TELECOM Digest     Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:03:00 EST    Volume 24 : Issue 568

Inside This Issue:                             Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Obituary: Jack Anderson, Newspaper Columnist Dies at 83 (Connie Cass)
    Congress: "Merry Chrismas! We're Turning Off Your Analog Outs" (M Solomon)
    Physically Protecting the Local Loop Network? (Lisa Hancock)
    Re: Wikipedia Becomes Internet Force, But Faces Crisis (ThorLancelot Simon)
    Re: Wikipedia Becomes Internet Force, But Faces Crisis (timeOday)
    Re: Wikipedia Becomes Internet Force, But Faces Crisis (Robert Bonomi)
    Re: Wikipedia Becomes Internet Force, But Faces Crisis (John McHarry)
    Re: FTC Do Not Call List (Lisa Hancock)
    Re: Cell Phone to Land Line (Lisa Hancock)
    Re: Using Two ADSL Internet Connections Simultaneously (Robert Bonomi)
    USO Asks For Christmas Help (Patrick Townson)

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From: Connie Cass <ap@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Obituary: Pulitzer Winning Columnist Jack Anderson Dies
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:06:55 -0600


By CONNIE CASS, Associated Press

Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning muckraking columnist who
struck fear into the hearts of corrupt or secretive politicians,
inspiring Nixon operatives to plot his murder, died Saturday. He was
83.

Anderson died at his home in Bethesda, Md., of complications from
Parkinson's disease, said one of his daughters, Laurie Anderson-Bruch.

Anderson gave up his syndicated Washington Merry-Go-Round column at
age 81 in July 2004, after Parkinson's disease left him too ill to
continue. He had been hired by the column's founder, Drew Pearson, in 1947.

The column broke a string of big scandals, from Eisenhower assistant
Sherman Adams taking a vicuna coat and other gifts from a wealthy
industrialist in 1958 to the Reagan administration's secret
arms-for-hostages deal with Iran in 1986.

It appeared in some 1,000 newspapers in its heyday. Anderson took over
the column after Pearson's death in 1969, working with a changing cast
of co-authors and staff over the years.

A devout Mormon, Anderson looked upon journalism as a calling.
Considered one of the fathers of investigative reporting, Anderson was
renowned for his tenacity, aggressive techniques and influence in the
nation's capital.

"He was a bridge for the muckrakers of a century ago and the crop that
came out of Watergate," said Mark Feldstein, Anderson's biographer and
a journalism professor at George Washington University. "He held
politicians to a level of accountability in an era where journalists
were very deferential to those in power."

Anderson won a 1972 Pulitzer Prize for reporting that the Nixon
administration secretly tilted toward Pakistan in its war with
India. He also published the secret transcripts of the Watergate grand
jury.

Such scoops earned him a spot on President Nixon's "enemies list."
Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy has described how he and other
Nixon political operatives planned ways to silence Anderson
permanently -- such as slipping him LSD or staging a fatal car crash --
but the White House nixed the idea.

Over the years, Anderson was threatened by the Mafia and investigated
by numerous government agencies trying to trace the sources of his
leaks. In 1989, police investigated him for smuggling a gun into the
U.S. Capitol to demonstrate security lapses.

Known for his toughness on the trail of a story, he was also praised
for personal kindness. Anderson's son Kevin said that when his
father's reporting led to the arrest of some involved in the Watergate
scandal, he aided their families financially.

"I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all," Anderson
said in 1972. "But in order to get a red light at the intersection,
you sometimes have to have an accident."

Anderson began his newspaper career as a 12-year-old writing about
scouting activity and community fairs in the outskirts of Salt Lake
City, Utah. His first investigative story exposed unlawful polygamy in
his church. He was as a civilian war correspondent during World War II
and later, while in the Army, wrote for the military paper Stars and
Stripes.

