You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What? 635
smurphmeister writes "My wife and I recently moved up to the world of cell phones, after taking our sweet time to make sure this whole newfangled technology was going to stick around. We moved the old landline phone number to her phone, so we're disconnected from the pole. Now the question is, what to do with the copper already in our house? My first thought was an intercom system, but that just seems so old school! So what ideas do you all have for what to do with the 4 little wires running to every room of my house?"
Hmmmm (Score:5, Funny)
I know! You'll need to make a weapon. Look around; can you construct some sort of rudimentary lathe?
VLF sender (Score:2, Funny)
I suggest using them for a transmitter for Very Low Frequencies (VLF), so you can chat with u-boats and scuba diving friends.
Alien Communication (Score:1, Funny)
Wire all of them to a tin foil hat. Perfect for broadcasting your thoughts to the mothership.
Re:What do you do with extra copper? (Score:1, Funny)
AM radio! (Score:5, Funny)
easy (Score:5, Funny)
in-home telegraph system
imagine the envy and awe of your friends and neighbors as you show off a morse telegraph key in every room
Anonymous Coward (Score:4, Funny)
Rig up a some doorbell switches, D cell batteries and bulbs to use as a signalling device that you need another bottle of beer
Re:A few thoughts (Score:2, Funny)
but if you stick with microsoft (like most of us do)
Did you forget where you are posting?
Re:Sir, step away from the wall jack ... (Score:5, Funny)
Just leave it alone.
If you're really itching, hook it up to some broadband interference generator. That'll really mess with the feds.
Re:Sir, step away from the wall jack ... (Score:5, Funny)
If I ever hear anybody use the term "TwenCen" to refer to the twentieth century, I will have to go medieval on your ass (yes, yours, as I highly doubt anyone sane would use such a term on their own, so if anyone else does, I declare it your fault and your fault alone).
Or maybe Napoleonic on your ass. At a stretch, Victorian or Elizabethan. At any rate, it certainly wouldn't be some sissy TwenCen on your ass. Those people were pansies.
Ideas for future Ask Slashdot articles (Score:5, Funny)
Ideas for future Ask Slashdot articles:
Re:AM radio! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Use the line to pull other lines into your outl (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Emulate your landline with Cell Phone Dock (Score:2, Funny)
plug your house wiring into the cell phone.
Is there supposed to be smoke and flames billowing out of the display?
Re:Ideas for future Ask Slashdot articles (Score:2, Funny)
1. Just took a bath. What to do with the bathwater?
2. I've just picked my nose. Suggestions?
3 ?
4 Profit!! Now what should I do with all these gold bars?
VCR rabbit (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.amazon.com/RABBIT-VCR/dp/B001F87TWI [amazon.com] :-P
Everyone in the house can watch you play Ultima V on your C64 or you can play old school VHS pr0n in EVERY ROOM!
Re:A few thoughts (Score:5, Funny)
3) Just yank out all the copper and sell it, few bucks anyways
Copper from telephone lines: +$20
Drywall repair bill: -$200
Advice from Slashdot: Priceless
Re:Sir, step away from the wall jack ... (Score:5, Funny)
I was wondering what the fuck TwenCen meant until I read your post, though now I wish I hadn't. That word is so much more annoying now that I know what it means. Thanks.
Landmine (Score:5, Funny)
I read this as "landmine".
I expected a story about a soldier placing land mines, dropping one, and being stuck in one of those "oh shit I can't move or I'll blow up" situations.
Re:While we're at it, stop installing crap into wa (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Use the line to pull other lines into your outl (Score:5, Funny)
Old bell labs hand here.
When AT&T was a monopoly they owned everything right up to and including the phone.
You only rented.
They would install and maintain the wire in your house.
The equipment was designed to last 100 years. No joke, that was the requirement.
You could beat the burglar senseless with your phone, they were heavy, it would hurt.
Then you could use it to call the police.
The recommended fix for a bad carbon microphone in the handset was to bang it on a table.
A phone today will break if you drop it.
