TELECOM Digest     Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:15:00 EDT    Volume 24 : Issue 301

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    T-Mobile, Google Partner Up For Mobile Internet (Telecom dailyLead USTA)
    CFP: IEEE in Cooperated International Conference (Conference Secretary)
    Mediacom (Fred Atkinson)
    Telecom-Priv/Computer Privacy Digest (was Re: VOIP?) (Dennis G. Rears)
    Re: CVS Limits ExtraCare Info Access After Expose (Lisa Hancock)
    Re: Cellular Jamming?  Think Again. (John McHarry)
    Re: 50 Year Unisys Employee Retires (Tony P.)
    Re: Where to Buy a Cellular Phone Jammer? (DevilsPGD)
    Re: Western Union History (Wesrock@aol.com)
    Re: DSL Speed (Dave Grebe)
    Spam? Yeah, Probably. Five Bucks Cash For You (JohnW@clientbonus.com)

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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:33:34 EDT
From: Telecom dailyLead from USTA <usta@dailylead.com>
Subject: T-Mobile, Google Partner up For Mobile Internet


Telecom dailyLead from USTA
June 29, 2005
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=22714&l=2017006

		TODAY'S HEADLINES
	
NEWS OF THE DAY
* T-Mobile, Google partner up for mobile Internet
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Broadband price wars heat up
* Verizon seeks slice of music phone market
* Hughes expands satellite broadband footprint
* Covad picks Samsung for LPVA rollout
USTA SPOTLIGHT 
* Two Days left to Save $300 on your TELECOM '05
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
* Cell phone providers embracing P2P
* Bugs Bunny and friends go wireless
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* FCC seeks "parity" in broadband regulation

Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
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From: Conference Secretary <aista2000@ise.canberra.edu.au>
Subject: CFP: IEEE in Cooperated International Conference on Computational
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:30:33 +1000


                           CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling,
                    Control and Automation
              28 - 30 November 2005 Vienna, Austria
          http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca05/

In co-operation with:
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Conference Proceedings will be published as books by IEEE in USA

Sponsored by:
European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology - EUFLAT
International Association for Fuzzy Set in Management and Economy - SIGEF
Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics - SOFT
Taiwan Fuzzy Systems Association - TFSA
World Wide Web Business Intelligence - W3BI
Hungarian Fuzzy Association - HFA
University of Canberra

                             Jointly with
International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies
                         and Internet Commerce
             http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/iawtic05/

Honorary Chair:
Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, USA
Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA

The international conference on computational intelligence for
modelling, control and automation will be held in Vienna, Austria on
28 to 30 November 2005. The conference provides a medium for the
exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address
the important issues in computational intelligence, modelling, control
and automation.  The conference will consist of both plenary sessions
and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and
applications of computational intelligence techniques to modelling,
control and automation. For contributory sessions, papers (4 pages or
more) are being solicited. Several well-known keynote speakers will
address the conference.

Conference Proceedings will be published as books by IEEE (The
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) in USA and will be
index world wide. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two
reviewers.  Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to,
the following areas:

Modern and Advanced Control Strategies:
Neural Networks Control,
Fuzzy Logic Control,
Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Control,
Model-Predictive Control,
Adaptive and Optimal Control,
Intelligent Control Systems,
Robotics and Automation,
Fault Diagnosis,
Intelligent agents,
Industrial Automations

Hybrid Systems:
Fuzzy Evolutionary Systems,
Fuzzy Expert Systems,
Fuzzy Neural Systems,
Neural Genetic Systems,
Neural-Fuzzy-Genetic Systems,
Hybrid Systems for Optimisation

Data Analysis, Prediction and Model Identification:
Signal Processing,
Prediction and Time Series Analysis,
System Identification,
Data Fusion and Mining,
Knowledge Discovery,
Intelligent Information Systems,
Image Processing, and Image Understanding,
Parallel Computing applications in Identification & Control,
Pattern Recognition,
Clustering and Classification

Decision Making and Information Retrieval:
Case-Based Reasoning,
Decision Analysis,
Intelligent Databases & Information Retrieval,
Dynamic Systems Modelling,
Decision Support Systems,
Multi-criteria Decision Making,
Qualitative and Approximate-Reasoning

Paper Submission
Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance,
correctness, and clarity of presentation. Papers (4 pages or more)
should be submitted to the following e-mail or the following address:
CIMCA'2005 Secretariat School of Information Sciences and Engineering
University of Canberra, Canberra, 2616, ACT, Australia E-mail:
cimca@canberra.edu.au

Electronic submission of papers (either by E-mail or through
conference website) is preferred. Draft papers should present original
work, which has not been published or being reviewed for other
conferences.

