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The Telecom Digest for Mar 11, 2015
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| Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 08:45:33 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Who Spewed That Abuse? Anonymous Yik Yak App Isn't Telling
Message-ID: <37699966-75F9-4168-9594-575B6DD4C491@roscom.com>
Who Spewed That Abuse? Anonymous Yik Yak App Isn't Telling
During a brief recess in an honors course at Eastern Michigan
University last fall, a teaching assistant approached the class's
three female professors. "I think you need to see this," she said,
tapping the icon of a furry yak on her iPhone.
The app opened, and the assistant began scrolling through the
feed. While the professors had been lecturing about post-apocalyptic
culture, some of the 230 or so freshmen in the auditorium had been
having a separate conversation about them on a social media site
called Yik Yak. There were dozens of posts, most demeaning, many using
crude, sexually explicit language and imagery.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/09/technology/popular-yik-yak-app-confers-anonymity-and-delivers-abuse.html
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| Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:44:24 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: New Jersey residents want to know if Verizon can hear their protests now
Message-ID: <mdo6kb$bid$1@dont-email.me>
SEA ISLE CITY - Residents upset at plans to locate a cell phone tower at
the city's premier recreational facility made sure council members heard
them loud and clear Tuesday morning as they voiced their objections to
the deal with Verizon.
"We're getting beat up everyday by waves," said Anthony Edwardi, a
resident of the 7200 block of Central Avenue, mentioning microwaves
and cell phone waves as what he believes to be unseen causes of
cancers and autism. "We're being bombarded everyday. It's a silent
killer."
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/sic-residents-want-to-know-if-verizon-can-hear-their/article_e8ba039a-c761-11e4-8f67-27f3a26b8577.html
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http://goo.gl/OHTRNG
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Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
And now the only piece of advice that continues to help
is anyone that's making anything new only breaks something else.
- Dawes
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| Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:37:33 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon not completely deregulated, says Public Utility Commission
Message-ID: <mdo67g$akh$1@dont-email.me>
Letters to the Editor
In response to Mr. Richard Boger's March 4 letter to the editor, we
want to clarify the Public Utility Commission's (PUC) action making
basic telephone service competitive in certain areas in Verizon's
service territory does not equate to complete "deregulation" of
Verizon's landline service in those areas.
Our decision does not impact basic telephone service provided in most
areas in Verizon's service territory, including the territory in which
Mr. Boger lives. And, in the areas determined to be competitive, the
Commission will continue to regulate numerous aspects of Verizon's
wireline service and will maintain many existing consumer protections.
http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2015/03/verizon_not_completely_deregul.html
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http://goo.gl/EqidzD
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Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
And you to whom adversity has dealt a final blow
With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go
Turn to and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again
- Stan Rogers
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| Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:59:35 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Idaho agency declares emergency, gives CenturyLink $1.88 million broadband contract
Message-ID: <mdo7gq$dmp$1@dont-email.me>
The state keeps business with the current provider and irks Syringa -
again.
by Cynthia Sewell
BOISE - Two days after Gov. Butch Otter approved the Legislature's
$3.64 million short-term broadband bailout for state schools on
Feb. 25, the Department of Administration crafted its own bailout by
declaring an emergency.
After a court on Feb. 11 declared the state's Idaho Education Network
contract with CenturyLink and ENA Services illegal and void, schools
across the state and some state agencies faced losing service.
Lawmakers took action to help protect schools' networks, but did not
address the Department of Administration's potential loss of
broadband.
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2015/03/06/3680270/dept-of-administration-declares.html
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http://goo.gl/ybVq9G
--
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
These folk music consumers are Birkenstock-ed Baby Boomers
They say, "You're way too young and you dress completely wrong"
- Susan Werner
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