I'm getting an honest to god real phoneline on Thursday. I called them
and ordered my service today from a payphone. Now I can finally use my
cordless phone I've had for years.
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23 Jan 2007 12:55:47 AM |
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"slunky" <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote in message
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| I'm getting an honest to god real phoneline on Thursday. I called them
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| -slunky
I'd put in a new battery first though.... good chance the one in it is
buggered.... unless you've been charging it periodically?
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23 Jan 2007 12:59:51 AM |
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_/ Justin wrote \_
I'd put in a new battery first though.... good chance the one in it is
buggered.... unless you've been charging it periodically?
I don't have a battery for it yet. I should probably get one before
Thursday.
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| User: "%" |
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23 Jan 2007 01:01:47 AM |
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"slunky" <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote in message news:slrnerbcik.uq.slunky@evo.zero...
_/ Justin wrote \_
I'd put in a new battery first though.... good chance the one in it is
buggered.... unless you've been charging it periodically?
I don't have a battery for it yet. I should probably get one before
Thursday.
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-slunky
get two , i need one
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23 Jan 2007 01:08:56 AM |
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get two , i need one
Ok. What size of battery is yours?
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23 Jan 2007 01:11:43 AM |
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"slunky" <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote in message news:slrnerbd3l.uq.slunky@evo.zero...
_/ % wrote \_
get two , i need one
Ok. What size of battery is yours?
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-slunky
i can't tell i need my magnifying glass to see it ,
but it looks like 3 triple A's wrapped in plastic
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23 Jan 2007 01:13:11 AM |
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_/ % wrote \_
i can't tell i need my magnifying glass to see it ,
but it looks like 3 triple A's wrapped in plastic
That's what all of them look like.
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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23 Jan 2007 04:51:09 PM |
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then slunky wrote, On 1/22/2007 11:59 PM:
_/ Justin wrote \_
I'd put in a new battery first though.... good chance the one in it is
buggered.... unless you've been charging it periodically?
I don't have a battery for it yet. I should probably get one before
Thursday.
Go to an electrical parts store and built the pack yourself. I did that
for a friend who had spent a fortune on a Panasonic 5 handset phone
system. All the battery packs were shot after about a year, and they
were just little cheapo 3 AA cell tabbed ni-cads. The whole pack was
only good for 800ma. I used 1700ma replacement cells and he's been happy
as all get out since.
We just got a "Batteries Plus" store here. I stopped by quickly to get
some "76" silver oxide coin cells for my camera. I wanted to spend
another half hour poking around. I know that I'll be headed in with a
SLA cell for an old UPS. They have a replacement for only $15.
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23 Jan 2007 05:24:35 PM |
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_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
Go to an electrical parts store and built the pack yourself.
I thought about that, but there's a battery store here too that sells
them for cheap.
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| User: "David" |
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| Title: Re: Phonelines |
22 Jan 2007 08:45:26 PM |
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Congradulations, its always nice to do something positive for yourself. FYI,
at my phone company they have what's called a lifeline, which has a discount
for those on SSI or who have other low-income qualifications. I only pay
around $3 or $4 for the line itself, but also have other services, like DSL
attached to it.
Here are a couple of references, depending on where you live:
http://www.lifeline.gov/lifeline_Consumers.html
http://www02.sbc.com/Products_Services/Residential/1,,68--1-3-3,00.html
"slunky" <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote in message
news:slrnerahe3.va.slunky@evo.zero...
I'm getting an honest to god real phoneline on Thursday. I called them
and ordered my service today from a payphone. Now I can finally use my
cordless phone I've had for years.
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-slunky
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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| Title: Re: Phonelines |
22 Jan 2007 08:26:46 PM |
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slunky wrote:
I'm getting an honest to god real phoneline on Thursday. I called them
and ordered my service today from a payphone. Now I can finally use my
cordless phone I've had for years.
Why do you want a landline?
I read a story in the paper that said that the # of landlines has been
falling for the last 4 years.
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| User: "slunky" |
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22 Jan 2007 08:31:50 PM |
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_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
Why do you want a landline?
I'm sick of my VoIP service shutting me off all the time for what they
say is security purposes. I don't want a cell. There are times I prefer
to be unreachable. Landlines are also cheaper (despite what Vonage has
to say), and a phoneline requires no power from my side, and I can stay
on the phone for several hours without having to worry about a battery
dying.
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-slunky
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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22 Jan 2007 09:21:37 PM |
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slunky wrote:
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
Why do you want a landline?
I'm sick of my VoIP service shutting me off all the time for what they
say is security purposes. I don't want a cell. There are times I prefer
to be unreachable. Landlines are also cheaper (despite what Vonage has
to say), and a phoneline requires no power from my side, and I can stay
on the phone for several hours without having to worry about a battery
dying.