Important Dates
31 August 2005 Submission of draft papers
30 September 2005 Notification of acceptance
21 October 2005 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers
28-30 November 2005 Conference sessions

Special Sessions and Tutorials
Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the conference. The
conference is calling for special sessions and tutorial proposals. All
special session proposals should be sent to the conference chair (by email
to: masoud.mohammadian@canberra.edu.au) on or before 5th of August 2005.
CIMCA'05 will also include a special poster session devoted to recent work
and work-in-progress. Abstracts are solicited for this session. Abstracts (3
pages limit) may be submitted up to 30 days before the conference date.

Visits and social events
Sightseeing visits will be arranged for the delegates and guests. A
separate program will be arranged for companions during the
conference.

Further Information
For further information either contact cimca@ise.canberra.edu.au or
see the conference homepage at:
http://www.ise.canberra.edu.au/conferences/cimca05/default.htm

Organising Committee Chair:
Masoud Mohammadian, University of
Canberra, Australia

International Program Committee:
H. Adeli, The Ohio State University, USA
W. Pedrycz, University of Manitoba, Canada
A. Agah, The University of Kansas, USA
T. Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan
J. Bezdek, University of West Florida, USA
R. C. Eberhart, Purdue University, USA
F. Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
T. Furuhashi, Nagoya University, Japan
A. Agah, The University of Kansas, US
E. André, Universität Augsburg, Germany
A. Kandel, University of South Florida, USA
J. P. Bigus, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
J. Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan
K. Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
B. Kosko, University of Southern California, USA
T. Baeck, Informatic Centrum Dortmund, Germany
K. Hirota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
E. Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
H. R. Berenji, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
H. Liljenstrom, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
A. Bulsari, AB Nonlinear Solutions OY, Finland
J. Fernandez de Cañete, University of Malaga, Spain
W. Duch, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland
E. Tulunay, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
C. Kuroda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
T. Yamakawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
J. Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan
A. Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway

International Liaison:
Canada and USA Liaison:
Robert John, De Montfort University, UK
Nasser Jazdi, Institut für Automatisierungs- und
Softwaretechnik, Germany

Europe Liaison:
Dr. Eng. Djamel Khadraoui, Centre de Recherche Public, Luxembourg
Frank Zimmer, SES ASTRA, Luxembourg

Asia Liaison:
Renzo Gobbin, University of Canberra, Australia
R. Amin Sarker, ADFA, Australia

Local Arrangements and
Public Relation:
Zohreh Pahlavani, AVIP, Austria
C Meier, Australia

Publicity:
C. Meier, Australia
Zohreh Pahlavani, AVIP, Austria

Publication:
Masoud Mohammadian, Australia

In cooperation with:
University of Canberra, (Masoud Mohammadian)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, (José-Luis Fernández-Villacañas Martín)
University of Guelph, (Simon X. Yang)


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From: Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@mishmash.com>
Subject: Mediacom
Reply-To: fatkinson@mishmash.com
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 03:03:13 GMT
Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net


Does anyone know if Mediacom blocks ports 80, 20, 21, 23, 25,
and/or other signficant ports?  

Fred Atkinson 

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From: Dennis G. Rears <drears@runningpagespam.org.lga.highwinds-media.com>
Subject: Telecom-Priv/Computer Privacy Digest (Was Re: Started Using VOIP?)
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 23:17:57 -0400
Organization: Optimum Online


<drears@runningpagespam.org.lga.highwinds-media.com> wrote 
in message news:telecom24.297.10@telecom-digest.org:

> TELECOM Digest Editor <ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu> wrote in message
> It's only been a couple of weeks since I last posted as opposed to a
> decade for my previous post.  Thanks for remembering me.  It is
> through this digest that I got my interest stoked in telephony.