After he went to work with Pearson, the team took on communist-hunting
Sen.  Joseph McCarthy, exposed Connecticut Sen. Thomas Dodd's misuse
of campaign money, and revealed the CIA's attempt to use the Mafia to
kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Anderson also wrote more than a dozen books.

He was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1986. In a speech a decade later,
he made light of the occasional, uncontrollable shaking the disease
caused.

"The doctors tell me it's Parkinson's," he said. "I suspect that 52
years in Washington caused it."

He is survived by his wife, Olivia, and nine children.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press.

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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:14:06 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Congress: "Merry Chrismas! We're Turning Off Your Analog Outs"


Congress: "Merry Chrismas! We're Turning Off Your Analog Outs"
Alex Curtis
Public Knowledge
December 16, 2005
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/19

The House Judiciary Committee today introduced a bill (HR 4569) to
close the analog hole.  

http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/hr4569

Here's what we had to say about the draft version of the bill.

http://www.publicknowledge.org/news/analysis/content-protection-in-the-digital-age

The government is proposing that devices (consumer electronics,
computers, software) manufactured after a certain date respond to a
copy-protection signal or watermark in a digital video stream, and
pass along that signal when converting the video to analog. The same
goes for analog video streams, to pass on the protection to the
digital video outputs.

The technology Congress is proposing (VEIL) is derived from one that
originated with assorted interactive Batman toys that allowed the toys
to respond to Batman television shows or videos. How cool-at least for
toys.

So, essentially, the government wants your future TV, TiVo, computer,
cell phone, Final Cut Pro, (input your favorite analog signal viewing
/ converting device here) to respond to the Bat Signal.

There are some details in the legislation that have yet to be fully
understood, concerning protection of content that is supported by
business models ( prerecorded media, video on demand, pay-per-view,
subscription-on-demand) and "undefined" business models. And much of
the process has to be approved, not by the FCC, but by the Patent and
Trademark Office. Why the USPTO? Not because they're an "expert
agency" like the FCC, but because the bill was introduced in the
Judiciary Committee, which doesn't necessarily have jurisdiction over
the FCC.

Perhaps needless to say, Public Knowledge is against government
mandated DRM and other similar tech mandates.

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Physically Protecting The Local Loop Metwork?
Date: 17 Dec 2005 12:20:53 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


In reading about the Bell System interconnect debates of the 1960s and
1970s, one recognized concern* was that faulty customer-provided
equipment could screw up other subscribers by emitting high voltages
or crosstalk interference.

Today customers own all their equipment that is supposed to be
certified.  But what happens if the customer alters the equipment or
it is defective?  What happens if a high voltage is sent out
accidently over a telephone line (ie house current, either 110 or 220,
or ringing current meant for an extension telephone of a PBX)?

Further, is there any kind of high powered signal that could be sent
over a phone line that would result in crosstalk or service disruption
to the neighbors or other kinds of RF interference?

*These concerns were studied and confirmed by the FCC and technical
consultants.  Other concerns were service responsibility -- would the
common carrier get blamed for problems by customer equipment, and
cream skimming -- would CPE hurt the principle in effect in those days
of universal telephone service and universal rate averaging by
eliminating cross-subsidy.  As it turned out, competitors to the Bell
System did do cream-skimming, yet the Bell System was denied the
chance to adjust its rates (HI/LO) accordingly.

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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Subject: Re: Wikipedia Becomes Internet Force, But Faces Crisis
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 04:19:31 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Public Access Networks Corp.
Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com


In article <telecom24.567.3@telecom-digest.org>, Danny Burstein
<dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

> I'm shocked that finding "four major errors" (out of 50) [as stated in
> the original article] in both Wikipedia _AND_ in the Encyclopeadia
> Brittanica hasn't led to people ripping the latter to shreds.

Well, it's generally frowned upon to cite it (or similar works) in
scholarly writing at anything but the most elementary level.  The same
kind of scorn should be applied to writers who cite Wikipedia;
unfortunately, sometimes it is not.


