The Telecom Digest for October 01, 2010
Volume 29 : Issue 263 : "text" Format
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:30:59 -0700
From: Steven <diespammers@killspammers.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Texting bans may add risk to roads
Message-ID: <i80i7l$e0e$1@news.eternal-september.org>
On 9/29/10 6:42 AM, John Mayson wrote:
> According to the article...
>
> "Texting bans haven't reduced crashes at all," says Adrian Lund,
> president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, whose
> research arm studied the effectiveness of the laws.
>
> My hunch is it's because the law is so difficult to enforce and
> texting bans are merely knee-jerk reactions so it appears our
> lawmakers are "doing something". I really think it's going to take a
> grassroots effort to convince people just to do the right thing.
> However in our climate of hyper-individualism and no one wanting to be
> told what to do, I don't see this happening.
>
> John
>
Driving and texting is bad, but have you seen the people who walk down
the street or stores. In the past year I have been hit while shopping
and just last week I almost hit someone who just walking right out into
the middle of the street and they had no idea where they were.
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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:12:10 +1000
From: David Clayton <dcstar@NOSPAM.myrealbox.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Texting bans may add risk to roads
Message-ID: <pan.2010.09.30.23.12.07.543926@NOSPAM.myrealbox.com>
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:30:59 -0700, Steven wrote:
........
> Driving and texting is bad, but have you seen the people who walk down the
> street or stores. In the past year I have been hit while shopping and
> just last week I almost hit someone who just walking right out into the
> middle of the street and they had no idea where they were.
This had added to the other distracting technology issues (headphone
blocking out warning sounds etc) and with more "apps" requiring people to
stay transfixed to their mobile comms devices, it will only get worse.
When will the personal HUD (Heads Up Display) be made available?
--
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: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:31:48 -0500
From: "Michael G. Koerner" <mgk920@dataex.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: 1930, when the US Senate tried to ban dial telephones
Message-ID: <BdudnZCm8b77Rz7RnZ2dnUVZ_qednZ2d@ntd.net>
On 2010.09.26 21:43:37, Chris Farrar wrote:
> You are leaving out another form of gas station, the unattended
> commercial "card lock" station, where you swipe a gas company credit
> card, punch a PIN into the fuel pump, and it authorizes and turns on
> the pump, with no human, other than the trucker anywhere on the site.
> Normally for diesel pumps with high speed (25 to 50 gallons per
> minute) nozzles.
I have also seen such unattended stations with automobile pumps that take both
'plastic' and cash through banknote acceptor slots.
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:27:04 +1000
From: David Clayton <dcstar@NOSPAM.myrealbox.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Texting bans may add risk to roads
Message-ID: <pan.2010.09.29.23.27.02.339477@NOSPAM.myrealbox.com>
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:42:59 +0800, John Mayson wrote:
> According to the article...
>
> "Texting bans haven't reduced crashes at all," says Adrian Lund,
> president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, whose research
> arm studied the effectiveness of the laws.
>
> My hunch is it's because the law is so difficult to enforce and texting
> bans are merely knee-jerk reactions so it appears our lawmakers are
> "doing something". I really think it's going to take a grassroots
> effort to convince people just to do the right thing. However in our
> climate of hyper-individualism and no one wanting to be told what to do,
> I don't see this happening.
>
Banning things like that only have a marginal effect on fools that think
that they are entitled to do whatever they feel like regardless of any
downside to others, that sort of law will only discourage the law-abiders
who probably were a low risk factor anyway.
You still have to have specific laws like that to try and reduce idiotic
behaviour because the legal sanction will (eventually) have some effect
(if enforced, of course).
--
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: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:22:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Student, captured on posted secret video, kills self
Message-ID: <b049f273-1b4a-46b8-b5e0-47244e6901b0@a11g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>
"A Rutgers University freshman jumped to his death from the George
Washington Bridge after his college roommate and another student
allegedly posted video images on the Internet of him having a sexual
encounter with another man, according to authorities and a lawyer for
the dead man's family."
"The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office and Rutgers University
police announced Tuesday that two Rutgers students had been charged
with invasion of privacy in connection with the secret placing of a
camera in what has been identified as Clementi's dormitory room and
transmitting a sexual encounter via the Internet."
[I don't know the penalty for "invasion of privacy", but IMHO the
secret taping and then posting of a video is pretty sleazy. I hope
the perps get some serious hard time.]
for full article please see:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_region/20100930_Rutgers_freshman_committed_suicide_over_images_on_Internet_of_gay_sex_encounter.html
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:30:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joseph Singer <joeofseattle@yahoo.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Rahm Emanuel leaving white house
Message-ID: <355727.92927.qm@web52702.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
"Mr. Emanuel had not submitted a letter of resignation by Thursday
afternoon, but he had held repeated conversations with the president
about his plans and his future, officials said. Mr. Emanuel has
canceled appearances at several scheduled events in Washington in the
next few weeks. And he has a new cellphone with a 312 area code."
I was under the impression that all 312 numbers were no longer
available and you'd have to get another area code which was overlaid
on the 312 area.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/us/politics/01obama.html?hp
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:15:58 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Some Android apps caught covertly sending GPS data to advertisers
Message-ID: <p06240801c8cabc35b6b3@[10.0.1.5]>
Some Android apps caught covertly sending GPS data to advertisers
By Ryan Paul | Last updated September 30, 2010 7:31 AM
The results of a study conducted by researchers from Duke University,
Penn State University, and Intel Labs have revealed that a
significant number of popular Android applications transmit private
user data to advertising networks without explicitly asking or
informing the user. The researchers developed a piece of software
called TaintDroid that uses dynamic taint analysis to detect and
report when applications are sending potentially sensitive
information to remote servers.
They used TaintDroid to test 30 popular free Android applications
selected at random from the Android market and found that half were
sending private information to advertising servers, including the
user's location and phone number. In some cases, they found that
applications were relaying GPS coordinates to remote advertising
network servers as frequently as every 30 seconds, even when not
displaying advertisements. These findings raise concern about the
extent to which mobile platforms can insulate users from unwanted
invasions of privacy.
...
http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/09/some-android-apps-found-to-covertly-send-gps-data-to-advertisers.ars
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