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imajeff
Website: http://www.robotronics.com/
Bio: I LOVE electronics, software engineering, robotics. (yes--I did marry it, and my wife is not too happy about that)
MagicJack's EULA says it will spy on you and force you into arbitration
May 16, 2008 5:00pm
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I don't see any problem with the EULA, I'm glad you pointed out the details. Now I know it's good because the adds are what pay for most of the service. But to you paranoid fools, what do you think any of this has to do with malware? You must hate all the trillions of web pages on the net because they all do the same thing! You never did have the privacy that you apparently thought!
== My Experience ==
I had near ZERO problems with Vonage, but this "magic" think really stinks! You know how they say "plug it in and it's so easy"? Well, even my software engineering skill did not help me since they simply did NOT tell me what I needed to do to get it going when the AutoRun did not work. I just kept trying crazy things for an hour and suddenly it started the registration. The meaning was unclear in registration so I ended up closing it, thinking I must be done. I had dialtone, but DID NOTHING after I dialed. Since there's no help for this, I had no clue that of course it would not work because
1. I would have had to get my local number
2. There's apparently a GUI that has to be running
Anyway, after 3 hours of anger I finally got the message that says something like [this will take a few minutes but it will sure be worth it]! What a load of NONSENSE!
Apparently the big problem is that they shipped me hardware that's OUT OF DATE. I always have to also click around to install "upgrade.exe" before anything works. That's stupid, and completely OPPOSITE of everything they advertised.
So I finally call someone and they can't hear me loud enough. I think it helps though to turn up the microphone vol in the menu.
But stink! The audio is very "crappy", unreliable, and it even takes more bandwidth than vonage which was always crystal clear! Since mj is like $1.50/mo I will keep it in addition to vonage. Afterall, mj cannot even keep my home phone number.
That said, I like this idea if I can get it for less than $15/yr (the 5 yr agreement).
I can answer the strange question of why many are complaining about "privacy". They are addicted to certain sexual things which involve phones and Internet. They feel uneasy knowing that someone can advertise porn to them on the picture, just because they called those 900 numbers :-O