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TELECOM Digest Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:39:00 EDT Volume 24 : Issue 375
Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson
Authors Offer Immortality in Web Auction (Claudia Parsons)
Arizona School Trades Books for Laptops (Arthur Rotstein)
Re: Not so Fast! 'xxx' Startup Put on Hold (Mark Crispin)
Re: Not so Fast! 'xxx' Startup Put on Hold (Steve Sobol)
Re: Broadband Competition Must Surely be Working (Steve Sobol)
Re: Telephone Exchange Usage in Low-Volume States (Neal McLain)
Re: Stromberg Carlson Company? (John McHarry)
Re: Hiroshima Marks 60th Anniversary of Atomic Bomb Attack (G Novosielski)
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From: Claudia Parsons <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Authors Offer Immortality in Web Auction
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:25:02 -0500
By Claudia Parsons
How much would you pay to be immortalized as a zombie in a Stephen
King novel or a good guy in a John Grisham thriller?
King and Grisham are among 16 authors selling the right to have a
character in a book named for the buyer to raise money for the First
Amendment Project, a California-based nonprofit group that promotes
freedom of information and expression.
Details of exactly what each author is offering have been posted on
Internet auction site eBay and the auctions will be held between
September 1 and September 25, the group said on Tuesday.
King said he was offering the chance to name a character in a novel
called "CELL," to be published in 2006 or 2007.
"Buyer should be aware that 'CELL' is a violent piece of work, which
comes complete with zombies set in motion by bad cell phone signals
that destroy the human brain," King said.
"Like cheap whiskey, it's very nasty and extremely satisfying," he
said on the site, adding that if the buyer wanted the character to diee,
it must be a female name.
David Greene of the First Amendment Project, which provides legal
representation in freedom of expression cases, said fans had already
shown significant interest.
"My job is to put out the most conservative estimate and we're hoping
to raise somewhere between $40,000 and $50,000 between the 16
authors," Greene told Reuters.
The auction is not without precedent -- religious fiction writer Karen
Kingsbury has raised some $100,000 for charity in recent years through
a series of auctions that her publicists say bring an average of
$2,500 per sale.
In the auction posting at http://www.ebay.com/fap, legal writer
Grisham promised the character whose name he is selling would be
portrayed "in a good light" in his next novel.
Amy Tan, author of "The Joy Luck Club," and best-selling romance
writer Nora Roberts are also offering names, but they gave no
guarantees about what sort of character it would be.
The author of the children's series "Lemony Snicket's A Series of
Unfortunate Events" is selling "an utterance" by the infant Sunny
Baudelaire, the youngest of the three orphan children whose adventures
are chronicled in the books.
"Pronunciation and/or spelling may be slightly 'mutilated.' An example
of this is in 'The Grim Grotto' when Sunny utters 'Bushkey,"' the
posting said.
Dave Eggers, author of the memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering
Genius," said his buyer would be featured in an illustrated story
called "The Journey of the Fishes Overland."
Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited.
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From: Arthur H. Rotstein <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Arizona High School Trades Books for Laptops
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:25:26 -0500
By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN, Associated Press Writer
Students at Empire High School here started class this year with
no textbooks - but it wasn't because of a funding crisis. Instead, the
school issued iBooks - laptop computers by Apple Computer Inc. -- to each
of its 340 students, becoming one of the first U.S. public schools to
shun printed textbooks.
School officials believe the electronic materials will get students
more engaged in learning. Empire High, which opened for the first time
this year, was designed specifically to have a textbook-free
environment.
"We've always been pretty aggressive in use of technology and we have
a history of taking risks," said Calvin Baker, superintendent of the
Vail Unified School District, which has 7,000 students outside of
Tucson.
Schools typically overlay computers onto their instruction "like
frosting on the cake," Baker said. "We decided that the real
opportunity was to make the laptops the key ingredient of the
cake ... to truly change the way that schools operated."
