pastycrinkles
Joined 12 years ago
Karma
764
Submissions
49
Member since
Sep 7
Recent submissions
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
I took it a step further and just use my home phone now. Not necessarily to escape any sort of addiction or privacy issues of feature phones (though the latter does cross my mind occasionally), but because when you retire a smartphone, the majority of your traffic is no longer data, but calls and SMS.
The codec used in wireline telephony is an order of magnitude better, so it starts to make a lot more sense; http://www50.zippyshare.com/v/sJG1ch4b/file.html
As for SMS, it's nothing Google Voice or any number of different services doesn't cover.
Comment · 11 years ago
So what happens if an EU country sees a BGP routing error that sends traffic to the US?
Comment · 11 years ago
You forgot about the cyber military!
Comment · 11 years ago
As far as cable companies go, they're kinda low on the telephony totem pole anyway. Probably best to ditch them and go with AT&T/Frontier/whoever your local phone company is.
Comment · 11 years ago
All and all, it's just another sign that the internet is becoming less a tool of individual communication or expression, and more an impression of cable TV. Besides, y'know, all that surveillance and all.
Another free medium bites the dust.
Comment · 11 years ago
No kidding :/ . If anything, there should really be a movement to get people to migrate off of it more and more.
On another note, the revenue model of digital-only newspapers isn't particularly sustainable looking. People constantly complain if they're paywalled, and constantly complain when they have to look at ads. They're not exactly isolated or unwarranted either.