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Comment Don't give me credit for a submission (Score 1) 210

by midwestsilentone on Saturday June 10, 2017 @11:42PM (#54594469) Attached to: No, Your Phone Didn't Ring. So Why Voice Mail From a Telemarketer?

If you're going to take my submission, completely rewrite it with credit to someone else and show at it as "midwestsilentone tipped us off", don't bother mentioning me, its not my submission.

Submission + - No, Your Phone Didn't Ring. So Why Voice Mail From a Telemarketer? (nytimes.com)

Submitted by midwestsilentone on Monday June 05, 2017 @07:54AM

midwestsilentone writes: Frank Kemp was working on his computer when his cellphone let out the sound of Mario — from Super Mario Bros. — collecting a coin. That signaled he had a new voice mail message, yet his phone had never rung.

“At first, I thought I was crazy,” said Mr. Kemp, a video editor in Dover, Del. “When I checked my voice mail, it made me really angry. It was literally a telemarketing voice mail to try to sell telemarketing systems.”

Mr. Kemp had just experienced a technology gaining traction called ringless voice mail, the latest attempt by telemarketers and debt collectors to reach the masses. The calls are quietly deposited through a back door, directly into a voice mail box — to the surprise and (presumably) irritation of the recipient, who cannot do anything to block them.

Please note — this article mentions All About the Message LLC which has no affiliation with the small UK company All About the Message.

Comment Can't be this simple (Score 1) 368

by midwestsilentone on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @11:25PM (#28288883) Attached to: For Airplane Safety, Trying To Keep Birds From Planes

Surely its not that simple? Put a cage over the engine intake, like you would have over any industrial engine some idiot could put his hand in! A flock of 8lb birds, surely you can keep 7 of 8 out?!? You could even put warning stickers on it! That would keep the rest away.

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