For your convenience in reading: Subject lines are printed in RED and
Moderator replies when issued appear in BROWN.
Previous Issue (just one)
TD Extra News
Add this Digest to your personal
or 
For your convenience in reading: Subject lines are printed in RED and
Moderator replies when issued appear in BROWN.
Previous Issue (just one)
TD Extra News
Add this Digest to your personal
or
TELECOM Digest Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:30:00 EDT Volume 24 : Issue 368
Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson
Book Review: "Cyber Spying", Ted Fair/Michael Nordfelt/Sandra Ring (Slade)
Agilent Sells Chip Business (USTelecom dailyLead)
T-Mobile USA Reports Second Quarter 2005 Results (Monty Solomon)
TiVo Launches Video Download Trial With IFC (Monty Solomon)
Re: Stock Market Ticker Tape Machines? (Reed)
Re: How Long Can a Telephone Extension Cord Be? (Rich Greenberg)
Re: How Long Can a Telephone Extension Cord Be? (DevilsPGD)
Re: Classic Six-Button Keysets - Cost During 1970s? (Carl Navarro)
Re: Classic Six-Button Keysets - Cost During 1970s (Michael Muderick)
Re: Classic Six-Button Keysets - Cost During 1970s? (Robert Bonomi)
Re: Appeals Court Ruling Revives Case of Intercepted E-Mail (Robert Bonomi)
Re: Start-Up Slashes Cost of International Wireless (jared)
Re: Stock Market Ticker Tape Machines? (Reed)
Re: Daylight-Saving Switch May Cause Tech Woes (DevilsPGD)
Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the
Internet. All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and
the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other
journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are
included in the fair use quote. By using -any name or email address-
included herein for -any- reason other than responding to an article
herein, you agree to pay a hundred dollars to the recipients of the
email.
===========================
Addresses herein are not to be added to any mailing list, nor to be
sold or given away without explicit written consent. Chain letters,
viruses, porn, spam, and miscellaneous junk are definitely unwelcome.
We must fight spam for the same reason we fight crime: not because we
are naive enough to believe that we will ever stamp it out, but because
we do not want the kind of world that results when no one stands
against crime. Geoffrey Welsh
===========================
See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details
and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Rob Slade <rslade@sprint.com>
Organization: Vancouver Institute for Research into User
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:45:20 -0800
Subject: Book Review: "Cyber Spying", Ted Fair/Michael Nordfelt/Sandra Ring
Reply-To: rslade@sprint.ca
BKCBRSPY.RVW 20050614
"Cyber Spying", Ted Fair/Michael Nordfelt/Sandra Ring, 2005,
1-931836-41-8, U$39.95/C$57.95
%A Ted Fair
%A Michael Nordfelt
%A Sandra Ring
%C 800 Hingham Street, Rockland, MA 02370
%D 2005
%G 1-931836-41-8
%I Syngress Media, Inc.
%O U$39.95/C$57.95 781-681-5151 fax: 781-681-3585 www.syngress.com
%O http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931836418/robsladesinterne
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931836418/robsladesinte-21
%O http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931836418/robsladesin03-20
%O Audience n- Tech 1 Writing 1 (see revfaq.htm for explanation)
%P 439 p.
%T "Cyber Spying"
Chapter one seems to be a search for grounds to justify spying on your
family. The reasons seem to boil down to a) everybody likes to snoop,
b) you should spy on your spouse (because everybody likes sex), and c)
it's always OK to spy on your kids (you're just looking out for them,
after all). (Somehow it is easy to believe that the authors all met
at the CIA.) We are supposed to learn about the basics of spying, in
chapter two, but instead get vague advice on planning, plus
hypothetical stories.
A kind of terse review of the parts of computers is in chapter three:
chapter four provides slightly more usable information about network
operations. Chapter five starts out with an extremely simplistic set
of instructions for navigating around your computer (if I am going to
get spied on, maybe I *do* want it to be these guys), moves into a
list of recommended utilities, and also discusses some issues that
don't seem to fit the level of the other material at all. (If you
don't know how to run Windows Explorer, how are you going to know the
difference between an Ethernet hub and an Ethernet switch?) Areas to
obtain data from a computer are listed in chapter six. Oddly, there
is much "low hanging fruit" that is not mentioned, while a number of
the items suggested can be defeated quite easily. Web browsing, in
chapter seven, repeats a great deal of material from five and six.
