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View Poll Results: Do you still have a land line? | |
Yes, local and long distance.
|     | 23 | 52.27% | |
Yes, local only.
|    | 6 | 13.64% | |
Yes, but only for DSL.
|    | 2 | 4.55% | |
No, cable-based VOIP
|    | 1 | 2.27% | |
No, cell only.
|    | 9 | 20.45% | |
No, we don' need no steeenkeen phone!
|    | 3 | 6.82% |
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05-15-2008
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| | | Re: Do you still have a land line?
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Originally Posted by freeztar  As far as mobile phones are concerned, I know several people who refuse to get one because they don't want to be able to be contacted at any time. It's a simple objection to overcome though, just don't pick up your phone if you don't want to.  | There's more to it than that. Over at Swans On Tea today, an interesting post was made about Large Sibling. Check it out, I'll be watching. |
05-15-2008
|  | Resident Slayer | | | | | Re: Do you still have a land line?
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Originally Posted by InfiniteNow There's more to it than that. Over at Swans On Tea today, an interesting post was made about Large Sibling. Check it out, I'll be watching. | This locator function is something you can disable on many phones: I know I have it off on my Razr. On the latest iPhone update, they added a feature that does this cell-triangulation to give your approximate position for *yourself*, and I haven't found the "off" switch for it.
With The Patriot Act of course, I'm sure that the powers that be are using this heavily, and can probably override any blocks you may have set.
I also am under the impression that 3G (now common on the other side of teh pond, where this post seems to come from) makes all of this much worse.
You have no privacy, get over it, 
Buffy
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05-15-2008
| | Resident Slayer | | | |  Re: Do you still have a land line?
Seriously, NO ONE here uses VOIP (that's "Cable TV Phone" folks)???
Thank you for your time, you've been so much more than kind,
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05-15-2008
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Originally Posted by InfiniteNow There's more to it than that. Over at Swans On Tea today, an interesting post was made about Large Sibling. Check it out, I'll be watching. | I'm not really concerned about this. I have to agree with Uncle Al's response there.
Also, this would only work if your cell phone is on.
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Originally Posted by Buffy Seriously, NO ONE here uses VOIP (that's "Cable TV Phone" folks)??? | Many of my co-workers who have signed up for the company's official "work at home" program have it, as it's mandated by the company (who pays for it) to ensure no disconnect in service. I still keep my chair and my desk onsite though, so haven't signed up.... yet. |
05-15-2008
| | Creating | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Silver Spring, MD, USA
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| |  When and where wifi paradise? and less tiny batteries?
Until a few years ago, I had 2 landlines, a relic of the days when I needed a dedicated line for a dialup modem connection to an ISP or various work hosts. This after suffering hair-rending frustration during the time I spent most of my time on a call-back dialup server (your call it, enter a code, and it calls you back), and also had call waiting (which could only be disabled by punching in a * code with the phone off-hook, when originating, not receiving a call), and a modem that would drop connections using protocols like telnet on a call waiting tone. Ah, the good old 20th century!
Along with housemates, my youngest son (24) got his first landline last year, when the last unsecured wifi within range of his house went away. I suggested they all just emigrate to Starbucks, but apparently their at-home lifestyle isn’t Starbucks-appropriate enough for that.
The coolest among us might be people who live in public wifi land (eg: Philadelphia PA USA) and use VOIP for everything. I’ve not yet met such a person.
I no longer us my home landline for any work-related calls. The only problem I’ve had with this is forgetting to keep a charge on my mobile during a long call, and leaving the house to discover it’s nearly dead.
I’ve a general gripe that, as mobile phones have shunk to sub- STrek communicator dimensions, nothing on the market has taken advantage of it by filling some of the old space and mass with more battery. I’d pay a premium for such a phone, and suspect that many like-minded folk would also, but have yet to see one advertised. The invisible hand of the capitalism is sometimes inscrutable.
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Originally Posted by Buffy Do you still have a land line? | Off and on. lol
Ps I thought it was called LAN line? Probly wrong though since it'd actually be wan, huh?
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05-15-2008
|  | Doing the Impossible | | | | | Re: Do you still have a land line?
I switched to Vonage a couple of years ago so I guess I am the first VOIP guy. We also use VOIP at our office. I have internet through my cable provider, but I don't subscribe to cable. I have a Blackberry for work.
Bill
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| | | Re: Do you still have a land line?
No, I had the last of them removed a couple of years ago. I used to have them around the perimeter of the yard but over the years the neighbors complained about the explosions and stray dog parts raining down all over their roofs. I kinda miss them, it made visiting the neighbors a lot more exciting kept my kids in the yard and made the neighborhood kids (the ones that survived) much better at reading a map 
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Originally Posted by Moontanman No, I had the last of them removed a couple of years ago... | Well, the PETA folks--or the black helicopters from the HSA--will be at your door in the morning now...
Oh that's very different,
Buffy
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