones -- a $30/month cell phone contract will come with unlimited minutes during evening and weekends, when most lengthy personal calls are made. It's not hard to find ones with unlimited minutes to anyone on the same network, unlimited calls to numbers you sel
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so it's not pointless to americans. and, as other posters have mentioned, some carriers (namely, Sprint) offer free incoming calls.
Not quite (Score:4, Informative)
There are plenty of plans that make airtime charges more complicated, such as no airtime charges nights and weekends, no charges to people on the same network and so on but the basis is that the owner of the phone pays for the time it's actually on the air. However they don't pay for other charges on received calls. You can call from Germany and you'll pick up the long distance tab, I'll just be responsible for airtime. However if I call Germany I am responsible for both the airtime and the LD.
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In the US, 'long distance' is always paid by the caller, and is entirely unrelated to wether a number is a cellphone or not. (Although some cell providers offer 'unlimted' or 'free' long distance, but see the following point) (Some types of phone providers offer effectively free/unlimited 'long distance' [mainly VoIP providers])
In the US, cell 'airtime' is paid for by the person who's name is on the cell phone account. It doesnt matter wether the call
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And it really is just a matter of how you see things. Right now, I'm looking for a job, and i'm out a lot... The idea of someone calling me for an interview, and having to pay for calling me, is just messed up. So both ways have their advantages.
Also, a lot of cellphone plans have "fr
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In reality though, it's really common for small businesses to use mobiles (especially tradespeople). AFAIK, no one really worries too much about the cost of a mobile call - it's really not that much money in the scheme of things.
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Calling to a mobile depends on your landline plan and provider. Usually it doesn't cost
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That would never fly in the 'States. Too much math.
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Make anyone you want call anyone you want! (Score:2, Interesting)
lovely implementation....
-Taylor
I don't think they will be a friend after that. (Score:2)
Alas... (Score:2)
I know... (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot service: Translation of Article Title (Score:2)
Not worthless for what it's meant to do. (Score:2)
I just used the service to connect my Irish landline here to my parent's phone at home in N.Ireland, and it worked perfectly; whatever rate the two calls cost (local calls are free in the UK at certain times), it's certainly cheaper than the 40 cen
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JaJah is GREAT! (Score:5, Informative)
The way that they work is that they call both you and your party and connect the call via VOIP. However, you foot the bill with a credit card. I tried many other calling-card companies, Skype, and whatnot. So far, Jajah is pretty good, and darn cheap.
Sure, you could sign up and put your friends number, but it will not charge any money to them. My only complaint is that you can only change your phone numbers 3 times so if you move often (as I have over the last few months) you might have to open a new account.
They even give you a few $$$ to spend BEFORE they ask for your credit card number! so you can try them out for "free".
yfarjoun.
submitter confused (Score:2, Informative)
connecting these two local calls over the internet (voip). The advantage for
international calling should be obvious.
In normal use jajah requires you to credit your account (visa,mastercard etc) and then charges
for calls. And although you could use it for prank calls by registering someone else
phone number then connecting them to someone else (the queen or whoever) you would have to
pay.
There is a free trail where you could set up
Another Bad Idea (Score:2)
Well, the day ain't over yet, so why not cause as much trouble as possible by publicizing this on a slow news day? I blame the editor for letting this one through.
More serious: DOS their phone (Score:2)
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If you and the person you want to call both have that feature, theoretically you could use this to call each other and neither of you have to use chargeable airtime. There are better ways of doing that, though.
Exes (Score:3, Funny)
Best way to get you friends to call you More (Score:2, Funny)
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The joke's on me? (Score:2)
Sidenote: It doesn't help either that I speak Spanish and keep reading the name of their service as "Hah Hah". You know like, "Ha hah, the joke's on you when we bill you three dollars
EXPLANATION (Score:2, Informative)
Jajah is basically similar to Skype, except that instead of using your laptop to talk, you use your phone. The end result is the same, that is you are connecting over IP to the other person.
So, you go ahead and schedule a call, your phone rings, you pick up, and you're connected to your friend. In Europe, you don't pay for incoming calls, so this makes phone calls free.
Now you're thinking, so what's the point of using this in
Second story today that is JUST WRONG (Score:2)
Random VOIP rambling (Score:2)
It's amazing to me to see that what I had thought would require a fiber connection is now totally feasible with a standard cable modem.
Criminal (Score:2, Funny)
1. Made most of my former friends call me twice.
2. Listened to the rest of my former friends' personal voice-mails (because their phones were turned off when they "called me" so this is only fair, right?).
3. Gotten my parents talking to each other after so many years (although my Father wasn't best pleased that he had to pay for the call).
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I'm thinking claws (Score:5, Funny)
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Shit yeah, I be textin' my ass off. Bitches love textin'. Matter of fact, I also be textin' my weed man, too, cause, you know, he don't like to be on the phone, so I text 'im!
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Re:Stupidity must be contagious ... (Score:5, Informative)
This is a good service, and not worthy of an amateurish slashdot post like this.
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It's doesn't quite have quite the volume of a noun-feed like digg, though it does have a few more top-level categories.
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No more telemarketers? Nope, bummer. (Score:2, Interesting)
Dang.
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