So anyone here with an American Epress has probably gotten the MylifeMyCard advertisments and the information on their MyWishList contest (http://mywishlist.mylifemycard.com/). What I find interesting is every year the contest has been in Flash (not good for the blind to start), but this year they outdid themselves. They managed to add a captcha to the contest that has no audio alternative --wonderful.

You're probably thinking well why does this guy care? Mainly 1) my neighbor is blind and 2) I'm in law school and had to study the American with Disabilities Act. All in all I'd say anyone with standing could sue the living shit out of AMEX for a violation of their ADA rights --since this is a public contest. I mean AMEX might argue "Hey, we're a private group and the contest is private," but I doubt a court would buy it. They've got millions of card holders and the contest is open to every one of them. Either way, it's not very nice of American Express to forget their are blind card holders who they're straight screwing over.

Time to make a phone call,
Tyler

First off, finals are over and I'm back to being human for a few months (yay!). Second I still love RIFE and now I'll have time to use it. Thrid and the point of this post is can the old BBS days trick of Wardialing to find connections help in a war?

What I mean is there have been several articles posted on bombs being set off remotely by cell phones in Iraq and other places like Bangladesh. I was just wondering if it would be possible to have the phone company periodically just ring all the phones and set off the bombs before they're supposed to detonate. Obviously using simple triangulation, etc. the possible canidates for dialing could be lowered, but either way it's still the principle that's interesting.

Might be better than using cell phone jammers. If nothing else it would make the detonators more complex and harder to build instead of a simple 5V or whatever pulse off the phones speaker there would have to be some kind of tone reader to check for key presses or at least a counter for X rings.

Cheers,
Tyler