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Comment Canada dropped the penny years ago (Score 1) 261

In Canada we dropped the penny without much fanfare at all. It was practically seamless. We just round up or down to the nearest 5 cent position when paying cash, otherwise when paying electronic, you pay the exact amount. It's really not that hard.

Comment Getting hacked and used for cheap cable TV (Score 3, Insightful) 36

I know several people who have bought Fire sticks in the last year simply to have them hacked and pay a cheap monthly fee to someone so they can get cheap cable TV. Most of them aren't using them for legal streaming methods, just using it to drop the several different paid services to save $200+ a month.

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Asterisk 1.8 Released With Support For Google Voice 83

Thinkcloud writes with a note that long-standing open-source VoiP software Asterisk has just been updated, and it's packed with more than 200 enhancements, security updates, and new features — including calendar integration and support for Google Voice and Google Talk. Asterisk's fully-featured PBX includes call waiting, hold and transfer, caller ID, and other useful tools so it's a great option for small businesses that need to watch costs."
Communications

SIP Attacks From Amazon EC2 Going Unaddressed 104

mjgraves writes "Over the past week a number of IP-PBX systems have been suffering SIP attacks from hosts in the Amazon EC2 cloud. At least a dozen known attacks have been reported to Amazon, which has been surprisingly quiet about the matter. The issue has been well documented by one of the attack victims on his blog. The matter was also discussed on the April 16th issue of the VoIP Users Conference (podcast available at the link; EC2 segment begins around 3:30). Amazon appears to have gone silent on the matter even as the attacks are ongoing. This is completely irresponsible behavior from a such a hosting company, which should be acting to take down the attacker in their midst."

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