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- 06-16-2008, 05:49 PM #16Steve SobolGuest
Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!
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On 2008-06-16, Paul Hovnanian P.E. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Larry wrote:
>>
> [snip]
>
>> Look at you, right now! You're sitting there reading this ADVERTISING
>> FREE message your cable or telephone company isn't getting paid double to
>> deliver to you! How terrible, how unAmerican!...(c;
>
> Meanwhile, in related news, Verizon moves to block access to the alt.*
> newsgroup hierarchy. Others to follow soon?
As much as I'd like to believe that had something to do with Larry, it didn't,
it was at the request of the (IIRC) New York State attorney general's office
regarding some kiddie porn incident.
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- 06-16-2008, 05:51 PM #17Steve SobolGuest
Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!
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On 2008-06-16, Kevin Weaver <[email protected]> wrote:
> BFD.. There is no enforcement on that list. They know it and there is
> nothing anyone can do. SBC Told me they can't do anything but change my
> number.
>
> The list is bogus.
SBC/AT&T? They're a bunch of lazy, incompetent assholes who only exist to
screw everyone they do business with.
The DNC list works for my family too. You might try it.
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- 06-16-2008, 06:41 PM #18LarryGuest
Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!
"Paul Hovnanian P.E." <[email protected]> wrote in news:4856CFA8.946AE2E5
@seanet.com:
> Meanwhile, in related news, Verizon moves to block access to the alt.*
> newsgroup hierarchy. Others to follow soon?
>
>
It won't work. The newsgroup providers are way ahead of them.
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allows UsenetServer's customers to securely access Usenet newsgroups. All
data passed from UsenetServer's servers to the customer's computer is
encrypted. This includes all username, password, articles and posts.
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1720, 3128 and 8000. Secure.usenetserver.com only allows encrypted SSL
connections on ports 443, 563 and 8080."
256-bit SSL encrypted on many ports. What they gonna do, block 'em all?
Pfat Chance....
I don't think it will matter much when Verizon follows RR and starts
selling bandwidth by the byte, again, like the old days. You'll get
5GB/month then pfffft....until your next check clears.
- 06-16-2008, 07:51 PM #19DGuest
Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:54:04 -0500, "BruceR" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>"Tom J" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news[email protected]...
>
>>
>> You thought it was neat, but I wouldn't. They would hear from me & not
>> as a customer either!
>>
>> Tom J
>That's exactly right. As soon as the first person angrily storms into a
>store demanding payment for minutes or text units that the store used
>the practice will stop dead in it's tracks. And the smart carrier who
>promises to never allow the practice will see thousands of subscribers
>flocking to it until all the carriers get the point. The smart carriers
>will only allow it to happen on an opt-in basis or compensated basis
>where one would get discounted - or possibly even free - service for
>allowing the ads. I could see a construct where a pre-paid phone
>customer could earn more minutes by allowing him/herself to be bombarded
>by ads and getting a half a minute free for every ad they opened.
>
Virgin Mobile already has it. minute for minute credit for watching
ads on thier site, and (IIRC) and a minute of airtime for each two
(free) text ads you reply to for more info. You can also get bonus
minutes for doing surveys on-site as well.
- 06-16-2008, 08:06 PM #20LarryGuest
Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!
D <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> Virgin Mobile already has it. minute for minute credit for watching
> ads on thier site, and (IIRC) and a minute of airtime for each two
> (free) text ads you reply to for more info. You can also get bonus
> minutes for doing surveys on-site as well.
>
>
>
>
Hmm...with a little app to automate the process, this might be a free
sellphone!
- 06-16-2008, 08:48 PM #21Todd AllcockGuest
Re: -probably_junk- Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!
At 16 Jun 2008 18:44:33 -0400 George wrote:
> > Actually all my phones have been registered with DO NOT CALL. I still
> > received a text message in a shopping center a month ago from some
> > local robot that sensed my nearby cellphone. I thought it was neat and
> > at the same time I was annoyed that they could do that.
>
> Thinking it was "neat" wouldn't be my first thought...
Funny, MY first thought was "impossible." How is the "local robot" going
to sniff out your phone number to text you by "sensing your phone"? Like
many of 4phun's posts, this smells fishy.
As reported in the trades, advertisers have been testing "robots" that
attempt to connect with Bluetooth-enabled phones left in discoverable mode
with offers of free ringtones or wallpapers to promote movies, etc., but
the recipient has to permit the contact and pair with the sender, and
AFAIK, the tests have been less than impressive for the sponsors (few
people understand how to use their phone's BT other than using their
headset.)
I fail to see how any "robot" could intercept a device's phone number to
text it unsolicited. I think 4phun is having "phun" with us and passing
off apocryphal urban legend as a first hand account. Next he'll tell us
you can pop corn with four iPhones... ;-)
- 06-16-2008, 09:32 PM #22LarryGuest
Re: Google CEO: Get Ready for Cellphone Ads wasRe: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!
