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The Telecom Digest for March 22, 2012
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:30:40 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords
Message-ID: <jkcomj$c5k$1@dont-email.me>
By Manuel Valdes, Associated Press | Associated Press - Tue, Mar 20,
2012 7:55 AM EDT
SEATTLE (AP) -- When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he
expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was
astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook
username and password.
Bassett, a New York City statistician, had just finished answering a few
character questions when the interviewer turned to her computer to
search for his Facebook page. But she couldn't see his private profile.
She turned back and asked him to hand over his login information.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/job-seekers-getting-asked-facebook-080920368.html
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http://tinyurl.com/6sd356l
--
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
***** Moderator's Note *****
There is a small - I hope very small - subset of HR people who
conduct themselves as if they were Commissars in the former
USSR. Since they can no longer dream of retiring to Moscow, whey must
content themselves with having a fantasy of total control over job
applicants instead.
Of course, they'll ask for voicemail passwords next, and demand that
job su^h^happlicants agree that all their personal email will be
delivered through the company server, and that anyone coming in the
door swear an oath of fealty to the leader of the corporation that
deigns to consider employing him.
My advice to anyone who is not both rich and a citizen of a
enlightened democratic country is to destroy all records of
involvement with FaceTube and similar organizations at least a year
before going job hunting. I'd tell them never to open any such account
in the first place, but children make mistakes, and putting their life
online for all to see is one of them.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:02:45 -0400
From: Eric Tappert <e.tappert.spamnot@worldnet.att.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: What Hath Bell Labs Wrought? The Future
Message-ID: <s1rjm71hbvr678mgb0un9jpknvohc3fbij@4ax.com>
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:38:11 -0700 (PDT), HAncock4
<withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> wrote:
>***** Moderator's Note *****
>
>> The gap between the Labs and the field caused some very severe errors:
>> most notably, the choice of an 8,000 Hz sample rate for the T-1
>> carrier system. Although it was Shannon's work that predicted the need
>> for a sample rate of at least twice the highest frequency to be
>> reproduced, the T-1 designers didn't do the field trials which would
>> have revealed that sampling ambiguities at even sub-multiples of the
>> "chop" rate would make 1,000 Hz test tones unusable. This is the
>> reason that "Milliwatt" test tones are now slightly offset from 1,000
>> Hz - but I can only imaging the cost of rework and redesign that
>> far-reaching error caused.
>
>Could you elaborate on this in layman's terms--particularly the
>statement-- "sampling ambiguities at even sub-multiples of the
>"chop" rate would make 1,000 Hz test tones unusable"?
>
>It would seem to me that 8,000 Hz sample rate would make sense because
>it was double the voice band of 4,000 Hz.
>
>Thanks.
>
>***** Moderator's Note *****
>
>I didn't write that clearly: it's not "even sub-multiples", it's
>"rational sub-multiples", i.e., sub-multiples that evenly divide into
>8,000 Hz.
>
>Bill Horne
>Moderator
The problem with these frequencies is that they do not toggle all the
bits in the encoding, thus testing at those frequencies is incomplete.
Accordingly, the test sets for digital circuits test at 1015 Hz,
wihich causes all the bits to toggle in the encoding.
There is nothing "magic" about 1 kHz. It does sort of correspond to
the peak energy in voice (even though every voice is a bit different).
Note that any sampling rate would have the same problem with
frequencies that are, as Bill put it, "even sub-multiples" of the
sampling frequency.
I doubt that most engineers would consider this a big screw up by Bell
Labs, and certainly there are lots of other cases where the impact was
greater. All in all, they did a pretty good job of designing the
telephone network...
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:29:50 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon claims there's a capacity cruch coming
Message-ID: <20120321232950.GA1991@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Verizon: Capacity crunch coming to big cities next year
Verizon and Comcast defend their spectrum deal to the Senate, with
Verizon calling for more spectrum and Comcast dismissing the notion
that competition would suffer.
by Roger Cheng, CNET March 21, 2012 12:33 PM PDT
Verizon Communications, in justifying its planned acquisition of
spectrum from the major cable providers, said today its wireless arm
could suffer from a capacity shortage in its bigger cities as early as
next year.
"We will need this spectrum in a number of significant markets by
2013, so there is no time to lose in making this spectrum available,"
said Randal Milch, general counsel for Verizon, in prepared remarks.
Rest at:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57401834-94/verizon-capacity-crunch-coming-to-big-cities-next-year/
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http://tinyurl.com/87yxdlo
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Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:37:08 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: OSHA faults Verizon in death of Brooklyn NY Technician Douglas Lalima
Message-ID: <jkdon7$n36$1@dont-email.me>
From the CWA web site:
OSHA faults Verizon in death of Brooklyn NY Technician Douglas Lalima
Mar 19, 2012
Verizon Hit with Maximum Fines for 10 "Serious" and "Repeat" Violations
of Safety Rules Totaling $140,700
Union Cites "Culture of Indifference" that Led to Death of 37-Year-Old
Husband and Father of Four
NEW YORK -- The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
announced today that its investigation into the death of Verizon
technician Douglas Lalima -- who was electrocuted while working on a
utility pole in Brooklyn last September -- has resulted in 10 citations
against Verizon and fines totaling $140,700 for serious and repeated
failures by the company to abide by critical safety rules. The fines in
the citation are the maximum penalties under the law for such egregious
conduct.
Rest at:
http://www.cwa-union.org/news/entry/osha_faults_verizon_in_death_of_brooklyn_technician_douglas_lalima
-or-
http://tinyurl.com/7h96owb
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Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
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