The Telecom Digest for January 20, 2011
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:35:16 -0600
From: John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Auto(in)correct
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=UjeQrj=yPSL1pRb8Gkz6Y3E8dPcJZte9VyC06@mail.gmail.com>
My sister lives in Atlanta. As you know they had a snowstorm a couple
of weeks ago. She texted her boyfriend, "I'm stocked up on Mountain
Dew to survive the snow-in." But her phone auto-corrected "snow-in"
to "abortion".
There's also a humorous, albeit off-color, site called damnyouautocorrect.com.
--
John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
Austin, Texas, USA
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:31:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Wes Leatherock <wleathus@yahoo.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Auto(in)correct
Message-ID: <887375.70586.qm@web111724.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
--- On Tue, 1/18/11, John Mayson <john@mayson.us> wrote:
> My sister lives in Atlanta. As you know they had a snowstorm a
> couple of weeks ago. She texted her boyfriend, "I'm stocked up on
> Mountain Dew to survive the snow-in." But her phone auto-corrected
> "snow-in" to "abortion".
I am a writer and editor by trade and I find even more annoying the
correction in style and syntax that Microsoft's "spell" check is
continually interrupting with.
Some of their proposed corrections are just plain wrong, others apply
to some different style than I am writing in, and in other cases I
particularly deivate from a style for effect.
Their proposed corrections apparently are mainly applicable to
scientific papers or the most formal type of writing, or follow some
British style, and often following them would be obfuscatory to the
reader. They would be fine for writing the documents, such as credit
card and deposit account rules, that are now by law being commanded to
be written in "plain English," which their style certainly is not.
Wes Leatherock
wleathus@yahoo.com
wesrock@aol.com
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:58:50 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: FCC Grants Approval of Comcast-NBCU Transaction
Message-ID: <p06240836c95ba11b17fd@[10.0.1.2]>
FCC Grants Approval of Comcast-NBCU Transaction
News Release
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-304134A1.pdf
Genachowski Statement
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-304134A2.pdf
Copps Statement
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-304134A3.pdf
McDowell and Baker Joint Statement
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-304134A4.pdf
Clyburn Statement
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-304134A5.pdf
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:54:56 -0600
From: Neal McLain <nmclain@annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Comcast-NBCU...Done Deal
Message-ID: <4D362850.9090400@annsgarden.com>
By Michael Grebb
CableFAX
2011 Access Intelligence LLC.
January 18, 2011
And so let be written: Comcast and NBCU are now one. The FCC's approval
and Justice Dept. sign-off minutes later this afternoon essentially
consummates this marriage of distribution and content powerhouses. It
has been a long and winding road for Comcast as it tirelessly lobbied
and cajoled policymakers over the last year or so. The company has
spent millions in the process and "voluntarily" offered up a number of
pre-emptive concessions, including more channel space for indie
programming and various promises not to unfairly discriminate against
other content owners and distributors.
http://tinyurl.com/4asxp4p
Neal McLain
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:56:05 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Why Steve Jobs Won't Return to Apple
Message-ID: <p0624083fc95be6cc6da4@[10.0.1.2]>
TECHNOLOGY
Why Steve Jobs Won't Return to Apple
The legendary CEO has accomplished everything he ever wanted to accomplish.
By Farhad Manjoo
Jan. 17, 2011
I've got a feeling that Steve Jobs isn't going to return to Apple. I
don't have any inside information on the medical leave that he
announced on Monday morning. Just consider my thoughts to be educated
speculation based on watching the company for years.
Here's my theory: Since returning to Apple in 1996, Jobs has pushed
the company to achieve one of his long-held goals-to turn computers
into mainstream appliances as ubiquitous and easy-to-use as
televisions, toasters, and food processors. He has been stunningly
successful in achieving that vision. And now he's probably done. The
tech world, today, looks more or less exactly like what Steve Jobs
has always said the tech world should look like, and Apple is one of
the most valuable companies in that universe. What more is there left
for Jobs to do?
...
http://www.slate.com/id/2281453/
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:07:51 -0800
From: Richard <rng@richbonnie.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: RE Pay phone unplugged after costing Davison County $69 per call
Message-ID: <7tobj61s4jk5h0hbgbfn98m6qev1am12om@4ax.com>
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:24:28 -0800 (PST), Lisa or Jeff
<hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
>Years ago, most businesses had a pay phone for visitors and for
>employees to make and receive personal calls. Making companies were
>very strict about employees making even local calls from their
>business lines, though others were more flexible.
