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You can't become a citizen of Canada, a country that calls itself democratic, without swearing allegiance to the queen.
The majority of Canadians became Canadian by being born there. Pretty sure the swearing wasn't coming from the new citizen.
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Yeah, I've noticed the injected video my ISP, Turkcell Superonline. Only works with sites with no HTTPS/HTTP->HTTPS redirection since they can't proxy sites with SSL. Interestingly, I don't get the Erdogan's message on my cell. My friends tried calling me last night to hear the message, they don't hear it when they call me either. Could be related to me using my networks -paid- call ring tone customising app.
Back in 2013 the Turkish CA (TURKTRUST) enabled phishers to spoof Google. Given the current situation, finding someone who tries to mess up the certificates should not be a surprise. > https://security.googleblog.com/2013/01/enhancing-digital-ce... > https://www.wired.com/2013/01/google-fraudulent-certificate/
Have anybody thought why you hear the sound(beeeep-beeeeep-....) when you make a call and from where it comes? Yes, telco can put anything there. Even more, I wounder why we do not hear some commercial Ad's every time we call. This would be in a spirit of current times...
In Denmark, we have "THREE IS THE MAGIC NUMBER... YES IT IS. IT'S THE MAGIC NUMBER. []" "song" when dialling others while using the 3 Mobile telco operator.
"As president, I send congratulations on the July 15 National Day of Democracy and Unity and wish the martyrs mercy and the heroes (of the defeat of the coup) health and wellbeing," Source: https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/36394050/mr-president-erdo...
Actually I m glad I don't make too many phone calls, (who's using their smartphones for making calls) but this type of "call injection" may annoy similar to Ads-gone-insane recently on the web. That happens because after the Gulen Islamists' coup d'Etat faction killed around 250 civilians and wounded 2500 civilians( mostly ) last year during the coup attempt - the voters for the main party feel too emotional during t…
(HN: If he is, maybe he shouldn't be downvoted so hard… aren't you at least curious to hear from laypersons there without punishing them for not seeing things the way we do? Hear, converse, leave with greater understanding)
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Indeed! Verizon, a carrier in the US, actually made a product out of this by allowing people to buy what they branded "Ringback Tones" which would play some song or tune when someone called your number and you hadn't picked up yet. Not sure if it's still a thing.
They are. All those Emergency numbers you call to see if school is canceled are really ringback tones. It's how many people can call at once to receive the message w/o hearing a busy tone.
And yet, by calling the same (typically toll-free) number, a call center's worth of support calls can be handled simultaneously.
Implementing this as ringbacks would not seem to be the only way.
Dexter Palmer's 2016 novel Version Control had imagined something rather like this in a near-future United States, where phone calls and video screens would occasionally be interrupted by a message from the president. I had thought it was inventive and evocative, but sort of unrealistic. I was wrong. Yikes.
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Weird, kinda like the US.
> Weird, kinda like the US. Which part of aytekin ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14780685 ) 's message reminds you of the US? Whatever else one may say of the current state of US politics, this: > the other half of the population took over the country and started applying middle eastern and Islamic ideals instead. … the islamists see west as evil. doesn't sound like it. (To be fair, I didn't quote: > They bel…
The analogies are there.
This is 100% normal for these types of situations.
I wonder how would things have been if Turket had been accepted to EU 10 years ago. Would it have helped?
EU isn't very effective in stopping Hungary's or Poland's authoritarian descent. I doubt it would be effective against Turkey.
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They are. All those Emergency numbers you call to see if school is canceled are really ringback tones. It's how many people can call at once to receive the message w/o hearing a busy tone.
> how many people can call at once to receive the message w/o hearing a busy tone. And yet, by calling the same (typically toll-free) number, a call center's worth of support calls can be handled simultaneously. Implementing this as ringbacks would not seem to be the only way.