I'm almost never reachable on my cell phone. I never seem to reach it
before it goes to voicemail, and half the time if I do see it I don't
like answering it.
Good luck staying on your phone for hours when it's a cordless. ;)
I can't believe they say it's shut off for security purposes, they
probably just want to get people off.
You can use your landline to draw juice from the power company!
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| User: "slunky" |
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22 Jan 2007 09:31:48 PM |
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_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
I'm almost never reachable on my cell phone. I never seem to reach it
before it goes to voicemail, and half the time if I do see it I don't
like answering it.
I had a cell phone before. It was neat, but I didn't like the
technology. It's hard to explain.
Good luck staying on your phone for hours when it's a cordless. ;)
I've got other phones too, I've just never used the cordless. I was a
phone phreak in the nineties.
I can't believe they say it's shut off for security purposes, they
probably just want to get people off.
I have no idea. When I try to dial out it says to call customer service,
and the last time I called customer service and tech support they ended
up cancelling my account.
You can use your landline to draw juice from the power company!
Yea, I know. I once tried to build a trickle battery charger (a
chatrouse box (sp?)) I never got it to really work.
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22 Jan 2007 10:26:11 PM |
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slunky wrote:
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
I'm almost never reachable on my cell phone. I never seem to reach it
before it goes to voicemail, and half the time if I do see it I don't
like answering it.
I had a cell phone before. It was neat, but I didn't like the
technology. It's hard to explain.
All the fancy high tech do-dads on cell phones are why I like them. One
more geek gadget!
You can use your landline to draw juice from the power company!
Yea, I know. I once tried to build a trickle battery charger (a
chatrouse box (sp?)) I never got it to really work.
I built something like this
(http://sg.auctions.yahoo.com/sg/i:Telephone%20line%20power%2012%20LEDs%20desk%20lamp:217235889)
several years ago.
I think I'm going to make a little desk fan this summer.
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| User: "slunky" |
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22 Jan 2007 10:33:22 PM |
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_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
All the fancy high tech do-dads on cell phones are why I like them. One
more geek gadget!
Perhaps I'm just disgruntled. I was fired from a cell phone company for
"distribution of confidential information". I was giving out master
subsity lock codes to friends over the internet. It's their phone, they
should be able to use it how they want. It's the limitations set in
place to restrict full-usage that urks me. It's insulting to customers.
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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22 Jan 2007 10:42:55 PM |
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then slunky wrote, On 1/22/2007 9:33 PM:
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
All the fancy high tech do-dads on cell phones are why I like them. One
more geek gadget!
Perhaps I'm just disgruntled. I was fired from a cell phone company for
"distribution of confidential information". I was giving out master
subsity lock codes to friends over the internet. It's their phone, they
should be able to use it how they want. It's the limitations set in
place to restrict full-usage that urks me. It's insulting to customers.
The GSM unlock codes? Those have just been made illegal!!
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061124-8280.html
....of course try to get things done down at the local store with the
idiot clerks and brain dead phone reps...
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22 Jan 2007 10:52:50 PM |
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_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
The GSM unlock codes? Those have just been made illegal!!
Well, CDMA, but pretty much the same thing.
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23 Jan 2007 04:36:44 PM |
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then slunky wrote, On 1/22/2007 9:52 PM:
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
The GSM unlock codes? Those have just been made illegal!!
Well, CDMA, but pretty much the same thing.
Well, jeez, how many friends did you have that they found out?
PS: CDMA is for mid-wives
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23 Jan 2007 05:21:57 PM |
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_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
Well, jeez, how many friends did you have that they found out?
Two dozen.
PS: CDMA is for mid-wives
but it beats the hell out of GSM.
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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23 Jan 2007 09:03:56 PM |
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then slunky wrote, On 1/23/2007 4:21 PM:
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
Well, jeez, how many friends did you have that they found out?
Two dozen.
Well then how did that come to light of mgmt?
PS: CDMA is for mid-wives
but it beats the hell out of GSM.
....for Wyoming
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| User: "slunky" |
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23 Jan 2007 09:06:30 PM |
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_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
Well then how did that come to light of mgmt?
Sprint hunted me down off a phone phreaking website.
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23 Jan 2007 09:29:02 PM |
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then slunky wrote, On 1/23/2007 8:06 PM:
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
Well then how did that come to light of mgmt?
Sprint hunted me down off a phone phreaking website.
This is a story you gotta tell...
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23 Jan 2007 10:00:04 PM |
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_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
This is a story you gotta tell...
Well, I was working as a war room operator for Sprint in a call center,
running shell scripts and forcasting call and system volumes, which is a
boring job, and I just so happened to have access to the master customer
database and the algorithm used to generate lock codes. So I let a few
people have the codes to unlock their phones, and they told people and I
unlocked those peoples' phones, and one of those people blabbed about
how slunk can make it so you can use SprintPCS phones on Verizon's
network and vica-versa.