Email, in chapter eight, also reiterates a lot of earlier content.
Instant messaging and clients are discussed in chapter nine. Chapter
ten reviews other spying techniques and more advanced computer
technologies. Some elementary means to make spying more difficult are
mentioned in chapter twelve.
Once again, the lack of a stated audience makes it very difficult to
assess whether this book does its job. It certainly isn't for
professionals: neither security nor law enforcement people will get
much out of this work. For people who want to spy on their spouses or
significant others, well, I have no sympathy if they waste their money
that way. If parents are planning to spy on children, I would suggest
that there are other, better, means of protecting your kids online,
and if you really need to know the content that is provided in this
text, then your kids are probably going to be able to get around you
anyway.
For the tin-foil hat crowd, you may be comforted to find that CIA
staff can't do any better than this. (On the other hand, maybe it's a
conspiracy to make us all *think* that the CIA is that dumb ...)
copyright Robert M. Slade, 2005 BKCBRSPY.RVW 20050614
====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer)
rslade@vcn.bc.ca slade@victoria.tc.ca rslade@sun.soci.niu.edu
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
- Immanuel Kant
http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev or http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~rslade
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:04:58 EDT
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: Agilent Sells Chip Business
USTelecom dailyLead
August 15, 2005
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=23846&l=2017006
TODAY'S HEADLINES
NEWS OF THE DAY
* Agilent sells chip business
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Sprint-Nextel deal finalized
* VoIP growth: Behind the numbers
* MVNO launches service for Spanish speakers
* A nationwide Google Wi-Fi net?
USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT
* Telecom Crash Course -- The must-have book for telecom professionals
HOT TOPICS
* Report: Cisco mulls offer for Nokia
* Birch files Chapter 11
* BellSouth: IPTV's coming in 2006
* Rural carriers have option under new DSL rules
* Huawei considers Marconi bid
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
* Motorola readies for WiMAX
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* MCI could cost Verizon less than expected
Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
http://www.dailylead.com/latestIssue.jsp?i=23846&l=2017006
Legal and Privacy information at
http://www.dailylead.com/about/privacy_legal.jsp
SmartBrief, Inc.
1100 H ST NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20005
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:23:22 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: T-Mobile USA Reports Second Quarter 2005 Results
BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 11, 2005--T-Mobile USA,
Inc. (NYSE:DT):
-- 972,000 net new customers added in Q2 2005 - total customer
base of 19.2 million
-- $1.08 billion in Operating Income Before Depreciation and
Amortization (OIBDA) in Q2 2005
-- Tied for best call quality performance in Northeast and
Southeast regions in the JD Power and Associates 2005 Wireless
Call Quality Performance Study
-- Over 1,000 new cell sites on air in Q2 2005 - almost 31,000
cell sites on air in total
-- Q2 2005 net income of $387 million, up more than 60% from Q2
2004
T-Mobile USA, Inc. ("T-Mobile USA"), the U.S. operation of T-Mobile
International AG & Co. KG ("T-Mobile International"), the mobile
communications subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG ("Deutsche Telekom")
(NYSE:DT), today announced second quarter 2005 results. In order to
provide comparability with the results of other U.S. wireless carriers
all financial amounts are in USD and are based on accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States ("GAAP"). T-Mobile
USA results are included in the consolidated results of Deutsche
Telekom, but differ from the information contained herein as Deutsche
Telekom reports financial results in accordance with International
Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
In the second quarter of 2005, T-Mobile USA added 972,000 net new
customers, compared with 957,000 added in the first quarter of 2005
and 1,092,000 in the second quarter of 2004. Approximately 70% of the
growth in the second quarter of 2005 came from new postpay customers,
which currently comprise over 87% of the total customer base.
Approximately 30% of the growth came from new prepaid customers,
reflecting the successful rebranding of T-Mobile USA's prepaid service
into "T-Mobile To Go" combined with a more attractive prepaid
offering.
