---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180227163233.GA21811@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 11:32:33 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: You Should Avoid This 12% Yielding Value Trap Like The Plague A Huge Future Dividend Cut Means You Should Avoid This 12% Yielding Value Trap Like The Plague Summary * CenturyLink's long-suffering shareholders have seen their wealth slashed over the years, as the share price has cratered and the yield has steadily climbed. * Today, many investors remain attracted to the shares' mouth-watering 12% yield. However, any dividend that isn't sustainable isn't worth owning because such a stock is a "sucker yield". https://seekingalpha.com/article/4150572-huge-future-dividend-cut-means-avoid-12-percent-yielding-value-trap-like-plague -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180227164108.GA21866@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 11:41:08 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Court rules against AT&T, closing FTC regulation loophole A federal court has ruled against AT&T in a long-running case that found itself tied up in the net neutrality debate. AT&T had argued that the 2015 FCC order classifying it as a common carrier let it off the hook in a case brought against it by the FTC - which has no authority over common carriers. The case has been heard and reheard, but hopefully this judgment is the last. The FTC suit alleged that AT&T illegally throttled mobile users with "unlimited" plans between 2011 and 2014. As the case was being heard - slowly - the 2015 net neutrality order came into effect, changing AT&T's broadband offerings from "information services" to "telecommunications services," a much-debated distinction ... https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/26/court-rules-against-att-closing-ftc-regulation-loophole/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <b862aad5-2281-eb95-3ae2-75eb7168e3a7@Rochester.RR.com> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:24:34 -0500 From: Bob K <SPAMpot@Rochester.RR.com> Subject: Re: Apple Repair Center Calls 911 Accidentally 1,600 Times On 2/26/2018 2:34 PM, Bill Horne wrote: > For the last four months, police dispatchers in Elk Grove, California > have hastily answered phone calls expecting emergencies. Often, > however, they are greeted not by a person in need but by an eerie > silence broken up only by the occasional muffled muttering of an Apple > repair technician. [moderator snip] > > https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3w5bk/apple-calls-911-1600-times-apple-watch The article linked to states "On the iPhone 8 and iPhone X this feature works by simultaneously holding down the side button and a volume button for several seconds. . .". Isn't this the same sequence that you use on an Android device to either reset it or bring it up in a diagnostic mode? If so, it would seem that a repair technician's first attempt at a repair would be exactly that. ...Bob K (Original message appears below) ***** Moderator's Note ***** Please don't top-post. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <1834317335.5738576.1519590499634@mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 20:28:19 +0000 (UTC) From: Spyros Bartsocas <spyrosba-uk@remove-this.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Facebook Shows Why SMS Isn't Ideal for Two-Factor Authentication >From: Arnie Goetchius <arnie.goetchius@invalid.domain> > If you have a prepaid phones such as Tracfone, AT&T Prepaid and > possibly others, they will not accept a six digit short text SMS IF, > IF, IF the account is located in a European country. For example, I > have a bank account in a European country. If I try to login to that > account using either a Tracfone or an AT&T Prepaid, the bank sends > the 6 digit code but it is never received by my phones. I personally > talked to tech support of both services and they confirmed that they > do not provide SMS short text for International services. (Mexico and > Canada may be exceptions) This issue is mostly likely not about countries, but about agreements: 1. Not all companies have interconnection agreements between them 2. The bank's agreement with their provider might not cover US numbers, as the cost of such texts is higher. Spyros Bartsocas ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Wed, 28 Feb 2018