TELECOM Digest     Tue, 9 Jan 2007 02:40:00 EST    Volume 26 : Issue 009

Inside This Issue:                            Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Brazil Court Means Business With YouTube: Orders Telcos to Block (Reuters)
    Tiny New Cable Spurs Big Technological Advances (Will Dunham, Reuters)
    Re: Should Kids Have Cell Phones in School? (Steven J. Sobol)
    Re: Bill Gates Unveils Windows Home Server at the 2007 International (T)
    Re: Phone Charges to be Reduced For Families of Inmates in NY (L Hancock)
    Re: ICANN Will Create '.xxx' Porn Domain (Dan Lanciani)
    Re: Off Topic: Teens Same Worldwide (Michael Sullivan)   
    Chinese "Nurse" Hustles Lonely Hearts With Flirty SMS (Reuters News Wire)

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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:19:00 -0600
From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Brazil Court Means Business With YouTube: Orders all Telcos to Block


Phone companies in Brazil blocking YouTube 

Telecommunications companies in Brazil began blocking access to
YouTube on Monday after a Brazilian model sued to get the popular
video sharing service to remove footage of her having sex from its Web
site.

Last week, a court in Sao Paulo state ordered phone companies that
provide Internet service in Brazil to block YouTube until it removed
the video.

Daniela Cicarelli, a model and ex-wife of soccer star Ronaldo, and her
boyfriend, Renato Malzoni Filho, sued YouTube and demanded $116,00 in
damages for each day the video, which apparently showed them having
sex on a Spanish beach, remained on the Web site (www.youtube.com).

Anyone can post video on YouTube, a unit of Internet search engine
Google Inc. Americans can see the shows; Brazillians cannot.

The case dragged on for several months before they filed a third
lawsuit in December requesting that YouTube be shut down as long as
the video is available to users.

The court noted that "American courts do not have the courtesy to
cooperate with our simple request, but YouTube will not be seen here
in Brazil ... as long as the illegal video remains available ... that
is our ruling. "

Brasil Telecom said it had blocked Brazilians from seeing the YouTube 
site. The sex video had been the most widely viewed in Latin America's 
biggest country for days. 

Embratel Participacoes, Brazil's leading long distance telephone 
company, said it was analyzing the technical details of the legal ruling 
with a view to complying.

Spain's Telefonica said it would obey the court's ruling.

Neither Google, nor the lawyer for Cicarelli and Malzoni Filho were 
immediately available for comment. 

Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited.

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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:26:13 -0600
From: Will Dunham, Reuters <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Tiny New Cable Spurs Big Technological Advances


By Will Dunham

Scientists have created a tiny cable -- much thinner than a human hair
 -- through which they can transmit visible light, potentially paving
the way for improvements in solar energy, computing and medicine.

The achievement, described in research published on Monday in the
journal Applied Physics Letters, involves a re-imagining of the
coaxial cable -- that commonplace conduit of cable television,
telephone and Internet service -- on a minuscule scale.

Coaxial cable has been around for decades, prized for its enormously
efficient transmission qualities.

It has an inner wire surrounded by an insulator and then another metal
sheath. This enables the cable to carry electromagnetic signals with
wavelengths bigger than its own diameter.

"We're doing something well known, except we've reduced the dimensions
significantly of the coaxial cable," said Michael Naughton, physics
department chairman at Boston College and one of the scientists
involved in the work.

They fashioned a light-transmitting coaxial cable that contains an
inner "wire" of carbon surrounded by an insulator and an outer wire of
aluminum. It is about 300 nanometers wide -- several hundred times
thinner than a human hair -- with the center wire sticking out at one
end to serve as an antenna for light.

Visible light possesses a wavelength of 380-750 nanometers, but the
scientists squeezed it through a cable tinier than that. They beamed
red and green light through the cable, showing it can transmit a broad
spectrum of visible light.

"It's not quite the speed of light, but it's probably 90 percent the
speed of light. That's still thousands of times faster than
electronics," Naughton said in an interview.

The invention has the potential to lead to numerous technological
advances, Naughton added, saying, "It's important because it's
useful."

The tiny cable might be used in high-efficiency solar energy cells,
Naughton said.

It could lend itself to miniature electrical circuitry and microscopic
light-based switching devices for optical computing. It also could
have medical applications such as retinal implants for people with the
eye disease macular degeneration or detecting single molecules of
pathogens in the body, Naughton said.

