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The Telecom Digest for May 22, 2011
Volume 30 : Issue 129 : "text" Format
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Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 02:41:46 -0700
From: Sam Spade <sam@coldmail.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Apple's filing in Apple v. Samsung
Message-ID: <59GdnTfKSKdGFUrQnZ2dnUVZ_jidnZ2d@giganews.com>
Monty Solomon wrote:
> Apple's filing in Apple v. Samsung (PDF)
> April 15, 2011
> http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/110415samsungcomplaint.pdf
>
> ***** Moderators Note *****
>
> If torts were decided on the basis of hype, Applie would win easily:
> here's a snippet from the first page of the filing:
>
> The iPhone was radically different. In one small and lightweight
> handheld device, it offered sophisticated mobile phone functions, a
> multi-touch screen that allows users to control the phone with their
> fingers, music storage and playback, a mobile computing platform for
> handheld applications, and full access to the Internet. These features
> were combined in an elegantly designed product with a distinctive user
> interface, icons, and eye-catching displays that gave the iPhone an
> unmistakable look.
>
> Bill Horne
> Moderator
>
The entire complaint is more advertising than a legal action. It looks
nice, though.
Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 10:18:19 -0400
From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: any phone service offering pseudo-anonymous, throwaway, numbers?
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1105211011480.10170@panix5.panix.com>
With the data mining and information selling/swapping
that goes on, if you give your phone number (traditional,
VOIP, cellular, etc.) to the car tire fixer place [a]...
it'll soon be on The List for plenty of other vendors
to annoy and harass you.
And don't even think about what happens if you hand
it to a political group..
[a] vendor chosen as an example, no harm intended.
But there are times you pretty much have to give folk
a number to reach you.
Having my own internet domains I can simply make-up an
e-mail address and destroy it a month later. And there are
commercial services with similar options.
But doing it with a phone number is trickier.
I was thinking of... a system/company that offers
up phone numbers, and then lets you pick and choose
"extensions" in it, which you could either route
to your "real" number, to v-mail, or send back to
oblivion when no longer needed.
For example, the company might have, among other
numbers, 808-555-1000. You could get "rights to",
for want of a better term, extensions "752-1000"
through "752-1999", and assign them as you chose.
So getting back to that tire place where you want
them to reach you, you'd activate ext. 752-1222
to call out to your real number (or go to v-mail).
Two months later, when you start getting marketing
garbage, you'd simply kill it off.
Anyone know of any service that has this? (And yes,
I realize this would be almost practical for
anyone with their own "Asterisk" system, but
that requires the equipment, the set up, and
oodles of upfront money, effort, and maintenance).
Thanks
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 13:22:04 +1000
From: David Clayton <dcstarbox-usenet@yahoo.com.au>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Open Wi-Fi Hotspots (now SSL security)
Message-ID: <pan.2011.05.21.03.22.00.40383@yahoo.com.au>
On Fri, 20 May 2011 18:25:05 -0500, Gordon Burditt wrote:
>>> One of the certificate authorities recently discovered that it had
>>> mistakenly issued certs for websites that weren't owned by the domain
>>> name registrant. No system is perfect: SSL has weak points, too.
>
> SSL has two different purposes:
> (1) ensuring that you are communicating with (and giving your credit card
> number to) the thief you think you are talking with, and
>
> (2) ensuring that all the other thieves can't listen in and get a crack at
> your credit card before the first thief puts it unencrypted on a laptop
> and loses it at an airport.
>
> If you only need (2), an anonymous self-signed certificate with no owner
> name/identification on it whatsoever for each web server is sufficient.
> You don't need certificate authorities at all. Most of the user-visible
> features of SSL in a browser are for (1).
.........
I set up Windows SBS servers on an ongoing basis and one of their features
is remote web access to e-mail etc., and Self-issued certificates work
well (I also have a philosophical objection to paying a third-party
outrageous annual fees to "certify" to others that I am who I am).
Most users don't know or care what colour the funny little padlock icon
on their browser is.
--
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: Sat, 21 May 2011 13:24:47 +1000
From: David Clayton <dcstarbox-usenet@yahoo.com.au>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Apple's filing in Apple v. Samsung
Message-ID: <pan.2011.05.21.03.24.46.408348@yahoo.com.au>
On Fri, 20 May 2011 22:40:21 -0400, Monty Solomon wrote:
> Apple's filing in Apple v. Samsung (PDF) April 15, 2011
> http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/110415samsungcomplaint.pdf
>
> ***** Moderators Note *****
>
> If torts were decided on the basis of hype, Applie would win easily:
> here's a snippet from the first page of the filing:
>
> The iPhone was radically different. In one small and lightweight
> handheld device, it offered sophisticated mobile phone functions, a
> multi-touch screen that allows users to control the phone with
> their fingers, music storage and playback, a mobile computing
> platform for handheld applications, and full access to the
> Internet. These features were combined in an elegantly designed
> product with a distinctive user interface, icons, and eye-catching
> displays that gave the iPhone an unmistakable look.
>
> Bill Horne
> Moderator
"...allows users to control the phone with their fingers", yep there's a
real innovation.
What did we use previously, sticks?
--
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.
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