Message-ID: <t69m40$lpe$1@dont-email.me>
Date: 20 May 2022 23:25:56 -0400
From: "Michael Trew" <michael.trew@att.net>
Subject: Re: Meet the parents who refuse to give their kids
smartphones
On 5/13/2022 9:06, Monty Solomon wrote:
> Meet the parents who refuse to give their kids smartphones
>
> The vast majority of teens and tweens today have smartphones. These
> parents said no.
>
> For Adriana Stacey, it's very simple.
>
> "I'll never buy a smartphone for any of my children," she says.
>
> It's a personal stance born of professional experiences. Stacey is a
> psychiatrist who works primarily with high school and college students
> in Fayetteville, Ark., and in her practice she routinely asks new
> patients to swipe open their phones and show her how much screen time
> they're clocking per day.
>
> "I rarely find one that's under nine hours," she says. "So, these
> teenagers are spending more time on their phone than they are
> sleeping."
>
>
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/05/09/parents-kids-smartphones/
This is teetering on the edge of "telecom" conversation, but my 7 year
old daughter's doctor is _very_ against smart phones and tablets for
children. She is adamant that all of this screen time is exacerbating
attention deficit issues in children, and causing focus issues in
school. Of course, my daughter doesn't have a phone, but we've reduced
her screen-time (if it were only up to me, she would have never had the
tablet in the first place).
Message-ID: <20220521151342.DA86476D@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 15:13:42 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: The UK's PSTN network will switch off in 2025
What's happening?
We're moving all our customers from the old analogue public switched
telephone network (PSTN) to a fully digital network. We've already
started. We plan to have moved everyone over before Openreach stop the
PSTN (and ISDN) service in 2025. By then, every phone line in the UK
will be digital, routing calls over IP (Internet Protocol) rather than
the traditional PSTN.
When you say 'everyone...'?
Yes, we mean everyone. Business and home. And it's not just your phone
services you need to think about. It's everything else that currently
uses the old phone network, all your non-voice services connected to
PSTN or ISDN lines. Things like alarms, EPOS machines, door entry
systems, CCTV, and faxes.
Sounds a bit drastic. Why are you doing it?
PSTN has been the backbone of the UK's phone network for decades. But
we've all seen the dramatic changes in technology over the past few
years, especially recently. It's all around us: smartphones, apps, the
cloud, Zoom, Internet of Things, and so on.
What you probably don't notice so much is the infrastructure that
makes everything work. The telephone lines strung across the streets,
the web of copper cables buried beneath your feet, some of which have
been down there since the 19th century.
It's now time to leap forward from PSTN to embrace the boundless
possibilities of digital.
https://business.bt.com/insights/digital-transformation/uk-pstn-switch-off/
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I learned what "Planned Obsolescence" means back in college. It took
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Bill Horne
Moderator
Message-ID: <t69n6g$r5h$1@dont-email.me>
Date: 20 May 2022 23:44:21 -0400
From: "Michael Trew" <michael.trew@att.net>
Subject: Re: "War upon end-to-end encryption:" EU want Big Tech to
scan private messages
On 5/12/2022 0:38, Monty Solomon wrote:
> A European Commission proposal could force tech companies to scan
> private messages for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and evidence
> of grooming, even when those messages are supposed to be protected by
> end-to-end encryption.
>
> ***** Moderator's Note *****
>
> Whatever technical means the EU might /think/ are necessary, they
> would be, even if implemented, bypassed by the porn freaks with little
> trouble.
>
> Long story short, neither the EU nor any ISP can block traffic in
> pornography, no matter how hard they pretend to try.
All they managed to do by attempting to block pornography via Usenet
years ago was dismantling and drastically reducing the relevance of
Usenet in whole, saving many ISP's a buck in the mean time.
