[Info-vax] OT: Chrome bug with Applet and threading

[David Froble]

Paul Sture wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2012 16:08:06 -0500, Bob Koehler wrote:
> 
>> In article <7bi499-qj2.ln1 at mint-hp.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
>> <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>>>>    1-800-555-1212
>>> Sorry I'm not in the US.  What does that number do?
>>    1 - activate long distance
>>    800 - area code
>>    555 - exchange
>>    1212 - number within the exchange
>>
>>    By agreement with the entertainment industry, no telephone number
>>    contains 555 as the exchange.
> 
> Thanks Bob.  555 brings back memories of early 1990s computer games that 
> I had to get working for my boss's young son.
> 
>>    This came after a popular show used a telephone number in its name
>>    and the actual phone was swamped.
> 
> There was a famous German hit song in the early 1980s which featured the 
> number of a "lady of the night", and I was told it was a real number.
> Same problem, but I have no idea whether the authorities did anything 
> about it.
> 
> Here's the Youtube rendition, with some nice photos of Munich:
> 
> "Spider Murphy Gang - Skandal im Sperrbezirk"
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJFHGupfLxw
> 
>>    800 is the original free-to-the-caller long-distance area code, and
>>    1212 is the generic number to get telephone listings at someone
>>    else's area code.
> 
> The UK used 0800 as the free-to-caller number for many years. There was 
> also 0345 area code which wasn't free, but only charged at the local rate 
> wherever you were calling from.
> 
> Unfortunately neither were obtainable from abroad, which was the cause of 
> much frustration at one point in my life.  IMHO they should have offered 
> a gateway to those services, and I really wouldn't have minded paying the 
> full international charge, so long as it wasn't based on an extortionate 
> rate.
> 
> 
> 

In general, there are appropriate responses for undue curiosity, usually some falsehood, 
and in the case of a phone number, perhaps something that incurs a fee, or a porn line, or 
something like that would be most appropriate.

Usually the web page just wants something,not blank, in a field, and the data is not checked.