you know what would be cool and scary and kinda kinky?

so i was on the bus coming home from work yesterday, and these two cell phones rang back to back. after the two people receiving calls were chatting comfortably i thought (and this is paraphrased) "wouldn't it be funny if somebody came up with a way to send some sort of 'pulse' across a cell phone network that caused every phone on said network to ring simultaneously? what a neat joke that would make!" that made me smile.
then i began thinking about what might be possible if the aforementioned cheeky prankster actually figured out how to do something like that. phones are becoming so advanced that they're really more personal computers* than "telephones," as it were. (likewise, computers are moving in the same direction, becoming more sophisticated at using newfangled things like voip [voice-over IP], and eventually will likely just meet in the middle! neat huh?) with phones now operating with their own, cute little on-board systems, i'm amazed someone hasn't yet developed a virus to take advantage of the networks! think about it: someone designs a virus that calls a single cell phone number. the caller id could display anything the author wanted, even a random selection from a databank of displays (internal revenue service, publishers clearing house, chicago il, gary's world of dildos, fr3e_vIaGrA, etc, etc). just like with an email virus, as soon as the person picks up (or opens the email), the virus is installed onto the operating system...at which we're all done for.
once installed, it collects information from the hard drive (specifically the personal phone book), and connects back to the main data warehouse to upload everything. once more numbers are inserted into the warehouse, they're immediately called, starting the process all over again. suddenly everyone's phone would be ringing, nobody would know why, and people would begin to fear picking up their phone! men would long for calls from "the wife" with requests to pick up the dry cleaning and some extra tampons! it'd be communicative anarchy!
the virus even could be sophisticated enough to cross reference the call it's making with the name of the person it got the number from, and display that on the caller id! then, once it had your number in its grasp, it would keep calling, over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over again. maybe at random intervals just to keep you on your toes. our entire mobile communications network would be crippled! mass suicides would be inevitable.
seriously, it can't be that far off; we already can access the internet and email from our phones. maybe it could begin as that: an email virus that perpetuated itself normally...until that fateful day somebody accessed it through their cell phone, at which point..."it" would begin.


isn't technology neat?


*any and all references made to personal computers, pcs, computers, comps, laptops, desktops, processing equipment, etc., etc., should be taken to mean any system (pick one) other than those owned or affiliated with apple and/or macintosh, as i hate them.
**to all agents of the cia, fbi, and the department of homeland security (snicker), i am not a programmer. i do not know how to do any of this shit. i know how to put together a static web page. not a good one. a crappy one. should this happen, i an innocent, and had nothing to do with it.***
***except possibly giving the cheeky prankster the idea, but then that's giving myself way too much credit. i think you're the only ones reading this blog.