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From: Karla on 23 Feb 2010 23:44 On 24 Feb 2010 01:31:56 GMT, Gordon Darling wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:29:06 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote: > > <snip> > >> I've done the best kind of research that can be done with Magic Jack. >> I've had and used one for over three years. You can't touch that kind of >> research. It is a great cheap versatile portable telephone you can take >> with you and use anywhere in the world for less than $30 per year. Eat >> your heart out. > > With the bad publicity they have had and the ridiculous EULA I wouldn't > touch > it! Good more bandwidth for us!! > YMMV It does except you have no mileage with MJ!!! -- http://tr.im/25wq
From: Karla on 23 Feb 2010 23:45 On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:45:30 -0500, David H. Lipman wrote: > From: "Gordon Darling" <me(a)privacy.net> > >| With the bad publicity they have had and the ridiculous EULA I wouldn't >| touch >| it! > >| YMMV > > I wouldn't have touched it before because if it seems to goog, there must be a catch and > left it at that. > > Now I have good reasons to have been suspicious and I am proud of my decision to avoid > this product/service. So why do you use Outlook??? -- http://tr.im/25wq
From: No Spam on 24 Feb 2010 01:16 In article <Xns9D28C4AE7AE4Abearbottoms1gmaicom(a)69.16.185.247> Bear Bottoms <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote: >Wrong. I've been using Magic Jack for over 3 years. I have not >encountered any problems at all. None. Of course if you wish to avoid the >company based on the information posted here, fine...you miss out on a >great $30 per year phone...less if you buy 5years which I did. > >The phone has worked flawlessly since I've had it. That is all it is, a >VOIP telephone. I've yet to see anything come close to the price or >quality. When you popup the softphone dialer, there is a small box with >various ads in it. I never notice them. That's it. Exactly. That was my experience with them too. It is just people who are too paranoid or having something to hide whining about this.
From: No Spam on 24 Feb 2010 01:18 In article <hm20rn01su5(a)news3.newsguy.com> "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote: >From: "Bear Bottoms" <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> > >| "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in >| news:hm208801ske(a)news3.newsguy.com: > >>> Then you must also accept the rules of the hidden EULA >>> http://www.magicjack.com/tos/ > >>> "Advertisements will be served through the magicPageT Software or the >>> magicJack softphone - the software/softphone attempts to serve local >>> advertisements and classifieds using a completely automated process >>> that enables us to effectively target dynamically changing content. >>> Our computers may analyze the phone numbers you call and your >>> registration information in order to improve the relevance of the >>> ads." > >| Nothing more than Google, MS or any number of other companies do. It >| isn't a big deal at all. Anyone on the web gives up as much information. > >>> As well as acceipting ONLY aribitration as set by clause 24. >>> But, you don't know that BEFORE you sign up as there is no direct link >>> to the TOS from the home page or the pages used to signup for the >>> service. > >| I have a phone. I don't need arbitration services. Good grief, talk about >| making a mountain out of a mole hill. > > >You just don't get it :-( And you think that you do? You just don't get the fact that us who are happy with it couldn't care less about some so called privacy whining.
From: Gordon Darling on 24 Feb 2010 05:01
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:31:00 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote: snip > You > also can't call anyone's telephone or receive calls on your phone with > Linux. That's funny! I do so all the time. -- ox·y·mo·ron n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in Microsoft Security, Microsoft Help and Microsoft Works. |