From editor@telecom-digest.org Mon Jun 7 01:25:57 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p3/8.11.3) id i575PuQ22470; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 01:25:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 01:25:57 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200406070525.i575PuQ22470@massis.lcs.mit.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: massis.lcs.mit.edu: ptownson set sender to editor@telecom-digest.org using -f To: ptownson Approved: patsnewlist Subject: TELECOM Digest V23 #278 TELECOM Digest Mon, 7 Jun 2004 01:26:00 EDT Volume 23 : Issue 278 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Web-Linked Cameras Let Parents Play Big Brother (Monty Solomon) TI Stands by Digital Cinema Strategy, Despite Sony (Monty Solomon) Who Got the Message? There's a Way to Know (Monty Solomon) Whose Data Is It, Anyway? (Monty Solomon) Re: Memories of Illinois Bell in Better Times (Jim Haynes) Re: Your Radio Is Calling (Eric Friedebach) Re: Your Radio Is Calling (Joseph) Re: Zombie PCs Spew Out 80% of Spam (SELLCOM Tech support) Re: Can I Tell If Incoming Call Is From A Pay Phone? (Henry) Re: Can I Tell If Incoming Call Is From A Pay Phone? (J Kelly) Re: Ringing Multiple Devices (was Re: Bye, Bye Ma Bell) (Daniel Rosenzweig) Public Copy Cost Unchanged (Lisa Hancock) Re: Spam and Virii Continue Unabated, Getting Worse, IMO (Rob Warnock) Free IP PBX Tutorial (ShaperSifter) Last Laugh! Funny Ebay Listing - Guy Trying to Buy a Green Card (Elly) 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. 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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 23:55:19 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Web-Linked Cameras Let Parents Play Big Brother By Doug Young TAIPEI, June 6 (Reuters) - Big Brother is getting a whole lot of little siblings. New surveillance cameras allow anyone with a broadband Internet connection to keep a 24-hour watch on nearly anything from anywhere. Want to monitor your house from the office? Connect one of the cameras to an Ethernet or wireless computer network at home, then navigate your browser to a Web site linked to an Internet address assigned to the camera. These Internet protocol (IP) cameras, made by companies including Cisco Systems Inc's (NASDAQ:CSCO) Linksys unit and Sweden's Axis Communications (SWED:AXIS), function as stand-alone servers that stream video over the Web. In Europe alone, IP cameras are expected to account for about 20 percent of a surveillance market forecast to be worth 376.5 million euros ($460 million) in annual sales by 2008, up from less than five percent today, according to IMS Research. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=41810887 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 00:01:57 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: TI Stands by Digital Cinema Strategy, Despite Sony LOS ANGELES, June 4 (Reuters) - Semiconductor maker Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE:TXN) will stick with its current strategies for making and selling microchips used for digital projection even as it faces new competition from Sony Corp. (TOKYO:6758), a top executive said on Friday. Texas Instruments was in Hollywood this week to show film industry executives, reporters and cinematographers a projection system it calls "DLP Cinema" that is based on a TI "2K" microchip. The Dallas-based company's presentation follows by one day a similar demonstration by Sony Electronics in which it showed a new Sony projector using its own "4K" chip it claims offers picture resolution and contrast superior to 2K technology. Sony's projectors are a new entry in the still-developing market for digital projection -- also known as digital cinema -- that has been dominated by Texas Instruments since its inception in the late 1990s. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=41803063 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 01:00:02 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Who Got the Message? There's a Way to Know By MARK GLASSMAN A NEW service promises to pull back the curtain on anyone hiding behind the common white lie "I never got your e-mail." Users of the service, DidTheyReadIt (didtheyreadit.com), can clandestinely track when and where their e-mail is read. The service, which has already drawn complaints from privacy advocates, offers a new and quiet way to harvest behavioral information about friends, colleagues and potential consumers. "There's a type of covert surveillance here," said Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a nonprofit privacy advocacy group. "Just from a technology viewpoint, it's basically an evil service." E-mail programs like Eudora and Outlook have long offered an optional return-receipt feature, which prompts the recipient of a message to inform the sender that they have opened the message, and another service, Msgtag (www.msgtag.com), notifies users by e-mail when their outgoing messages have been opened. But DidTheyReadIt is the first such service to keep itself a secret from the recipient, as well as the first to report on where the message was read. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/03/technology/circuits/03spyy.