I worked for Bell Labs before Divestiture. We were allowed to make
personal calls from our desks, even long distance. Of course, we WERE
the phone company, so maybe that made a difference.
Several times in my career, I visited AT&T Long Lines transmission
main stations. The station supervisor would tell us that if we wanted
to make a call home to our family, it was OK to use a particular
phone. It went directly into the toll switch, bypassing any
accounting. But then again, they WERE the phone company.
Dick
***** Moderator's Note *****
ITYM "A particular 17C board".
Unless, of course, the toll switch was SxS and it was a dial phone ...
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:34:56 -0600
From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: RE Pay phone unplugged after costing Davison County $69 per call
Message-ID: <hdGdnd27Cvy9CavQnZ2dnUVZ_gGdnZ2d@posted.nuvoxcommunications>
In article <AANLkTi=MqVe9dxND=uRub0XdTZaAejx6RbMg9-nF1D5z@mail.gmail.com>,
Telecom Digest Moderator wrote:
>***** Moderator's Note *****
>
>I'd bet that payphones disappeared from business offices because
>someone had an attack of common sense, and figured out that the time
>employees spent walking to and from the phone covered the cost of a
>call from their desk.
You'd lose. Companies with that kind of policy -- no personal calls from
the work phone -- also didn't let employees go make personal calls 'on
company time; you could only use the pay phone during a 'break'. Thus,
there was -no- company time 'lost' by the employee walking to/from the phone.
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:23:38 -0800
From: Richard <rng@richbonnie.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Your most dangerous possession? Your smartphone
Message-ID: <bfpbj6d9l48e6svbqlevslbal792jn82ld@4ax.com>
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:33:57 -0800, Sam Spade <sam@coldmail.com>
wrote:
>Monty Solomon wrote:
>> Your most dangerous possession? Your smartphone
>>
>> By Blake Ellis, staff reporter
>> January 11, 2011
>>
>> NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Forget what's in your wallet -- beware your
>> smartphone. It's becoming one of your most dangerous possessions.
>>
>> If your phone was stolen a few years ago, the thief could make prank
>> calls and read your text messages. Today, that person can destroy
>> your social life -- you said what on Facebook?! -- and wreak havoc on
>> your finances.
>>
>> Now that smartphones double as wallets and bank accounts -- allowing
>> users to manage their finances, transfer money, make payments,
>> deposit checks and swipe their phones as credit cards -- they are
>> very lucrative scores for thieves. And with 30% of phone subscribers
>> owning iPhones, BlackBerrys and Droids, there are a lot of people at
>> risk.
>
>I guess it's easier to be a victim than a responsible person. It is
>actually possible to possess one of those gadgets without any sensitive
>applications on it whatsoever. I've had an iPhone for 25 months now.
>If it were lost or stolen it would be a big yawn. Let's see...oh yes, I
>would have to change the security code on my wireless router at home.
I am much less vulnerable, because I'm somewhat of a Luddite. My
mobile phone is a Motorola C155 from Tracfone. All it does is voice
and text messages. No camera. No Internet. And my only use of text
is when Tracfone updates my subscription information via a text
message. No outgoing texts. And that's the way I like it.
If I lost my mobile phone, the only information they could get from it
would be my phone directory. (Hmmm, maybe I should erase that
directory and carry around a list of numbers in my wallet. Nah, I
guess not.)
Dick
***** Moderator's Note *****
If you lose the phone, that list would come in very handy. The one
feature I would like to see on mobile phones is the ability to import
and export the directory, via a SMS if need be, but preferably
with a USB cord.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:56:48 +0000
From: Arthur Shapiro <art.shapiro@unisys.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Your most dangerous possession? Your smartphone
Message-ID: <ih78l0$1k46$1@si05.rsvl.unisys.com>
Our moderator observes:
>If you lose the phone, that list would come in very handy. The one
>feature I would like to see on mobile phones is the ability to import
>*and* export the directory, via a SMS if need be, but preferably
>with a USB cord.
Isn't that standard?
I use an old Motorola V3 Razr for the two or three calls I might make
or receive in a month. (Can't understand all you folks paying those
huge smartphone charges each month to the rapacious cellular
companies). It easily backs up and restores what Motorola terms the
Contacts list, via USB or Bluetooth. Ditto for my wife's Samsung
T219.