4phun <[email protected]> wrote in news:e322c005-f366-41c2-802c-
[email protected]:
> Brace yourself for ads on your cellphone.
The really sad part is millions of dumbasses are BUYING from this spam,
just like the web spam, dooming them, and us, to yet more billboards in our
homes, in our cars, in our pockets....
Too bad, too, because a clear message COULD be sent back up the lines that
this was unacceptable behaviour....just like MPAA and RIAA....simply stop
buying.
Maybe as we pass $10/gallon that might happen!
- 06-16-2008, 10:24 PM #23Richard B. GilbertGuest
Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!
4phun wrote:
> On Jun 16, 7:39 am, "Richard B. Gilbert" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> 4phun wrote:
>>> Here comes the cell phone ad disaster
>>> http://www.computerworld.com/action/...viewArticleBas...
>>> Fascinating article
>>> "Here are just some of the conduits through which advertising will
>>> enter into your cell phone:
>>> Unwanted calls.
>>> Recorded advertising voice mails.
>>> SMS ads that ring your phone.
>>> MMS ads that ring your phone.
>>> E-mail ads.
>>> Advertiser-supported software and services.
>>> Web pages that force you to view an ad before you can see the page.
>>> Location-based advertising -- you'll walk by a store, and it will ring
>>> your phone to tell you about a sale.
>>> Viral videos.
>>> Text, e-mail or Web-based ads that encourage you to "click to call."
>>> Search ads tailored for phones. "
>>> "The problem isn't that somebody out there is looking for innovative
>>> ways to leverage your cell phone to sell you something. The problem is
>>> that everybody is doing it. The result will turn your cell phone into
>>> an annoying, interrupting, commercial idiot box that combines all the
>>> worst qualities of TV, telemarketing and spam.
>>> We have nowhere to go. The disaster is coming, and there's not much
>>> any of us can do about it ."
>> There IS something we ALL can do. Refuse to buy any product advertised
>> via cell phone!
>>
>> I have yet to receive ANY advertising via my cell phone!- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> How about the prrostitutes who start advertizing this way? How are you
> going to explain thosr unwanted text messages to your wife?
Since my wife also has a cell phone, I would expect that she would get
the same advertising that I did!
Since prostitution is a crime in most jurisdictions, I would not expect
the prostitutes to advertise! Or at least that they would not spam cell
phones at random.
- 06-17-2008, 06:03 PM #24DGuest
Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:06:50 +0000, Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
>D <[email protected]> wrote in
>news:[email protected]:
>
>> Virgin Mobile already has it. minute for minute credit for watching
>> ads on thier site, and (IIRC) and a minute of airtime for each two
>> (free) text ads you reply to for more info. You can also get bonus
>> minutes for doing surveys on-site as well.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>Hmm...with a little app to automate the process, this might be a free
>sellphone!
yeah, but I think it is limited to 30 or 60 minutes a month. I would
have to check to see...
- 06-17-2008, 07:03 PM #25LarryGuest
Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!
D <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> yeah, but I think it is limited to 30 or 60 minutes a month. I would
> have to check to see...
>
>
Oh, I'm sure. But, with automation we could have a new one every 3 of 4
days...(c;
- 06-17-2008, 07:56 PM #26LarryGuest
Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!
4phun <[email protected]> wrote in news:4a290238-d0a4-4261-a726-
[email protected]:
> A couple of years ago CNet observed, "For example, advertisers could
> use location information to send SMS (Short Message Service) text
> messages to cell phone subscribers traveling to a new city. The
> messages could tout nearby restaurants or could include coupons to be
> used at certain locations. " How do they get such data? The business
> uses a programmed robot to monitor the exchange of passing cell phone
> handshakes to a nearby cell tower. They can then automatically
> initiate a SMS to your passing phone.
>
>
"They" could do that, but I doubt they will. This would expose their web
page structure to unbelieveable tortures from DoS, Massive downloadings
from redirectors across the planet, straight out hacking into webpages,
databases, company records, etc.
Piss off the wrong group of people and they can just kiss that server
good bye, if you get my drift......all without selling anything anywhere
near worth the damages that "wrong group" would inflict.
It's not worth their time and money to spam you that way. They've
already taken over the webpages noone, of consequence, cares anything
about.
Just add webpages to TV, Radio, Newspapers and Magazines on the huge pile
of excrement at the spam dump. Why anyone would actually PAY for a new
TV, then PAY someone to deliver electronic excrement to paste up on its
screen still amazes me.
It all started way back when they discovered idiot Americans would
actually listen and buy things off the radio. Pretty much has been
downhill since the mid 1920's.
- 06-17-2008, 07:57 PM #274phunGuest
Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!