Two years ago, about 600 school districts nationwide had pilot
projects to provide laptops for each student -- a figure that's likely
doubled since then, said Mark Schneiderman, director of federal
education policy for the Software and Information Industry Association
in Washington.
But most still issue textbooks -- for now.
"Because most schools are not starting from scratch ... most districts
are using a blended approach now and will phase out their printed
textbooks," he said.
For example, in the Henrico County school system near Richmond, Va.,
students in 23 middle and high schools will be using laptops for the
fifth straight year, though teachers still use textbooks, said
spokesman Mychael Dickerson.
Many publishers of traditional textbooks are offering digital formats
to address the growing use of computers, and that provided some of the
material for Empire High's curriculum. Teachers also used subscription
services and free Web resources.
Students get the materials over the school's wireless Internet
network. The school has a central filtering system that limits what
can be downloaded on campus. The system also controls chat room visits
and instant messaging that might otherwise distract wired students.
Students can turn in homework online. A Web program checks against
Internet sources for plagiarized material and against the work of
other students, Baker said. "If you copy from your buddy, it's going
to get caught," he said.
Before Empire High opened, officials looked at the use of laptops in
other schools and decided that high school students were more engaged
when using computers. Unlike many adults, teens weaned on digital
material seem to have little difficulty adapting to reading primarily
on computer screens, Baker said.
But educators also decided they could do more with the technology.
In addition to offering up-to-date information, teachers can make the
curriculum more dynamic. For example, lessons in social studies, which
might previously have been done in summaries, can include links to
full Supreme Court rulings or an explorer's personal account of a
discovery.
Social studies teacher Jeremy Gypton said the transition was easier
than expected. Gypton said he assigns readings based on Web sites,
lists postings to news articles, uses online groups and message boards
to keep the students connected on weekends and asks them to comment on
each other's work.
One of the more surprising things, he said, was finding that students'
proficiency at video games and e-mail hasn't always translated into
other computer skills.
"One of the greatest challenges actually is getting the kids up to
speed in using Word, in using an Internet browser for other than a
simple global search," Gypton said.
All of Empire's students knew about the laptop-only setup when they
enrolled, and students who were uncomfortable with it were allowed to
enroll in the district's other, more traditional schools. But Empire
has a waiting list.
Julian Tarazon, a freshman, said he doesn't miss lugging around a
bag full of books.
"It was kind of hard at first, because you had to put things in
folders," Julian said, referring, naturally, to virtual folders on his
computer's desktop. "After a couple of days, you kind of get used to
it."
Freshman Morgan Northcutt said the computer system has made it easier
to do assignments, and she isn't as likely to lose them.
"There's complications like hooking up with the Internet, but other
than that it's been pretty easy," Morgan said.
The school isn't entirely paperless, however. It has a library,
and students are often assigned outside reading.
"We're not trying to eliminate books," Baker said. "We love
books."
On the Net:
Vail School District: http://www.vail.k12.az.us/index.php
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From: Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>
Subject: Re: Not so Fast! 'xxx' Startup Put on Hold
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:20:10 -0700
Organization: University of Washington
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, TELECOM Digest Editor noted in response to
Mark Crispin:
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Also see article on how substantially
> child porn is growing on the net elsewhere in this issue of the
> Digest. PAT]
And how, pray tell, would an .xxx TLD address the problem of child
pornography?
As far as I know, rumors to the contrary about certain Scandinavian
countries notwithstanding, child pornography is completely illegal
throughout the world. This is not "restricted" pornography which would
presumably go into an .xxx TLD; it is "prohibited pornography" which has
no legitimate home.
It is inaccurate and misleading to bring up the question of child
pornography in a serious discussion of whether or not an .xxx TLD is a
good idea.