Are you saying this isn't a facility available for every phone in the
world???
Art
***** Moderator's Note *****
It's not on the phones Virgin Mobile uses AFAIK.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:16:54 +1100
From: David Clayton <dcstar@myrealbox.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Your most dangerous possession? Your smartphone
Message-ID: <pan.2011.01.19.21.16.50.762921@myrealbox.com>
.........
> ***** Moderator's Note *****
>
> If you lose the phone, that list would come in very handy. The one feature
> I would like to see on mobile phones is the ability to import and
> export the directory, via a SMS if need be, but preferably with a USB
> cord.
>
I have a little USB device that I can put a SIM card into and
Import/Edit/Export the stored contacts, but it isn't as handy as doing it
directly through the phone.
It does give you the ability to have a backup of the contacts to load into
a new SIM if you lose the other one.
--
Regards, David.
David Clayton
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a
measure of how many questions you have.
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:37:44 +1100
From: David Clayton <dcstar@myrealbox.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Your most dangerous possession? Your smartphone
Message-ID: <pan.2011.01.19.00.37.41.846207@myrealbox.com>
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:33:57 -0800, Sam Spade wrote:
> Monty Solomon wrote:
>> Your most dangerous possession? Your smartphone
>>
>> By Blake Ellis, staff reporter
>> January 11, 2011
>>
>> NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Forget what's in your wallet -- beware your
>> smartphone. It's becoming one of your most dangerous possessions.
>>
>> If your phone was stolen a few years ago, the thief could make prank
>> calls and read your text messages. Today, that person can destroy your
>> social life -- you said what on Facebook?! -- and wreak havoc on your
>> finances.
>>
>> Now that smartphones double as wallets and bank accounts -- allowing
>> users to manage their finances, transfer money, make payments, deposit
>> checks and swipe their phones as credit cards -- they are very lucrative
>> scores for thieves. And with 30% of phone subscribers owning iPhones,
>> BlackBerrys and Droids, there are a lot of people at risk.
>
> I guess it's easier to be a victim than a responsible person. It is
> actually possible to possess one of those gadgets without any sensitive
> applications on it whatsoever. I've had an iPhone for 25 months now. If
> it were lost or stolen it would be a big yawn. Let's see...oh yes, I
> would have to change the security code on my wireless router at home.
It's a bit (well, a lot) like loading up you car with all your important
documents (because "it's convenient") and then acting surprised if the car
gets stolen and the naughty person who nicked it uses the documents to
empty your bank account or have the car run red lights.
Then again, I suppose anyone with any sense would report the device as
stolen as soon as they found out and get it WIPED immediately by the
network provider - as all of these devices have this function.
--
Regards, David.
David Clayton
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a
measure of how many questions you have.
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:32:38 +1100
From: David Clayton <dcstar@myrealbox.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Of cell phones and freedom
Message-ID: <pan.2011.01.19.00.32.35.231733@myrealbox.com>
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:40:23 -0600, John Mayson wrote:
........
> It was only last year when I was living in Malaysia that I saw what was
> going on. Much like Europe, Malaysia has a single standard. Because
> they use what is the closest thing we have to a a global standard, they
> have a HUGE selection of phones. Handset manufacturers can do this
> because they can easily sell these products on five of the six inhabited
> continents. Yes, they are pricey thanks to Malaysia's steep import
> duties. A Samsung Galaxy S Android handset was running close to USD
> $800. But service is far less. I had a pre-paid SIM and was paying
> approximately USD $33 per month for 3 GB of data, a lot of talking, and
> SMS. I paid $200 for my Samsung Captivate (i.e. Galaxy S) but I am
> paying more for service and have a two-year contract. While I'm quite
> happy with my provider, if I weren't it'd be very expensive for me to
> switch. And I'd likely have to get a new phone. And I like my phone, I
> wouldn't want to switch.
>
> Is this a case of the grass is always greener? Or am I on to something?
> When I was getting my SIM card over there the employee was surprised
> that as an American I knew to unlock my phone first and talked to me
> about how messed up things are in the US. This is a sentiment I heard
> from my co-workers over there. Over here attitudes seem to be anything
> that is good for the consumer is bad for capitalism and will cost jobs.
>
Just a word of caution on this particular example, be very wary of some
Asian countries where a lot of the telco infrastructure is owned by a
narrow oligarchy - usually with family links to whoever is in power.
