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 This report tells of self-diagnosing machines in Great Britain that call wrong numbers. One of them was a public toilet that kept calling a woman every night in the middle of the night. 
 
Now, think: noncompliant chips. Think: noncompliant phone company code. 
 
The noise factor is what scares me about the phone system in 2000. Also, the non-noise factor: dead dial tone. 
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