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TELECOM Digest     Sun, 27 Nov 2005 19:51:00 EST    Volume 24 : Issue 536

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Web Site Operators Guilty of Phishing (Associated Press News Wire)
    China Plans to Put Man on Moon by 2020 (Min Lee)
    Our New Classified Advertisements Area (TELECOM Digest Editor)
    Wireless Moves the Cash Register Where You Are (Monty Solomon)
    Sick of Automation? Dial 0 For Human (Monty Solomon)
    Communities Using Reverse 911 to Notify Residents of Emergencies (Solomon)
    Sony BMG DRM Info and Litigation Pages (Monty Solomon)
    Seeking External Ringer with Crescendo (Jeff Sutter)
    CFP: IEEE Services Computing (SCC 2006) (Mailing List Webmaster)
    Re: Personal Computers Enlisted in AIDS Research (Gene S. Berkowitz)
    Re: Auto Call Forward (DevilsPGD)
    John Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby (Patrick Townson)

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From: Associated Press News Wire <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Web Site Operators Guilty of Phishing
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:40:28 -0600


Web Site Operators Admit Role In Phishing Ring

The scammers got at least 1.5 million stolen credit card numbers and
caused more than $4 million in losses, federal prosecutors said.

By The Associated Press

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174400097

NEWARK, N.J. (AP)--Six more people pleaded guilty Thursday to
operating a Web site that investigators claimed was one of the largest
online centers for trafficking in stolen identity information and
credit cards.

With others who pleaded guilty in recent weeks, that brings to 12
people who acknowledged roles with the site,
http://www.shadowcrew.com, which had about 4,000 members who dealt
with at least 1.5 million stolen credit card numbers and caused more
than $4 million in losses, federal prosecutors said.

"The losses incurred were to the issuing banks and MasterCard, Visa,
American Express, who reimbursed those who were victimized by these
crimes," Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Dowd said.

Eight of those who pleaded guilty were among 19 in the United States
and abroad who were indicted in October 2004 after federal agents
gained control of the site during a yearlong undercover investigation
by the Secret Service and other agencies. Of the remaining 11, five
are fugitives and six still have charges pending.

The other four who pleaded guilty were among eight people charged by a
federal complaint.

The site used techniques such as "phishing" and spamming to illegally
obtain credit and bank card information, which were used to buy goods
on the Internet.

Phishing scams use e-mails that appear to come from banks or other
financial institutions to induce recipients to verify their accounts
by typing personal details -- credit card information, for example --
into a Web site disguised to appear legitimate.

Because sex-oriented web sites are frequently chosen for use as scam
sites -- because of their overall popularity -- it is recommended that
you be very cautious in providing any financial details to sex-based
web sites.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. 

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From: Min Lee <ap@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: China Plans to Put Man on Moon by 2020
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:35:48 -0600


By MIN LEE, Associated Press Writer

Fresh from its second manned space mission, China's space program
wants to be able to put a man on the moon and build a space station in
15 years, an official said Sunday.

"I think in about 10 to 15 years, we will have the ability to build
our own space station and to carry out a manned moon landing," said Hu
Shixiang, deputy commander of China's manned space flight program.

But the goal is subject to getting enough funds from the government,
Hu said, explaining that the space program must fit in the larger
scheme of the country's overall development.

Hu was in Hong Kong with the two astronauts who conducted China's
second successful manned space mission in October. He spoke during a
televised question-and-answer session with executives from various
television stations and newspapers.

Nie Haisheng and Fei Junlong circled Earth for five days aboard the
Shenzhou 6 capsule, traveling 2 million miles in 115 hours, 32
minutes. China's first manned mission was in 2003, when astronaut Yang
Liwei orbited for 21 1/2 hours.

China wants to master the technology for a space walk and docking in
space by 2012, Hu said. He said China was developing its space program
at its own pace, not in competition with the United States. "It's not
the competition of the Cold War era," he said.

Hu stressed China's intention to use space exploration for peaceful
ends, saying the government "is willing to work hard with people
around the world for the peaceful use of space."

He said Chinese space officials want to study the possibility of
making rockets with the capacity to carry spacecraft weighing 27.5
tons -- three times the capacity of their existing rockets -- but the
government hasn't approved the funding.

Hu dismissed suggestions the space program is too costly for a country
that, despite rapid economic growth, is still struggling to eradicate
rural poverty.