I seriously doubt that the billions made by these virtual monopolies - and
the corruption essentially underlying them - comes from anywhere else but
over the top charges for using their networks.
That's not the technology's fault, just the "free market" thinking of
those who line their pockets via endemic government crony-ism being ahead
of the curve.
--
Regards, David.
David Clayton
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a
measure of how many questions you have.
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:22:10 -0600
From: John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Of cell phones and freedom
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=nats1aM9uTMhcNaUVWGou5H+gryh6ik61m6r0@mail.gmail.com>
Thanks for the feedback on this thread. I was wondering if there was
something I wasn't getting.
While I've been to Europe, I've never dealt with phones there. I'm
just going by what others have told me. Frequent travelers I know are
also "GSM bigots" like me and they rant as much as I do about our
system. My personal experience is limited to Malaysia and I'm still
amazed at the number of handset choices they have and what they pay
for service.
I do realize it's hard to make an apples to apples comparison. The US
has free mobile-to-mobile calling while other countries do not. In
Malaysia the rule is caller pays and all calls to mobile phones are
billed as long distance. In the US someone can call me from their
landline and it'll most likely be free for them. The US also has very
inexpensive international calling options (pre-paid cards, Google
Voice, Skype, etc.) while other countries do not.
For people in my circumstances, heavy data usage, light calling, wants
a good phone that I outright own that'll last for years, then the
European model is better. For others perhaps not.
--
John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
Austin, Texas, USA
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:31:04 -0600
From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Pay phone unplugged after costing Davison County $69 per call
Message-ID: <hdGdnaK7CvylDqvQnZ2dnUVZ_gGdnZ2d@posted.nuvoxcommunications>
In article <ih25gc$mre$2@news.albasani.net>,
Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>Robert Bonomi <bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com> wrote:
>>Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>John Mayson <john@mayson.us> wrote:
>
>>>>http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/news/state-and-regional/south-dakota/article_2e232f62-20b1-11e0-82e6-001cc4c03286.html
>
>>>>MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) - A pay phone in the county courthouse in Mitchell
>>>>will be unplugged after officials discovered it cost the county $69
>>>>per call last year.
>
>>>>County Maintenance Supervisor Mark Ruml told the Davison County
>>>>Commission that he'd never seen anyone use the phone in more than
>>>>three years and money to pay for it was coming out of his budget.
>
>>>>It cost the county $763 a year to have the phone. Ruml said records
>>>>showed only 11 calls were placed on the phone in 2010.
>
>>>>The Daily Republic newspaper said the county commission voted to remove it.
>
>>>Have they ever heard of the concept of competitive bidding? They might
>>>have found a payphone services provider willing to place a phone there.
>
>>With -that- volume of calls, nobody's going to be interested -- UNLESS
>>the county pony's up for all the costs.
>
>The owner of the office building doesn't guarantee a minimum number of
>calls.
True. However, a pay-phone operator is a businessman -- s/he's not
going to put in a phone at his/her expense where the demonstrated call
volume won't cover the phone line charges, not to mention depreciation
or maintenance/servicing costs on the equipment.
>>They might find a cut-rate COCOTS operator to put one for a somewhat lower
>>cost, but I really doubt they'd be able to get it to under $25/call, given
>>the indicated traffic level.
>
>It's still cheaper than installing an extension for emergency calls,
>something you are really going to want available in a court house.
Mail bovine excrement applies. IF the courthouse is open, there are
county employees around who already have phones. In fact, for -most-
of the courthouse,` said employees will be -closer- to the scene of an
emergency than a pay phone is.
Even if that wasn't the case, the 'cost' of running an 'extension' off the
PBX, is a one-time expense of a few hundred dollars, at most, allowing
several hundred dollars out of 'first year' costs for replacing damaged phone
sets. Second year, after the one-time install costs have been amortized,
the expense equivalent of that pay phone buys a new 'throw away' phone set
every week or two.
