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The Telecom Digest for June 12, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 142 : "text" Format
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Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:21:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Justin Goldberg <justgold79@gmail.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Star 69 is a joke?
Message-ID: <4c57d16a-22ee-447e-9025-734b3d000e03@v9g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>
Is star 69 a joke in the USA? Did they have to choose the one number
between 1 and a hundred with a prurient meaning?
For those that don't know, *69 in the USA is the last-call-return
vertical service code.
Date: 11 Jun 2012 14:46:23 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Star 69 is a joke?
Message-ID: <20120611144623.94172.qmail@joyce.lan>
>Is star 69 a joke in the USA? Did they have to choose the one number
>between 1 and a hundred with a prurient meaning?
My goodness, some people have dirty minds.
That's what's known as a vertical service code. Most of the
possible *xx codes are assigned to various features, so something
was going to end up as number 69.
http://www.nanpa.com/number_resource_info/vsc_assignments.html
R's,
John
PS: Words that many people consider naughty now have historically been
entirely socially acceptable. Go to Google books, look for the phrase
"she ejaculated" and you will find a vast list of books and stories
where it's used in an entirely non-sexual sense.
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:21:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Wes Leatherock <wleathus@yahoo.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Star 69 is a joke?
Message-ID: <1339456905.46634.YahooMailClassic@web111714.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
--- On Mon, 6/11/12, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>>Is star 69 a joke in the USA? Did they have to choose the one number
>>between 1 and a hundred with a prurient meaning?
>
> My goodness, some people have dirty minds.
>
> That's what's known as a vertical service code. Most of the
> possible *xx codes are assigned to various features, so something
> was going to end up as number 69.
And it's 1169 from a rotary dial phone (actually 1169 will also work
from a T.T. phone.)
Wes Leatherock
wleathus@yahoo.com
wesrock@aol.com
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:45:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Mystery of Big Data's Parallel Universe Brings Fear, and a Thrill
Message-ID: <2a8b3d58-45d8-4ecd-a363-d319a0e9ce43@v9g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>
On Jun 5, 11:13 pm, Bill Horne <b...@horneQRM.net> wrote:
> I'm bothered that the press seems to be determined to paint any use of
> such information as an evil event. The coverage of this, and most
> technical issues, is, IMNSHO, intended to induce fear and make the
> public want to buy the paper, or watch the TV commercials, instead of
> informing us about BOTH the positive and negative possibilities of
> large databases and the information in them.
Unfortunately, I don't think the general public or the press realize
how much personal data about us is stored on computers. That data
exists in places we know nothing about nor have any control to protect
it from abuse or error.
There have been numerous news reports of serious leaks, the latest
being LinkedIn. The people who control these critical respositories
are human, and they make mistakes that allow hacking or deliberately
release data.
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:25:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Wes Leatherock <wleathus@yahoo.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Mystery of Big Data's Parallel Universe Brings Fear, and a Thrill
Message-ID: <1339457142.58185.YahooMailClassic@web111713.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
--- On Mon, 6/11/12, HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> wrote:
> On Jun 5, 11:13 pm, Bill Horne <b...@horneQRM.net> wrote:
> > I'm bothered that the press seems to be determined to paint any
> > use of such information as an evil event. The coverage of this,
> > and most technical issues, is, IMNSHO, intended to induce fear and
> > make the public want to buy the paper, or watch the TV commer-
> > cials, instead of informing us about BOTH the positive and
> > negative possibilities of large databases and the information in
> > them.
> Unfortunately, I don't think the general public or the press realize
> how much personal data about us is stored on computers. That data
> exists in places we know nothing about nor have any control to
> protect it from abuse or error.
> There have been numerous news reports of serious leaks, the latest
> being LinkedIn. The people who control these critical respositories
> are human, and they make mistakes that allow hacking or deliberately
> release data.
News consists of something out of the ordinary. Reporting what is normal might be used in a feature story of a manual, but it is not news.
Wes Leatherock
wleathus@yahoo.com
wesrock@aol.com
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