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 02:05:00 -0400 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Whose Data Is It, Anyway? By JEFFREY SELINGO WHEN Tomm Purnell's uncle, Keith Cochran, died last year, Mr. Purnell's mother received two of Mr. Cochran's computers. One of them, a laptop, is password-protected, and even though Mr. Purnell considers himself somewhat of a computer geek, "the really obvious passwords," he said, like the names of Mr. Cochran's cats and combinations of his Social Security number, have failed. "I guess he assumed that whoever came in would figure it out," said Mr. Purnell, a physics student at Colorado State University. "I have no clue what's on there, but I'd like to find out." While terminally ill, Mr. Cochran, a programmer, left a full list of passwords for his work files with his employer, Mr. Purnell said. But he failed to do the same thing with the personal files, so they are now inaccessible. With home computers largely replacing filing cabinets as the secure storage place for financial records, tax returns and even sentimental pictures, the problem confronting Mr. Purnell may become more common. Since most people do not leave a list of passwords before they die, their relatives and lawyers must often figure out how to break into the computer themselves or hire someone to do it. Mr. Purnell said he intended to keep trying to unlock his uncle's laptop. But for some survivors, the effort of gaining access to a loved one's data is not worth the time. In many cases, they simply erase the hard drive and get rid of the computer without ever knowing what was on it. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/03/technology/circuits/03data.html ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Memories of Illinois Bell in Better Times Reply-To: jhaynes@alumni.uark.edu Organization: University of Arkansas Alumni From: haynes@alumni.uark.edu (Jim Haynes) Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 19:24:28 GMT Teletype had several in-plant cafeterias. The food was good - the top executives ate there. Seems like I heard there was a competition among the various Western Electric operations, Teletype included, for the quality of the in-house cafeteria food. Teletype kept the R&D cafeteria open all morning. Some people would grab breakfast or coffee and a doughnut before the work day began; and then the various engineering groups would normally head to the cafeteria for midmorning coffee break. This had a marvelous effect on communication: if some engineer had discovered something interesting it would get handed around by word-of-mouth as the groups interacted during coffee breaks, and soon every engineer in the company would be aware of it. Another company I worked for had vending machines for coffee and sodas and kept the engineers in cubicles of three or four people each. There was almost no informal communication among the engineers, and the company suffered for it. So if I were a management consultant I would tell companies they must do something to get the technical staff out of their cubicles and mingling with one another. Delivering goodies to their cubicles is the worst thing you can do; put the goodies in a central place so they will have to get up and go to them and mingle with others while they are there. -- jhhaynes at earthlink dot net ------------------------------ From: friedebach@yahoo.com (Eric Friedebach) Subject: Re: Your Radio Is Calling Date: 5 Jun 2004 17:52:34 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com In TELECOM Digest V23 #277 TELECOM Digest Editor noted in reponse to an article I had contributed: [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Eric's comments about the first transistorized pocket radios reminds me of the one I had while in high school, 1956 or so. They only had AM signals of course, and you had to put this plug in your ear which looked like a hearing aid. People who did not know me, and some who did, would see me walking around with that plug in my ear, and say "Oh how unfortunate that at your young age you have to use a hearing aid. Are you mostly deaf or just a little bit 'hard of hearing'? PAT] Pat, just to clarify, the coments should be attributed to Arik Hesseldahl, the Forbes writer, not Eric (me). Also, I wonder what your response was to those who thought you were wearing a hearing aid? Me, being a smart-ass, would have said "Huh? Wadja say?". This brings to mind my little trick when I find myself in a large city that looks the other way at panhandling. Wear Walkman-style earphones. Just stick the plug in your front pocket if you don't have a radio. It works. Well, most of the time. One time a guy started following me around, yelling "Ten! Twenty! Fifty!". I don't think he meant cents, either. Eric Friedebach /VoIP: prank calls to ex-girlfriends has never been cheaper/ ------------------------------ From: Joseph Subject: Re: Your Radio Is Calling Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 18:27:05 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Reply-To: JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.NONOcom On 5 Jun 2004 11:23:00 -0700, TELECOM Digest Editor noted in response to Eric F: > People who did not know me, and some who did, would see me walking > around with that plug in my ear, and say "Oh how unfortunate that > at your young age you have to use a hearing aid. Are you mostly deaf > or just a little bit 'hard of hearing'? PAT I get that as an updated phenomenon. My mobile phone has Blue Tooth wireless handsfree. When I'm wearing the Bluetooth unit people ask me if I have a hearing aid! remove NONO from .NONOcom to reply ------------------------------ From: SELLCOM Tech support Subject: Re: Zombie PCs Spew Out 80% of Spam Organization: www.sellcom.com Reply-To: support@sellcom.com Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 23:21:55 GMT Monty Solomon posted on that vast internet thingie: > Four-fifths of spam now emanates from computers contaminated with > Trojan horse infections, according to a study by network management > firm Sandvine out this week. Trojans and worms with backdoor > components such as Migmaf and SoBig have turned infected Windows PCs > into drones in vast networks of compromised zombie PCs. Spammers certainly are resourceful. I believe that it will never clean up until the ISPs who enable the foreign spam sites are held responsible for that which they enable. Most spam now points to a foreign website. All of these foreign websites have a US ISP who is enabling connectivity. You want to fix spam? Hold the ISPs like att.net, level3.net, gblx.net, and savvis.net and sprintlink.net etc responsible. Then when the foreign ISPs discover that their link to the USA has been cut, watch how fast they crack down on the spam websites. If there was a city in North Dakota where the ISP was enabling spam websites they would be cut in a New York minute, but if the spam site is in China or Russia or Brazil they somehow have immunity. Deal with the ISPs who are giving the foreign ISPs immunity and watch how fast they clean up their act. Why give foreign ISPs "carte blanche" to host spam sites that we would not allow domestic ISP. Hold the US ISPs responsible for what they are enabling and importing! Hold US ISPs RESPONSIBLE for that which they enable and import into the USA! Oh! Oh! but that would interfere with the internet!!! Hey, Not as much as spam and viruses are interfering with the internet!! Yes, when a spam site pops up in China, CUT CHINA!!! Yes, when a spam site pops up in Russia, CUT RUSSIA!! Watch how fast they clean up their act (and hey, maybe some spammer fingers will hit the ground as well)! Steve at SELLCOM http://www.sellcom.com Discount multihandset cordless phones by Siemens, AT&T, Panasonic, Motorola Vtech 5.8Ghz; TMC ET4000 4line Epic phone, OnHoldPlus, Beamer, Watchguard! Brick wall "non MOV" surge protection. Mini-Splitter log splitter! If you sit at a desk www.ergochair.biz you owe it to yourself. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Steve, how do you 'hold AT&T responsible' for anything they do? Ditto with Sprint? Wouldn't dealing with the innocent bystanders punished as a result be more of a hassle than dealing with the spam a few others generate? You know there would be a jillion letters daily from people wanting to know why *their* email had not gotten through. You rather deal with all that instead of the jillion pieces of spam you get instead? I mean, you know AT&T nor Sprint would ever give any sort of straight answer to *their subscribers* about what was going on. Are you in a position to drop a large number of emailers out of the loop? Essentially AT&T and Sprint would just wind up rebuilding the net and dropping *you and me* out of it. They are never going to compromise on anything. PAT] ------------------------------ From: henry999@eircom.net (Henry) Subject: Re: Can I Tell If Incoming Call Is From A Pay Phone? Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 11:06:59 +0300 Organization: Elisa Internet customer > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: > And someone here recently mentioned having > a home phone years ago of the xxx-9xxx variety and frequently being > questioned by an operator about whether or not it was a pay phone. PAT] I can add a sort-of 'me too' to this. My parents' phone number was xxx-9xxx. One day when my car broke down I had to call them collect from a payphone. I gave the operator the details and she asked me to wait. Then I heard her key in some code and I heard the robot voice come back and tell her "not coin". I think this must have been in the '70s some time, in Wisconsin. Cheers, Henry ------------------------------ From: J Kelly Subject: Re: Can I Tell If Incoming Call Is From A Pay Phone? Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:50:00 -0500 Organization: http://newsguy.com Reply-To: jkelly@newsguy.com On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 19:00:12 -0500, jim evans wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 09:58:39 -0500, jim evans > wrote: > On my cell phone the only information I get about the caller is > their phone number. Is there a way to tell which numbers are pay > phone numbers. That is, callers who are calling from pay phones. > jim > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Most cell phones are a lot like one > of my older caller-ID units, with just enough space or memory or > what have you to allow a single line with a number, nothing > more. On one of my newer units (a cordless phone fron Uniden with > caller ID built into the handset) I get the whole story; the > number and some attempt at the name, or 'wireless caller', etc. I > think all you can do is attempt to correlate