***** Moderator's Note *****
Ah, but consider the environment: any phone accessible to the public
in a court house will have to withstand punishment by those
dissatisfied with the outcomes of their cases, and must also be
hearing-aid compatible, have access to multilingual operators, and
must offer access to any carrier.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:50:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Wes Leatherock <wleathus@yahoo.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Pay phone unplugged after costing Davison County $69 per call
Message-ID: <686235.62497.qm@web111717.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
--- On Wed, 1/19/11, Moderator wrote, in a note to a post by
Robert Bonomi <bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com>:
> ***** Moderator's Note *****
>
> Ah, but consider the environment: any phone accessible to the public
> in a court house will have to withstand punishment by those
> dissatisfied with the outcomes of their cases, and must also be
> hearing-aid compatible, have access to multilingual operators, and
> must offer access to any carrier.
As far as people disstisfied with the outcomes of their cases, most
courthouse have many other county offices, such as the county clerk,
register of deeds, county assessor, county treasurer, possibly the
sheriff's office (which has many civil, not criminal, functions),
maybe the county agricultural agent* and the home demonstration agent*
and probsbly a bunch I've missed.
Titles with a "*" have been revised in recent years in the name of
political correctness, as well as the fact their functions have
changed over the years.
Wes Leatherock
wleathus@yahoo.com
wesrock@aol.com
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:47:16 -0600
From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Can Your Camera Phone Turn You Into a Pirate?
Message-ID: <hdGdndy7CvyZCqvQnZ2dnUVZ_gGdnZ2d@posted.nuvoxcommunications>
In article <e17c1$4d34debf$adce4fbf$16000@PRIMUS.CA>,
Geoffrey Welsh <gwelsh@spamcop.net> wrote:
>annie wrote:
>
>> I've used my digital camera several times at the library, rather than
>> use the overpriced blurry copier. I know the librarians have seen me
>> and never told me to stop.
>
>I don't know if the library makes a profit on the copying charges, but
>at least they expect you to read the book there and leave without it.
>Book stores expect you to pay them for the book if you want to use it,
>so I would think that their reaction would be a bit different.
Barnes & Noble and Borders both have -no- problem with you sitting in
their store and reading one of their books, in it's entirety.
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:24:17 -0500
From: Curt Bramblett <CurtBramblett@cfl.rr.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Auto(in)correct
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20110119101912.0143ee48@pop-server.cfl.rr.com>
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
-Sauce unknown
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:45:06 +1100
From: David Clayton <dcstar@myrealbox.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Auto(in)correct
Message-ID: <pan.2011.01.19.21.45.02.684626@myrealbox.com>
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:24:17 -0500, Curt Bramblett wrote:
> Eye halve a spelling chequer
........
> -Sauce unknown
I suppose we should be "gr8ful" that phones don't have a function
automatically to turn normal writing in "tXt-speak" - though that
could be handy in communicating with the kiddies these days.
A function to reverse the process so some of the indecipherable stuff
you see is converted to plain English would be handy (in some
circumstances).
--
Regards, David.
David Clayton
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a
measure of how many questions you have.
***** Moderator's Note *****
Electronic written communication, when conducted in "real time",
demands shortcuts to maintain the approximate cadence of the spoken
word. We may be seeing the emergence of a new written language,
similar to shorthand (or for that matter, to Chinese), where a larger
body of symbols is used to compress the time needed to convey a given
thought.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:43:31 -0500
From: tlvp <tPlOvUpBErLeLsEs@hotmail.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Auto(in)correct
Message-ID: <op.vpkuqtg4itl47o@acer250.gateway.2wire.net>
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:24:17 -0500, Curt Bramblett <CurtBramblett@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Eye halve a spelling chequer
> It came with my pea sea
> It plainly marques four my revue
> Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
>
> Eye strike a key and type a word
> And weight four it two say
> Weather eye am wrong oar write
> It shows me strait a weigh.
> As soon as a mist ache is maid
Oops! Should that be "missed ache"?
> It nose bee fore two long
> And eye can put the error rite
> Its rare lea ever wrong.
>
> Eye have run this poem threw it
> I am shore your pleased two no
Ding, ding, ding: shouldn't that be "ewer", not "your"?
> Its letter perfect awl the weigh
> My chequer tolled me sew.
And isn't that "miso" (the Japanese soup), not "me sew" (or even "me sow")?
> -Sauce unknown
Cheers, -- tlvp
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:01:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Venezuela-Cuba undersea cable
Message-ID: <c6ff942f-a755-46d8-b365-b95f2c1c2c7e@k14g2000pre.googlegroups.com>
>From the Phila Inqr, new cable to be built.
http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/business/20110119_ap_worksettobeginonvenezuelacubaunderseacable.html
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:21:04 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: What happens when mom unplugs teens for 6 months?