"You can envision making chips that can move light around -- basically
convey information at the speed of light rather than using
electronics.  So it's optics for the manipulation of information
rather than electronics," Naughton said.

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From: Steven J. Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Subject: Re: Should Kids Have Cell Phones in School?
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 05:43:41 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Glorb Internet Services, http://www.glorb.com


In article <telecom26.8.10@telecom-digest.org>, Henry wrote:

> Steven J. Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote:

>> We just got a phone for our teenage girl. It's great because it offers
>> safety and convenience.

>> But she'd better not ever have it turned on during school.

> Hel-lo!

> (1) Parents say 'Don't ever do that!'

> (2) At the very first opportunity, teenager does 'that'.

Indeed, which is why I've never told her "don't use your cellphone at
school." ;)

Actually, she's a good kid, and has high aspirations along with very
good grades that I don't think she wants to screw up (or she'd not be
able to get into the career she wants), so I'm not worried about her
doing silly stuff like that that will get her into trouble.

In article <telecom26.8.11@telecom-digest.org>, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
wrote:
 
> Just out of curiosity for discussion purposes, how does it offer
> "safety"?

She doesn't go anywhere without parental supervision right now, from
us or her friends' parents.

As she becomes more autonomous, the safety issue will come into play.

> For myself, I got one primarily in the case my car breaks down.  If
> your daughter is driving, then that is a reason, especially nowadays
> with few pay phones out there.  (However, in ten years I have yet to
> use the cellphone for that purpose.)

She's only 14, but yes, that was one of the reasons I was thinking of,
along with other situations where she will not have parental
supervision.

Yes, right now it's 99.9% convenience and 0.1% safety. :)

Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows
Victorville, California     PGP:0xE3AE35ED

It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.

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From: T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net>
Subject: Re: Bill Gates Unveils Windows Home Server at the 2007 International
Organization: The Ace Tomato and Cement Company
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 21:56:36 -0500


In article <telecom26.8.7@telecom-digest.org>, monty@roscom.com says...

> LAS VEGAS, Jan 08, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ --

> In his keynote address Sunday at the 2007 International Consumer
> Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates unveiled
> Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ:MSFT) plans for an innovative consumer
> software product available later this year: Windows(R) Home Server.

> Delivered on hardware from leading partners, Windows Home Server will
> help families with multiple PCs connect their home computers, digital
> devices and printers, in order to easily store, protect and share
> their treasured photos, music, videos and documents. By automatically
> backing up home PCs, centralizing a family's digital "stuff" and
> allowing access to it away from home, Windows Home Server will help
> simplify and enhance family life.

>      - http://www.quote.com/home/news/story.asp?story=63194379

1. Find a beat up old PC that used to run Windows 98. 
2. Buy a SATA card and two SATA 160GB HD's for under $250
3. Install in system obtained in step 1
4. Download Debian Sarge (Or Centos if your tastes run Red Hat)
5. If Debian, apt-get install samba
6. Setup your Samba shares. 

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From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Subject: Re: Phone Charges to be Reduced For Families of Inmates in New York
Date: 8 Jan 2007 19:37:07 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com


TELECOM Digest Editor noted in response to Danny Burstein:

> By the way, its great the state decided to give a break to the
> families of inmates. Prison phone systems have always been a terrible
> rip off most of the time. PAT]

Yes.

The families committed no crime and the state should not make any
profit off of them.

More importantly, family contact with inmates help reduce repeat
crime.  Phone service to offenders and their families reduces crime
and trouble in prison.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Lisa, Lisa, Lisa ... you are missing
the point entirely. Whether the families 'committed no crime', or not,
police generally believe that 'prisoners are scum, in fact, most of 
the people we 'serve' are scum, so by logical extension, the families
of prisoners are scum as well. And the corrections industry is _very_
dependent on the local police officer to keep on stocking them up
with prisoners. You start reducing trouble in prisons and trying to
reduce recidivism -- which the corrections industry depends on greatly
 -- and first thing you know, the whole system will fall apart. Cook
County Jail (Chicago) and Riker's Island, NY  have thousands of
employees between them who depend on still having their jobs tomorrow
and forever. Please stop and _think_ before you praise anything which
even slightly reforms prisons.  PAT]

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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 00:57:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Dan Lanciani <ddl@danlan.com>
Subject: Re: ICANN Will Create '.xxx' Porn Domain


ap@telecom-digest.org (Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press) wrote:

> ICM believes the domain would help the $12 billion online porn
> industry clean up its act, as those using it must abide by rules
> designed to bar such trickery as spamming and malicious scripts.