- http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=51076753
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:35:05 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: TiVo Launches Video Download Trial With IFC
IFC to Make Its First-Ever Scripted Series Available for Download by TiVo(R)
Series2 Subscribers
ALVISO, Calif., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq:
TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital
video recorders (DVR), announced today the launch of a video download
trial in conjunction with Independent Film Channel (IFC), enabling
select TiVo subscribers to download IFC programming over broadband to
their TiVo Series2(TM) DVR. The only television services provider for
DVRs to seamlessly integrate broadband video downloads and telecast
content, TiVo is using this new functionality to begin a series of
broadband features that will be deployed to TiVo Series2 users
beginning this fall.
The availability of the IFC programming will be promoted to trial
participants through a TiVo Showcase. Once a TiVo subscriber chooses
to receive the IFC programming, the shows are downloaded via a
broadband connection. During the trial, IFC will make its first-ever
scripted series, "Hopeless Pictures", "Greg The Bunny", and "The
Festival" -- which will premiere August 19 -- available for download
by TiVo subscribers in advance of their network telecast premiere. In
addition to offering the full episodes of each series, IFC will
package exclusive content, including outtakes and other unaired
footage, for TiVo subscribers.
- http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=51148748
------------------------------
From: Reed <reedh@rmi.net>
Organization: None Whatsoever
Subject: Re: Stock Market Ticker Tape Machines?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 03:35:41 GMT
Jim Haynes wrote:
>> In article <telecom24.364.8@telecom-digest.org>,
>> <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
>>> I was wondering what kind of machine, if any, replaced the classic
>>> glass-dome model and continued to produce a tape showing trades.
> (Guess I missed the original message, or I would have replied.)
> The glass-bell-jar ticker was replaced ca. 1930 by a machine made by
> Teletype. It used a six-level start-stop code and printed using a
> type wheel. I would have to look this up, but think the speed was 600
> letters per minute, which works out to 100 wpm. The glass bell jar
> tickers continued to be used by Western Union to report baseball
> scores as late as circa 1950. Sports score reporting was a service of
> W.U.; the customers for the service were mostly bookies and other
> gamblers.
> W.U. made some tape printers for telegrams using the basic mechanism
> of the 1930 ticker; this was called the 401-A printer. Teletype made
> a low-cost page printer in the late 1930s using much of the same
> technology; this was the Model 26. The ticker had no model number.
> Those tickers where replaced circa 1965 by a new Teletype ticker
> operating at 900 chars/min and often called the "900" ticker for that
> reason. It used technology under development for the Model 37 page
> printer; but within the Bell System it was called the Model 28 ticker
> even though it had little in common with the Model 28 equipment line.
> I guess they wanted to reserve Model 37 for the new page printer. The
> 900 ticker used the same 6-level code as the earlier ticker.
> This ticker could be considered the last successful Teletype product
> of the almost-all-mechanical genre. The Model 37 and Model 38 page
> printers achieved few sales and never got completely debugged.
> Everything after that used a lot of electronics instead of complicated
> mechanisms.
> jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
Check some pictures of these at
http://claussstudios.bizland.com/realticker2.chtml
--reed
------------------------------
From: richgr@panix.com (Rich Greenberg)
Subject: Re: How Long Can a Telephone Extension Cord Be?
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:51:01 UTC
Organization: Organized? Me?
In article <telecom24.367.16@telecom-digest.org>, Michael Quinn
<quinnm@bah.com> wrote:
> Several years ago when or Verizon phone line failed (amazing, but it
> does happen), the tech ran a cable from the nearby riser across our
> lawn through the backyard into our house, must have been a hundred
> feet or more, while they waited to retrench the new cable. Now that
> there's fiber in the neighborhood, I guess they'll retrench a new
> fiber cable if we order FIOS.
Twice both of my phone lines went dead. Each time the problem was
"backhoe fade", or in these cases actually "shovel fade" The local
cable company whose pedastal was only inches from the telco pedastal
cut my line while working on my next door neighbor's cable connection.
The first time, the telco guy spliced it with a jelly filled splice
case. The second time they decided to replace the underground drop
wire, and rerouted it away from the cable pedastal. No problem since.