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: And I notice it did not take you
> another decade to write to me again, and for that I thank you!  But
> you never did tell me if you were still in the Milwaukee area, nor
> whatever happened to your newsgroup/Digest.  PAT]

Warning: This is more history than telecom related.  Historical
accuracy may be clouded ...

I forget the dates but it was around 1988-1990.  I started the
telecom-priv digest to offload the discussion in TELECOM Digest about
caller-id and blocking.  A lot people back then did not know that 800
numbers returned ANI (Now we have 800/888/877/866) and had no idea
that ANI (Automated Number Identification) existed.  They thought
that if they blocked caller-id it would also block the 800 service.

My idea at the time was to separate the privacy issues of telecom from
the technical issues. At that time I was a subscriber to the TELECOM
and RISKS digest.  Just as the TELECOM digest was an offshoot of an
old USENET group (help me out on this one Pat), I had always wanted to
start my own maillist so I volunteered to set up telecom-priv which at
that time was email only.  Also by doing this I had telephone access
to Pat which he rarely gave to any TELECOM Digest subscriber.  I
barely knew the difference between tip and ring at the time.  

Just to set the stage for where the internet was at that time
(1988???) .  At that there was no web, DNS had just replaced the
hosts.txt file for network resolution.  The major tcp/ip protocols
were smtp, ftp, telnet, rcmds and nntp. Gopher and WAIS were just
coming on line at this time.  Nothing was encrypted; everything was
sent in the clear.  Sun had just released the SUN4 architecture.  The
"ARPANet" had only a few years ago been separated into the internet
and MILnet.  

Prior to this to be on the ARPANet you needed to be a military,
university, or commercial entity dedicated to R&D.  UUCP and BITnet
were still major players.  There were Bitnet and UUCP email gateways
where you could transverse networks but only for email; no other UDP
or TCP traffic.  Most people only had terminals connected to an
internet connected machine.  Only scientists and engineers had
directly connected internet nodes.  And only a few....  

Pat graciously gave me his UNIX shell scripts to send out a digest and
I monkeyed around with my mail system which was not sendmail but MMDF,
a mail system developed at the University of Delaware and University
college of London (UCL) with major enhancements by Mike Muuss et
friends at the Ballistic Research Lab (BRL) at Aberdeen, MD.

Everything was BSD UNIX, SUNOS was just coming out After a couple of
years I decided to morph the telecom-priv to the computer-privacy
digest.  At that time I finally had USENET access and software to
create email->USENET traffic.  Since it was a moderated group all
submissions would be by email so I did not need a USENET->email
gateway.  I did the RFD and call for votes and had the newsgroup
comp.privacy.society and comp-privacy maillist created.  

I believe this was done circa 1992.  My goal was to have a forum to
discuss how technical advances affected privacy not about privacy in
general.  I invested a lot of my time to this forum but was not happy
in the direction it was taking.  I remember a candidate for some CA
office complaining that I was censoring him because I denied his post.
I had always wanted the forum to be about how technology affected
privacy not privacy itself.  I was also busy at my job (An Army
civilian Computer Engineer) and as an Army Reserve Officer.  After
five years of moderation duties I asked for volunteers to take on the
job of moderation.  

Len Levine, a professor at the University of Wisconsin took over.  My
only request (not requirement) was that I would be offered the
moderator position when he was done.  He offered it to me a few years
ago but I couldn't do it.  I am now cursed/blessed with the black box
known as Windows which is even more worthless than VMS for scripting.
Pat, I think it is because of Len that you thought I was in Milwaukee.
I have never been in that area.  The closest I have been is Rock
Island, IL.  I have been at ORD at least 30 times but never to
Chicago.  I have been in Morris County, NJ since 1983.  My other claim
to fame is I created the page on the web (1991) about running. It was
called the running page.  You can look at it now at
http://www.runningpage.com/rpage (Now a historical site). 

One thing that is amazing to me is we did what we did out for the love
of it.  Now everything is about money.  You asked and I gave you a
long answer.  If you liked this long winded post I will do another on
my mobile phone experience in Australia in 2002 (hint.. a 20 minute
call from Melbourne to NJ was 1/4 the cost of a 5 minute call from
Perth to Sydney).

Dennis

(note to Pat. Please correct for errors....)