Thor Lancelot Simon	                         tls@rek.tjls.com

"The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is
 to be abandoned or transcended, there is no problem."  - Noam Chomsky

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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:42:25 -0700
From: timeOday <timeOday-UNSPAM@theknack.net>
Subject: Re: Wikipedia Becomes Internet Force, But Faces Crisis


Danny Burstein wrote:

> In <telecom24.566.10@telecom-digest.org> tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot
> Simon) writes:

>> In article <telecom24.565.7@telecom-digest.org>, Dave Garland
>> <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote:

>>> The exercise revealed numerous errors in both encyclopaedias, but
>>> among 42 entries tested, the difference in accuracy was not
>>> particularly great: the average science entry in Wikipedia contained
>>> around four inaccuracies; Britannica, about three ...

>> I'm astonished that a 25% difference is considered "not particularly
>> great".

> I'm shocked that finding "four major errors" (out of 50) [as stated in
> the original article] in both Wikipedia _AND_ in the Encyclopeadia
> Brittanica hasn't led to people ripping the latter to shreds.

> The EB is supposedly a solid and accurate reference work.  Yet here
> it's got an eight percent "major error" rate.

It's not EB that's out of whack, it's your expectations.  Even recent
studies of peer reviewed scientific papers in top journals found
significant error rates:

http://www.nationalreviewofmedicine.com/issue/2004_06_30/clinical07_13.html

"No fewer than 11.6% and 11.1% of the statistical results published in
Nature and the British Medical Journal (BMJ), respectively, during
2001 were wrong. A whopping 38% of the papers in Nature contained at
least one such error, as did 25% in the BMJ.

Of course, these error-finding reviews aren't perfect either.  Had a
different group of experts evaluated those same 50 EB articles, they
would have found some number of errors different than 8, maybe more
and maybe less.

And at some point they'd get down to arguing over which were "errors,"
and which were likely true but not certain, and which were true but
misleading to the public, and on and on...

And finally they would run out of energy and time, and try to shape
their findings into something comprehensible, useful, and as
informative and accurate as possible.  That's how research works.
Nobody has a direct line on The Truth.  The harder you look, the more
you find.

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From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomni.com (Robert Bonomi)
Subject: Re: Wikipedia Becomes Internet Force, But Faces Crisis
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 00:22:38 -0000
Organization: Widgets, Inc.


In article <telecom24.566.10@telecom-digest.org>, Thor Lancelot Simon
<tls@rek.tjls.com> wrote:

> In article <telecom24.565.7@telecom-digest.org>, Dave Garland
> <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote:

>> The exercise revealed numerous errors in both encyclopaedias, but
>> among 42 entries tested, the difference in accuracy was not
>> particularly great: the average science entry in Wikipedia contained
>> around four inaccuracies; Britannica, about three ...

> I'm astonished that a 25% difference is considered "not particularly
> great".

I'm astonished that something that can be explained by "jitter" of
"plus/minus one count" in 'ordinal' numeric data, would be considered
anything _other_ than "not particularly great".  Well, unless they do
not really understand statistical analysis, that is.

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From: John McHarry <jmcharry@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Wikipedia Becomes Internet Force, But Faces Crisis
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 03:27:57 GMT
Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net


On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:30:26 +0000, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> In article <telecom24.565.7@telecom-digest.org>, Dave Garland
> <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote:

>> The exercise revealed numerous errors in both encyclopaedias, but
>> among 42 entries tested, the difference in accuracy was not
>> particularly great: the average science entry in Wikipedia contained
>> around four inaccuracies; Britannica, about three ...

> I'm astonished that a 25% difference is considered "not particularly
> great".

I saw a followup to that that looked at the length of the
articles. The Wikipedia articles were longer, which slightly more than
closed the gap.

Wikipedia has more vulnerabilities than a traditional edited  collection
like Britannica, but it contains a rather amazing amount of
information.  Of course, no secondary source should be trusted very
far.