He noted the recent space mission cost $111.4 million, compared to the
$23.5 billion that China spent on combating pollution last year.


Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. 

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Subject: Our New Classified Advertisements Area
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:37:09 EST
From: ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu (TELECOM Digest Editor)


Starting officially on December 1, but open now for you to review and
make postings in at no charge are the TELECOM Digest Classifieds, also
known as Operator Pat's Bulletin Board.

You'll find it at http://telecom-digest.org/classified.html You can
post or respond to telecom-related postings by others relating to
items for sale, (want to buy) and/or Help Wanted (and Looking for
Work). It works like any other newspaper classified ads section and it
is free until December 1, then a voluntary donation will be requested
of 25 cents per word/month, using the PayPal logo. Feel free to
buy/sell/seek employment in this new section each day. You control how
long the ad stays up, just like with newspapers. If the item is sold
or no longer available, please use the provision to erase it.

This has changed! I posted it earlier saying one dollar per line then
a user pointed out that the number of lines you type in will vary from
one editor program to another. But based on the columns formatted in
the classified section and the type font, it appears three to five
words per 'line' is likely. 

I hope this will be a useful feature.

PAT

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 00:20:21 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Wireless Moves the Cash Register Where You Are


By JENNIFER A. KINGSON

When Michelle Dub, a golf instructor in Rancho Santa Margarita,
Calif., finishes a lesson, she whips out her BlackBerry wireless
device -- to schedule the next appointment, sure, but also to swipe
the student's credit card for payment right there on the driving
range.

It takes only a few seconds, and it saves Ms. Dub a trip to the bank 
to deposit a check or a fistful of cash. Plus, her clients like it. 
"They're just surprised -- they're like, 'Wow, you're a 
techno-wizard,' " she said.

The novelty may soon wear off. Plumbers, limousine drivers, flea
market proprietors and merchants of all sizes and stripes are
beginning to take credit and debit cards in odd places, often using
nothing more than an ordinary cellphone and a card swipe attachment,
or a handheld device with a built-in swipe slot. Now that wireless
networks span the nation and devices that tap into them are cheap and
reliable, expectations for the technology are running high outside
these niches.

Already in some restaurants a waiter will swipe a credit card
tableside (a practice that is widespread in Europe), and some car
rental companies use hand-held devices to check people out when they
return cars. A day could soon come when a clerk at a large department
store will ask customers in the aisle if they would like to check out
there, or a shopping cart at the grocery will have a built-in scanner
and card reader.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/26/business/yourmoney/26swipe.html?ex=3D12906=
61200&en=3De4bd50eec718fea2&ei=3D5090

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 01:09:20 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Sick of Automation? Dial 0 for Human


By Bruce Mohl, Globe Staff

The frustration is all too familiar: Call a company's customer service
line, and chances are you'll have a hard time reaching a human.

Paul English of Arlington got tired of dealing with computerized voice
systems and decided there was only way around it: He would put
together a cheat sheet. It started small, with the 10 companies that
frustrated him the most.

But the list started growing after the 42-year-old software engineer
posted it on his website earlier this year and invited readers to make
their own contributions. He now has tips for quickly reaching an
actual person at 108 companies.

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/11/06/sick_of_automation_dial_0_for_human/

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/11/06/a_brief_cheat_sheet/

http://www.paulenglish.com/ivr/

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 01:23:04 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Communities Using Reverse 911 to Notify Residents of Emergencies


By David Tirrell-Wysocki, Associated Press Writer

CONCORD, N.H. --If this service had been available in 1775, Paul
Revere might not have had to make his famous ride. He could have had
the constabulary pick up their Colonial telephones, record "The
Regulars are coming!" and push a button.

It's called Reverse 911, and more and more New Hampshire communities
are using it to warn residents of everything from fugitives on the
loose to potential flooding or missing children.

"The uses are only limited by the creativity of the people using it,"
said Derry Fire Lt. Brett Scholbe.

Instead of making individual telephone calls or using a bullhorn or
public address speaker to warn of danger, a dispatcher records a short
message, tells a computer who needs to hear it and sends it on its
way.