-- Mark --
http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: The Editor's Note in question was
intended as a _cross reference_ on the topic of 'adult' web sites
which appeared in the same issue, no more, no less. And unless you
wish to be in denial (not all that uncommon I have found in many
Usenet newsgroups) child pornography -- legal or illegal not with-
standing, -- is a _major_ part of the overall 'adult web site' scene on
the net. The Editor's Note was not intended to either justify nor
disparage the use of .xxx and kiddie porn. I am sorry you jumped the
gun and made that association. PAT]
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From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Subject: Re: Not so Fast! 'xxx' Startup Put on Hold
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:34:29 -0700
Organization: Glorb Internet Services, http://www.glorb.com
Mark Crispin wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, the News Wire reported:
>> That didn't sit well with conservative activists who worry that a .xxx
>> domain will further legitimize the porn industry and won't make it
>> easier to avoid sexual content online.
> Leaving aside their motivations, they are correct in their overall
> assessment of the undesirability of a .xxx TLD.
... because?
TELECOM Digest Editor noted in reponse to Mark Crispin:
> One thing that 'xxx' _would_ do is provide a good screening and
> filtering mechanism for 'adult' purveyors who did _not_ want to be
> bothered by kids coming around, etc (when combined with their other
> validation techniques such as credit card proof of age, etc.). People
> who were so inclined could filter out 'xxx' in the same way they can
> filter out other spam and trash. What's your objection to that? PAT]
Ditto.
Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED
Company website: http://JustThe.net/
Personal blog, resume, portfolio: http://SteveSobol.com/
E: sjsobol@JustThe.net Snail: 22674 Motnocab Road, Apple Valley, CA 92307
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Just as it is quite common on the net
to see misleading email with subject lines such as "You have money
coming" and it turns out to be a Nigerian Spam or a phisher notice to
restore your PayPal account (I get forty or fifty of those most days)
or very likely a phisher solicitation to apply for a mortgage loan
(and thus 'get the money you have coming'), it is not uncommon these
days to get email with the title 'Religious Education' which links to
a picture of an alleged 'Catholic priest' molesting a boy or something
equally misleading, always of course with a price tag involved to view
the 'lessons' in more detail as long as you have a valid credit card
or a telephone number to which third-party billing can be
applied. Even more so than the typical phisher scam, the kiddie porn
peddlers on the net (of which there are plenty) need that sort of
deceptive approach in order to get their mail read. If you ask me,
not only should there be an .xxx domain, but a .scam and .spam domain
as well to make it easier to avoid all that stuff if you consider it
the same bore that I do. Obviously many of the Usenetters and their
buddies at ICANN would not agree with my assessment, but who cares?
They seldom agree with Real World on anything. PAT]
------------------------------
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Subject: Re: Broadband Competition Must Surely be Working
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:32:23 -0700
Organization: Glorb Internet Services, http://www.glorb.com
AES wrote:
>> What has now been confirmed by calls to Verizon is that
>> - Once the fiber connection is established all services, including
>> voice, are moved to the fiber and the copper wires are pulled,
>> making it impossible to return to standard DSL in spite of the
>> supposed 30-day trial period.
>> - The lowest cost package for the fiber connection is 30% more
>> expensive than their standard DSL offering
>> - They will absolutely NOT allow connections to other ISP's over
>> the fiber connection, essentially limiting ISP's other than
>> MSN to dialup customers.
>> - The lowest-cost package from Verizon that will allow me to
>> continue to run my own servers and host my own domain (something
>> my local independent ISP actively supports) will cost $99/mo.
>> So, while the landscape today includes a diverse collection of local
>> and national ISP's with a range of services and cost options, the
>> future will be dialup at $10-15/month or Comcast or Verizon/MSN at
>> ~$50/mo. No more local businesses, no more local customer service, no
>> choice of services.
> If accurately described here (and I have no reason to think it isn't)
> this is absolutely criminal -- and probably entirely typical of what
> most or all "broadband to the premises" types services (copper, cable,
> fiber or wireless will try to impose on us).
Now hold on a second. I'm in Apple Valley, California, one of the
market areas where Verizon is rolling out FIOS (no ETA yet). $99 may
be the cheapest price for a connection where you can run servers, but
there ARE less expensive packages available that still give you lots
of speed.