Rich Greenberg Marietta, GA, USA richgr atsign panix.com + 1 770 321 6507
Eastern time. N6LRT I speak for myself & my dogs only. VM'er since CP-67
Canines:Val, Red & Shasta (RIP),Red, husky Owner:Chinook-L
Atlanta Siberian Husky Rescue. www.panix.com/~richgr/ Asst Owner:Sibernet-L
------------------------------
From: DevilsPGD <spamsucks@crazyhat.net>
Subject: Re: How Long Can a Telephone Extension Cord Be?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 02:09:59 -0600
Organization: Disorganized
In message <telecom24.367.16@telecom-digest.org> Michael Quinn
<quinnm@bah.com> wrote:
> Several years ago when or Verizon phone line failed (amazing, but it
> does happen), the tech ran a cable from the nearby riser across our
> lawn through the backyard into our house, must have been a hundred
> feet or more, while they waited to retrench the new cable. Now that
> there's fiber in the neighborhood, I guess they'll retrench a new
> fiber cable if we order FIOS.
Chances are Verizon would have used twisted pair, which is the same
stuff they put in underground everywhere. It's also the same stuff
that goes miles underground.
------------------------------
From: Carl Navarro <cnavarro@wcnet.org>
Subject: Re: Classic Six-Button Keysets - Cost During 1970s?
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:56:04 GMT
Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com
On 13 Aug 2005 18:30:30 -0700, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> Back in the 1970s, a standard fixture in almost every business (and
> even in some wealthy homes) was a key telephone. This has six buttons
> along the time so that the phone could handle more than one outside
> line, intercom lines, and HOLD function. I was wondering what basic
> key systems cost in the 1970-1975 time frame.
Since the stuff was regulated in that time frame it might be hard to
tell. You rented it and paid whatever the phone company wanted you
to.
In 1985, I paid:
6-button set 65.79
10-button set 93.29
20-button set 195.53
Line cards were about $20.00 without MOH option and KSU's about $340
for a 512 (12 or 13 slots in an empty huge cabinet), and the intercoms
started at $100 for a 9 or 10 station Valcom with $1.40 for low
voltage and $4.00 for high voltage buzzers. We used ITT 601 KSU's,
one of which is still in my warehouse. It runs to mind that it was
about a couple of hundred.
Now, to give you a comparison, the new-fangled Comdial Executech
system was about $720 for a 616 KSU (IIRC they were 2 for 1 in a
promo), and the phones were about $150-190 each.
> From what I saw, the pricing was a la carte--every little feature was
> a charge. One large organization did not bother with line lamps to
> save money. The "wink-hold" feature, where the line lamp blinked
> slowly when the line was on-hold, was optional. I never saw a system
> without a HOLD button, but apparently even that was optional. (I
> believe later systems, such as ComKey had package prices).
> Anyway, would anyone know what typical pricing was in the 1970-1975
> time frame, for the following:
>- "Hunting" feature so busy calls would go to the next line.
Still in the $2-4 range per line.
> - Two lines, two keysets, line lamps that would blink on ring, but not
> wink-hold.
> - Wink-hold feature.
> - Basic manual intercom (push-button to sound buzzer). Sometimes there
> was a SIG button on the phone, sometimes there was a tiny panel with
> pushbuttons mounted next to the phone.
In the '80's, the unit was about $25 for a 401 common battery card.
You hand modified(took out the screw) the last button and added
buzzers.
> - Dial intercom, one common channel, one digit automatically sounded
> desired buzzer.
> - Other features of the six button keyset?
Whatever you wanted, you added them ... if they would fit in the set.
We even put Demon dialers on later 1A2 sets.
> - If a residence had a key system was the cost cheaper than a business?
Probably not, just the lines were less.
Carl Navarro
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:01:08 -0400
From: Michael Muderick <michael.muderick@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Classic Six-Button Keysets - Cost During 1970s
I don't know the cost of all the features, but they were a la carte.
However the hunting feature was done at the CO and there was no charge
for that as far back as I can remember. Remember, it meant another
completed call for Ma Bell, rather than a busy signal, so it was to
their advantage to give hunting away free, lest someone decide to opt
out of it.
mm
------------------------------
From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
Subject: Re: Classic Six-Button Keysets - Cost During 1970s?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 02:31:13 -0000
Organization: Widgets, Inc.
In article <telecom24.367.8@telecom-digest.org>,
<hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
> Back in the 1970s, a standard fixture in almost every business (and
> even in some wealthy homes) was a key telephone. This has six buttons
> along the time so that the phone could handle more than one outside
> line, intercom lines, and HOLD function. I was wondering what basic
> key systems cost in the 1970-1975 time frame.