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Your recollection is quite accurate. I
had assumed _you_ were in Milwaukee because Len Levine is/was around 
there. I do not know how I got confused on that. And yes, we did all
our stuff on the net in those days out of love and personal interest
in our topics. Someone once said 1994 was the final year of the net
as we knew and loved it. I do know that year as when all the strangers
started moving into our e-village.  Yes, tell us about your mobile
phone experience, and thanks once again for the old memories.  PAT] 

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: CVS Limits ExtraCare Info Access After Expose
Date: 29 Jun 2005 20:21:10 -0700



I have a CVS card.  I purposely misspelled my name and gave as little
information as possible to protect my privacy.  I've done likewise on
other store cards, though I avoid them if possible.

The discounts aren't as good as claimed.  You do get a lot of coupons
when you make a purchase, but the terms of the coupons are so
restrictive -- products you don't want, minimum purchase, or too short a
time frame, that in most cases they have no value.  I guess it saves me
about $10-$20 a year.

Does ANYONE out there care about privacy?  Back when I started privacy
of client/customer accounts was paramount.  Not because the law said
so (though it did), but because it was the right thing to do.

In a large computer center, one couldn't just go into data files
without authorization.  Files that left the building were controlled.

Who the heck are the turkeys designing the open systems of today?

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From: John McHarry <jmcharry@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Cellular Jamming?  Think Again.
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 02:27:58 GMT
Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net


On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 05:54:31 -0700, Joseph wrote:

> http://www.rcrnews.com/news.cms?newsId=23199

> FCC Re-iterates Cell-Phone Jammers Are Illegal

> WASHINGTON-People who want to use cell-phone jammers to get rid of
> annoying mobile-phone use should think again.  It is against the
> law. Those found using, selling, manufacturing or distributing
> cell-phone jammers could be subject to an $11,000-per-day fine and
> seizure of their equipment by the United States Marshals, warned the
> Federal Communications Commission.

The law should be modestly amended to declare those using cellphones
in theaters, churches, and other places of public assembly outlaws
subject to pummeling by the inconvenienced other inmates of such
assembly. Exception might be made for surviving, on duty, emergency
personnel. ;^)

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From: Tony P. <kd1s@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net>
Subject: Re: 50 Year Unisys Employee Retires
Organization: ATCC
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:15:23 -0400


In article <telecom24.299.9@telecom-digest.org>, 
kd1s@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net says:

> In article <telecom24.297.4@telecom-digest.org>, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com 
> says:

>> The Philadelphia Inquirer did a feature article on a man, age 68, who
>> was retiring from Unisys after 50 years of service.  (He started with
>> Unisys precedessor Burroughs).

>> It's extremely rare today for someone to work 50 years for the same
>> corporation.  In 1986 Unisys had 123,000 employees, now it has 36,400.
>> Only 15% of Americans 65 and over are still working and the average
>> person retiring today has been with his employer 10 years, not 50.

> I'm a state employee. Our legislature just handed us a bon mot that says 
> most of us won't be able to retire until 70, and at that we won't get 
> the same benefit as those before us. 

> It's funny -- our director of finance is retiring end of this year. We
> were joking about it. I said she should be happy that we're financing
> her retirement. My boss said she should invite us over for the dinner
> we paid for. It was too funny but demonstrated that retirement systems
> are in fact Ponzi Schemes.

>> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: One important reason companies do not
>> keep around 40-50 year employees any longer is because that employee's
>> benefits package is usually so extravagant. For example, I recall one
>> fellow who had worked for Standard Oil more than twenty years back in
>> the 1960's, when I was there.  Working there that long, he was
>> entitled to five weeks paid vacation every year, and first choice of
>> the available times for vacation. He _always_ managed to parlay that
>> five week vacation into _six_ weeks by scheduling his vacation times
>> around weeks which had holidays in them, which entitled him to an
>> extra vacacation day. For example, vacation during the week which
>> contained Memorial Day, also the week which contained Independence Day
>> and Labor Day got him _three extra days_ right there. So he would then
>> take those three extra days vacation and either use them for the
>> Monday <-> Wednesday of Thanksgiving Week when the entire office got
>> two days (Thursday and Friday) off anyway. Or, depending on how the
>> calendar worked out that year, maybe he would take those three days
>> during Christmas/New Years week. 