The system, which is growing in popularity nationwide, can make
hundreds of calls an hour, directed to specific neighborhoods,
downtown businesses, specified groups of people such as emergency
responders or an entire community.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2005/11/25/communities_using_reverse_911_to_notify_residents_of_emergencies/

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:49:50 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Sony BMG DRM Info and Litigation Pages


Groklaw page on Sony BMG DRM issues and litigation
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20051122010323323

EFF Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Sony BMG
Sony BMG Litigation and Rootkit Info
http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/Sony-BMG/

A Spotters' Guide to XCP and SunnComm's MediaMax
http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/Sony-BMG/guide.php

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From: Jeff Sutter <lurkeroo@yahoo.com>
Subject: Seeking External Ringer With Crescendo
Date: 26 Nov 2005 14:19:55 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Hello, Telecom Gurus.

My aging father spills his drink every time the phone rings.  He's
going deaf and blind, but refuses to turn the ringer down from "747"
to "air horn".

I've seen in alarm clocks and cell phones, where ringing volume starts
softly, and rises over time.  But I've yet to find an external ringer
for a landline that does the same.  Any suggestions are appreciated,
as they would save weekly trips to the dry cleaners.

(Visual ringers (strobes) and vibrators induce the same panic
response.)


Cheers,

Jeff

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:40:41 -0500
Subject: CFP: IEEE Services Computing (SCC 2006)
From: Mailing List Webmaster <noreply@servicescomputing.org>


CALL FOR PAPERS

2006 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2006)
===================================================================

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of IEEE Computer Society!  September
18-22, 2006, Hyatt Regency at O'Hare Airport, Chicago, USA
http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2006 Theme: Services, Solutions,
and Business Models of Services Computing

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society
Technical Committee on Services Computing (tab.computer.org/tcsc)

The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC
2006) is celebrating the 60th Anniversary of IEEE Computer Society!
Building on its great success in 2004 and 2005, SCC 2006 continues to
bridge the gap between Services Computing and Business models with an
emerging suite of ground-breaking technology that includes
service-oriented architecture, business process integration and
management, grid/utility/autonomic computing and mobile computing such
as ad-hoc networks (MANETs). SCC 2006 will be co-located with the 2006
IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006), the 30th
Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference
(COMPSAC 2006), and the 2006 IEEE Workshops on Software Technology and
Engineering Practice (STEP 2006). IEEE Services Oriented Architecture
(SOA) Industry Summit and IEEE International Services Computing
Contest will be featured at this joint event. The theme of SCC 2006 is
"Services, Solutions, and Business Models of Services Computing"

Services Computing, as a new cross discipline, addresses how to enable
IT technology to help people perform business processes more
efficiently and effectively. At the core of a business model is a set
of processes that jointly help yield a profit in an organization. As
we can see, Services Computing currently shapes the processes of
business modeling, business consulting, solution creation, service
delivery, and software architecture design, development and
deployment. The global nature of Services Computing leads to many
opportunities and few challenges and creates a new networked economic
structure for supporting different business models. SCC 2006 has the
following three major research tracks: Foundations of Services
Computing, Services-Centric Business Models, and Business Process
Integration and Management.

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers
that are not being considered in another forum. Manuscripts will be
limited to 8 (IEEE Proceeding style) pages and be printed on 10 or 11
size font. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings
Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. Electronic submission of
manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed
Instructions for electronic paper submission, panel proposals,
tutorial proposals, and review process can be found at
http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2006/. At least one author of
each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present
the paper. The enhanced version of the selected papers published in
SCC 2006 will be invited for publication in the International Journal
of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), the
International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), the
International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC), and
possibly other reputable journals. One Best Paper award and 1-3
Best Student Paper Awards will be presented by SCC 2006. The first
author of the best student papers should be full-time student. Topics
of interest include, but are NOT limited to, the following:

Foundations of Services Computing: 
- Services Science
- Services Modeling and Implementation
- Services Delivery, Deployment and Maintenance
- Services Value Chains and Innovation Lifecycle
- Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Standards and Solution Stacks
- Services-based Grid/Utility/Autonomic Computing
- Services Computing in Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs)
- Services Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration
- Services Security, Privacy and Trust
- Quality of Services (QoS) and Cost of Services (CoS)
- Ontology and Semantic Web for Services Computing
- Case Studies in Services Computing

Services-Centric Business Models:
- Business Services Analysis, Strategy, Design, Development and Deployment
- Service-Oriented Business Consulting Methodology and Utilities
- Intra- or Inter- Enterprise for Business-to-Business Services Control
- Services Revenue Models, e.g., Fee-for-Transaction and Fee-for-Service.
- Services Strategic Alliance and Partners
- Services Network Economic Structures and Effects
- Ontology and Business Services Rules
- Trust and Loyalty in Services-Centric Business Models
- Cultural, Language, Social and Legal Obstacles in Services-Centric Business Models
- Commercialization of Services Computing Technologies
- Industry Services Solution Patterns
- Case Studies in Services-Centric Business Models