Re:Sir, step away from the wall jack ... (Score:3, Funny)
I am wondering, if you get 25 Two Cen... do you get a FiftyCen? Is it a landline that sings rap when you turn on music on hold?
ahhhhh, a TwenCen ... makes all the difference :)
Re:Emergencies? (Score:4, Funny)
Commissioner Anabell Brumford: Ladies and gentlemen, I would now like to introduce a most special American. Tonight, he is being honoured for his 1000th drug-dealer killed.
Lt. Frank Drebin: [to applause] Thank you. But, in all honesty, the last three I backed over with my car. Luckily, they turned out to be drug-dealers.
Re:Sir, step away from the wall jack ... (Score:2, Funny)
That word is so much more annoying now that I know what it means.
these days, I think the same thing about "change"
Re:Sir, step away from the wall jack ... (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Sir, step away from the wall jack ... (Score:5, Funny)
I thought it sounded like a rapper: FifCen's younger brother, TwenCen.
-b
Re:Sir, step away from the wall jack ... (Score:5, Funny)
I want to icepick someone now.
Re:While we're at it, stop installing crap into wa (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sir, step away from the wall jack ... (Score:3, Funny)
>>>The infrastructure that he has in place is intrinsically more valuable since it will be more compatible with future technologies
That's what they said about ISDN installations in the 80s and early 90s.
Boy were they wrong.
Technology changes too rapidly to know what the future will hold. Today a VOIP arrangement may be ideal, but next year some genius might invent a new technology that makes the whole thing obsolete. I've learned from experience you can't really predict future technological breakthroughs. Heck, when I bought a Commodore Amiga in 1985 I thought for sure it would kill-off the Macs and IBM PCs, since it was so far advanced (they had 4 colors, no multitasking, and went "beep"). But no. It took ten years but by 1995 they had caught-up to the Amiga's capability. Oh well.
Later I purchased a Digital Compact Cassette recorder since everyone owned analog cassettes, and it seemed a natural upgrade. Then I got into Digital VHS for the same reason - it records HDTV onto standard media while still playing existing personal libraries. I had no way of knowing that people would toss thousands of dollars worth of music/movies into the trash in order to buy discs instead. Such an idea seemed illogical to me, but that's exactly what happened.
Re:Sir, step away from the wall jack ... (Score:4, Funny)
This is like a low UID pissing contest that the geologists always win. That is, at least until the cosmologists show up!
Re:Sir, step away from the wall jack ... (Score:4, Funny)
No, they'll mess with you.
Oh pa-leaze, they got better things to do. I've been doing this for almost a year and haven't attracted any atten/#s{J!WNr&D]g*,*7bp]:^30/=gNO CARRIER
Rig up an alarm that sounds every 108 minutes (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sir, step away from the wall jack ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:While we're at it, stop installing crap into wa (Score:1, Funny)
Everything is proprietary. The walls that compose rooms to a house should be nothing more than insulation, except for a hinge here and there to conduct the function of a biway door. People that have in-door plumbing are reaping the benefits of a broken pipe and its costs to dig it out. At the most, the floor should have a covy where the wall meets the floor or ceiling; and this only to cary such utility or service. Proprietary things of these transient causes should not be embedded. They will not work out in the long run. Maybe soon, we'll find a reasonable response to all this crap in our houses called a "wall." Should be able to grow a nice shrubbery to subdivide area for one's araingments of domicile. Without a roof, we then could get it watered for free from the precipitation from up in the sky. I like to swing from trees too, by the way. A hammock is my kind of bed.
None answered my question the last time I asked. I know this is a discussion forum on Vintage Games, but I think my behaviours are vintage as far as man has been alive and playing with women.
I've always wanted to ejaculate on a woman's period in a petri dish, wait 3 days, then install the fertilized egg into a chicken egg to keep it under a lamp for 4 months. Will it grow? Inquiring minds would like to know. Also of note, when I get realy randy I would dig a hole in the ground out beyond a line of trees and drop a couple cumwads and burry it: anyone ever see any of those walking tree men, or dendrites as they call them? I can almost swear that these new saplings have ears, maybe from me, and they can't be trusted to keep secrets (as I swore I wouldn't write any of this on slashdot, yet I did!)!
Re:While we're at it, stop installing crap into wa (Score:1, Funny)
Dude, have you ever seen a care bear on a rampage? They shoot freaking rainbow lasers from their bellies.
I wouldn't want to mess with one.