---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190430124601.GA19550@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:46:02 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Waiting game: Will blocking of conservative ad content cease? By Chris Woodward A conservative activist is taking the head of AT&T at his word when he says his employees need to stop blocking conservatives from advertising platforms. One of the companies that AT&T now owns is AppNexus, a major online advertising network that has been in the headlines in recent years for blocking ads on websites with which it did not agree. According to the National Center for Public Policy Research, AppNexus - under its previous CEO Brian O'Kelley - had a practice of banning certain websites from its platform for political reasons, and publicly encouraged other ad networks to follow suit. https://onenewsnow.com/business/2019/04/29/waiting-game-will-blocking-of-conservative-ad-content-cease -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190430131138.GA19574@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 13:11:38 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Guest column: Why we oppose the Incline Village cell tower (opinion) Moderator Note: Not-in-my-oh-so-perfect-Stepford-clockwork-department ... Incline Village residents are protesting the proposed cell tower on Village Boulevard. Although we're not against enhanced cell coverage, we are against the eyesore of a 117-foot monopole in the middle of Incline towering 30 or more feet above surrounding trees and buildings, sitting within a few hundred feet of high-density residences (including six homeowner associations), on an 1,800-square-foot cement pad with four large equipment boxes, a huge propane gas container, and a noisy emergency generator behind a 6-foot fence, all less than 50 feet from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Class 1 biking/walking path on Village Boulevard, which is one of Incline's most highly trafficked streets. For these reasons - and others having to do with the faulty application of Incline Partners - we're appealing the April 4 Board of Adjustment approval of the tower (a 2 to 1 decision), which the Board of Commissioners will hear in May. https://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/opinion/guest-column-why-we-oppose-the-incline-village-cell-tower-opinion/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ***** Moderator's Other Note ***** No, it doesn't matter if it's in this or that state or even this or that country. If someone chooses to live in a manufactured version of the "perfect" little town, then they have to take what comes with it. I suppose this is the same thing as the well-tended four-square-feet patches of grass that adorn city sidewalks, or the pretend fireplaces some computer users have as screensavers - but it's dangerous. The "benefits" of one-microscopic-size-fits-all insular developments come with physical /and/ psychological costs, and we ignore them at our peril. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190430131507.GA19701@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 13:15:07 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Will telecoms' tighter data sharing cripple banks' fraud detection efforts? By Penny Crosman After reports that they sell their customers' location data to questionable buyers, AT&T, Verizon and Sprint have vowed to stop selling location data to third-party data aggregators, whom they blame for sharing customers' locations with bounty hunters and fraudsters. https://www.americanbanker.com/news/will-telecoms-tighter-data-sharing-cripple-banks-fraud-detection-efforts -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Wed, 01 May 2019