From editor@telecom-digest.org Mon Feb 2 18:52:48 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p2/8.11.3) id i12Nqmu20259; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:52:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:52:48 -0500 (EST) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200402022352.i12Nqmu20259@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 #52 TELECOM Digest Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:53:00 EST Volume 23 : Issue 52 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Mydoom Computer Virus Launches Record Attack on SCO Web Site (ptownson) Justin and Janet Top Super Bowl Show According to Annual (Monty Solomon) Plain Old Cell Phones Fading Away in U.S. (Monty Solomon) Re: Faked CallerID Info? (Sam Etler) Re: Faked CallerID Info? (John Levine) It-Stop Seeks Test Equipment (It-Stop T&M) Re: "Superman TV" and Telephones (J Kelly) Re: 802.11g Wireless Router/Signal Booster/Wireless Antenna (noname) Re: FCC Seeks to Limit F-Word on US Airwaves - Sources (Me) Re: Domain Registrars Sued Over URL Patent (Templeton Peck) 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 is 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: ptownson Subject: Mydoom Computer Virus Launches Record Attack on SCO Web Site Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 17:21:41 -0600 Here is the grim story as reported on Bloomberg earlier today. It appears over 250,000 computers are attacking SCO, which has been shut down since Saturday. Tomorrow, Tuesday, the trouble-makers are starting on Microsoft's web site in the same way. http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=3Demail&refer=3Dnews_index&sid=3D= azXE8LVs80lU PAT ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 17:53:55 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Justin and Janet Top Super Bowl Show UPDATE: Justin and Janet Top Super Bowl Show According to Annual TiVo Audience Measurement Analysis 'Wardrobe Malfunction' Most Replayed Moment TiVo Has Ever Measured Commercials and Half Time Show More Compelling for Viewers Than Action on the Field SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson stole the show during Sunday's Super Bowl, attracting almost twice as many viewers as the most thrilling moments on the field, according to an annual measurement of second-by-second viewership in TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) households. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=40381041 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:15:15 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Plain Old Cell Phones Fading away in U.S. By Ben Berkowitz LOS ANGELES, Feb 2 (Reuters) - As a fashion color, gray is the new black, thin batteries are in and you're not in vogue if you don't have the latest ringtone. As the U.S. wireless market grows, the cell phone is evolving into a phone in name only as calling becomes almost secondary to a host of other functions. After years of trailing Japan and Western Europe, where cell phones have long had color screens, e-mail, music, video games, cameras and other accessories that make American cell phones look backward in comparison, handset makers are finally pushing a new generation of units on the domestic market that offer the full range of functions available elsewhere. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=40380798 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 13:41:30 CST From: Sam Etler Subject: Re: Faked CallerID Info? > Strangely the number in question is 794-902-XXXX, which appears to be an > unused area code! > Is this possible and how the heck did someone do this???? There's a lot of ways to do it, but anyone with a dedicated ISDN PRI connection can set the Calling Party Number (Caller ID) field to whatever they want. Not only can you set it to a fake area code or prefix, but most networks allow you to send from 0 to 15 or more digits. AT&T's 4ESS network allows up to 17 though some digits may be stripped when the call enters another carrier's network. Now, setting your billing number is an entirely different and much more difficult matter. sam [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I *thought* (there I go, thinking for myself again) that sometime in the past two weeks a rule saying correct caller ID information had to be sent, whenever possible. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: 2 Feb 2004 23:02:32 -0000 From: John Levine Subject: Re: Faked CallerID Info? Organization: I.E.C.C., Trumansburg NY USA > Strangely the number in question is 794-902-XXXX, which appears to be an > unused area code! > Is this possible and how the heck did someone do this???? Most likely: he called from a PBX with ISDN trunks that permit the PBX to send any caller ID it wants. Second most likely: he has a box that sends cl-id chirps that fooled the conferencing system. John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 330 5711 johnl@iecc.com Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner http://iecc.com/johnl Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail ------------------------------ From: It-Stop T&M Organization: It-Stop Test Equipment Subject: It-Stop Seeks Test Equipment Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 12:42:08 -0800 Hello, It-Stop has an immediate requirement for the following: 1 HP/ Agilent 8720D 1 Tektronix TDS 3054B Oscilloscope Please let me know if you can help. Thanks, Pete Zeiner It-Stop.com 831-685-9441 ------------------------------ From: J Kelly Subject: Re: "Superman TV" and Telephones Date: 2 Feb 2004 12:58:31 -0800 Organization: Newsguy News Service [http://newsguy.com] In article , Gail M. Hall says: > What struck me was that when they used their cell phones, the tones > were sounded as the buttons were pressed instead of the way my current > cell phone works. Mine makes a beep with each phone press, but I > don't hear the normal phone tones until I press "Talk" on my phone.