Damned home phone handsets

[Lethn]

I'd swear more but I'm trying to stay relaxed right now I just got pretty pissed at the house phone because I received several phone calls clearly from telemarketers or some assholes like them and every time they rang for about 5 seconds and each time I had almost got to the phone the fuckers hung up. My only conclusion could be drawn is that they were trying to make money out of me so they didn't have the time to wait around for someone to answer or whoever is trying to talk is an impatient twat that can't wait thirty seconds for me to get down the stairs and pick up the phone.

I swear when I get my own place, I'm disconnecting my phone line and just using the internet and mobile phone so I don't get bloody pestered constantly.

AND BREATHE......

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[SgtSpike]

I'd swear more but I'm trying to stay relaxed right now I just got pretty pissed at the house phone because I received several phone calls clearly from telemarketers or some assholes like them and every time they rang for about 5 seconds and each time I had almost got to the phone the fuckers hung up. My only conclusion could be drawn is that they were trying to make money out of me so they didn't have the time to wait around for someone to answer or whoever is trying to talk is an impatient twat that can't wait thirty seconds for me to get down the stairs and pick up the phone.

I swear when I get my own place, I'm disconnecting my phone line and just using the internet and mobile phone so I don't get bloody pestered constantly.

AND BREATHE......

I've never owned a landline in my life.  Utterly pointless IMO.

[juggalodarkclow]

I have a MagicJack mainly because I don't get cell signal in my house

[casascius]

Pipe dream: Public key infrastructure for making and receiving phone calls.

Doesn't have to identify the caller necessarily, just the network from which the call originates.

I think of this every time I get a call from "the Canadian pharmacy" asking if I'm ready to refill my "Vicodin" or "Viagra" prescription.

[vite]

I don't own a landline, I own a cel that works as a wifi router to be able to access voip lines.

[quasarbtc]

Land lines are the worst on account of how they are abused by telemarketers. Must have been quite nice prior to the advertising and survey garbage.

[helloworld]

Pipe dream: Public key infrastructure for making and receiving phone calls.

Doesn't have to identify the caller necessarily, just the network from which the call originates.

I don't know if this is too off-topic but I have been wondering for a while, would it be technically possible to receive calls on a cell phone, without your location being made known?

Obviously the nearest cell towers would need to know your position, but would those same cell towers need to know who you were?

This is something my brain hasn't been able to work out yet, but I'm sure someone could.

Probably this would have to be an encrypted voip call over a data line... or something.

[logansryche]

I don't know if this is too off-topic but I have been wondering for a while, would it be technically possible to receive calls on a cell phone, without your location being made known?

Obviously the nearest cell towers would need to know your position, but would those same cell towers need to know who you were?

This is something my brain hasn't been able to work out yet, but I'm sure someone could.

Probably this would have to be an encrypted voip call over a data line... or something.

If your asking what I think your asking, some phones have an option to turn on or off a 911 locator or gps monitoring, making the phone somewhat untraceable.

[helloworld]

I don't know if this is too off-topic but I have been wondering for a while, would it be technically possible to receive calls on a cell phone, without your location being made known?

Obviously the nearest cell towers would need to know your position, but would those same cell towers need to know who you were?

This is something my brain hasn't been able to work out yet, but I'm sure someone could.

Probably this would have to be an encrypted voip call over a data line... or something.

If your asking what I think your asking, some phones have an option to turn on or off a 911 locator or gps monitoring, making the phone somewhat untraceable.

But wouldn't the cell towers still be able to triangulate your position?

Use case:

I'd like to be able to reached by phone anywhere I am, without anyone at all (cellphone company, government, etc) actually knowing where I am.

At the moment if I don't want my location tracked, my only option is to turn off my cell phone.

It's like some kind of reverse vpn service but for voice, not internet.

[myrkul]

I swear when I get my own place, I'm disconnecting my phone line and just using the internet and mobile phone so I don't get bloody pestered constantly.

I did this, and never looked back. Best decision of my life.