---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20200509182454.GA30612@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 18:24:54 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Why Did Dial-Up Modems Make So Much Noise? By Benj Edwards Screeeech . . . hisss . . . squaawk. These are familiar sounds to anyone who's ever used dial-up internet or called BBSes. It seemed especially noisy late at night. Have you ever wondered why all that noise was necessary? And did you know you could have muted your noisy modem? https://www.howtogeek.com/670455/why-did-dial-up-modems-screech-and-make-funny-noises/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ***** Moderator's Note ***** Yes, I did know how to mute my modem: since the speaker was on the top, I would park my coffee cup there, and doing that reduced the noise to the same level as most other background sounds. There were also commands in the "Hayes" list, which was a defacto standard, that would mute or lower the volume level of the speaker. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200509184846.GA30715@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 18:48:46 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Incognito Mode Unmasked: What It Does and What It Doesn't Do Smartphones are a vital life tool and yet also a privacy nightmare. If you don't take the proper precautions, you can quite literally expose yourself to unwitting friends or family members who pick up your device and stumble into the wrong app or folder. Thankfully, phone makers offer a plethora of ways we can protect ourselves, such as the mysteriously-named incognito mode. https://www.androidauthority.com/what-is-incognito-mode-1116441/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ***** Moderator's Note ***** I have to use "incognito" mode on Chrome quite often, to see websites that demand I disable Chrome's ad-blocker. Some sites have now been coded to demand that I use neither an ad-blocker nor Incognito mode, and I'd like to know if there's a way (short of disabling Javascript) to avoid the demands. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200509185615.GA30755@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 18:56:15 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Neighbors frustrated over dead landlines, look for answers By Mike McKnight OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) -- Calls of frustration to CenturyLink by two customers in northwest Omaha and there may be more. She has a cell phone but living on the edge of town Janet marksman prefers her CenturyLink landline. https://www.wowt.com/content/news/Neighbors-frustrated-over-dead-landlines-look-for-answers-570329191.html -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 10 May 2020