On Jun 17, 1:46*am, [email protected] (Gordon Burditt) wrote:
> >Actually all my phones have been registered with DO NOT CALL. *I still
> >received a text message in a shopping center a month ago from some
> >local robot that sensed my nearby cellphone. I thought it was neat and
> >at the same time I was annoyed that they could do that.
>
> That part is scary: *your phone should not be identifying itself
> to the immediate area around you. *If it can, that means any terrorist
> or hit person or ex-wife can build a bomb that goes off when YOU,
> and only YOU, approach it. *It's great if you are a hit man. *It's
> not so great if you are a person with a serious enemy, like most
> government officials of any country, or are someone who annoyed
> some psycho on the freeway yesterday. *It may be possible to do
> that with a phone's ESN, anyway, but even most phone owners don't
> know their own phone's ESN, but they do tend to hand out their phone
> number to at least close colleagues.
>
> HEY PEOPLE WHO DESIGN USA PASSPORTS: *PAY ATTENTION: *RFID in
> American passports is great for terrorists who want to blow up
> Americans, since the bomb can detect American passports nearby as
> a trigger. *WHAT THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING? *Bar codes, magnetic
> stripes, etc. that can't be remotely read are much more secure.
>
> How, technically, does it do this? *I can see where it might sense
> bluetooth devices, try to connect to them, and if it does, try to
> get the phone number. *That sounds like a really good plan (NOT)
> for the merchant: the way IN to the store (and probably OUT as well)
> is clogged with people fiddling with their phones, so anyone who
> really wants to go in to the store to BUY something has trouble
> getting around the jamup of people.
>
> Or can it snarf cell tower polling or incoming calls from the airwaves
> and your phone responding?
http://news.cnet.com/Advertising-see...6115617-2.html
A couple of years ago CNet observed, "For example, advertisers could
use location information to send SMS (Short Message Service) text
messages to cell phone subscribers traveling to a new city. The
messages could tout nearby restaurants or could include coupons to be
used at certain locations. " How do they get such data? The business
uses a programmed robot to monitor the exchange of passing cell phone
handshakes to a nearby cell tower. They can then automatically
initiate a SMS to your passing phone.
- 06-17-2008, 08:07 PM #28Todd AllcockGuest
Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!
At 17 Jun 2008 18:57:33 -0700 4phun wrote:
> > Or can it snarf cell tower polling or incoming calls from the airwaves
> > and your phone responding?
>
> http://news.cnet.com/Advertising-see...--page-2/2100-
1039_3-6115617-2.html
>
>
> A couple of years ago CNet observed, "For example, advertisers could
> use location information to send SMS (Short Message Service) text
> messages to cell phone subscribers traveling to a new city. The
> messages could tout nearby restaurants or could include coupons to be
> used at certain locations. " How do they get such data? The business
> uses a programmed robot to monitor the exchange of passing cell phone
> handshakes to a nearby cell tower. They can then automatically
> initiate a SMS to your passing phone.
No, they don't! The scenarios mentioned in that article and elsewhere all
involve the cooperation of the carrier- NO advertisers are capturing
numbers from your cellphone.
The idea of location-based ads is that the advertiser strikes a deal with
the carrier who would then serve up the ad based on your location.
The scenario you're trying to describe isn't happening, period.
- 06-17-2008, 08:26 PM #29Tom JGuest
Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!
Larry wrote:
> It all started way back when they discovered idiot Americans would
> actually listen and buy things off the radio. Pretty much has been
> downhill since the mid 1920's.
And you can have "those good old days"!! I like the present a bunch
better. At least I have the funds to buy what I want instead of what I
had to have to survive!!
This whole thread is just so much crap & most of us know that!!!! I
don't depend on any US server to deliver my newsgroups, because I have
an overseas server paid for years in advance that will cover those
that are dropped here. astraweb.com
Tom J
- 06-17-2008, 08:29 PM #30Ness-NetGuest
Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!
"Larry" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>
> Just add webpages to TV, Radio, Newspapers and Magazines on the huge pile
> of excrement at the spam dump. Why anyone would actually PAY for a new
> TV, then PAY someone to deliver electronic excrement to paste up on its
> screen still amazes me.
>
> It all started way back when they discovered idiot Americans would
> actually listen and buy things off the radio. Pretty much has been
> downhill since the mid 1920's.
>
Just a quick thought....
Mind you, I'm not a fan of advertising, but then here's a good point.
Broadcast TV is free. You don't have to have cable or satellite to have TV.
All they give you is more channels (and supposedly better reception)
But, they certainly aren't mandatory to watch television.
So then who the hell then actually pays for the programming.? That's right - ads.
Basically, a necessary evil, so to speak. You want free TV - you have advertising.
Then, with a TiVo, boop, boop, boop - no ads. Works for me....
Larry the luddite - at least you are consistent - for the umpteenth time...
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