>
>All this technology is great, but at the end of the day you just have to
>use your brain and not fall for the scams. As for landlines, we have one
>because this is a part of our overall package from the phone company
>(along with the fiber and my wife's mobile contract) but we do not
>actually have any telephones connected to it. We make our phone calls
>using our mobiles (domestically) or Skype (internationally).
>
>Landline phones are just so 20th century.
>
Make that 19th century. The essential component that allows two-way
transmission on a single pair of wires, the bridge (or hybrid) transformer, was
a late 19th century invention. The clue is that ground is the third conductor.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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