I received the same call, but with a guy's voice, far eastern accent. he had me for a second with the "your IP address is sending out bad traffic" & they were getting warning errors on their end.. I was at work on the company's windows 7 box, but was wondering why *I* was getting the call instead of IT.. I decided to play along, I screw him up at the *superkey +r* imagining if I were working on my openbox debian machine; me: "ok, it opened my home folder, what next?" he, seeing that wasn't working, tried to navigate through the c:/ drive; him: ..slight pause .. "ok ok, close that out, I need you to click the windows icon in lower left, then computer, then c:/ drive".. me: "I don't have a windows icon, I using openbox & a home folder" him: "wait you're at home right?" me: "no I'm at work, IT should be dealing with this" phone line: ::CLICK::

lol, I don't have mods point, but I agree, they banned the whole NFC tap n pay like the NBA, banned allen Iverson's crossover..

'I use a third-party firewall, a free virus checker, and run Housecall periodically,' says Appel. 'My Firefox browser uses Keyscrambler, HTTPS Anywhere, Ghostery, and Disconnect. I also have a VPN account (PIA) when traveling. For suspicious email attachments, I deploy private proprietary bioware (me!) to analyze before opening. All the "experts" say I am crazy. Thing is, I stopped the security updates in XP years ago after a bad update trashed my system, and yet I have never been infected, although online for hours each day..." gawd, comparing THAT to my BORING crunchbang usage on the daily; one would have to be a hacker (slash) uber paranoid to run such a set as a daily driver.. & people tell me gnu/linux is hard to use.... man up fukin grade! or switch up from MS.. it'll do wonders for the high blood pressure, head aches, kneck aches, etc..

aaah, that explains truphone's crazy charges in the central, south, & the carribeans..

this is wishful thinking in the dark, but i pray what's happening with this EU no roaming thingy ties with what's about to happen here in the US -

http://www.cnet.com/news/sprint-to-join-rural-operators-in-nationwide-roaming-hub/

if sprint & softbank can push the envelope on this thing, & offer more dual mode handsets, (with sprint lightening up on their unlocking policy on the gsm sim side of those hansets) just, maybe, we can join in on the fun..

I wondered how this would affect their rates, then a google search produced -

http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/prnewswire/press_releases/North_Carolina/2014/04/02/LA96177

Cool for those that frequent travel over the pond often, but, for the carribeans, south, central americas, no love -

$1.71per min outgoing calls
$1.13per min incoming calls
$0.51per SMS
  $8.57per MB

If you're one who vacation frequently in these spots, & may have to overcome the language & time barriers upon stepping off the plane, the truphone sim, is good ONLY for a quick fast, until you can land a local prepaid sim, which may take & communicational effort..

I'm thinking at worst, in place such as St Martin, where the island is divided on ither side with cell provider coverage (I think digicel's trying to change that), the work hunting down & obtaining a prepaid sim when you switch sides from French to Dutch..

the roaming charges of carriers, are akin to interests charges of financial institutes..