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Volume 28 : Issue 218 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
Re: Iowa 911 call center becomes first to accept texts
Re: Is Google Voice a Threat to AT&T?
Meet "the world's most annoying Web site"
Professor Main Target of Assault on Twitter
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Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:59:31 +1000
From: David Clayton <dcstar@myrealbox.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Iowa 911 call center becomes first to accept texts
Message-ID: <pan.2009.08.08.06.59.30.413324@myrealbox.com>
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:03:48 -0400, Robert Neville wrote:
> T <kd1s.nospam@cox.nospam.net> wrote:
>
>>The British series "The IT Crowd" did a funny episode on emailing
>>emergency services. First, they'd changed the landline number to a long,
>>cryptic string.
>
> Oh come on - it wasn't cryptic at all!
>
> 0118 999 881 999 119 7253
>
> Sticks in your mind as soon as you've heard it once...
And just wait until you get the IVR prompts..... ;-)
--
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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Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 02:09:34 -0400
From: T <kd1s.nospam@cox.nospam.net>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Is Google Voice a Threat to AT&T?
Message-ID: <MPG.24e6e0a922938d7b989b3d@news.eternal-september.org>
In article
<6645152a0908071253q1fda291eod49bd1867ba1215b@mail.gmail.com>,
john@mayson.us says...
> I've been tossing this around in my brain the past few days. I
> recently met an Apple fan who refuses to buy an iPhone because he
> won't do business with AT&T. Me, I'm more interested in the handheld
> itself. I don't care who is handling the calls and data. I don't own
> an iPhone, but I recently got an iPod Touch. Now that I'm using the
> App Store and following the ongoing tale of Apple versus AT&T versus
> the consumer, I have some thoughts on this.
>
>
A suggestion. Since the Touch has WiFi built in all you need is the
Fring app and a microphone that plugs into the Touch.
Voila, anywhere there's WiFi you can call using Skype.
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Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 18:03:21 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Meet "the world's most annoying Web site"
Message-ID: <p0624080dc6a3a633c672@[10.0.1.3]>
Meet "the world's most annoying Web site"
Posted by Maha Atal, contributor
August 7, 2009 10:23 AM
Social-networking site Tagged.com has become a target of New York
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and the bane of a multitude of
customers.
"There's a thin line between clever and stupid," went the faux maxim
from Spinal Tap, yet it seems to apply pretty well to Web startups.
One of the most notoriously over-the-line is the social-networking
site Tagged.com, which New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says he
plans to sue for false advertising, deceptive business, and identity
theft.
What makes the case timely is that many of Tagged.com's practices,
like mass emails and data mining, have become commonplace among
social media sites. But Tagged's aggressive combination of these
digital promotions set it apart from its competitors, Cuomo charges.
According to the attorney general's press release, "Consumers who
visited Tagged were tricked into providing the company with access to
their personal email contacts, which the company then used to send
millions of promotional emails." He added: "This very virulent form
of spam is the online equivalent of breaking into a home, stealing
address books and sending phony mail to all of an individual's
personal contacts."
...
http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/08/07/meet-the-worlds-most-annoying-website/
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Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 17:51:40 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Professor Main Target of Assault on Twitter
Message-ID: <p0624080bc6a3a3631d86@[10.0.1.3]>
Professor Main Target of Assault on Twitter
By JENNA WORTHAM and ANDREW E. KRAMER
August 8, 2009
The cyberattacks Thursday and Friday on Twitter and other popular Web
services disrupted the lives of hundreds of millions of Internet
users, but the principal target appeared to be one man: a 34-year-old
economics professor from the republic of Georgia.
During the assault - the latest eruption in a yearlong skirmish
between nationalistic hackers in Russia and Georgia - unidentified
attackers sent millions of spam e-mail messages and bombarded
Twitter, Facebook and other services with junk messages. The blitz
was an attempt to block the professor's Web pages, where he was
revisiting the events leading up to the brief territorial war between
Russia and Georgia that began a year ago.
The attacks were "the equivalent of bombing a TV station because you
don't like one of the newscasters," Mikko Hyppönen, chief research
officer of the Internet security firm F-Secure, said in a blog post.
"The amount of collateral damage is huge. Millions of users of
Twitter, LiveJournal and Facebook have been experiencing problems
because of this attack."
The blogger, a refugee from the Abkhazia region, a territory on the
Black Sea disputed between Russia and Georgia, writes under the name
Cyxymu, but identified himself only by the name Giorgi in a telephone
interview. Giorgi, who said he taught at Sukhumi State University,
first noticed Thursday afternoon that LiveJournal, a popular blogging
platform, was not working for him. "I decided to go to Facebook," he
said. "And Facebook didn't work. Then I went to Twitter, and Twitter
didn't work. 'How strange,' I thought, 'What a coincidence they all
don't work at once.' "
Security experts say that it is nearly impossible to determine who
exactly is behind the attack, which disrupted access to Twitter,
Facebook, LiveJournal and some Google sites on Thursday and continued
to affect many Twitter users into Friday evening.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/technology/internet/08twitter.html
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