---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <jufsjdggevph$.nt0y1kxmal8j$.dlg@40tude.net> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 19:14:51 -0500 From: tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> Subject: Re: FCC Fines Verizon $1.35 Million for Using 'Supercookies' On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:51:14 -0500, Bill Horne asked: > Why is it that ... "three year plans" always seem to span > the months surrounding presidential elections? Because three out of four three-year plans will of necessity span (or at least be tangent to) an election year,while only one will fall neatly between election years -- after all, election years fall 4 years apart. HTH. Cheers, -- tlvp - - Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP. ***** Moderator's Note ***** I'm at a loss on how to categorize the above post: I've narrowed it down to either "Humor - Deadpan" or "Humor - Hyperbolic". Your thoughts? Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <FA2356E2-30A9-4F7E-905D-85FCE599F27B@roscom.com> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 09:31:35 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Android light switches I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was just as bad as you'd imagine ... And then I noticed something. My room number is 714. The IP address I was communicating with was 172.16.207.14. They wouldn't, would they? I mean yes obviously they would. ... http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/40505.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <MPG.314d74beef37430098a36e@208.90.168.18> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 00:35:45 -0600 From: Dave Garrett <dave@compassnet.com> Subject: Re: Typical service life of cell phones? In article <0ce160a9-2e9c-496f-bbc5-7e5322c375d1@googlegroups.com>, withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org says... > I was curious what is the typical service life of cell phones*. > Would anyone know? > > When my cell phone died, it was six years old. I didn't think > that was very old, but the phone company said that was ancient. I had a pair of Nokia 6102 flip phones that were in daily use by my wife and I for nine years. They were finally retired in favor of iPhone 3GSes; mine was still working perfectly well but my wife's had started to display intermittent problems. I didn't set out to conduct a longevity experiment, but had simply lost track of how long we'd had them. When I went to an AT&T store to get the new iPhones, the clerk that assisted me was shocked when he pulled up my account info and discovered how long we'd had the Nokias. Since then I'm on my third iPhone (a 6s). I kept both the 3GS and its successor, a 5, for three years, and in each case the biggest factors driving an upgrade were my desire for a faster CPU and a larger screen. The iPhones' main weakness as far as longevity seems to be the batteries - the ability of my 3GS to hold a charge had noticeably weakened by the time I upgraded to a 5. The 5 had its battery replaced at no charge by Apple under a recall program when it was two years old, the main reason I opted to keep using it for another year instead of upgrading when the 6 came out. ***** Moderator's Note ***** I was thinking that TD readers could use a place to send their old, but still usable cell phones, and then I remembered that I had seen a donation box for them at a store. Please send in nominees for the most worthwhile cell phone donation sites and your reasons for favoring them. I nominate myself: in a bizarre adjunct to the cats-with-buttered-toast corrollary to Murphy's Law, every cell phone I've ever dropped has landed in the only puddle to be seen within a mile. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <hu39eb5dfvd1h9ffhhed18jfa9206em941@4ax.com> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 17:00:22 -0500 From: Ron <ron@see.below> Subject: Re: FCC Fines Verizon $1.35 Million for Using 'Supercookies' tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> wrote: >On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:51:14 -0500, Bill Horne asked: > >> Why is it that ... "three year plans" always seem to span >> the months surrounding presidential elections? > >Because three out of four three-year plans will of necessity span (or at >least be tangent to) an election year,while only one will fall neatly >between election years -- after all, election years fall 4 years apart. > >HTH. Cheers, -- tlvp >- - >Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP. > >***** Moderator's Note ***** > >I'm at a loss on how to categorize the above post: I've narrowed it >down to either "Humor - Deadpan" or "Humor - Hyperbolic". Your >thoughts? I've categorized it as "Simple Mathematical Truth". Any random 3-year plan has a 3 out of 4 chance of hitting a 4-year election date. It's even higher if you include the primary. Very simple proof: start sample 3-year plans at the beginning of every month for 4 years. Count how many of those 3-year spans hit an arbitrary date. -- Ron (user telnom.for.plume in domain antichef.com) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <194qcwkqyr3kx.1ckgxdt4yek9r.dlg@40tude.net> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 14:53:15 -0500 From: tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> Subject: The length of a political year On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 19:14:51 -0500, responding to a post of mine, Moderator wrote: > ... > I'm at a loss on how to categorize the above post: I've narrowed it > down to either "Humor - Deadpan" or "Humor - Hyperbolic". Your > thoughts? How about, "Humor -- Dry Statistics" ? Cheers, -- tlvp +--------------------------------------------------------------+ Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP. ***** Moderator's Note ***** Humor and statistics? It's too easy, but I sometimes deviate from standards, and I'm an outlier anyway. The transformation of our treatment will reveal a mean conclusion: the most important part of analyzing the half-life of political promises is to avoid Simpson's Paradox. Bill Horne Moderator P.S. Subject changed and post de-threaded. You're welcome. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <4D68186B-D637-4724-B43B-68110991D1D1@roscom.com> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 14:28:00 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: WhatsApp Encryption Said to Stymie Wiretap Order A fight with WhatsApp, the world's largest mobile messaging service, would open a new front in the Obama administration's dispute with Silicon Valley over encryption, security and privacy. WASHINGTON - While the Justice Department wages a public fight with Apple over access to a locked iPhone, government officials are privately debating how to resolve a prolonged standoff with another technology company, WhatsApp, over access to its popular instant messaging application, officials and others involved in the case said. No decision has been made, but a court fight with WhatsApp, the world's largest mobile messaging service, would open a new front in the Obama administration's dispute with Silicon Valley over encryption, security and privacy. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/us/politics/whatsapp-encryption-said-to-stymie-wiretap-order.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <nc274n$u5b$1@dont-email.me> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 23:01:43 -0000 (UTC) From: David Clayton <dc33box-cdt@yahoo.com.au> Subject: Re: Android light switches On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 09:31:35 -0500, Monty Solomon wrote: > I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was just as bad as > you'd imagine > > ... And then I noticed something. My room number is 714. The IP address > I was communicating with was 172.16.207.14. They wouldn't, would they? > > I mean yes obviously they would. ... > > http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/40505.html That will last until a guest sues the backside off a hotel when they fall and hurt themselves in their room when the lights "mysteriously" turn off. --- Regards, David. David Clayton, e-mail: dc33box-cdt@yahoo.com.au Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a measure of how many questions you have. ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 13 Mar 2016