Commonly known as a "1A2" system.
> From what I saw, the pricing was a la carte--every little feature was
> a charge. One large organization did not bother with line lamps to
> save money. The "wink-hold" feature, where the line lamp blinked
> slowly when the line was on-hold, was optional. I never saw a system
> without a HOLD button, but apparently even that was optional. (I
> believe later systems, such as ComKey had package prices).
The button itself, and the mechanical actions related there were universal.
whether the back-end equipment recognized 'hold' and kept the circuit busy
was the 'optional' part. Took some additional cards in the card cage.
> Anyway, would anyone know what typical pricing was in the 1970-1975
> time frame, for the following:
> - "Hunting" feature so busy calls would go to the next line.
Handled entirely in the C.O. nothing in the 1A2 had anything to do with it.
(the CPE was irrelevant, unless you had 'trunk' circuits into a true PBX.)
> - Two lines, two keysets, line lamps that would blink on ring, but not
> wink-hold.
> - Wink-hold feature.
> - Basic manual intercom (push-button to sound buzzer). Sometimes there
> was a SIG button on the phone, sometimes there was a tiny panel with
> pushbuttons mounted next to the phone.
> - Dial intercom, one common channel, one digit automatically sounded
> desired buzzer.
> - Other features of the six button keyset?
> - If a residence had a key system was the cost cheaper than a business?
> Around the 1960s the Bell System came out with a fancier system known
> as the "Call Director". Did this have any advanced features or did it
> just offer more line buttons? I know the basic Call Director shell
> was used as a PBX operator's console, but that was a different phone
> and included an additional lamp for supervision.
One of the big features of the call director was idiot lights that
showed the on/off hook status of multiple extensions. A limited number
on the phone itself (10? 15?) plus expansion sections with additional
25(?) lines/indicators.
I don't know what equipment was behind it -- had to be considerably
more than just a 1A2 chassis, probably Centrex -- but all the call
directors I ever saw had the capability to do a two/three button
'transfer' of an incoming call, to a specified extension.
> Six button keysets are rare to see today, having been replaced by more
> modern systems. Even the Bell System, before divesture, had developed
> several new lines, such as ComKey and phones with more buttons
> (identified by a larger square button with the light within it. Both
> wall and desk sets had a long row of buttons along the top of the
> phone. These were out early enough that they were made in rotary dial
> as well as touch tone.
------------------------------
From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
Subject: Re: Appeals Court Ruling Revives Case of Intercepted E-Mail
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 02:08:07 -0000
Organization: Widgets, Inc.
In article <telecom24.367.13@telecom-digest.org>, Robert Bonomi
<bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
> In article <telecom24.366.12@telecom-digest.org>,
> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> In article <telecom24.365.3@telecom-digest.org>, Monty Solomon
>> <monty@roscom.com> wrote:
>>> Bradford Councilman is former vice president of Interloc Inc., a rare
>>> book dealer in Greenfield that offered a free e-mail service to
>>> customers. In 1998, Councilman allegedly began intercepting any
>>> e-mails sent to his customers by the Internet retailer Amazon.com.
>>> Councilman and his colleagues allegedly read the messages to see what
>>> Amazon was offering his customers, so that he could make attractive
>>> counter-offers.
>>> A grand jury indicted Councilman in 2001 for violating the federal
>>> wiretapping law. Councilman urged dismissal of the indictment, saying
>>> that the wiretap law did not apply because the e-mail was intercepted
>>> while it was stored in the memory of a computer, not when it was
>>> traveling across a network.
>>> A federal district court agreed and threw out the indictment. The US
>>> Justice Department, which had brought the case against Councilman,
>>> appealed the ruling. But a three-judge panel of the US Court of
>>> Appeals in Boston also rejected the charges. Last year, the Justice
>>> Department persuaded all seven appeals court judges to hear the case.
>> It seems to me that they're using the wrong law. Doesn't the
>> Electronic Communications Privacy Act have provisions prohibiting
>> email providers from looking at customers' mail, except as needed to
>> provide the service (e.g. server administrators sometimes have to look
>> at mail to diagnose problems)? Why are they using the a wiretapping
>> statute, when he didn't actually intercept anything on the wire?
> Maybe because the "unlawful access to stored communications" statute
> sec. 2701) has a hole in it that you could drive a battleship
> through. *SIDEWAYS*.