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: FTC Do Not Call List
Date: 17 Dec 2005 12:06:56 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


Mark Crispin wrote:

> Take a look in any large enterprise and see what does the payroll.
> It's a jaw-dropper.  Now, remember that many of these system were
> patched for Y2K but not replaced.

Good example.

I know of some large complex enterprise-wide mainframe systems
developed in the 1980s at a cost of a few million dollars (the former
"Big Eight" consulting firms made out great).  Anyway, these systems
are under consideration for redevelopment away from "green on glass"
to GUI to make for an easier user interface and additional functions.

Estimates to rebuild these systems to do more are coming at less than
the original development price, and that ignores the big inflation of
the 1980s.  What this means is that computer development productivity
has increased tremendously since 1980.

It's not hard to see why, so many things are "canned" instead of "roll
your own" and developer's tools are much more powerful and user
friendly.  Computer hardware is so much cheaper that programmers don't
have to worry about bits and bytes as they did back then.  (For
example, mainframers generally need not worry about packed-decimal or
binary fields as once was mandatory.)   An enterprise wide mainframe in
1980 could have as little as 8 megabytes of "RAM" and maybe 1 gigabyte
of disk.  Today a wrist-watch has that (well, not quite, but you see
what I mean.)  Likewise with communications, in 1980 you were lucky to
be using one shared 9600 line and you had to keep your data
transmission packets small to avoid flooding out the line.  Developers
don't have to spend time squeezing stuff in as they did in the past.

So yes, redoing the Internet network won't be an easy job, but it
certainly won't be the sum of the parts that created through now.
Geez, back in ARPANET (?) days someone had to first fill first out
paperwork before making a long distance phone call to his counterpart,
they don't have to bother with that day.

Further, the Internet consists of various component, for example,
email and WWW.  They could be redeveloped independently of each other.
When rebuilding a highway, they don't shut the old one down and
rebuild it all at once, they do it in stages so traffic can keep on
flowing.

> Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.

Actually, it does.  Scientific theories don't become "facts" until an
idea is published and debated among scientists, who test out the
theories in their own labs and will debate them.  Perhaps it is not
"public" debate, but an open debate is vital to science.

There is a big gray area between "science" and "art".  Certain
scientific principles can be proven and yield predictable consistent
results every time.  But other scientifiic principles yield only
statistical probability.  That is, in 100 experiments, a certain
result is expected to appear so many times, but an any individual
experiment can't be predicted.  That can have great impact depending
on the application, for example, medicine.

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Cell Phone to Land Line
Date: 17 Dec 2005 12:10:17 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


John Levine wrote:

> (A landline phone does no coding at all, cell phones do vast
> amounts.)

Yet cell phones are increasingly tiny (see TV ad with woman easily
squeezing in her cell phone into the pocket of very tight jeans),
while land-line phones, even contemporary ones, aren't that small.

Thinking about that, do they make cordless land line phones the same
tiny size as cell phones?  I'd figure since there's less to do that
should be easy.

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From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomni.com (Robert Bonomi)
Subject: Re: Using Two ADSL Internet Connections Simultaneously
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 00:12:01 -0000
Organization: Widgets, Inc.


In article <telecom24.566.13@telecom-digest.org>, James Carlson
<james.d.carlson@sun.com> wrote:

> bonomi@host122.r-bonomni.com (Robert Bonomi) writes:

>>> - NAT in use, and load balancing on a per-connection basis.  This
>>>   automatically balances the return traffic as well, as everyone on
>>>   the net thinks you're actually two separate independent IP nodes.

>> NO, it does _Not_.  You cannot change the NAT translation _during_ a
>> 'session' (a single TCP connection). And if the 'incoming' data
>> characteristics change radically _during_ that session, the 'balance'
>> goes out the window.

> What part of "per-connection" was unclear?

Do you note that the above problem identification specifies a *single*
*connection*?  What part of "single connection" is unclear to you?