> > [TELECOM Digest Editor' Note: Television and Hollywood tend to take > some liberties with the realities of cell phones in their productions. > I do not think any cellphones ever worked differently than the way > they do now. PAT] Was it an actual cellular telephone, or a "car phone" in the more generic sense of the word? There were other mobile telephone systems in use before the AMPS Cellular network came to be. A couple that I have used are the IMTS system and GE-Marc V. The GE-Marc type phones did work as noted above, dial the number, hit talk, it would acquire an idle channel, send some tones to the base station to tell it the ID of the "phone" in use, and then send DTMF to the base to dial out. There was really no way to know if you were in range or not without attempting to make a call. The system also worked as a two-way radio. It was rather an old, slow, analog version of the Nextel phones. The system I used to work on was on the 800MHz band alongside a newer digital/analog hybrid type of 800MHz trunked radios known as EDACS. I'm not sure if there are any GE-Marc systems still in use today, but when I left the two-way business in 1997 the company I had been working for still had quite a few of them around. The two-way functionality made them somewhat usefull. They also could run up to 25W on a mobile. I think the protable walkie-talkie type ran 5W. The portables were not full duplex so telephone useage on them wasn't much fun, the mobiles where full duplex. ------------------------------ From: noname Subject: Re: 802.11g Wireless Router/Signal Booster/Wireless Antenna Organization: ATCC Reply-To: okorkie3@cox.net Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 21:29:59 GMT In article , o*k*o*r*k*i*e@lvcm.com says: > I have a question about adding a wireless antenna or signal booster to > my home network. > My current setup is I have a Linksys WRT54G wireless router which > supports B and G infrastructure. I have a 802.11b Wireless PCI card > in my PC. In my condo, I can verify that the wireless portion of the > network between the wireless router and my PC are functioning. I then > take my PC to another floor in my building, and I get little to no > signal. I would like to add either a signal booster and/or an antenna > to make my network functional. > From the reading that I have done, I can't determine where the > antenna needs to be installed if I go this route. Is it installed on > the PCI portion of the network, or the router portion of the network. > As the router TX's and RX's, is the problem with the low transmission > power from the router and therefore I need a wireless antenna on the > PC, or is the problem the low transmission power from the PCI card to > the router upstairs? I can't figure out which hardware I need to make > this functional. > Please contact me directly at okorkie3@cox.net (remove the *) Owen - when one gets into the frequencies that Wi-Fi runs on polarization matters. I believe that your router has two antennas on it. Orient one horizontally and one vertically. On the PC on the floor above make sure it's antenna is also on the horizontal. Tony ------------------------------ From: good_timecharlie@yahoo.com (Me) Subject: Re: FCC Seeks to Limit F-Word on US Airwaves - Sources Date: 2 Feb 2004 15:12:47 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Jeez, Count on internet low lifes disregarding the standards of human conduct and pretending they don't matter. You better hope you don't get the world you want. You'll regret it if you do. People with no morals tend to do immoral things whenever they like and that includes violating the rules against violence etc.. Yet idiots like you think disregarding the rules of behavior we have developed over centuries is a good thing. Some people are just too stupid for words. Me wrote in message news:: > Jeeez, > Count on Michael Powell and the FCC to tackle the really important and > earth shattering issues of the day. > Monty Solomon wrote in message > news:telecom23.20.18@telecom-digest.org: >> (First paragraph of this story contains language that may be >> offensive to some readers.) >> By Jeremy Pelofsky >> WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Communications Commission >> Chairman Michael Powell has proposed barring the word "fuck" from most >> radio and broadcast television, regardless of the context, sources >> close to the issue said on Tuesday. >> The proposal would overturn an October FCC staff decision that ruled >> the word was not indecent when U2 rocker Bono used it while accepting >> an award during the 2003 live broadcast of the "Golden Globe Awards" >> on the NBC television network. >> To succeed, Powell will have to garner at least two other votes for >> the proposal and the four other FCC commissioners are now considering >> the issue, the sources said. >> - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=40181215 > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well, I would credit Powell with having > a modicum of good taste in his vocabulary skills. *That word* has only > appeared in this Digest twice; once many years ago in the early 1980's > then yesterday. Today's message from 'me' makes number three. Halliday > thoughtfully blocked it out in her reply. That word, like 'kike' and > 'nigger' should certainly be used in context when appropriate, but > avoided in routine discussion. That's my opinion; not to say I have > never used the F-Word when IMO it was 'warranted' in anger, etc. PAT] ------------------------------ From: faceman28208@yahoo.com (Templeton Peck) Subject: Re: Domain Registrars Sued Over URL Patent Date: 2 Feb 2004 11:48:11 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Monty Solomon wrote in message news:: > The suit accuses Network Solutions and Register.com of selling rights > to Web URLs and e-mail addresses that infringe on a patent that was > granted to Javaher and Weyer on Dec. 20, 2003. The patent covers the > method of assigning URLs and e-mail addresses of members of a group > such that the "@" sign is the dot in the URL. For example, if a group > used a so-called third-level URL, www.john.smith.com, the e-mail > address would be john@smith.com. A couple of issues: 1. Who ever heard of assigning URLs? Is there a URL registry anywhere on the Internet? 2. There is no URL of the format www.john.smith.com. Apparently the "inventors" INTENDED domain name rather than URL. However, the patent text says URL and never once mentions DNS. ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications 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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