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Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:40:52 -0400
From: Fred Goldstein <fgoldstein.SeeSigSpambait@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Nine facts about SIP
Message-ID: <20111008214041.EE91334B59@mailout.easydns.com>
On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:36:43 +0200, Marc Haber wrote,
> Bill Horne wrote:
> >I'm curious if others agree with "John".
>
>SIP/RTP is a protocol which concentrates all mistakes that have been
>made in protocol design in the last 30 years into a single protocol.
>"30 years of experience, all ignored." This has brought crutches like
>STUN, makes security harder to do and does not do well with current
>network design.
Shhh, Marc, don't tell everyone that the emperor is naked!
It's actually worse than you imply. SIP itself is pretty bad. Why
in heaven's name does a supposedly modern protocol make use of ASCII
text strings for its messages, as if users were sitting at teletypes
and had to give commands to the other side? Sure, it was a nice hack
for debugging early protocols in the 1970s, but today such syntax is a sin.
Worse, SIP was defined with PSTN compatibility as a "non-goal". But
it's mostly used for PSTN-linked calls. So the standards are vague,
and everybody's implementation is different, so compatibility is a
big deal. And it never quite does what the PSTN requires, at least in the US.
But the worst of all is that it uses IP. The whole TCP/IP stack is
obsolete, a 1970s lab hack run astray. It caught on because Berkeley
provided free code in 1982, not on its merits. I suggest people look
at the Pouzin Society site
http://www.pouzinsociety.org/
to see an
alternative, RINA (Recursive InterNetwork Architecture), which takes
four decades of learning into account.
--
Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com
ionary Consulting
http://www.ionary.com/
+1 617 795 2701
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 17:47:58 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Search During Traffic Stop
Message-ID: <j6smod$7nd$1@news.albasani.net>
Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> wrote:
>California: Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Search During Traffic Stop
>California: Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Search During Traffic Stop
>Appellate court rules California cops can look through a Blackberry
>during a traffic stop.
>The California Court of Appeal on September 26 approved a police
>officer's rifling through the cell phone belonging to someone who had
>just been pulled over for a traffic violation.
>...
>
>http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/36/3603.asp
>
I'm confused. Does this go beyond the scope of Gant, or not? Gant hardly
made it impossible for police to conduct warrantless searches of vehicles
and did not find that inventory searches were unconstitutional.
The article doesn't say how long his driver's license had been expired
for, but if it's three months or less, it's a fairly minor vehicle code
violation in most states and it's unusual that they'd impound the vehicle.
What if the passenger were properly licensed and not intoxicated? Would
the vehicle impoundment have been unconstitutional if she drove it?
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:25:02 +1100
From: David Clayton <dcstarbox-usenet@yahoo.com.au>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: The appeal of the iPhone and other smartphones
Message-ID: <pan.2011.10.09.08.37.03.807442@yahoo.com.au>
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:14:14 -0400, Bill Horne wrote:
..........
> I'm writing about the /class/ of gadgets known as "smartphones", no
> matter which assembly line they fell off. It doesn't matter how many
> other companies get involved or how much hype and money is spread
> around: if you spend time defending Apple, you're missing my point. As I
> alluded to above, I think you're trying to justify Fords' business by
> pointing to Chevrolet, and I'm questioning whether /any/ kind of
> "smartphone" (they're not) is a wise investment.
..........
I have to admit that the only business value in my "Smartphone" is the
e-mail linking to my Exchange server as I spend most of my time either at
client sites or on the road to and from them. It also gives me a
convenient alternative to send and receive test e-mails as an external
system to the systems I administer.
Without that function I'd happily go back to a "normal" phone that only
has to be charged 1/4 of the times the more bulky "Smartphone" requires.
The only other valuable function I have really used on my "Smartphone"
is reading the news online while in the waiting room for medical
appointments! The rest of the things it can do are basically time wasting
toys, (which explains the appeal to a lot of people).
--
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: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 13:55:11 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: The iPhone 4S, HSPA+, and When HSPA+ is Real 4G
Message-ID: <p06240878cab78f5f98ec@[10.0.1.9]>
The iPhone 4S, HSPA+, and When HSPA+ is Real 4G
by Brian Klug
10/9/2011
A while after the iPhone 4S announcement, I posted a piece on the
iPhone 4S' cellular architecture and talked about the new inclusion
of HSPA+ alongside CDMA2000 1x/EVDO and some specifications. Since
then, there's been some ongoing confusion about whether the device
supports HSPA+, whether it's "4G," and just what all that really
means.
It's funny because this issue came up with the HP Veer 4G on AT&T a
while back, and with that particular device I did a similar
explanatory article in the context of a This Just In post. I wager
the somewhat limited cross shopping (and commercial success of the
Veer) resulted in many iOS users missing that discussion, and it's
cropping up again for the iPhone 4S. The confusion is really twofold.
First is a misunderstanding about 3GPP releases and what features are
optional or mandatory. Second is a misunderstanding about HSDPA,
HSUPA, and modulation coding schemes. Let's break it down.
...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4943/the-iphone-4s-hspa-when-hspa-is-real-4g
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 02:26:04 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Early Orders Test iPhone 4S Appeal
Message-ID: <p06240875cab6eec1711c@[10.0.1.9]>
Early Orders Test iPhone 4S Appeal
By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER And IAN SHERR
OCTOBER 8, 2011
Apple Inc. on Friday faced its first test since the death of
co-founder Steve Jobs as it began accepting pre-orders for its latest
iPhone.
Apple and wireless carriers in the U.S. and a half-dozen other
countries began taking Internet and telephone orders for the iPhone
4S in the pre-dawn hours.
AT&T Inc. said it had "more than 200,000 preorders in the first 12
hours alone" making the iPhone 4S "the most successful iPhone launch
we've ever had."