> It specifies that if you access the _facility_ in/on which the
> messages are stored, "without authorization", or "in access of
> authorization", and access/modify/delete messages, you have committed
> a crime. There is also a blanket exemption for any acts "authorized"
> by the owner of _the_ _facility_.
> Sec 2511 is pretty clear that _it's_ prohibitions apply to messages
> 'in transit', especially when you look at how 'intercepting' a message
> is defined.
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I am curious, but how can an email
> message be 'in transit'?
While the packets are *on*the*wire* between the sending (origin)
system, and the receiving (destination) system.
> Its either 'here' or it is 'there'
That is *NOT* the case.
It has to _get_ from 'here' *to* 'there'. That does not occur 'by magic'.
> or are
> they referring to the 30 or 45 seconds after the sender hits his
> 'enter' key (while the message travels on the wires from here to there
> via somewhere else) before it lands in my box, at which point I would
> think the 'in transit' stage has ended. Or does 'in transit' include
> the time it spends sitting on my ISPs server until I call the ISP and
> further retrieve it?
No, 'in transit' does *not* include the time when the message is just
sitting 'on disk', anywhere.
If you tap the _wires_, and intercept the message _while_it_is_being_
_transmitted_ that is one thing. If you read the message while it is
in storage, that is a totally *different* thing.
> I like to think of email as I would think of
> a traditional box at the post office. I am not standing there at the
> post office box 24/7 with the door open waiting to immediatly grab
> what is stuffed in from the clerk's side. Doesn't 'in transit' refer
> to the time one carrier is handling my letter from the point where it
> was picked up until it is placed in my physical possession?
Short answer: NO.
Factious illustration. You're 'on the road', from Chicago to Dallas.
You stop for the night at a motel, And get all sorts of rambunctious,
careless, etc. -- doing things that endanger yourself, and others.
Even though you are 'on the road', you cannot be charged with
'reckless driving' for those activities, because you were not
travelling on the roadway.
The statutes don't actually use the language 'in transit' to describe
the situation. The statutory language is a 'wire' communication. If
it isn't _on_the_wire_, because it has already reached the
destination, (or because it hasn't started transmission yet) it isn't
a wire communication.
If you commandeer a semi truck on the road, between start-point and
end-point, that is 'hijacking', If you break into the warehouse at the
terminal, and steal the load, that is 'theft'/'burglary', *not*
hijacking.
Wiretap statutes are similar. If you hijack (or copy) the message
while it is 'on the wire', that's wire-tapping. if you break into a
telephone answering machine (or voice-mail system), and get it to play
back a previously recorded message, that is something *entirely*
different.
The same logic applies to e-mail. 'on the wire' _between_ sending and
receiving servers is one thing; getting it from storage on the server
is something quite different.
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:27:27 -0600
From: jared@nospam.au (jared)
Subject: Re: Start-Up Slashes Cost of International wireless
Calls from wireless (USA) ... calls to wireless in most parts of the world
attract a charge to the calling party ... substantial though nowhere near
what the big USA telcos charge (from landline or wireless).
> Cambridge firm uses Skype technology to make cellphone calls
> By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff | August 1, 2005
------------------------------
From: Reed <reedh@rmi.net>
Organization: None Whatsoever
Subject: Re: Stock Market Ticker Tape Machines?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 03:37:39 GMT
Robert Bonomi wrote:
> In article <telecom24.364.8@telecom-digest.org>,
> <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
>> I was wondering what kind of machine, if any, replaced the classic
>> glass-dome model and continued to produce a tape showing trades.
> The volume of data, and the required speed of transmission to stay
> more-or-less current with the actual market conditions outstripped the
> capability of 'tape' printers.
> Just as _telegram_ printing shifted to roll-feed wide paper, from the
> tape, what remained for dedicated mechanical printers did similarly.
> In the 60s, early-70s ...
> Bunker-Ramo came out with electronic quote display terminals, and
> practically owned the _broker_ market for a number of years.
> Telerate also came out with a CRT display supporting many, _many_
> 'pages' of display data -- everything from news stories to lists of
> latest market prices -- either as groups displayed simultaneously on a
> single 'page', or single issues as a streaming 'ticker' across the
> bottom of the screen.
other desktop quote machine providers of the time were Ultronic, and
Quotron. see http://claussstudios.bizland.com/realticker2.chtml for
some pictures.
-reed
------------------------------
From: DevilsPGD <spamsucks@crazyhat.net>
Subject: Re: Daylight-Saving Switch May Cause Tech Woes
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 02:18:39 -0600
Organization: Disorganized
In message <telecom24.359.4@telecom-digest.org> Monty Solomon
<monty@roscom.com> wrote:
> By ANICK JESDANUN Associated Press Writer
> NEW YORK (AP) -- When daylight-saving time starts earlier than usual
> in the United States come 2007, your VCR or DVD recorder could start
> recording shows an hour late.
> Cell phone companies could give you an extra hour of free weekend
> calls, and people who depend on online calendars may find themselves
> late for appointments.
> An energy bill President Bush is to sign Monday would start daylight
> time three weeks earlier and end it a week later as an energy-saving
> measure.
> And that has technologists worried about software and gadgets that now
> compensate for daylight time based on a schedule unchanged since 1987.
Sounds like a blast for consultants to fix software/systems which
can't handle the date change. Yippie!
------------------------------
TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly to telecomm-
unications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in
addition to various telecom forums on a variety of networks such as
Compuserve and America On Line, Yahoo Groups, and other forums. It is
also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup
'comp.dcom.telecom'.
TELECOM Digest is a not-for-profit, mostly non-commercial educational
service offered to the Internet by Patrick Townson. All the contents
of the Digest are compilation-copyrighted. You may reprint articles in
some other media on an occasional basis, but please attribute my work
and that of the original author.
Contact information: Patrick Townson/TELECOM Digest
Post Office Box 50
Independence, KS 67301
Phone: 620-402-0134
Fax 1: 775-255-9970
Fax 2: 530-309-7234
Fax 3: 208-692-5145
Email: editor@telecom-digest.org
Subscribe: telecom-subscribe@telecom-digest.org
Unsubscribe:telecom-unsubscribe@telecom-digest.org
This Digest is the oldest continuing e-journal about telecomm-
unications on the Internet, having been founded in August, 1981 and
published continuously since then. Our archives are available for
your review/research. We believe we are the oldest e-zine/mailing list
on the internet in any category!
URL information: http://telecom-digest.org
Anonymous FTP: mirror.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/archives/
(or use our mirror site: ftp.epix.net/pub/telecom-archives)
RSS Syndication of TELECOM Digest: http://telecom-digest.org/rss.html
For syndication examples see http://www.feedrollpro.com/syndicate.php?id=308
and also http://feeds.feedburner.com/TelecomDigest
*************************************************************************
* TELECOM Digest is partially funded by a grant from *
* Judith Oppenheimer, President of ICB Inc. and purveyor of accurate *
* 800 & Dot Com News, Intelligence, Analysis, and Consulting. *
* http://ICBTollFree.com, http://1800TheExpert.com *
* Views expressed herein should not be construed as representing *
* views of Judith Oppenheimer or ICB Inc. *
*************************************************************************
ICB Toll Free News. Contact information is not sold, rented or leased.
One click a day feeds a person a meal. Go to http://www.thehungersite.com
Copyright 2004 ICB, Inc. and TELECOM Digest. All rights reserved.
Our attorney is Bill Levant, of Blue Bell, PA.
************************
DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE JUST 65 CENTS ONE OR TWO INQUIRIES CHARGED TO
YOUR CREDIT CARD! REAL TIME, UP TO DATE! SPONSORED BY TELECOM DIGEST
AND EASY411.COM SIGN UP AT http://www.easy411.com/telecomdigest !
************************
Visit http://www.mstm.okstate.edu and take the next step in your
career with a Master of Science in Telecommunications Management
(MSTM) degree from Oklahoma State University (OSU). This 35
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
************************
---------------------------------------------------------------
Finally, the Digest is funded by gifts from generous readers such as
yourself who provide funding in amounts deemed appropriate. Your help
is important and appreciated. A suggested donation of fifty dollars
per year per reader is considered appropriate. See our address above.
Please make at least a single donation to cover the cost of processing
your name to the mailing list.
All opinions expressed herein are deemed to be those of the
author. Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only
and messages should not be considered any official expression by the
organization.
End of TELECOM Digest V24 #368
******************************
| |