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Thread ID: 115048	2010-12-30 04:39:00	Another Virus Call...............What is it about me????	Billy T (70)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1165675	2010-12-30 08:35:00	Call diverson maybe?	Snorkbox (15764)
1165676	2010-12-30 09:34:00	Hmm, guess I should help out and relist my phone number :P	Myth (110)
1165677	2010-12-30 21:15:00	Try this --- go buy an air horn, you know the ones they have at rugby games - next time they call, make sure its by the phone, and right away let them have it full blast as close to the phone as you can get, then hang up. Lucky I am not! However, nice as the idea might be, a telephone cannot transfer or duplicate the volume of an air horn, so your ears may ring, but not theirs. Next time I think I'll answer every question with Yes, or try another path I have in mind. Nothing is surer than I'll get the chance, and sooner rather than later! Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
1165678	2010-12-30 21:35:00	I just answer in a very frail and feeble voice: 'Hello? <pregnant pause> can you take me home? They won't let me make phone calls here. I have a big house and you can have all my money and my house if you take me to your home.' They never seem to call back. The air horn thing::: Actually - a phone can carry very loud sounds and remember that a telephone solicitor is wearing head phones - so they get a good dose of it. It won't be full HiFi or good fidelity, but it will be pretty loud. It was ruled against the law here in the US to use an air horn to 'discourage' solicitors as they were getting hearing damage. It still goes on, but if they have the conversation recorded, it can be used against you.	SurferJoe46 (51)
1165679	2010-12-30 23:15:00	Actually - a phone can carry very loud sounds and remember that a telephone solicitor is wearing head phones - so they get a good dose of it. It won't be full HiFi or good fidelity, but it will be pretty loud. Actually SJ, a phone can only reproduce milliwatts of audio, consequently the SPL in db goes nowhere near the threshold for hearing damage. They are simply not engineered for high level reproduction. At an spl of 120dbA it can take over an hour for hearing damage to occur, so a brief air-horn blast transmitted by phone line (headphones or not) would do no harm at all. In fact, I doubt that the average earpiece or headphone could reproduce an spl sufficient to do damage in the brief moment of time between blowing the horn and the caller saying "Holy Sh................" and dropping the line. However, I would not be surprised to find that the US has legislated some appropriate controls in order to further enhance Attorneys' incomes. Pity they can't legislate something to knock back the inane laugh tracks on anything remotely humorous out of the US. To my great delight I recently found an option to kill the laugh track on a US DVD, and that was a revelation!! I actually enjoyed watching the program material. Incidentally, I have professional B&K sound measuring instruments and this is another service I offer to my clients, so I am well familiar with time-weighted hearing damage thresholds. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
1165680	2010-12-31 04:00:00	Its about time the world's ISP's got together and closed all these crooks down. I don't mind a bit of spam (if its genuine) But these emails from Kiwibank and IRD are just trying to scam me. Those phone callers obviously rely on getting one or two vulnerable people a day to believe them.	Digby (677)
1165681	2010-12-31 04:13:00	Its about time the world's ISP's got together and closed all these crooks down. I don't mind a bit of spam (if its genuine) But these emails from Kiwibank and IRD are just trying to scam me. Those phone callers obviously rely on getting one or two vulnerable people a day to believe them. So why would the ISPs care. It's all data for which they can charge.	Snorkbox (15764)
1165682	2010-12-31 04:30:00	Its about time the world's ISP's got together and closed all these crooks down.They have been doing exactly this for a very long time, rather successfully. The main issue is figuring out what is spam, and what is not, within the limits of the available data - and unfortunately those sending the spam aren't just sitting on their asses doing nothing; they're constantly coming up with new methods to get around the various filtering strategies.	Erayd (23)
1165683	2010-12-31 05:41:00	Your just SOOOoooo Bloody LUVABLE and have a perfect phone manner ..... :wub ....:banana :banana :banana	SP8's (9836)
1165684	2010-12-31 05:53:00	they don't ring cell phones :( i lose They did ring a friend of mine who eventually told them she was running a mac... she told them after they directed her to a website where she can download the repair for all her windows issues.	personthingy (1670)
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