---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <q1avhf$ho6$1@dont-email.me> Date: 11 Jan 2019 15:52:26 -0500 From: "Volney" <volney@volney.invalid> Subject: Re: Astronaut sparks panic after accidentally dialling 911 On 1/4/2019 11:23 PM, Monty Solomon wrote: > Spaceman André Kuipers has told how he accidentally missed out a > number when he was trying to call home - and dialled emergency > services in the US. > > By Neal Baker > > André Kuipers missed out a number when making a call through > HQ back on Earth - and ended up connecting to US emergency services. > https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8116475/astronaut-calls-911-space-nasa-security/ > The story is not clear: How did the astronaut "dial 911"? Did he bring a cell phone with him and it actually worked from up there? Some NASA emergency panic button type mechanism? A VOIP phone or some other interface to the US telephone system? Something else? ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190112190808.GA11616@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 14:08:08 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: U.S. Workers Outsourced as Trump Plans Giveaway to Foreign Workers As President Trump says he wants to offer a "potential pathway to citizenship" for foreign workers imported by multinational corporations, American workers at Verizon are having their jobs outsourced. As Breitbart News has chronicled, American Verizon workers had exclusively detailed that mass layoffs were coming at the corporation in an effort to shift all IT work over to Infosys, one of the biggest multi-billion dollar outsourcing firms in the U.S. that has been accused of undercutting American workers and discriminating against black and white Americans in favor of Indian nationals. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/11/u-s-workers-outsourced-as-trump-plans-giveaway-to-foreign-workers/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190112190321.GA11593@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 14:03:21 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile US pledge, again, to not sell your location AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile US pledge, again, to not sell your location to shady geezers. Sorry, we don't believe them Fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me, you can't get fooled again, OK By Kieren McCarthy US cellphone networks have promised - again - that they will stop selling records of their subscribers' whereabouts to anyone willing to cough up cash. In a statement on Thursday, AT&T said: "In light of recent reports about the misuse of location services, we have decided to eliminate all location aggregation services - even those with clear consumer benefits," adding: "We are immediately eliminating the remaining services and will be done in March." https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/11/us_carriers_location_data/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 13 Jan 2019