From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org
On 4/02/2026 4:12 am, John wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 21:37:58 +1100, Daniel70
> wrote:
>> On 1/02/2026 8:53 pm, John wrote:
>>> I am not sure if that is a universal attribute of mobiles. Mine
>>> cost twenty quids and doesn't have a camera. I only recently
>>> bought it because UKland carriers told me that my decades old,
>>> £20 phone *with* a camera would die when they switched off 3G.
>>> The SIM may work on 4/5G but the machine itself can not.
>>
>> We "shut down" 3G about 2 maybe 3 years ago .... so that's how old
>> my current Phone is. If I turn around, I can see my previous three
>> mobiles in the Bookcase!!
>
> "We" being the USAliens?
No!! no, "We" are AUSTRALIANS!!
>> I'm P.O.ed when, moments after speaking to my Doctor's
>> receptionist to make an appointment, I get a SMS from some third
>> party service telling me I have an upcoming Doctor's appointment.
>
> I don't get that sort of annoyance. I never told them what the number
> of my 3G 'phone was.
I'm somewhat averse to giving out my Mobile number (maybe my Doctor got
me on a bad day .... you know, I was SICK or something!!)
That's why I've still got a Landline phone!!
> I never told *anyone* commercialised. Which pissed off a seller of
> electrical gear, once. They couldn't fill in the web-page based sales
> receipt on their till because the space for "mobile number" wouldn't
> validate.
Back in about 2000, all landline phone numbers were changed from Two or
Three digit Area Codes followed by Six or Seven digit Phone numbers (Big
cities Two Digit Area Code and Seven digit phone number, Small/regional
cities Three Digit Area Code followed by Six digit phone number) to
EVERYBODY having a Two Digit Area Code plus an Eight Digit Phone Number,
i.e. everyone everywhere had a Ten Digit number ..... and, Shock,
Horror, Mobile Phones had a Ten Digit number too.
> There was no way round the problem. No way to tell the stupid page
> that this customer didn't *have* one. The sales-robot eventually had
> a manager sort of hack the system for me.
"had a manager sort of hack the system"!! Boy oh Boy!!
> Last December, my G.P. spent 20 minutes out of an appointment trying
> to explain to me how wonderful mobile 'phones were and how I could
> get one for only £20-30 per month.
>
> I just looked back at him blankly.
>
>> I do!! REALLY??
>>
>> And 'they' want me to register with that SMS Service!! Pigs ARSE!!
>
> That's moot. They have you on the system because your kindly, old
> Doc' has sold your medical records to them.
.... after I kindly GAVE them the information!! Stupid ME!!
> Those and those of anyone connected to you and those of everyone else
> whom they treat. That's what makes them all "medically confidential",
> "private" and "secure".
>>
>>> Those guys keep *everything* and they keep it *forever*. You
>>> know that your data is secure and safe with them.
>>>
>>> UKland, where our Government *protects* our valued, private,
>>> confidential data really, really well so we don't need to.
>>
>> And we ALL know ... Security is OH SO SECURE!!
>
> Well, *I* am not going to hack your records. I don't give a fuck what
> childhood ickiness you suffered from and I have no interest in any of
> your present rashes.
BUT! But! But my information is OH so interesting!!
> I get way too much information from all of the little, old women on
> the local buses. :)
WHAT?? Do you mean they speak the SAME language as you?? REALLY!!
> Most of us don't seem to care what they know about us and, of course,
> there is now no way to recall the information they all sell to one
> another.
I seem to recall that, in the early days of this DATA Transference, if
YOU could prove that the information THEY had on YOU was INCORRECT, THEY
had to delete it.
YEAH!! Sure, like that was ever going to happen!!
> Once they invented I.S.P.'s it was all over.
>
> J.
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Daniel70
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