Business Process Integration and Management:
- Mathematical Foundation of Business Process Modeling, 
  Integration and Management
- Business Process Modeling Methodology and Integration Architecture
- Collaborative Business Processes
- Extended business collaboration architecture and solutions
- Business Process-Based Business Transformation and Transition
- Enabling Technologies for Business Process Integration and Management
- Performance Management and Analysis for Business Process Inte-
  gration and Management 
- Security, Privacy and Trust in Business Process Management
- Return On Investment (ROI) of Business Process Integration and Management
- Requirements Analysis of Business Process Integration and Management
- Enterprise Modeling and Application Integration Services, 
  e.g. Enterprise Service Bus
- Case Studies in Business Process Integration and Management

Important Dates: 

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 16, 2006
Paper Submission Due Date: January 16, 2006 
Decision Notification (Electronic): April 24, 2006 
Camera-Ready Copy & Pre-registration Due: May 31, 2006

General Chairs of SCC 2006:

Hemant Jain, Wisconsin Distinguished Professor; Tata Consultancy
Services Professor, School of Business Administration, University of
Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA

Zhiwei Xu, Professor, Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), China

Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang, Research Staff Member, IBM T. J. Watson Research
Center, USA

Program Committee Chairs:

J. Leon Zhao, Ph.D., Professor and Honeywell Fellow, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, USA

M. Brian Blake, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057

Program Committee Vice-Chair:

Patrick C. K. Hung, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business and Information Technology
University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada

Workshop Chairs:

Malu G. Castellanos, Ph.D.
Researcher, Intelligent Enterprise Technologies Lab
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA

Jian Yang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Computing
Macquaire University, Australia

Industry Track Chairs:

Michael Maximilien, Ph.D.
Research Staff Member, Almaden Services Research Group
IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

IEEE SOA Industry Summit Chairs:

Ali Arsanjani, Ph.D.
Chief Architect, SOA and Web services Center of Excellence
IBM Global Services, USA

Tony Shan
Lead Systems Architect
Wachoiva Bank, USA

Tutorial Chairs:

Schahram Dustdar, Ph.D.
Professor, Information Systems Institute
Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Andreas Wombacher, Ph.D.
PostDoc Fellow, Department of Computer Science
University of Twente, The Netherlands

Job Fair Chair:

Sandeep Purao, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences and Technology
The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Panels Chair:

Frank Ferrante, Ph.D.
Editor in Chief, IEEE IT Professional Magazine
IEEE, USA

Hsing Kenny Cheng, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Decision and Information Systems
University of Florida, USA

Ling Liu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Work-in-Progress Chair:

Zhi-Hong Mao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Pittsburgh, USA

Publicity Chairs:

Steve Miller, Ph.D.
Dean, the School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University, Singapore

Jeff Voas, Ph.D.
Director, Systems Assurance
Science Applications International Corporation, USA

Elena Ferrari, Ph.D.
Professor, Dipartimento di Scienze della Cultura, Politiche e dell'Informazione
University of Insubria at Como, Italy

Publication Chair:

Zhixiong Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mathematics and Computer Information Science
Macy College, USA

IEEE APSCC 2006 Liaison:

Hai Jin, Ph.D.
Dean and Professor, School of Computer Science and Technology
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

IEEE Services Computing Contest Chairs:

Zhixiong Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mathematics and Computer Information Science
Macy College, USA

Charles A. Shoniregun, Ph.D.
Programme Leader for MSc TM, School of Computing & Technology
University of East London, UK

Yuan-Chwen You, Ph.D.
Founder
Creative Entrepreneurship Consulting Inc., Taiwan

Technical Program Committee:

Wil van der Aalst (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherland)
Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed (Marquette University, USA)
Anne H. Anderson (Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA)
Akhilesh Bajaj (The University of Tulsa, USA)
Roger Barga (Microsoft Research, USA)
Krishna Bhagavatula (Tata Consultancy Services, USA)
Martin Bichler (Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany)
Paul Buhler (College of Charleston, USA)
Rajkumar Buyya (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Guoray Cai (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Wentong Cai (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Rong N. Chang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Kaushal Chari (University of South Florida, USA)
Guoqing Chen (Tsinghua University, China)
Jian Chen (Tsinghua University, China)
Kenny Cheng (University of Florida, USA)
Lucy Cherkasova (HP Laboratories, USA)
S.C. Cheung (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
William Cheung (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Roger Chiang (University of Cincinnati, USA)
Dickson K.W. Chiu (Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong)
Cecil Eng Huang Chua (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Farhad Daneshgar (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Haluk Demirkan (Arizona State University, USA)
Jorg Desel (The Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt, Germany)
Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Opher Etzion (IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel)
Ming Fan (University of Washington, USA)
Weiguo Fan (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)
Michael Goul (Arizona State University, USA)
Dominic Greenwood (Whitestein Technologies AG, New Zealand)
Minyi Guo (University of Aizu, Japan)
Hakan Hacigumus (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Yanbo Han (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Kees van Hee (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherland)
Alan Hevner (University of South Florida, USA)
Peter Hrastnik (E3 Competence Center, Austria)
Michael N. Huhns (University of South Carolina, USA)
Kazuo Iwano (IBM Tokyo Research Lab, Japan)
Stefan Jablonski (Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany)
Varghese S. Jacob (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Daniel S. Katz (JPL/Caltech, USA)
Roger King (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
Jeffrey T. Kreulen (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Akhil Kumar (Penn State University, USA)
Dongwon Lee (Penn State University, USA)
Yann-Hang Lee (Arizona State University, USA)
Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, USA)
Ying Li (IBM China Research Lab, China)
Min Luo (IBM Global Services, USA)
Sanjay K. Madria (University of Missouri-Rolla, USA)
Leo Mark (Georgia Tech, USA)
E. Michael Maximilien (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Rob Mikula (The MITRE Corporation, USA)
Vojislav Misic (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Prasenjit Mitra (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Aris M. Ouksel (The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Srinivas Padmanabhuni (Infosys Technologies Limited, India)
Dunlu Peng (Fudan University, China)
Trung Pham (DIcentral Corporation, USA)
Thomas E. Potok (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
Sudha Ram (University of Arizona, USA)
Berthold Reinwald (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Norbert Ritter (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Dumitru Roman (University of Innsbruck/DERI Innsbruck, Austria)
Matti Rossi (Helsinki School of Economics, Finland)
Steve Ross-Talbot (Pi4 Technologies, UK)
Dmitri Roussinov (Arizona State University, USA)
Josef Schiefer (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Ming-Chien Shan (HP Laboratories, USA)
Venky Shankararaman (Singapore Management University, USA)
Benjamin Shao (Arizona State University, USA)
Jun Shen (University of South Australia, Australia)
Charles Shoniregun (University of East London, UK)
Keng Siau (University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA)
Giri K. Tayi (State University of New York at Albany, USA)
Zhong Tian (IBM Beijing Research Lab, China)
Kwok Ching Tsui (HSBC, Hong Kong)
Vijay Vaishnavi (Georgia State University, USA)
Kaladhar Voruganti (IBM Almaden Research Lab, USA)
Cho-Li Wang (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Kanliang Wang (Xian Jiaotong University, USA)
Xiaoling Wang (Fudan University, China)
Mathias Weske (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Andreas Wombacher (University of Twente, the Netherlands)
Carson Woo (University of British Columbia, Canada)
George Yee (National Research Council, Canada)
Dongsong Zhang (University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA)
Jia Zhang (Northern Illinois University, USA)	
Yanchun Zhang (Victoria University, Australia)
Yanqing Zhang (Georgia State University, USA)
Huimin Zhao (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
Jing Zhao (China University of Geosciences, China)
Aoying Zhou (Fudan University, China)
Lina Zhou (University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA)
Dan Zhu (Iowa State University, USA)

Technical Steering Committee:

Carl K Chang (Iowa State University, USA)
Ephraim Feig (Kintera Inc, USA)
Hemant Jain (University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee , USA)
Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
Jeffrey Tsai (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Calton Pu (Georgia Tech, USA)
Zhiwei Xu (Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), China)
Liang-Jie Zhang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)

For any enquires, please e-mail to the Program Committee Vice-Chair
Patrick C. K. Hung via patrick DOT hung AT uoit DOT ca.

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From: Gene S. Berkowitz <first.last@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Personal Computers Enlisted in AIDS Research
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 17:23:41 -0500


In article <telecom24.535.10@telecom-digest.org>, dwolffxx@panix.com 
says:

> In article <telecom24.532.1@telecom-digest.org>, Reuters News Wire
> <reuters@telecom-digest.org> wrote:

>> A new project in the fight against AIDS will tap into the unused power
>> of individual and business computers to help research and identify
>> drugs used to combat the HIV virus.

>> An Internet-based initiative, called FightAIDSatHome, aims to enlist
>> about 100,000 computer users to donate the use of their machines when
>> they would otherwise be idle.

> I just checked the web site http://www.fightaidsathome.org .  They
> support various Windows OSes, and Real Soon Now Linux, but not any Mac
> OS.  So non-Windows users, don't waste your time at this time.

> Thanks --

> David

> (Remove "xx" to reply.)

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: It is too bad that other OSes are not
> available now, but there are still plenty of Windows users, and I
> hope everyone who can do so will get involved in this effort to 
> fight AIDS.    PAT]

Of course, if they had just used BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure
for Network Computing), they would have compatibility with many OSes, 
and it would allow you to divide your machine's idle time among several 
research groups, including SETI@home, protein folding, climate change, 
and high-energy physics.

Gene

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From: DevilsPGD <spam_narf_spam@crazyhat.net>
Subject: Re: Auto Call Forward
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:42:06 -0700
Organization: Disorganized


In message <telecom24.534.8@telecom-digest.org> asdf <asdf@asdf.com>
wrote:

> I know of a feature that when you want incoming calls forwarded
> to let's say your cellular you can reconfigure the office phone.
> However you have to be onsite to do so. But what if you can't get to
> the phone. Is there a way of doing this remotely or is there some kind of
> auto call forward feature so that if line goes down the system
> automatically forwards incoming calls to the cellular.

TELUS has a feature called "Advanced Call Forwarding" that has a
touch-tone controlled voice driven interface that lets you call
forward calls based on time of the day and/or caller number.

You can enable or disable it remotely.

It's virtually impossible for a telco to automatically forward
incoming calls when a line goes down -- There's not really such a
thing as a line going down, unless the entire CO goes down, in which
case call forwarding typically fails.

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From: Patrick Townson <ptownson@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: John Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Jack Ruby
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 17:00:00 EST


Just as a historical note, it was forty-two years ago this weekend
(Thanksgiving weekend, 1963) that President Kennedy was gunned down
in a motorcade in Dallas, TX. Dallas police almost immediatly thereafter
(a matter of an hour or so) arrested Lee Harvey Oswald and charged him
with the crime. If you were alive, I am sure you may remember what you
were doing when you saw it happen on television or heard about it. 

I had been working as a volunteer for the Chicago Public Library and
had prepared (with some helpers) a documentary and 'virtual tour' of
the library's programs and facilities. (In those days they were
located at Randolph Street and Michigan Blvd. downtown.) 

Our documentary film had been set to air on Sunday morning on
Channel 9 WGN-TV at 11:00 AM the week before, but in those earlier
days of commercial TV, things did not always work as they should and
the stations would now and then go off the air for repairs, etc. That
is what happened that week, and the fellow I worked with at WGN-TV
said 'do not worry that they were off the air that day for some
unscheduled maintainence; what we will do is move all the programs 
scheduled for today (including my documentary on the Library) up to
next Sunday, at the same time'. 

Well, we know what happened the next Sunday ...

Actually, Friday about 11:00 AM at the moment of his assassination, I
was enjoying a brunch with some friends; the television was on and
some game show (I forget which one) was on the air; one of those games
where you spin a wheel and get whatever prize is associated with the
place where the wheel stops. I do recall that Bob Barker was the
host. It played idly in the background, while we chatted and ate. It
had been on the air a few minutes and was interuppted by a news
bulletin saying that 'shots had been fired in a motorcade in Dallas;
they were not sure if anyone was hurt or not.'  Back to the game
show. Then within a minute or so, a second bulletin came across;
indeed, 'someone' had been shot; they were trying to get all the
details; it might have been the president. Back to the game show. A
minute or two later, another news bulletin; shots _had_ been fired,
apparently President Kennedy had been hit, the motorcade had been
suspended and he was being taken to the Parkland Hospital in
Dallas. Back to the game show for all of thirty or forty seconds, then
a final interupption in the day's events: it was true, Kennedy had
been shot, was rushed to the hospital, police were looking for the guy
who did it, and the news department there at CBS would now take
over. By that point, we were all giving our attention to the TV set.

All television and radio stations began total coverage of the events
in Dallas; all the talking heads were chattering non-stop all that day
and night, plus _all day_ on Saturday. People were in quite a state of
shock, to say the least.  We saw the airplane coming back from Dallas
with the president's body, and all the official mourning by his wife
and his child, etc. By Saturday night, the talking heads had more or
less run out of things to chatter about (after about 36 hours
non-stop) and the television stations changed to the scene at the US
Capitol where Kennedy's body was laying in state, and just focused on
that for the rest of the Saturday overnight hours, playing somber
music, and watching the crowds of people passing by to look at him and
pay their respects.

I got a phone call from the program producer at WGN-TV saying their 
intention was to go back onto 'regular programming' early Sunday
morning. (In those days at least, television stations usually signed
off the air about midnight or 1:00 a.m. then returned to the air at
whatever time their morning shows went on, typically 6:00 or 7:00 AM,
as did most radio stations; no laws about it; just not enough
overnight listeners/viewers to make it worthwhile. I think WGN-TV was
the first among them to go to 24/7 programs, maybe in late 1970's, and
where it was customary for stations to sign on and sign off with their
'official, FCC-mandated announcements' [and usually play the national
anthem at opening and closing time each day] once WGN-TV went 24/7
sometime in the late 1970's they began making their FCC-mandated
announcements just once daily, along with the national anthem, at 
5 AM most days; 8 AM on Sundays; 8 AM being the time on Sunday they
started their 'broadcast day'.) So, said the producer, be sure to tell
everyone to tune in tomorrow morning, your documentary program will be
on as planned, although one week late. 

Sure enough, Sunday morning at 11 AM we got together for another
brunch and had the television tuned in on Channel 9. And, we got on
the air just as announced. For all of about two minutes, until 11:02
or 11:03 AM, then we were cut off by another news bulletin: "As you
know, a Mister Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in the shooting of
President Kennedy" (by the tone of their voice we knew that the person
making the announcement knew little or nothing about Oswald) "and
Mister Oswald is going to be transferred from the Dallas City Jail to
the county jail or perhaps into FBI custody. We are going to switch to
our affiliate station in Dallas; our staff of reporters there want to
know more about why he did this." Immediatly the picture changed to
the lobby of the Dallas City Jail where a number of people were
crowding around. The reporter, all excited, said "oh look, here he
comes now, they are leading him down the hallway to where the police
car is waiting to take him to jail; I sure hope we can ask him about
this."  Crowds of people pushing around, reporter walks up to Oswald
eagerly and starts asking him "oh, Mr. Oswald, what did you do this
for?" or some words to that effect, as we see Oswald close up facing
the camera, possibly he is going to explain if he did it or not and if
so, why. But Oswald did not get a chance to answer; at that same
instant, Jack Ruby appeared, seemingly out of nowhere, we see him
angrily confront Oswald and everyone in the nation who was watching it
as it happened on TV saw Ruby stick that gun in Oswald's side and say,
"You rotten son of a bitch! You killed the president, now I am going
to kill you!" Bang ... Police officers grabbed Ruby, took away his gun
and took him into custody. Ruby did not resist at all; he was proud of
what he had done; wanted everyone to see his work. Oswald fell over
dead on the spot. Ruby, a nightclub/restaurant owner in Dallas was
there ostensibly with coffee and sandwiches for the police officers,
which is why he was allowed to move freely about the jail. In those
days, those times, things were _a lot_ different than today.

Needless to say, our documentary show never did get back on the air,
that day, or any other day. The entire day was taken over at that
point by the talking heads of news, who for several hundred times,
roughly every two or three minutes ("in case you missed it when it
aired") kept showing over and over and over and over, that movie of
Jack Ruby killing Oswald. But other than the original showing, later
viewers only got to see Jack Ruby's angry, contorted face and his lips
moving angrily but _silently_ (out of respect I guess to FCC
sensibilities at that time, they blitzed his voice out) and Oswald
falling over dead.  Smart lip readers probably figured it out. All the
stations were still showing that Ruby/Oswald clip at midnight or
whenever they signed off for the day.

There have been numerous theories about _why_ Kennedy was shot, and if
indeed Oswald _was_ the shooter or not. Many people claim he was not
guilty, and have various ideas about the rationale. Some contend that
Ruby was used to silence Oswald. My documentary movie about the
Chicago Public Library never did get aired.   

PAT

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