Re: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster!

Just FYI to add to this interesting thread...

A certain American car company wants to start viral cellular SMS ads and 
text message ads. Hopefully they will see the potential legal and privacy 
issues and abandon this very stupid idea.

If somehow advertisers weasel their way to SMS message spam, my solution 
would be to either block incoming messages, block all phone calls not from

my address book and /or purchase an older basic cell phone that does not 
have those capabilities like the Moto F3 for example.

-- 
marx404

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"George Kerby" <ghost_topper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 6/22/08 11:59 AM, in article
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>> EskWIRED@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> In alt.cellular.verizon Larry <noone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> EskWIRED@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> In alt.cellular.verizon Larry <noone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>> I believe in response to heavy pressure from the advertisers, cable
>>>>>> company tivo equipment is already hobbled to prevent ad bypassing.
>>>>>> Users must get their own unhobbled units....just like SELLPHONES!
>>>>> Wrong.
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>>>> I guess you are right and all these guys are crazy:
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>>> I didn't look at the cites.  Instead, I glanced over my shoulder at
>>> my brand-new, fresh from the cable company DVR.  It allows skipping
>>> forward and back, and you can set the time interval from ten seconds
to 
>>> a
>>> few minutes for each.  I set the Forward for 30 seconds, and the back 
>>> for
>>> 10.  The feature is designed specifically to zap commercials.
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>> Actually that feature is designed to skip back and forth by whatever
>> increment you set. Commercial skipping is a different thing. I have a
>> DVR I built that uses opensource software and it runs a commercial
>> detection job after the recording and makes a table of jump points. You
>> can program it to edit out the commercials by itself or just hit a
>> button on the remote which skips over the commercial whether it is 11
>> seconds or 4 minutes 11 seconds long.
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> ReplayTV? It runs circles around TIVO. Too bad it was bought by DirecTV 
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> shelved.
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