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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) Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. By using -any name or email address- included herein for -any- reason other than responding to an article herein, you agree to pay a hundred dollars to the recipients of the email. =========================== Addresses herein are not to be added to any mailing list, nor to be sold or given away without explicit written consent. Chain letters, viruses, porn, spam, and miscellaneous junk are definitely unwelcome. We must fight spam for the same reason we fight crime: not because we are naive enough to believe that we will ever stamp it out, but because we do not want the kind of world that results when no one stands against crime. Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: 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. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. For more news and headlines from Associated Press, please go to: http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/AP.html (or) http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/TDNewsradio.html (or) http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/newstoday.html ------------------------------ 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. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. Check out http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/ for our full range of extra features, audio feeds and other interesting things. ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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/ ------------------------------ 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/ ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly to telecomm- unications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of networks such as Compuserve and America On Line, Yahoo Groups, and other forums. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. TELECOM Digest is a not-for-profit, mostly non-commercial educational service offered to the Internet by Patrick Townson. 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