dMP dMP dMMMMb dMP .-------------------------------------------------. dMP dMP dMP.dMP dMP | United Phone Losers | dMP dMP dMMMMP" dMP `-------------------------------------------------' dMP.aMP dMP dMP [ issue UPL029 | released 1/31/05 ] VMMMP" dMP dMMMMMP [ http://www.phonelosers.org/upl/ ] .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. | introduction | `-------------------------------------------------------------------------' It's been more than 2 years now since the last UPL issue was released. And since linear and RTF are too busy and important to release a new one, I have decided that I, RedBoxChiliPepper, will be the new editor of UPL forever. Or until I get bored with being the new editor which will probably be immediately after this issue is released. Assuming that I even get as far as bothering to release it. Since everything in this issue would likely be considered "Toneage" by linear's standards, I'm just going to forget about releasing an issue of Toneage at all and we can just consider this entire issue one big Toneage. In fact, linear was silly for thinking that anything UPL ever released could be cool enough NOT to be considered Toneage in the first place. What in the hell were you thinking, linear?? I might just change the name from UPL to Toneage. Take THAT, linear! Anyway, enjoy this issue. There's nothing really all that useful contained within it. But really, was there ever? --- RedBoxChiliPepper (rbcp@phonelosers.org) .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. | | | -------------CONTENTS------------ | | | | Remember That Time Linear Let phonelosers.net Expire?...........Arbie | | Torturing An Entire Exchange With Text Messaging...........RCMAC Jack | | A Phone Loser's Code of Ethics..................Lord Telco Terrorizer | | Lost Cellular Phones..............................Sonic The Switchhog | | What I did at Phreaknic 8......................................murd0c | | What I did at Phreaknic 8........................................RBCP | | Phreaky Lyrics..........................................RBCP & Linear | | | `-------------------------------------------------------------------------' .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Remember That Time Linear Let phonelosers.net Expire? | | Written By Arbie Email: rbcp@phonelosers.org | `-------------------------------------------------------------------------' A long, long time ago Linear (I'm capitalizing his name to annoy him) was having a dilemma - he couldn't decide which domain name he should register for UPL and even if he could, he couldn't afford it anyway. So I said, "Hey Linear, how about I just GIVE you phonelosers.net. I'm not doing anything with it anyway." "Really!?" exclaimed Linear. "Gee, RBCP, I always thought you were just the coolest guy and that's why I plagiarised all your PLA issues! You're so nice to do this for me, RBCP! Maybe I can visit you in Illinois someday and hang out with you!" So after nicely turning down linear's offer to come and be best friends with me, I turned over phonelosers.net to him to do whatever he wanted with. AND HE LET IT EXPIRE! Oh, not right away, of course. First he ran a really cool zine off of it for a few years. But in early 2004, phonelosers.net turned into a generic domain offering travel discounts and online gambling. EvilCal contacted the new owner and tried to buy it from him but the guy wanted a few hundred bucks for it. And as much as EvilCal and I liked UPL, we weren't ready to give that much to save the domain. I tried emailing the new owner of the domain again recently. I know he won't give it up for a reasonable amount but I emailed him anyway. Here are the email exchanges between us: ME: Hello, how much are you selling phonelosers.net for? Would you take $20 for it? Thanks, Brad HIM: Hello Brad, Thank you for the offer but it is very low. Negotiation start price would be more around $500... Regards, Antonio Dalla Barba ME: $24? HIM: There is a very big gap between $24 and $500. ME: Okay then. $32. HIM: $488 ;O) This guy is good at this negotiating stuff! Guess I just need to give up on the idea of ever getting phonelosers.net back. I'd give phonelosers.com to linear but he's probably just lose that one too! Let's all just harass linear for letting it expire. His email address is linear@phonelosers.net. .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Torturing An Entire Exchange With Text Messaging | | Written By RBCP | `-------------------------------------------------------------------------' In UPL issues 19 and 20 I wrote a couple of articles on torturing people with nonstop automated calls from various faxback and web services. These were written more than 4 years ago when text messaging was kind of a new idea at the time and not that many people used it yet. Today just about everybody does it. And I don't think a cellular carrier exists that doesn't offer text messaging. This is where automated harassment via text messaging comes in. The idea isn't too complicated. You send mean text messages to your victim and they cry a lot. But instead of texting your victim directly, you're going to text message hundreds of random cellular phone users and encourage THEM to annoy your victim with phone calls. A simple, "HEY ITS ME. PLEASE CALL ME AT 602-555-3819 QUICKLY!" will work. The only problem is that text messaging hundreds of people is a lot of effort. And that's where my handy dandy perl script comes in. This article assumes that you're familiar with html and perl and can modify a little code. I'm not about to provide any technical support for any of the scripts you see below so don't email me any questions. Below is the code. I've had to insert a lot of extra line breaks to accomodate UPL's 80 column width, but you should get the idea... #!/usr/bin/perl ####################################################################### srand; # seed the random number function $one = int (rand 9); # get a random integer srand; # seed the random number function $two = int (rand 9); # get a random integer, 1 through 9 srand; # seed the random number function $three = int (rand 9); # get a random integer, 1 through 9 srand; # seed the random number function $four = int (rand 9); # get a random integer, 1 through 9 print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "