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Volume 28 : Issue 272 : "text" Format
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Re: Verizon strips murals from N.E.T. HQ at 185 Franklin St. in Boston
Re: Verizon strips murals from N.E.T. HQ at 185 Franklin St. in Boston
WU cellular phone business
Re: Guess What Texting Costs Your Wireless Provider?
Re: Western Union's satellite loss
Re: Western Union's satellite loss
Re: Western Union's satellite loss
M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree
At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard
Re: At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard
Re: USDOT seeks to discourage distracted driving
Blue Cross physicians warned of data breach / Stolen laptop had doctors' tax IDs
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:01:59 -0500
From: John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Verizon strips murals from N.E.T. HQ at 185 Franklin St. in Boston
Message-ID: <6645152a0910022001v5eae8ebfq45f5e7403e8dc3d1@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Bill Horne <bill@horneqrm.net> wrote:
>
> According to the Boston Herald, Verizon has outraged preservationists
> by removing the mural paintings that were shown in the lobby at 185
> Franklin St. in Boston. The paintings, which showed linemen,
> switchboard operators, horses, trucks, switches, and various examples
> of poles, wires, etc., were the centerpiece of the lobby at the former
> headquarters of New England Telephone and Telegraph, where I once
> worked.
Perhaps I've been reading too much James Howard Kunstler, but I think
there is something to be said about not only preserving these
paintings but buildings from that era. Too often a building owner
decides it's more cost effective to tear down an old building and
build a new, bland, glass and steel monstrosity in its place. Older
buildings will have more maintenance issues and it can be difficult to
retrofit ADA mandated infrastructure. Even something as mundane as
upgrading the electric load capacity of a building can prove difficult
when the building wasn't built with high-power equipment in mind. I
don't know if this has been resolved, but in 2001 when New York
television stations had to relocate due to losing their perch in lower
Manhattan, some went back to using the Empire State Building, but had
to do so at reduced power because the infrastructure simply couldn't
handle a full-power transmitter.
We recently dropped off a child at Baylor University which has a mix
of old and new buildings. The old buildings are grand and
unambiguous. They're obviously university buildings and the entrances
are unmistakable. With the new buildings it's hard to tell if it's a
university building or an insecticide factory. And finding the front
door is a challenge because the building is an ugly, four-sided box
that doesn't welcome people into it.
We can only hope that Verizon is preserving a piece of history.
John
--
John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
Austin, Texas, USA
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 19:38:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Verizon strips murals from N.E.T. HQ at 185 Franklin St. in Boston
Message-ID: <1313b937-1230-4e4a-ad3a-3d384cb7bc9d@o36g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 3, 10:24 am, John Mayson <j...@mayson.us> wrote:
> Perhaps I've been reading too much James Howard Kunstler, but I think
> there is something to be said about not only preserving these
> paintings but buildings from that era. Too often a building owner
> decides it's more cost effective to tear down an old building and
> build a new, bland, glass and steel monstrosity in its place. Older
> buildings will have more maintenance issues and it can be difficult to
> retrofit ADA mandated infrastructure. Even something as mundane as
> upgrading the electric load capacity of a building can prove difficult
> when the building wasn't built with high-power equipment in mind. I
> don't know if this has been resolved, but in 2001 when New York
> television stations had to relocate due to losing their perch in lower
> Manhattan, some went back to using the Empire State Building, but had
> to do so at reduced power because the infrastructure simply couldn't
> handle a full-power transmitter.
Very true.
Another big expense is asbestos and PCB removal.
A number of telephone buildings are no longer used due to the
miniaturization of equipment and centralization of office functions.
Some old switching buildings were quite handsome, some newer office
buildings had noted architecture.
In Philadelphia, a key center at 1835 Arch Street was converted to
luxury housing. (The Phila. Western Union building was likewise
converted). The main Bell office building, One Parkway, was sold.
(IMHO that building was ugly).
Many people have organized historic preservation groups to fight to
preserve old buildings. The problem is that such buildings are
private property and it's unfair to impose a preservation burden, as
accurately described above, on a private individual or business.
Many people were outraged when the Pennsylvania Railroad tore down the
headhouse to its New York Pennsylvania Station. But the Pennsy was
losing big money running its trains for non-existant passengers and
paying heavy taxes and no one offered any help to it. Critics also
ignored that only the headhouse was gone, the heart and soul--the
trains themselves--remained with a new station to serve them.
***** Moderator's Note *****
I visited Ireland in 1986, and England in 1987, and I remember being
surprised at how little fuss there was about the use of "old"
buildings vs. new. We often saw medieval-looking walls on one building
cemented to new concrete foundations on the next, and both old
churches and old homes in ruins.
I think we in the U.S. pay so much attention to our history because we
have so little of it compared to other countries, and also because the
dizzying pace of change in our society causes us to long for a
"simpler" time, however recent it may have been.
Just my 2˘. YMMV.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 00:18:14 -0400
From: ed <bernies@netaxs.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: WU cellular phone business
Message-ID: <1254543494.4ac6d0863877e@webmail.uslec.net>
On Oct 1, 10:51 am, Monty Solomon <mo...@roscom.com> wrote:
> WU also sought to be a conventional cell phone provider, another
> effort that did not work out.
In the mid 1980's I installed a Western Union brand AMPS-compliant analog
cellular phone in a Cadillac and it was really a piece of work. The control
head looked like a handsome black business telephone with a normal-looking
telephone handset that had a coiled cord and squared-off earpiece and mic. The
base with the hookswitch had the WU logo, a normal-looking dialpad with square
keys, and a green or blue alpha-numeric display.
Cellular phones were a new concept then, so I think WU wanted this to feel as
much like a traditional business telephone as possible so business executives
would feel familiar with it.
The big 3-Watt transceiver in the trunk had a diversity receiver with two
separate TNC connectors for two 800 MHz band antennas. It had superb audio
quality and RF performance. I only once ever saw one of these phones, but it
was built extremely well. I think it cost well over $2000, at a time when there
were no carrier subsidies.
-ed
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 04:24:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Zee <zzaldy@gmail.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Guess What Texting Costs Your Wireless Provider?
Message-ID: <b98cb55a-e0f1-4e14-9a3d-8b1e235fac79@y10g2000prg.googlegroups.com>
On Sep 23, 10:17 pm, "Tony Toews \[MVP\]" <tto...@telusplanet.net>
wrote:
> "www.Queensbridge.us" <NOTva...@Queensbridge.us> wrote:
> > You can add a OneSuite Canadian access number to your Virgin [or any
> > other Canadian cell phone] for long distance as low as 2˘ a minute
> > Local access in Toronto, Vancouver+ Or Canadian 800# for higher
> > rate: I use them here in USA on my home phone.
>
> Do you have a specific URL for how this works with Virgin Mobile
> phones conveniently? Or is this a generic feature that works with all
> prepaid long distance calling cards requiring you do dial a number,
> enter your (I'm sure loooong) PIN, and then enter the phone number you
> really wanted to dial?
Here's Onesuite url -> http://www.onesuite.com/
Onesuite has Canadian local access numbers to Montreal, Vancouver,
Toronto. If you have a Onesuite account and use these local access
numbers then the rates for calling Canada is 1.9c per minute and US
for 2.5c per minute. You can set up your Onesuite account for a
PIN-less dialing and there's also an online phone book where you can
register your 50 most frequent called numbers and specify a 2 digit
code. So you can call much faster - Canada Onesuite local access
number + 2 digit code. Instead of Access number + PIN + 10 digit phone
number.
HTH
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:42:02 -0500
From: Neal McLain <nmclain@annsgarden.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Western Union's satellite loss
Message-ID: <4AC77EDA.3020109@annsgarden.com>
hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> I am curious as to how much of their microwave network
> they used in the 1980s, how much of their own pole lines
> were still in use, and how much they had to lease from
> AT&T.
Now that's a fascinating question. In my experience, I'd say that WU
owned zero poles, but I suppose there's an exception somewhere.
However, WU did own conduit-and-manhole structures as late as 1986.
In my entire career in the cable TV industry (1976-2000), I never
encountered a single utility pole owned by Western Union. In fact,
before I read your question, it hadn't occurred to me that WE might
still own any poles.
Cable TV companies typically lease pole-attachment rights from other
pole owners. Although most poles are owned by electric power or
telephone companies, I've written permit applications for poles owned
by municipal governments, county governments, state governments, the
federal government, private landowners, educational institutions,
other cable TV companies, and railroads.
But I never encountered a pole owned by WU.
Neal McLain
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 19:28:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Western Union's satellite loss
Message-ID: <42c0d0bd-ae30-44f2-8549-6b2510a47cb0@q14g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 3, 5:44 pm, Neal McLain <nmcl...@annsgarden.com> wrote:
> > I am curious as to how much of their microwave network
> > they used in the 1980s, how much of their own pole lines
> > were still in use, and how much they had to lease from
> > AT&T.
>
> Now that's a fascinating question. In my experience, I'd say that WU
> owned zero poles, but I suppose there's an exception somewhere.
> However, WU did own conduit-and-manhole structures as late as 1986.
WU had to transmit data from its microwave terminals to its end users
as well as service locations not connected by microwave. According to
a Sept 1980 NYT article, WU paid AT&T $106 million for leased lines in
1979, but if it didn't own its own network it would have to spend
another $30 million. "The WU network reaches 35 major cities across
the US and offers direct access and extension channels to most other
areas of the nation". The article noted WU's unfunded pension
liability was a concern. Later articles noted the high number of
pensioners relative to the number of employees.
> In my entire career in the cable TV industry (1976-2000), I never
> encountered a single utility pole owned by Western Union. In fact,
> before I read your question, it hadn't occurred to me that WE might
> still own any poles.
I wonder when they discontinued their pole lines. In 1975 AT&T still
used some pole lines for toll service, though almost everything was on
microwave or coax by that point.
Perhaps WU's lines were more concentrated on railroads.
As late as 1965 WU still had some Morse lines in service, which,
understandably, they didn't like to brag about.
> Cable TV companies typically lease pole-attachment rights from other
> pole owners. Although most poles are owned by electric power or
> telephone companies, I've written permit applications for poles owned
> by municipal governments, county governments, state governments, the
> federal government, private landowners, educational institutions,
> other cable TV companies, and railroads.
Did you ever utilize poles owned by street railroads or electric
railroads? Street railroad power is only 600 V, but many electrified
railroads were 11,000 V.
***** Moderator's Note *****
I'm curious which location(s) still had Morse circuits in operation in
1965: I'm a member of the Morse Telegraph Club, and the history of
Morse always interests me.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:21:32 -0500
From: Jim Haynes <jhaynes@cavern.uark.edu>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Western Union's satellite loss
Message-ID: <slrnhcg55i.539.jhaynes@localhost.localdomain>
On 2009-10-03, Neal McLain <nmclain@annsgarden.com> wrote:
> hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>
> In my entire career in the cable TV industry (1976-2000), I never
> encountered a single utility pole owned by Western Union. In fact,
> before I read your question, it hadn't occurred to me that WE might
> still own any poles.
>
I think most of W.U. pole lines ran along railroads, so they might not have
been where you would have encountered them.
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 17:36:53 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree
Message-ID: <p0624083ac6ed6f557d60@[10.0.1.5]>
M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree
By TAMAR LEWIN
The New York Times
October 2, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Cristen Chinea, a senior at M.I.T., made a
confession in her blog on the college Web site.
"There've been several times when I felt like I didn't really fit in
at M.I.T.," she wrote. "I nearly fell asleep during a Star Wars
marathon. It wasn't a result of sleep deprivation. I was bored out of
my mind."
Still, in other ways, Ms. Chinea feels right at home at the institute
- she loves the anime club, and that her hall has its own wiki Web
site and an Internet Relay for real-time messaging. As she wrote on
her blog, a hallmate once told her that "M.I.T. is the closest you
can get to living in the Internet," and Ms. Chinea reported, "IT IS
SO TRUE. Love. It. So. Much."
Dozens of colleges - including Amherst, Bates, Carleton, Colby,
Vassar, Wellesley and Yale - are embracing student blogs on their Web
sites, seeing them as a powerful marketing tool for high school
students, who these days are less interested in official messages and
statistics than in first-hand narratives and direct interaction with
current students.
But so far, none of the blogs match the interactivity and creativity
of those of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they are
posted prominently on the admissions homepage, along with hundreds of
responses from prospective applicants - all unedited.
Not every admissions office has been so ready to welcome uncensored
student writing.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/education/02blogs.html
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 17:36:53 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard
Message-ID: <p06240814c593163db10f@[10.0.1.6]>
At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard
By SARA RIMER
The New York Times
January 13, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - For as long as anyone can remember, introductory
physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was taught in a
vast windowless amphitheater known by its number, 26-100.
Squeezed into the rows of hard, folding wooden seats, as many as 300
freshmen anxiously took notes while the professor covered multiple
blackboards with mathematical formulas and explained the principles
of Newtonian mechanics and electromagnetism.
But now, with physicists across the country pushing for universities
to do a better job of teaching science, M.I.T. has made a striking
change.
The physics department has replaced the traditional large
introductory lecture with smaller classes that emphasize hands-on,
interactive, collaborative learning. Last fall, after years of
experimentation and debate and resistance from students, who
initially petitioned against it, the department made the change
permanent. Already, attendance is up and the failure rate has dropped
by more than 50 percent.
M.I.T. is not alone. Other universities are changing their ways,
among them Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, North Carolina State
University, the University of Maryland, the University of Colorado at
Boulder and Harvard. In these institutions, physicists have been
pioneering teaching methods drawn from research showing that most
students learn fundamental concepts more successfully, and are better
able to apply them, through interactive, collaborative,
student-centered learning.
The traditional 50-minute lecture was geared more toward physics
majors, said Eric Mazur, a physicist at Harvard who is a pioneer of
the new approach, and whose work has influenced the change at M.I.T.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/us/13physics.html
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:31:52 -0700
From: AES <siegman@stanford.edu>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard
Message-ID: <siegman-A64B61.17315103102009@news.stanford.edu>
> At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard
>
> By SARA RIMER
> The New York Times
> January 13, 2009
>
> CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - ***For as long as anyone can remember***,
> introductory physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> has been taught in a vast windowless amphitheater known by its
> number, 26-100.
Really?!? -- read on.
> But now, with physicists across the country pushing for universities
> to do a better job of teaching science, M.I.T. has made a striking
> change.
>
> The physics department has replaced the traditional large
> introductory lecture with smaller classes that emphasize hands-on,
> interactive, collaborative learning.
Type "MIT", "physics", and "Keller Plan" into Google
and get 290 hits, of which the first four, all dated 1971,
are appended below. The Abstract for one of these reads:
"Traces the development of a Personalized System of Instruction
(PSI) in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
through four semesters of large-scale use in introductory
courses [accompanied by massive hype and publicity about
the plan ... comment added] ***until the program's suspension
*** [a very short time later].
Rule 1: The more things change, the more things stay the same.
Rule 2: All major educational experiments are massive successes
[and are massively hyped as such].
Rule 3: All such experiments then quietly disappear.
==================
Physics Teaching by the Keller Plan at MIT
EJ041008 - Physics Teaching by the Keller Plan at MIT.
The Rise and Fall of PSI in Physics at MIT
EJ136804 - The Rise and Fall of PSI in Physics at MIT
Physics Teaching by the Keller Plan at MIT--[American Journal of ...
The Keller plan (a self-paced, student-tutored, mastery-
oriented instructional system) has spread widely ...
Physics Teaching by the Keller Plan at MIT.
Authors: Green, Ben A. Affiliation: Education Research Center,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, ...
***** Moderator's Note *****
The first hit I got was from http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ041008&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ041008
The title of the page I saw is "EJ041008 - Physics Teaching by the
Keller Plan at MIT". I don't know if it's a different version than the
one you used, but here's a quote from the first page:
Abstract: Reports experiences with the Keller Plan (a self-paced,
student-tutored, mastery-oriented system) in introductory physics,
including student reactions to course and comments on how the course
is run. Results of the program are favorable, with students reporting
more thorough and efficient learning. (PR)
I tried to read further, but the site says it doesn't have permission
to show it. This subject interests me A LOT: as the father of a
developmentally-delayed child, I've seen the inside of the beast that
passes for an educational "system" in the U.S., and I'd really like to
know more. Please provide more details on the reasons that the plan
proved ineffective, and when it was withdrawn. TIA.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:46:28 +1100
From: David Clayton <dcstar@NOSPAM.myrealbox.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: USDOT seeks to discourage distracted driving
Message-ID: <pan.2009.10.03.23.46.25.205557@NOSPAM.myrealbox.com>
On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:54:50 -0400, John Mayson wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, David Kaye wrote:
>
>> hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>
>>> Participants in the roads newsgroup are generally vehemently
>>> opposed to any restrictions on cellphone use. They are adamant
>>> that they are great drivers and can drive perfectly well while
>>> talking.
>>
>> Alcoholics also report that they are perfectly capable of driving
>> after 5 beers.
........
> I'm usually the last to say "the government should do something".
> But as I've said before, people simply aren't policing themselves so
> the state is stepping in. I think we should be ashamed of ourselves
> instead of being angry these laws are moving forward.
All sorts of behaviour that is obviously detrimental (like using
phones while driving) seems to be the subject of specific laws
throughout the Western world, and that outcome is becoming
increasingly annoying on many levels.
Perhaps we all need just one generic law that says that people are not
to engage in any behaviour that will endanger others - unless they can
*prove* that in their individual case that it doesn't.
As an example, there may well be people who can - either through
proper training or exceptional ability - control a moving vehicle as
well as use a phone, and if they can come up with some approved
accreditation of that ability then perhaps they should be allowed to
do so?
Having this requirement may well enlighten those who "think" that they
are capable of such things - and ignore any blanket prohibition laws
anyway - when they fail to meet whatever qualification is required.
Putting the bureaucratic emphasis on those who believe that they don't
deserve to to be impeded by a blanket ban on anything may end up to be
more effective than the current paradigm of some people ignoring these
bans anyway (and would allow for an ever increasing quantity of
specific laws to be removed).
Whole new industries could be created to improve people's skills in
all sorts of areas to "qualify" to be able to legally do things that
mere mortals are not allowed to do - it could end up with the general
population actually respecting the value of ongoing education because
they can see an immediate benefit to themselves!
--
Regards, David.
David Clayton
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a
measure of how many questions you have.
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 20:06:06 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Blue Cross physicians warned of data breach / Stolen laptop had doctors' tax IDs
Message-ID: <p0624084ac6ed96e8c3f7@[10.0.1.5]>
Blue Cross physicians warned of data breach
Stolen laptop had doctors' tax IDs
By Kay Lazar, Globe Staff | October 3, 2009
The Boston Globe
The largest health insurer in Massachusetts is warning roughly 39,000
physicians and other health care providers in the state that personal
information, including Social Security numbers, may have been
compromised after a laptop containing the data was stolen in August
from an employee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association's
national headquarters in Chicago.
The breach involves "tens of thousands'' of physicians nationwide,
although the precise number is unclear, according to a national Blue
Cross-Blue Shield spokesman. Thirty-nine affiliates feed information
about providers into a database maintained by the association's
national headquarters.
Massachusetts doctors were not notified by letter until yesterday,
because state Blue Cross-Blue Shield officials said they did not at
first know what kind of data were on the stolen laptop. They said the
data did not contain any information about patients or personal health
records.
...
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/10/03/blue_cross_physicians_warned_of_data_breach/
***** Moderator's Note *****
On Monday, I got a recorded "reverse-911" call from my son's former
school, telling me that a laptop had been stolen from a transportation
company that provided buses for the school in previous years. The
school official's recorded voice said "we thought it best to let you
know", but didn't mention the fact that Massachusetts law requires
disclosure of data theft, and also mentioned "identifying numbers" -
in other words, Social Security numbers - "may" have been in a
"deleted" file.
This kind of spin control is going to get more common, and so are data
loses: portable devices are getting more powerful, and will hold more
data, and employees at large companies are prone to myopia like
everyone else. It's easy to think that it's possible to get in another
hour of "work" on the train or in a car pool or on a bus, and easy to
rationalize the danger of leaving someone else's personal information
behind when you step off.
Bruce Schnier was right: eventually, the insurance industry will drive
change to a more secure paradigm - although I don't think it's
possible to get more simple than checking the box that says "Encrypt
folder contents to prevent unauthorized access" - because there will
be some precedent-setting lawsuits, and then those who have the data
will be forced to protect it.
In the meantime, I advise that anyone forced to entrust their personal
information to third parties simply lie: make up a new maiden name for
your mother, take a few years off your age, and (if you can't refuse
to provide it) scramble the digits on your ssn. You'll be amazed when
you find out that nobody ever complains: they say they need the info
for reporting or security or whatever, but what they really want is to
fill in the form on their screen and go home on time.
Bill Horne
Moderator
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