VOIP Again Have you seen the commercials for “Magic Jack”? It shows a snake oil salesman, talking about the greatest product, since sliced bread. It’s all about this little gizmo you plug into a computer USB port. What they don’t tell you is that the software gets loaded, unto the guest computer. If you don’t [...]
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Explain the Economy I couldn’t pass this up. There’s a blog entry on the economy. The first part is an old depression era film explaining inflation. It’s probably done in the 1930’s, and there’s a professor explaining the stuff with charts. The other is some gentleman explaining how Uncle Sam will aid the economy. Now [...]
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Nasruddin will guide us Before we go looking for Fermilab (http://www.fnal.gov/), let’s hire a guide. My choice would be Nasruddin (http://www.nasruddin.org/). Who’s Nasruddin? He’s this wise fool from Islamic folklore, telling stories that are contradictory, often with a deeper meaning. Other traditions have an equivalent hero. In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, we have the Holy [...]
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Magic Jack is a No,No First look at the Magic Jack website infomercial a http://tinyurl.com/4xrjbs Next look at a user rip off report at http://tinyurl.com/5u4bhz I do agree that “most” of his complains are dumb – especially to someone knowledgeable of computers. He appears to have replaced his original phone system with “Magic Jack”, which [...]
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