the data you recieve > with a cross reference directory from the net or elsewhere. Any > other ideas, anyone? PAT] > Seems like I read a long time ago that > pay phone numbers has some unique characteristic. > jim > TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Frequently yes, but not always. In > many communities pay phones had suffixes beginning with '9' as in > xxx-9xxx. Or sometimes '8'. But that was not always the case. With > older phones which have been around for many years that is still > generally the case, but how does one know if EXChange-9503 is an > older line or not with those characteristics. And someone here > recently mentioned having a home phone years ago of the xxx-9xxx > variety and frequently being questioned by an operator about > whether or not it was a pay phone. PAT] My home number is a xxx-9xxx number. That number was assigned to me about 7 years ago (actually three sequential numbers in that block as at that time I had a modem and fax line coming in). Never had anyone wonder if it was a payphone before, but it does occure to me that most payphone numbers I have seen start with 9, usually 99xx. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well years ago at least, Illinois Bell reserved the 99xx series for their own internal use such as 9900 was the business office (in each exchange), 9904 was the directory assistance supervisors private line, 9905 was the Group Chief Operator's private line, etc. 9915 and 9916 were the infamous loop arounds guys would use to avoid toll whenever possible. They were supposed to be for repair technicians working outside their territory to be able to reach the 'proper' 611 clerk. (611 went to various trouble desk clerks in various central offices.) To get the 611 the tech wanted, he would use a phone in the 'proper' exchange. Dialing EXChange 9915 would take 9916 off hook and re-dial 611. Then some smart aleck discovered that in the three or four seconds of dial tone in his ear before the extender kicked in and dialed 611 he instead could dial whatever he wanted. Quick fingers could easily punch out seven or ten digits before the auto-dialer on the extender would kick in and dial its 611 in vain to equipment which at that point was no longer listening. He would get his call instead of the 611 repair clerk getting an extended call from a technician. Same smart aleck failed to remember that the telephone company issues bills to itself on its own internal lines and that someone, somewhere has to review those bills and okay them internally for write off or whatever telephone company does with its own bills. Two or three months after this scam got underway, some underpaid flunky working out of the central office who had never before in his lifetime ever seen a single charge on the 9916 line (since it theoretically was only dialing 611 when a call to 9915 triggered it) suddenly started seeing mountains of calls to numbers around the world at high prices (please remember AT&T did not have any 'plans' in those days) originating on 9916. Since the flunky did not intend to take the blame for 'his people' making those calls in their idle time, he decided to tap the line and see what it all about. Smart aleck got careless also and instead of limiting calls to radio station contest lines or pay phones or hotel switchboards or other places where a trace would lead no where he made a call to his *mother*, so that when the toll fraud investigator called and asked 'mother' do you remember who you spoke with at (date and time), 'mother' was more than happy to say, "oh, you are referring to my son; such a good boy and so smart with telephones." That's all the toll fraud investigator needed to hear, and as 'they' say, the jig was up. Smart aleck came home from work the next day to find the fraud investigator sitting on his front porch to tell him "We found out about the 9915/9916 gag, and tomorrow at this time, you're gonna get cut, and I for one don't care if you ever are able to get service again or not." Smart aleck had to hire a lawyer who was at least a wee bit smarter than he was to go file an appeal before the Illinois Commerce Commission. And because the Commission (in those days at least) was as corrupt as the rest of the Illinois Democratic Machine led by Mayor Daley, the lawyer had to take about a thousand dollars cash to 'spread around' the Commission. It was an expensive lesson for the Smart Aleck to learn, and took about ten days to get his phone service turned back on. Soon thereafter, telco did away completely with the 9915/9916 loop arounds. PAT] ------------------------------ From: danr_18@yahoo.com (Daniel Rosenzweig) Subject: Re: Ringing Multiple Devices (was Re: Bye, Bye Ma Bell) Date: 6 Jun 2004 16:14:49 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Yep -- I currently have Callvantage ring my home phone and cellphone at the same time ... when the phone rings and I pick it up, it tells you that you have received a callvantage call.. so you press the '1' key and the call goes through. The press of the '1' key is needed, to make sure that a person picked up at one of the locations, instead of an answering machine. Especially needed if you tell it to call each number one after the other. ... No more waiting around the house for an important phonecall ... (from someone who doesn't have