---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20170907043425.9824.qmail@ary.lan> Date: 7 Sep 2017 04:34:25 -0000 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Subject: Re: Texans' do-it-ourselves rescue effort defines Hurric= ane Harvey In article <oopbtm$1dbv$1@grapevine.csail.mit.edu> you write: >There's historical precedent for this, in South Texas even. all the >homes in my parents' neighborhood (on the mainland but in Galveston >County) that had to be rebuilt after the last major hurricane are >constructed on pilings at least 10 feet above ground level. ... Our house on Long Beach Island at the Jersey Shore is in a similar zone. After the town was largely washed away in 1962, all new construction has to be on pilings, with nothing of importance at ground level (in our case, just the garage.) We came through Sandy pretty well, no damage to the house other than the garage walls. Oh, and the A/C which I guess we should put on higher platforms someday. ObTelecom: I realize that I have no idea whether Verizon restored phone service on LBI after Sandy; they got a great deal of grief for offering Voicelink in Mantoloking farther north. We do have wired phone service but it's from Comcast, not Verizon. R's, John ------------------------------ Message-ID: <DCD111BE-55C1-4CC7-99A4-02782E224B93@roscom.com> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 23:36:25 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: 'Game of Thrones' was pirated more than a billion times – far more than it was watched legally [Warning: The Washington Post has a paywall] "Game of Thrones" was pirated more than a billion times - far more than it was watched legally. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/09/08/game-of-thrones-was-pirated-more-than-a-billion-times-far-more-than-it-was-watched-legally/ ***** Moderator's Note ***** I don't see why: I had a 30-day trial of HBO last year, and I watched about 40 minutes of the first episode. It's awful. No, change that: it's execrable. There wasn't a single moment when I felt like I was seeing anything but actors on a soundstage, talking about sex, simulating sex, or talking more about sex. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20170908203217.13471.qmail@ary.lan> Date: 8 Sep 2017 20:32:17 -0000 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Subject: Reply All podcast on some very strange phone calls #104 The Case of the Phantom Caller September 7, 2017 A woman in New Jersey is getting strange phone calls to her office from unknown numbers. Every time she picks up, she finds herself eavesdropping on the life of a different stranger. Unsure what else to do, she calls in Super Tech Support. ... https://gimletmedia.com/episode/104-case-phantom-caller/ Hey phone nerds, see how long it takes you to figure out what is going on. I got it less than 1/3 of the way through. R's, John ------------------------------ Message-ID: <F479DAD2-BE6B-432B-A7C2-9CF3AD94ABAE@roscom.com> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 02:20:12 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Forget Wall Street - Silicon Valley is the new political power in Washington Forget Wall Street - Silicon Valley is the new political power in Washington It used to be banks, but now it is tech giants that dominate the US lobbying industry. Can money buy them what they want: less competition, less tax ... and more data? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/03/silicon-valley-politics-lobbying-washington ------------------------------ Message-ID: <CA+K-Lfa44rLBD4cRcX59yxzq +5staqzVTni_LYDOY2_eNB7DMQ@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 23:41:07 -0400 From: "Michael D. Sullivan" <michael.sullivan@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Clevelanders file FCC complaint accusing AT&T of denying high-speed internet access to poor neighborhoods <snip> >>***** Moderator's Note ***** > Readers please note that the "old" AT&T is NOT the same company > which currently operates under the "AT&T" trademark. Not the same, but close: the current AT&T includes the old AT&T Long Lines, as well as Southwestern Bell, Illinois Bell, Indiana Bell, Michigan Bell, Wisconsin Bell, Ohio Bell, Southern Bell, South Central Bell, Pacific Tel, and Nevada Tel. In fact, the current AT&T includes all of the old AT&T except for the AT&T companies that became Verizon (NY Tel, NJ Tel, C&P Tel, and NE Tel) and the AT&T companies that became US West and are now part of Centurylink (Mountain States Tel, Northwestern Bell and Pacific Northwest Bell). The vast majority of the "old" AT&T is part of the "new" AT&T, although the internal structure is, obviously, very different. Of course, AT&T's Bell Labs and Western Electric have been tossed and turned in other directions (Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent), as has Bell Labs' Central Services Organization (which was BellCore, then Bell Communications Research Inc. (Bicker, Inc), Telcordia, and most recently iConnectiv, an Ericsson subsidiary). -- Michael D. Sullivan Bethesda, MD ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 14 Sep 2017