A Verizon Wireless spokesman said "our systems were humming very
strongly since 3 a.m.," and that executives were "pleased with the
sales and the ordering process."
...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203388804576615731788704032.html
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 02:05:16 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: The Steve Jobs I Knew
Message-ID: <p06240872cab6e872f6b9@[10.0.1.9]>
The Steve Jobs I Knew
Walt Mossberg
OCTOBER 5, 2011
That Steve Jobs was a genius, a giant influence on multiple
industries and billions of lives, has been written many times since
he retired as Apple's CEO in August. He was a historical figure on
the scale of a Thomas Edison or a Henry Ford, and set the mold for
many other corporate leaders in many other industries.
He did what a CEO should: Hired and inspired great people; managed
for the long term, not the quarter or the short-term stock price;
made big bets and took big risks. He insisted on the highest product
quality and on building things to delight and empower actual users,
not intermediaries like corporate IT directors or wireless carriers.
And he could sell. Man, he could sell.
As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and
liberal arts.
But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I
was fortunate enough to see a bit of it, because I spent hours in
conversation with him, over the 14 years he ran Apple. Since I am a
product reviewer, and not a news reporter charged with covering the
company's business, he felt a bit more comfortable talking to me
about things he might not have said to most other journalists.
Even in his death, I won't violate the privacy of those
conversations. But here are a few stories that illustrate the man as
I knew him
...
http://allthingsd.com/20111005/the-steve-jobs-i-knew/
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 02:05:16 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Steve Jobs - AllThingsD
Message-ID: <p06240873cab6e9622edb@[10.0.1.9]>
(This site includes material from various authors - Moderator)
Trending - Remembering Steve Jobs, Apple's iconic leader
Steve Jobs Full Coverage - AllThingsD
http://allthingsd.com/tag/steve-jobs/
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 22:05:58 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Book Business Sees a Bonanza in a Forthcoming Biography
Message-ID: <p06240895cab8002106b8@[10.0.1.9]>
Book Business Sees a Bonanza in a Forthcoming Biography
By JULIE BOSMAN
October 6, 2011
It took only hours on Wednesday night for Walter Isaacson's
forthcoming biography of Steve Jobs to shoot up the best-seller list
on Amazon.com, eventually moving from No. 384 to the No. 1 spot. On
Thursday morning, a book buyer at Powell's Books in Portland, Ore.,
quintupled its order of the book, to 500 copies. Simon & Schuster,
the publisher, said it was accelerating the publication, moving the
release date to Oct. 24 from Nov. 21.
And by the afternoon, the publishing industry was marveling at the
potential of the book, simply titled "Steve Jobs," weeks before its
release.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/business/media/book-business-has-big-hopes-for-biography-of-steve-jobs.html
***** Moderator's Note *****
Who said we don't honor our dead?
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 22:05:58 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: With Time Running Short, Jobs Managed His Farewells
Message-ID: <p06240894cab7fd986e8a@[10.0.1.9]>
With Time Running Short, Jobs Managed His Farewells
By CHARLES DUHIGG
October 6, 2011
Over the last few months, a steady stream of visitors to Palo Alto,
Calif., called an old friend's home number and asked if he was well
enough to entertain visitors, perhaps for the last time.
In February, Steven P. Jobs had learned that, after years of fighting
cancer, his time was becoming shorter. He quietly told a few
acquaintances, and they, in turn, whispered to others. And so a
pilgrimage began.
The calls trickled in at first. Just a few, then dozens, and in
recent weeks, a nearly endless stream of people who wanted a few
moments to say goodbye, according to people close to Mr. Jobs. Most
were intercepted by his wife, Laurene. She would apologetically
explain that he was too tired to receive many visitors. In his final
weeks, he became so weak that it was hard for him to walk up the
stairs of his own home anymore, she confided to one caller.
Some asked if they might try again tomorrow.
Sorry, she replied. He had only so much energy for farewells. The man
who valued his privacy almost as much as his ability to leave his
mark on the world had decided whom he most needed to see before he
left.
Mr. Jobs spent his final weeks - as he had spent most of his life -
in tight control of his choices. He invited a close friend, the
physician Dean Ornish, a preventive health advocate, to join him for
sushi at one of his favorite restaurants, Jin Sho in Palo Alto. He
said goodbye to longtime colleagues including the venture capitalist
John Doerr, the Apple board member Bill Campbell and the Disney chief
executive Robert A. Iger. He offered Apple's executives advice on
unveiling the iPhone 4S, which occurred on Tuesday. He spoke to his
biographer, Walter Isaacson. He started a new drug regime, and told
some friends that there was reason for hope.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/technology/with-time-running-short-steve-jobs-managed-his-farewells.html
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 22:57:37 -0400
From: tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Incoming Calls: Charged?
Message-ID: <2ll8sht9zfo1.myvr1k178lnm.dlg@40tude.net>
On 31 Aug 2011 15:46:46 -0000, John Levine wrote:
>>** Moderator Note: Of course, a downside to 'mobile owner pays' is that
>> 'other people' can spend the owner's money, without the owner having
>> any say in the matter.
>
> You always have the option of not answering the phone. ...
heh-heh ... you think that's an option, John, but really, an
unanswered call will just transfer to your voice mail box (unless
you've succeeded in turning off forward-to-voice-mail on no-answer),
costing you both the minutes the incoming call is active and
the minutes for the new outgoing (nominally from your handset)
call to the voicemail box.
(That's how come answering an inbound call, while roaming abroad, and
instantly hanging up again cost me half what not answering it did.)
But, yes, de-activate forward-to-voice-mail (easier said than done,
BTW, at least with T-Mobile), and "the option of not answering the
phone" is a viable one.
Cheers, -- tlvp
--
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.
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