Archive for November 26th, 2002

Can I call “The Man” to tell him to stop?


VoIP or Voice over IP is a great way to make cheap phone calls. I’ve wrote about this before and my views have not changed. I live in Japan and calling the US before was prohibitively expense. Expensive to the point that I only called on the major holidays (or if I wanted something). My family would rarely call me, those cheap *^&%^%&*. But they are family for better or worse and I being the great son found that I could make phone calls over the Internet for next to nothing. Now I can bother them at any time of the night. I don’t have to worry about this being in Japan and calling the US butn certain countries are getting upset over this. They can’t tax an Internet call so they’re blocking those calls with a countrywide firewall. Sounds like the peoples best interests are not being looked at.