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My idea comes from the hassle of phone numbers
constantly
being recycled and therefore receiving wrong numbers
and
dialing wrong numbers on occasion. The idea is to
append
my phone number with the digits that spell my name on
the
standard phone keypad, xxx-xxx-xxxx-3296 (FAWN). So
if
I
switch my number and someone else gets it, they
wouldn't get
unsolicited calls from my friends that haven't called for a
while because they would have their own suffix for their
name and the calls wouldn't go through unless their name
was
appended to the number. Sorry if the description is a
little
flimsy, but if you get the idea, let me know what you
think.
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What if your number is transferred to someone called "Ebzo"? |
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Well, I guess that's at least the second unfortunate thing to happen to Ebzo. |
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Why not just increase phone number lengths by 4 digits and increase recycling times? |
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You could easily use the ISDN subaddress fields for this... |
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Subnet masking for phones. |
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Very like the userid convention exemplified by "fawn82" but
putting the letters *after* the numbers makes it
implementable for 'phones, within the existing system (using
[bigsleep]'s technique). [+] |
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Such a system would be nearly perfect for Ebzo, though. If it weren't for Fawn, it would be perfect. Way to go, Fawn. |
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[bungston] Only a problem for ebzo82, though. No problem
for all the other ebzoi. |
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//Is there something akin to a Mac-Address on a (cell)phone?// Yes, but it is cell/micro-cell/nano-cell dependent as that is the unique routing device. This is what the prosecution use to place you near the scene of an alleged crime if you were making a call. (and even if you were not, in some cases). In fact, you will have a TX-RX "active mac" and several "inactive mac"s, as there are probably several transceivers carrying your signal for a while until central drops some on redundancy. |
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So on top of your SIM (eg user)and your Device Identification (IMEI) (eg IP address) there is a number to identify the transceiver (router) in communication with your device (eg MAC address). |
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