Message-ID: <20210527183803.47CE5799@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 18:38:03 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Ding, Ding: Round 2 Of The Telehealth Program Begins
by Steven A. Augustino
The application window for Round 2 of the COVID-19 Telehealth Program
opened today at 12PM ET and will close at 12 PM ET on Thursday, May 6,
2021. As we have covered, the first round of funding was quickly
distributed to over 200 applicants in over 40 states, with all funding
exhausted by July 2020. Then, in December 2020, Congress authorized
additional money to support telehealth services provided by non-profit
and public healthcare organizations during the pandemic.
https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/healthcare/1064122/ding-ding-round-2-of-the-telehealth-program-begins?email_access=on
Message-ID: <s8rk14$1vrp$1@gal.iecc.com>
Date: 28 May 2021 20:32:36 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com>
Subject: Re: Mobile phone companies can change your phone's
software?
According to Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com>:
>On 5/25/2021 7:02 PM, Stuart McGraw wrote:
>
>> I was looking at Tracfone's Terms
>> and Conditions [https://www.tracfone.com/termsandconditions]
>> and was horrified to read:
>>
>> * we may remotely change your phone's software, applications, or
>> * programming without notice. This could affect information stored
>> * on your phone, your phone's programming, and how you are able to
>> * use your phone.
>>
>> Is this a common condition for mobile service providers?
Tracfone's older phones had special software that counted the number
of minutes and SMS you used in the phone itself. When you bought more
minutes, they would send a special encoded message to the phone which
increased the number of minutes in the phone. There was also one time
when my reload got lost so I called them and the agent read me a long
string of digits I punched into the phone to make the minutes appear.
Those phones were 2G, and they're long gone. Their current phones are
just like any other phones and the usage counting happens in the phone
switch. I expect the language is left over from the old scheme and
they never deleted it because why would they.
--
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
Message-ID: <20210527221421.3D5F6799@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 22:14:21 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Working remotely for the first time? Here are lessons from a lawyer who's done it for 13 years
BY Tracey Mihelic
The pandemic has done what I never thought possible, validating what I
have known for some time: When one works from home, one is actually
working. Despite the industry's negative projections during the early
stages of COVID-19, our firm had a profitable year with all of us
working from home.
I began working "remotely" in 2008, well before COVID-19 sent the rest
of America home. I was an in-house attorney, traveling the world, with
four little kids, one with special needs, when one day my daughter's
therapist told me straight out that my daughter needed me home
more. Staying in my job and being home for my daughter was not
possible. So I decided to take 12-18 months "off" and focus on my
family. We moved to Costa Rica to get away from it all. But as former
clients called with work opportunities, I soon found a path I normally
would have considered too risky, one where I could still practice and
do it from home. What was to be a 12-to-18-month hiatus turned into
remote working for nearly 13 years, because even when I returned to a
firm, I continued working remotely.
https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/working-remotely-a-view-from-a-vet?utm_source=salesforce_395197&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=monthly_email
Message-ID: <20210527222408.GA7321@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 22:24:09 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malQassRimiMlation@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Working remotely for the first time? Here are lessons
from a lawyer who's done it for 13 years
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 10:14:21PM +0000, Telecom Digest Moderator wrote:
> BY Tracey Mihelic
>
> I began working "remotely" in 2008, well before COVID-19 sent the rest
> of America home.
Original at:
https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/working-remotely-a-view-from-a-vet?utm_source=salesforce_395197&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=monthly_email
The most important sentence in this (very) helpful article is this
one: "I schedule when I start work and when I stop; otherwise, I may
never stop."
Ms. Mihelic's situation is not unique, but she has gotten a handle on
the key, essential task of anyone who works at home: know when to
stop.
Bill
--
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