So, I think we'd need to compare apples to apples where cost is
concerned. Many existing fiber and copper broadband providers don't
let you run servers on the cheap connections either.
I'm no fan of Verizon, but let's be fair ...
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But what the cableco will _claim_ is
> that the 'right of way' is not publicly owned; and telco will claim
> that municipal ownership of the right of way gives unfair competition
> to them in providing ISP services. Or so they will all claim. PAT]
Of course.
hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> Only subscribers who sign up for FIOS will get fibre to their front
> door. It is rather expensive to run the fibre and terminal box
> (actually the terminal box is pricey) to your front door. The old
> phone loop won't go anywhere.
And you can insist that they not get rid of the copper pairs, too. I know
someone down in Florida who has done this.
Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED
Company website: http://JustThe.net/
Personal blog, resume, portfolio: http://SteveSobol.com/
E: sjsobol@JustThe.net Snail: 22674 Motnocab Road, Apple Valley, CA 92307
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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:38:15 -0500
From: Neal McLain <nmclain@annsgarden.com>
Reply-To: nmclain@annsgarden.com
Subject: Re: Telephone Exchange Usage in Low-Volume States
I wrote:
> In order to accommodate inbound DDD, it was essential that every
> number have a 7-digit format. But SxS switches couldn't
> accommodate 7-digit dialing, so telcos faked 7-digit numbers by
> prepending dummy digits. Local calls continued to be dialable
> with only four or five digits; however, if a local caller
> actually dialed all seven digits, the prepended digits were
> absorbed by "absorbing selectors" -- i.e. ignored.
Whereupon bv124@aol.com responded:
> I don't understand. Below is the local dialing plan we had when
> I was in school.
> Carbondale, IL, (Jackson County) 1971 General Telephone
> 618-453 - So. Il. Univ., Carbondale. IL
> 618-457 - Carbondale, IL
> 618-549 - Carbondale, IL
> 618-867 - De Soto, IL
> 618-684 - Murphysboro, IL
> 618-687 - Murphysboro, IL
> From/to any Carbondale NXX (1, 2, or 3): 5-digits allowed,
> 7-digits supported (618-453 required a ?9? to dial out from the
> university, but 5-digits allowed within the university
> PBX/Centrex/whatever)
> From Carbondale NXX (1, 2, 3) to De Soto (4): 7-digits required
> From Carbondale NXX (1, 2, 3) to Murphysboro, (5, 6): 7-digits
> required.
> From Murphysboro or De Soto to Carbondale, 7-digits required.
> (I believe that locally, only 5-digits were required in
> Murphysboro and only 4-digits in De Soto.)
My guess: the GTE Carbondale office used type "AR" (absorb repeatedly)
selectors on the 4th and 5th levels. Local (within Carbondale) calls
were dialable with only five digits, but if a local caller dialed all
seven digits, the prepended digits (4 and/or 5) were absorbed and
ignored. Nearby communities (7-digit dialable) were segregated on
separate levels (6th and 8th).
Which means that you could have dialed any combination of 4s and 5s
before dialing anything else, with no effect on the end result. For
example, you could have dialed 444554444555544443-XXXX to reach SIU.
With this in mind, the Carbondale dialing plan would have been:
----- ---------- ------------ ----------------------
LEVEL LOCAL INBOUND DDD RESULT
----- ---------- ------------ ----------------------
1 11X Vertical service codes
2 Blank level ?
3 3-XXXX 618-453-XXXX SIU., Carbondale. IL
4 absorbed
5 absorbed
6 68X-XXXX 618-68X-XXXX Murphysboro, IL
7 7-XXXX 618-457-XXXX Carbondale, IL
8 867-XXXX 618-867-XXXX De Soto, IL
9 9-XXXX 618-549-XXXX Carbondale, IL
0 0 0 Operator
----- ---------- ------------ ----------------------
If my guess is correct, the 2nd level would have been blank (perhaps an
error tone). Did you ever dial it to see what happened?
bv124@aol.com continued:
> Outside of these 3 exchanges, but within the 618 NPA:
> 1+7-digits required Outside the 618 NPA: 1+NPA+7-digits
> required
I suspect it's now:
Within the 618 NPA: 1+618+7-digits
Outside the 618 NPA: 1+NPA+7-digits
Unless the ICC has adopted the New York/California plan in 618, in which
case it's now:
Within the 618 NPA: 7-digits
Outside the 618 NPA: 1+NPA+7-digits
In this same thread, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com noted:
> As long as the dialing is unique, there is no reason that an ESS
> couldn't absorb digits just like an SxS could.
True. But it would have been enormously complicated, if not impossible,
to add more NNX prefixes as the community grew. A case in point: the
Carbondale office described above. (Note that I use NNX here, rather
than NXX, because most of the crossbar/ESS conversions occurred long
before 01/01/95.)
I realize that Illinois isn't one of the "low-volume states" that you
mentioned in your posting. But the problems associated with five-digit
dialing are universal, and occur in all states.
In 1971, there was only one unused level in Carbondale (2nd), so only
one new NNX would have been possible: NN2. The obvious choices would
have been 442, 452, 542, or 552 (to maintain the look and feel of the
existing NNXs); however, it appears that all four were already in use
NPA 618. So GTE would have had to find something on the 6th or 8th
levels (as it happens, 618-862 is still available today).
In any case, NN2 would have been the last non-conflicting NNX available
in Carbondale.
Now imagine yourself trying to play this game in every small community
across southern Illinois (or any other area code). In every case, you'd
have to pick a new NNX that:
- Wasn't already in use elsewhere in the area code.
- Didn't conflict with the local dialing plan.
- Didn't conflict with the dialing plan in any nearby community.
And you probably wouldn't even have Lotus 1-2-3 to help you do it!
Footnote: new prefixes in Carbondale today include 319, 351, 503, and
529. SIU's centrex has added 536.
Neal McLain
------------------------------
From: John McHarry <jmcharry@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Stromberg Carlson Company?
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:35:25 GMT
Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:59:42 +0000, Steven Lichter wrote:
> General Dynamics still has a full service COEI Installation division, I
> get calls from their recruters a couple times a year. I know that GD
> had bought Stromberg Carlson.
Siemens offers the DCO on its web site. They also give Broken Sound
Boulevard as an address. They might have outsourced the installation.
------------------------------
From: Gary Novosielski <gpn@suespammers.org>
Subject: Re: Hiroshima Marks 60th Anniversary of Atomic Bomb Attack
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:04:54 GMT
hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: A group of World War Two veterans in
> a counter-demonstration over the weekend at Arlington Cemetery carried
> banners which stated 'had there been no Pearl Harbor there would
> have been no Hiroshima.' PAT]
Nice turn of a phrase, but it certainly does not follow. It presumes
that, but for Pearl Harbor, the U.S. would /never/ have entered the war.
I suppose that's possible, but it's equally possible that some other
provocation would have been found, even if it had to be manufactured.
Recall that the Tonkin Gulf incident which got us into Vietnam was
manufactured, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait prior to Gulf War I was all
but instigated by the State department, and the WMD stockpiles that
justified Gulf War II were simply invented out of thin air.
With these and other (remember the Maine?) pretextual war triggers
confirmed, is it any wonder that Pearl Harbor itself is now the subject
of several conspiracy theories? The most popular, which is considered
"common knowledge" throughout the U.S. Army Signal Corps, is that
warnings of the approaching attack force were provided long in advance,
but that the "top brass" decided not to repel the attack, but rather
just to "ride it out", knowing that a "sneak" attack would surely lead
to a war declaration, whereas a successfully repelled one might not.
I'd hate to believe that, but at this point I don't know if it's crazier
to believe it or to dismiss it.
Gary
"I try to be cynical, but I can't keep up." --Lilly Tomlin
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