your cellphone number ... or for someone you don't want to give your cellphone number ...) Hank Karl wrote in message news:: > On Tue, 25 May 2004 20:00:29 GMT, joel@exc.com (Dr. Joel M. Hoffman) > wrote: >>> VoIP services have to compete on features. For example, AT&T's >>> CallVantage offers a 9-way conference bridge, and the ability to have >>> a call ring up to five devices. Both of these features can be done on >>> a landline, but I don't know of any providers who offer the multiple >>> ring capability. >> Do you mean up to five different numbers ring at once, as in, say, >> your CallVantage line, a landline, and a cellphone? THAT would be a >> wonderful feature. > According to http://www.usa.att.com/callvantage/what/features.jsp, > (click on the "locate me" option) the numbers can ring at once or in > sequence (your choice). [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Vonage does the same thing. A call coming into your Vonage line can ring another phone (such as your cell phone) at the same time. So if you do not want to give out your cell phone number, give out your Vonage number instead. PAT] ------------------------------ From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com (Lisa Hancock) Subject: Public Copy Cost Unchanged Date: 5 Jun 2004 19:01:15 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com I was at the library and used the public copying machine. It was 10 cents a copy. I realized this price is the same since I was a kid, back when a payphone call was a dime. Bus fares, now $2.00 were 35 cents. One example of improved technology holding its costs down. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Or maybe the Library trustees have dictated the price is to be kept low, by subsidizing it a little. I do not think you can 'blame' it all on technology. After all, telco has had lots of technological improvements in that time, as have busses, but look at their prices now. Here in Independence, KS at our crown jewel Riverside Park and Zoo, the 500 acre zoo has a lot of very exotic animals and Monkey Island, where a couple dozen simians live (on land, surrounded by a body of water in relative comfort for a bunch of monkeys) in a 'castle'. The minature train which takes people around the park complex only costs fifty cents per ride, and the carousel only costs one nickle -- five cents -- to ride and that has been the price since sometime in the 1920's, when a very wealthy citizen gave an endowment of several million dollars to the City of Independence specifically to the Riverside Park and Zoo with the condition it would ALWAYS be free and that the carousel would ALWAYS cost five cents. The endowment was to make sure the gentleman ALWAYS got his way, until at least a hundred years after his death, which occured about 1930. There is also a minature golf course, a swimming pool, and a softball stadium, and a band concert shell (ala Hollywood Bowl). All free or for a few cents in the case of the train ride, the minature golf and the carousel. The entire story of this fascinating crown jewel is at http://www.forpaz.com (forpaz = Friends of Riverside Park and Zoo). Unfortunatly, Ralph Mitchell was also a high-ranking member of the KKK back in the 1920's, but that rather embarassing fact is pretty much ignored these days, seventy years after his death. Now days, we just enjoy his precious gift to the City of Independence, even the black people in our integrated community. When I was a little tyke five years old my mother would bring me on the Interurban from Coffeyville to see the monkeys and ride the carousel, for of course, five cents. PAT] ------------------------------ From: shapershifter@hotmail.com (ShaperShifter) Subject: Free IP PBX Tutorial -- Whitepaper, PDF's Tutorials Date: 6 Jun 2004 22:14:20 -0700 Hi All, A good IP PBX tutorial on: http://www.intersyncsolutions.com/pages/3/index.htm good articles on IP PBX, links and whitepapers... Enjoy! ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Spam and Virii Continue Unabated, Getting Worse, IMO Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 19:18:16 PDT From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) Pat, Read your recent lament re increased spam volumes. Indeed, traffic seems to be *way* up. Something the RISKS Digest editor has done that might be helpful to you is to request that submitters include a specific uncommon string in their "Subject:" headers, e.g. "[tcomdgst]", which your moderation approval script could strip out (so it doesn't get exposed in the list. [Obviously, you'd need to use some circumlocution in announcing the magic string, too, for the same reason.] Yes, this is ugly, but Peter Neumann [RISKS moderator] reports that it has helped significantly. -Rob PS: Clearly you also need to lightly/quickly scan submissions *not* containing the magic string, just in case newbies don't know about it, but it should be acceptable for those articles to be somewhat delayed, and it should certainly speed up the whole process. Rob Warnock 627 26th Avenue San Mateo, CA 94403 (650)572-2607 [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Sounds like a good idea. I will give it some very serious thought. Thanks. PAT] ------------------------------ From: bighaaa@hotmail.com (Elly) Subject: Last Laugh! 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