>> Needless to say, Standard Oil got quite annoyed at having to legally
>> pay him for not being there for large gaps of time. Eventually, they
>> had a whole bunch of people in that situation and of course, if you
>> can find an excuse for letting the person go, then you also have to
>> pay them for the _company's share_ of their 401-K plan or whatever,
>> _plus_ their severance pay, _plus_ their pension, etc. And there is
>> absolutely no reason a good supervisor cannot find an excuse -- _any_
>> lawful excuse will do, to can you if they wish to do so. That is one
>> reason most companies do not like to have employees around that long;
>> to their way of thinking, the person has gotten just to expensive for
>> them. 

> Hell, with the comp time I generate I get about 6 weeks a year. U.S.
> employers are very stingy about time off. All comes down to that
> Calvinist work ethic.

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I think you meant to say the
> 'Protestant Work Ethic' instead of 'Calvinist'; but anyway, don't
> be so harsh with John Calvin. He was an 'okay' guy  <wink>!  PAT]

No, it was Calvin who gave us that work ethic and stark lifestyle. 


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well, John Calvin was a protestant and
big in the Reformation movement in 16th century Switzerland, and
considered to be the father of the modern day 'Christian Reformed
Church' as it is known in the USA today.   He did have a very stark
lifestyle to be sure, and encouraged it among his followers.   PAT]

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From: DevilsPGD <spamsucks@crazyhat.net>
Subject: Re: Where to Buy a Cellular Phone Jammer?
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:08:52 -0500
Organization: Disorganized


In message <telecom24.299.5@telecom-digest.org> Joseph
<JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 05:11:46 GMT, Dale Farmer <dale@cybercom.net>
> wrote:

>> Except it doesn't work.  Better to put scanners up and listen to their
>> transmissions.

> Which with digital encryption will be a mighty task!

Not really -- No "scanning" involved, law enforcement can legally tap
the connection (which is done after decryption).

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From: Wesrock@aol.com
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:29:32 EDT
Subject: Re: Western Union History


In a message dated 29 Jun 2005 06:21:17 -0700, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
writes:

>> W.U. operated a lot of local telegraph offices long after they had
>> ceased to pay for themselves.  In some cases the FCC required the
>> company to keep the offices open.  W.U. should have had a plan to
>> convert them to contract agencies; although the best way to do this
>> would probably involve having the agencies use TWX.

> I suspect it was both FCC and unions that forced the local offices to
> stay open.  Ironically, I am not aware of any pressure on the Bell
> System to provide or not provide public business offices.

In the late 1940s my father's business took on the additional duty of
being a Western Union agent in Perry, Oklahoma (pop. about 5,000),
when the company-owned office closed.  So I had some experience in
handling telegrams and money orders, although the money order was not
the center of the W.U. business as it became later.

We shared a pair out of Oklahoma City with the W.U. company-owned
office inside the Conoco refinery and offices in Ponca City.  Most of
the business on the wire was from and to that office.  (High-volume
W.U. users got company-owned branches; low-volume users might have a
WUX printer, which of course they operated themselves.)

The agency I am familiar with in Perry, Oklahoma, had a selective
signaling device which was not especially reliable or practical,
although if you were near enought you could count the clicks and
respond.

Telegrams were sent and received on the gummed paper tape that was
then stuck down on the telegram form manually and was the normal
medium used for telegrams in those days.


Wes Leatherock
wesrock@aol.com
wleathus@yahoo.com

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From: Dave Grebe <DGrebe@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: DSL Speed
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:08:27 GMT
Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net


>> I wonder how they're modulated.

> Can any other reader answer this question?

Quadrature modulation using many channels.  Look here:

http://www.alleged.com/info/dsl2/

Dave Grebe

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credit-hour interdisciplinary program is designed to give you the
skills necessary to manage telecommunications networks, including
data, video, and voice networks.

The MSTM degree draws on the expertise of the OSU's College
of Business Administration; the College of Arts and Sciences; and the
College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology. The program has
state-of-the-art lab facilities on the Stillwater and Tulsa campus
offering hands-on learning to enhance the program curriculum.  Classes
are available in Stillwater, Tulsa, or through distance learning.

Please contact Jay Boyington for additional information at
405-744-9000, mstm-osu@okstate.edu, or visit the MSTM web site at
http://www.mstm.okstate.edu

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