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tree frog replied to the topic Baby Dies After VOIP 911 Call Sends Ambulance To Wrong City in the board Getting serious

Fri, 16 May 2008 15:44:12 +0000

As tragic as this is – on most voip call software/phones, it does say “do not use for emergency calls”

Perhaps the techies who create the system could bar emergency calls altogether, or divert them somewhere else

Problem is though, when you use VOIP and get rid of your main line carrier (e.g. BT) then the system falls down.

tree frog replied to the topic Man jailed over 36 children claim in the board Getting serious

Fri, 16 May 2008 15:19:42 +0000

I used to be a fraud manager for one of the credit card companies and when a new fraud scam was discovered, we at first, kind of admired it – then we set about blocking it from happening again.

Like this scam, there is an element of “well done” to it, but in the next breath it is now a case of lets hope that the relevent cicil servants do…[Read more]

tree frog replied to the topic Food fascists are at it again! in the board Getting serious

Fri, 16 May 2008 13:35:08 +0000

Put his language aside (I know, it’s f***ing hard!) and you actually see a man who is genuinely passionate about food

So, he makes a fortune from swearing and in that respect I think he’s becoming his own caracature – no he’s not going to stop driving his 4wd and I’m sure he’s not going to put energy efficient light bulbs in his restaurants…[Read more]

tree frog replied to the topic Speakers.................. in the board Technical Q&A

Thu, 01 May 2008 12:27:03 +0000

have you tried plugging speakers into your ipod/mp3 socket – if sound comes out of that, then it’s your computer that’s buggered