It's a shame we can't have rules like that for existing domains ...

Dan Lanciani
ddl@danlan.*com


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Dan, you are as naive as Lisa. ICANN
can have whatever requirements they wish to impose, but they do not
_want_ requirements to 'bar such trickery as spamming and malicious
scripts.' They have a thousand and one reasons why they cannot or
will not impose such regulations, but what it comes down to is ICANN
is really sorry they have to endure the likes of you and I. If the net
was only corporate entities such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and such,
you better believe there would be 'rules like that for existing
domains' ... really pronto!   PAT]

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From: Michael D. Sullivan <userid@camsul.example.invalid>
Subject: Re: Off Topic: Teens Same Worldwide: [Movie, Texting, Cell Phones]
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:09:00 GMT


On 1/8/2007 12:39 PM, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> Could anyone comment on the state of wireless and landline telephone
> services in Western Europe?

My impression is that in the bad old days the phone service offered by
government PTT monopolies was expensive and inefficient, with waiting
lists for lines, slow/bad quality connections, etc.  Infrastructure
was way behind that in the US.  That caused a great appetite for the
capabilities offered by new technologies, such as mobile, as well as
their ability as an alternative to the inadequate landline service,
and the growth rate for mobile service was extremely high, as a
result.

In the US, the landline network has long been pretty affordable and
available, so mobile service was targeted (initially) at those
segments who valued mobility enough to pay a premium, rather than as a
landline replacement or substitute.

There was a very high growth rate, and to sustain that growth U.S.
carriers needed to target not only doctors and lawyers, but also
drivers of pickup trucks and eventually schoolkids.  A high level of
competition, spurred by FCC decisions, has caused marginal rates to
continually decline, so carriers need to expand usage and customer
base.

As a result, many US young people are so used to using the cellphone
that they don't bother to have a landline.  At my daughter's college,
every dorm room has a landline phone.  Neither my daughter nor I have
any idea what the number is.  She uses her cellphone exclusively.
Because of the wireless companies' nationwide calling plans, the kids
in her college can keep numbers from their home areas, often on family
calling plans, and call each other without "long distance" charges,
even though two students may be calling across campus from phones with
area codes ranging from Alaska to Florida.

Europe doesn't offer quite the same level of free calling across
borders, but the cellphone often is less expensive to use than
landlines for making calls.  (However, the regulations in Europe also
impose a surcharge on landline calls to cellphones.)


Michael D. Sullivan
Bethesda, MD (USA)
(To reply, change example.invalid to com in the address.)

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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:24:07 -0600
From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Last Laugh! Chinese "Nurse" Hustles Lonely Hearts With Flirty SMS


A Chinese company has duped about 400,000 people by creating the
character of a young female nurse to solicit text messages and collect
revenue from lonely men, a Chinese newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The Beijing-based company employed a team of 12 or 13 people -- mostly 
men -- to act as "Wang Jing," a 22-year-old nurse who would invite 
mobile phone users to become her online boyfriend and to seek her out 
"whenever they felt lonely," the Beijing News said.

"Spending the whole day as a girl chatting to cheat people, I felt so 
disgusting," Yang Gang, a 26-year-old male science graduate and former 
employee, told the paper. He said the employees were told to try and
concentrate on 'hustling the American straight guys; they are fools.'

Yang said "Wang Jing" would ask mobile phone users flirty and
pornographic questions before luring them unwittingly into subscribing
to the nurse's chat for 10-30 yuan ($1.30-$3.80) a month, the paper
reported. Rates for Americans varied but included toll charges on text
and voice messages. 

Yang, who would receive up to 2,000 text messages from people all over 
China in a single shift, said the nurse scam had reaped hundreds of 
thousands of yuan a month, the paper reported.

It said the service had drawn complaints but did not say if it was under 
investigation.

Text message scams and unsolicited spam flogging everything from real 
estate to weapons are common in China, where telecommunication service 
providers allow companies to bombard mobile phones for a cut of the 
profits. China users are reputed to be responsible for a huge majority
of the spam and porn entering the United States from elsewhere.

Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. 

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