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| Comments on Thursday 14 February 2002: |
| Someone's been modifying the ATMs around here; they speak. It is quite annoying, but does create the game of 'select your choices as quickly as possible to make the voice go away'. "Welcome to Ch... Enter your pi... Is this a... Please sel... Please ch... Please... Please... Oh just take your money and go. Sigh."
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| Stefano |
| Tricky; same with phone messages. Now they've changed the traditional busy tone to a robot message that tells you that the desired number is, in fact, busy, it makes you feel awful to listen it for the billonth time. |
| bridgehajen |
| This is part of an ongoing effort to make machinery act just as stupid as people. By 2050 science will probably have reached that goal. Machines will take over the world and humans will then be used solely for entertainment, word processing, and adding very long sequences of numbers. |
| Alex |
| Oh god. Please, please don't let the disease spread. |
| Digi |
| Concerning phones being busy - In England BT have introduced a seemingly free answer phone service, that collects messages when your phone is engaged. Quite good I thought. EXcept everyone else does, so everyone else has signed up for it, which means whenever I phone someone that is engaged I get this answer phone thing. Which costs money. Moreover it cuts in straight away, giving me no chance to sus that the person is enaged. The result, obviously, is that it now costs money to find out someone is engaged. Bad thing, bad. |