Message-ID: <p0624084bc95ce9e290a4@[10.0.1.2]>
What happens when mom unplugs teens for 6 months?
By BETH J. HARPAZ, Associated Press - Tue Jan 18, 12:45 pm ET
NEW YORK - Susan Maushart lived out every parent's fantasy: She
unplugged her teenagers.
For six months, she took away the Internet, TV, iPods, cell phones
and video games. The eerie glow of screens stopped lighting up the
family room. Electronic devices no longer chirped through the night
like "evil crickets." And she stopped carrying her iPhone into the
bathroom.
The result of what she grandly calls "The Experiment" was more OMG
than LOL - and nothing less than an immersion in RL (real life).
...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110118/ap_on_hi_te/us_fea_parenting_teens_unplugged
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:35:05 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: New Dirt on the Stuxnet Worm & Cyber War
Message-ID: <p06240852c95d4ed594b4@[10.0.1.2]>
http://www.onpointradio.org/2011/01/stuxnet-worm-cyber
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 11:00 AM EST
New Dirt on the Stuxnet Worm & Cyber War
We go inside the Stuxnet worm cyber-attack on Iran's nuclear push,
and look at the reality of cyber-war.
For years now we've been warned of cyber-war. Digital warfare.
Electronic worms and bugs that could pit nation against nation.
In the last week, we've essentially been told it's on. The New York
Times reports that the United States and Israel worked together to
launch the "Stuxnet" worm against Iran's nuclear program. That
super-sophisticated code secretly buried in Iran's equipment caused
nearly a thousand nuclear centrifuges to tear themselves to pieces,
setting Tehran's ambitions back by years.
This hour On Point: the Stuxnet worm, and the path of cyber warfare.
Guests:
John Markoff, senior correspondent covering science and technology
for the New York Times. Co-author of the new article, "Israeli Test
on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay."
James Lewis, senior fellow and director of the technology and public
policy program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Bruce Schneier, author and expert on security and technology. Author
of "Schneier on Security."
Eric Chien, researcher at the computer security company Symantec who
has been studying the Stuxnet worm.
Listen
http://www.onpointradio.org/media-player?url=http://www.onpointradio.org/2011/01/stuxnet-worm-cyber&title=New+Dirt+on+the+Stuxnet+Worm+%26%23038%3B+Cyber+War&pubdate=2011-01-19&segment=2
http://wbur-wm.streamguys.com/wburod/2011/01/onpoint_0119_2.wma
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:00:10 -0600
From: John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: What happens when mom unplugs teens for 6 months?
Message-ID: <AANLkTimeWmHeiekHhHvyvg-bEE4GuBvN6=V_sUEGPscx@mail.gmail.com>
I grew up during the 1980s. I often wonder just how on earth I
survived without the Internet. Today I think I would go without food
before I'd go without Internet access.
--
John Mayson <john@mayson.us>
Austin, Texas, USA
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:15:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Auto(in)correct
Message-ID: <d5554856-ceff-4581-a126-6b0c3619117b@k3g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>
On Jan 18, 1:52 am, Monty Solomon <mo...@roscom.com> wrote:
> Pity poor Hannah, who received a startling text message on her
> cellphone, sent from her father: "Your mom and I are going to divorce
> next month."
> After Hannah registered her alarm, her father quickly texted back: "I
> wrote 'Disney,' and this phone changed it. We are going to Disney."
Google and other search engines change search criteria around even if
you don't want them too. Historically, putting text in quotes meant
to use it exactly as entered, but today's search engines still massage
it around even when you don't want it to.
For example, I wanted to find out if there was any information about a
police incident on Hartford Court, a local street. So I keyed
"Hartford Court" including the quotes. But the search engine
condensed it to "Hartford CT" and returned a ton of unwanted
information about Hartford, Connecticut. It continued to do this even
after I added qualifiers to narrow it down; it just ignored them.
At other times they substitute unwanted synonyms or spellings.
In other threads we talked about the mess in automated telephone
directory websites--giving lots of listings from all over the place
except the one you really want.
I realize there is an advantage to fuzzy matches or correcting
spelling; sometimes we do make spelling mistakes and the computer is
correct in assuming what we really want. But many times the computer
is wrong, and it's frustrating that it won't let us override its
assumptions.
Maybe the programmers of such things purposely want us to wade through
lots of listings?
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