Do you understand that 'per connection' balancing does not work when:
   1) the characteristics of the traffic are _unknown_ at the time of
      connection initiation, and
   2) the characteristics of the traffic *change* _during_ that single
      connection.

The rest of the problem description that you chose not to quote gave a
concrete example of the problem -- using a first user with a streaming
audio stream, and a bunch of other people then doing something as
simple as having multiple HTTP requests ("keepalive" protocol option)
over a *single* connection.  If you don't like that, consider
'passive' FTP -- where where a number of users first pull a small
'readme' file, and then (still within the _same_ connection), a
multi-megabyte binary.

Without 'co-operation' from the other end of the links, the
'per-connection' approach _is_ the 'best' you can do.  And in the
average case, it does work FAIRLY well.  In pathological cases,
however, it can degrade to barely more than the capacity of -one-
circuit.  Those pathological cases are relatively rare, but they
*do*exist*.  And, when you get into one, performance gets =really=
poor, for comparatively _long_ times.

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From: Patrick Townson <ptownson@cableone.net>
Subject: USO Asking For Christmas Help
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 23:37:14 -0600


Quite a few years ago, I did volunteer work for the USO -- the United
Service Organizations -- in their military person's center in downtown
Chicago, and also at the VA Hospital. Although the VA Hospitals are
maintained by the United States Government, the USO receives
absolutely *no* federal funding.  They depend entirely on private
citizens for support.

And this year the USO has a huge task awaiting them at the Christmas
season.  Over 400,000 of our troops will be stuck in overseas places,
such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, and other spots. For the first time
since World War 2, American troops are in several places at once. In a
lot of the places where troops are stationed, the natives don't care
at all about Christmas, Kwanzaa, or Hanukkah.

So the USO has decided that every single one of these 400,000 young
men and women who won't be 'home by Christmasn' know they have not been
forgotten.

Its hard to imagine -- unless you have been in that situation yourself
 -- what it is like to spend your Holidays in a dusty desert or on a
barren mountainside. You're away from your freinds and family. You
can't hug your kids or your spouse, or hear their laughter, or share a
few drinks with your buddies. The holiday season is absolutely the
worst time of the year to be at the front lines. More than one service
member either tries or is successful in committing suicide. For many
of them, just a simple wors of 'thanks, we appreciate you doing what
you can ' makes a world of difference; sometimes in their sanity. I
know from my volunteer experience with USO during the Vietnam era how
much it helps these guys just knowing that someone cares.

Your gift to help the USO help our troops is really critical.  There
are ways we in the telecom industry can especially help.

Operation Phone Home: The USO in cooperation with telephone companies
provide 'American phone service' to the troops in the form of prepaid
calling cards to use at special telephones rigged to bring 'American'
operators on the line as needed. USO sees to it that everyone who
wants a calling card gets one. Can you help?

Cyber Canteens: Years ago, USO gave coffee and doughnuts for free, which
they still do, but now they also provide public computer stations so
troops can 'surf the web', send/recieve email from family and friends,
read newsgroups, etc.  They have these both at fixed locations, and at
'mobile spots which travel around as the troops travel around. They
are called ATV's, and take the coffee, soda, ice cream *and computer
terminals* to the troops for their use.  The computer stations are
operated over satellite links, to connections provided by a few ISP's
back in the United States as a courtesy.  Can you help?

Of course, USO still has their entertainment tours with movie stars
and television personalities who donate their time and many other
functions going on as well.

But where you could really be of help is with the phone calling cards
and the Cyber Canteens. Why don't you send them a check today, and if
you wish, ask them to earmark your money for telephone calling cards
or the Cyber Canteen, or the mobile 'ATV' canteens, so the guys can
stay on line and stay in touch. Of course, USO gifts are tax-deductable,
501-c-3 gifts per IRS.

              United Service Organizations  (or USO for short)
              World Headquarters
              PO Box 96860
              Washington, DC  20077-7677

Thanks very much for taking the time to read this special appeal.

Patrick Townson
ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu

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