So Sprint somehow heard about this, and googled slunk, and then got a
court order to obtain my information from a phreaking forum and matched
it with employee records. So one morning I was getting ready for work,
and got a call from one of my coworkers saying that management was
pissed and that there were feds or something waiting for me to come in
to work. So I never showed up for work there again. A few months later I
got a cerified letter from Sprint saying that I was fired and could face
prosecution for what I did. I just blew it off though. Haven't heard
anything since from them.
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| Title: Re: Phonelines |
23 Jan 2007 10:16:33 PM |
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:00:04 GMT, slunky <slunky@globalzero.org>
wrote:
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
This is a story you gotta tell...
Well, I was working as a war room operator for Sprint in a call center,
running shell scripts and forcasting call and system volumes, which is a
boring job, and I just so happened to have access to the master customer
database and the algorithm used to generate lock codes. So I let a few
people have the codes to unlock their phones, and they told people and I
unlocked those peoples' phones, and one of those people blabbed about
how slunk can make it so you can use SprintPCS phones on Verizon's
network and vica-versa.
So Sprint somehow heard about this, and googled slunk, and then got a
court order to obtain my information from a phreaking forum and matched
it with employee records. So one morning I was getting ready for work,
and got a call from one of my coworkers saying that management was
pissed and that there were feds or something waiting for me to come in
to work. So I never showed up for work there again. A few months later I
got a cerified letter from Sprint saying that I was fired and could face
prosecution for what I did. I just blew it off though. Haven't heard
anything since from them.
I would have loved to get drunk with you and just listen to
stories...before I quit you know.
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23 Jan 2007 10:31:51 PM |
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_/ Bacon wrote \_
I would have loved to get drunk with you and just listen to
stories...before I quit you know.
We could always huff paint thinner.
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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23 Jan 2007 10:22:43 PM |
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then slunky wrote, On 1/23/2007 9:00 PM:
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
This is a story you gotta tell...
Well, I was working as a war room operator for Sprint in a call center,
running shell scripts and forcasting call and system volumes, which is a
boring job, and I just so happened to have access to the master customer
database and the algorithm used to generate lock codes. So I let a few
people have the codes to unlock their phones, and they told people and I
unlocked those peoples' phones, and one of those people blabbed about
how slunk can make it so you can use SprintPCS phones on Verizon's
network and vica-versa.
So Sprint somehow heard about this, and googled slunk, and then got a
court order to obtain my information from a phreaking forum and matched
it with employee records. So one morning I was getting ready for work,
and got a call from one of my coworkers saying that management was
pissed and that there were feds or something waiting for me to come in
to work. So I never showed up for work there again. A few months later I
got a cerified letter from Sprint saying that I was fired and could face
prosecution for what I did. I just blew it off though. Haven't heard
anything since from them.
It always ends up being someone that can't shut up and be happy that
somebody did them a favor.
Why did you give the phreaking forum real info? I'm usually IP Freely
living in Hollywood, 90210 when I register for sites like that.
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| User: "slunky" |
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23 Jan 2007 10:29:43 PM |
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_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
It always ends up being someone that can't shut up and be happy that
somebody did them a favor.
Yea, and you can't believe all the other junk people started asking me
to do. Mostly wanting to spy on their girlfriend or get celebrity phone
numbers. I never would do any of that.
Why did you give the phreaking forum real info? I'm usually IP Freely
living in Hollywood, 90210 when I register for sites like that.
I didn't give them real info. They got my IP address though, and must
have had Comcast give up my information. The only reason I know that's
where they got me is because the site admin apoligized to me for giving
me up. This was before I had Cotse and used anonymous proxies for
everything.
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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23 Jan 2007 10:42:58 PM |
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then slunky wrote, On 1/23/2007 9:29 PM:
_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
It always ends up being someone that can't shut up and be happy that
somebody did them a favor.
Yea, and you can't believe all the other junk people started asking me
to do. Mostly wanting to spy on their girlfriend or get celebrity phone
numbers. I never would do any of that.
Why did you give the phreaking forum real info? I'm usually IP Freely
living in Hollywood, 90210 when I register for sites like that.
I didn't give them real info. They got my IP address though, and must
have had Comcast give up my information. The only reason I know that's
where they got me is because the site admin apoligized to me for giving
me up. This was before I had Cotse and used anonymous proxies for
everything.
How quickly did his apology come? Did you have to confront him?
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23 Jan 2007 10:47:50 PM |
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_/ Franz Bestuchev wrote \_
How quickly did his apology come? Did you have to confront him?
It was almost immediate. He tipped me off that they had a court order.
He sent me a scan of the court order. I didn't have to confront him.
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