From editor@telecom-digest.org Thu May 31 01:14:18 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ptownson Delivered-To: ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu Received: by massis.lcs.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 11648) id 0C94A22AF; Thu, 31 May 2007 01:14:17 -0400 (EDT) To: ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu Approved: patsnewlist Subject: TELECOM Digest V26 #151 Message-Id: <20070531051417.0C94A22AF@massis.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 01:14:17 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org (TELECOM Digest Editor) Status: RO TELECOM Digest Thu, 31 May 2007 01:15:00 EDT Volume 26 : Issue 151 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Top Spammer Arrested; Watch for Decrease in Spam Mail (Gene Johnson, AP) AP to Use Copyright Protection Service (Michael Liedtke, AP) Incoming AT&T Chief Sees Possibilities in Overseas Buys (USTelecom daily) Google Adds 'Street Level View' to U.S. Maps (Eric Auchard, Reuters) Kilobytes for Minutes? (Chris Kantarjiev) Re: I Want to Pay For Basic Service and Extras Separately (Rick Merrill) Re: I Want to Pay For Basic Service and Extras Separately (Queensbridge.us) Re: Voicemail Messages Get BUZzed (Mr Joseph Singer) ====== 26 years of TELECOM Digest -- Founded August 21, 1981 ====== Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. By using -any name or email address- included herein for -any- reason other than responding to an article herein, you agree to pay a hundred dollars to the recipients of the email. =========================== Addresses herein are not to be added to any mailing list, nor to be sold or given away without explicit written consent. Chain letters, viruses, porn, spam, and miscellaneous junk are definitely unwelcome. We must fight spam for the same reason we fight crime: not because we are naive enough to believe that we will ever stamp it out, but because we do not want the kind of world that results when no one stands against crime. Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest, and why not support Net Freedom Now http://www.freepress.net/netfreedom . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 23:26:10 -0500 From: Gene Johnson, AP Legal Affairs Writer Subject: Top Spammer Arrested; Watch for Decrease in Spam Mail By GENE JOHNSON, AP Legal Affairs Writer A 27-year-old man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail. Robert Alan Soloway is accused of using networks of compromised "zombie" computers to send out millions upon millions of spam e-mails. "He's one of the top 10 spammers in the world," said Tim Cranton, a Microsoft Corp. lawyer who is senior director of the company's Worldwide Internet Safety Programs. "He's a huge problem for our customers. This is a very good day." A federal grand jury last week returned a 35-count indictment against Soloway charging him with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. Soloway pleaded not guilty Wednesday afternoon to all charges after a judge determined that -- even with four bank accounts seized by the government -- he was sufficiently well off to pay for his own lawyer. He has been living in a ritzy apartment and drives an expensive Mercedes convertible, said prosecutor Kathryn Warma. Prosecutors are seeking to have him forfeit $773,000 they say he made from his business, Newport Internet Marketing Corp. A public defender who represented him for Wednesday's hearing declined to comment. Prosecutors say Soloway used computers infected with malicious code to send out millions of junk e-mails since 2003. The computers are called "zombies" because owners typically have no idea their machines have been infected. He continued his activities even after Microsoft won a $7 million civil judgment against him in 2005 and the operator of a small Internet service provider in Oklahoma won a $10 million judgment, prosecutors said. U.S. Attorney Jeff Sullivan said Wednesday that the case is the first in the country in which federal prosecutors have used identity theft statutes to prosecute a spammer for taking over someone else's Internet domain name. Soloway could face decades in prison, though prosecutors said they have not calculated what guideline sentencing range he might face. The investigation began when the authorities began receiving hundreds of complaints about Soloway, who had been featured on a list of known spammers kept by The Spamhaus Project, an international anti-spam organization. The Santa Barbara County, Calif., Department of Social Services said it was spending $1,000 a week to fight the spam it was receiving, and other businesses and individuals complained of having their reputations damaged when it appeared spam was originating from their computers. "This is not just a nuisance. This is way beyond a nuisance," Warma said. Soloway used the networks of compromised computers to send out unsolicited bulk e-mails urging people to use his Internet marketing company to advertise their products, authorities said. People who clicked on a link in the e-mail were directed to his Web site. There, Soloway advertised his ability to send out as many as 20 million e-mail advertisements over 15 days for $495, the indictment said. The Spamhaus Project rejoiced at his arrest. "Soloway has been a long-term nuisance on the Internet -- both in terms of the spam he sent, and the people he duped to use his spam service," organizers wrote on Spamhaus.org. Soloway remained in federal detention pending a hearing Monday. Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. And, discuss this and other topics in our forum at http://telecom-digest.org/forum (or) http://telecom-digest.org/chat/index.html For more news and headlines please go to: http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/AP.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 23:33:03 -0500 From: Michael Liedtke, AP Business Writer Subject: AP to Use Copyright Protection Service By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer The Associated Press will intensify its efforts to protect its copyrights on the Web and possibly uncover new sources of revenue by working with a Silicon Valley startup that's trying to help the media gain more control over digital content. Under an agreement to be announced Thursday, the AP will subscribe to a service developed by Attributor Corp. to track how its stories are distributed across thousands of Web sites. The monitoring tools eventually will be expanded so the news cooperative will be able to keep tabs on the use of its photos and videos on the Internet, too. Although precise terms aren't being disclosed, the AP's fees will depend largely on how heavily it relies on Attributor's service. With the deal, the AP becomes Attributor's first major customer. The Redwood City-based startup, led by former Yahoo Inc. executive Jim Brock, has spent the past 18 months developing a system for determining whether Web content is authorized or unlicensed. Attributor so far has indexed more than 13 billion Web pages, providing the AP with a potentially powerful tool for better understanding how its content is being consumed online and, ultimately, detect copyright violations, said Srinandan Kasi, the news cooperative's general counsel. "What we are trying to say is that if someone wants to use our news, they have to pay for it," Kasi said in an interview. Rather than trying to scan all the material that AP produces each day, Attributor initially will focus on a few hundred stories likely to attract a lot of readers. Web sites that are updated frequently will be tracked more intensively. The AP can log in to Attributor's service to track usage and flag potential copyright violations. Protecting copyrights is becoming increasingly important to long-established media like the 161-year-old AP as people spend more time on the Web instead of reading newspapers, watching television or listening to the radio. While many Web publishers are paying for content or working out other licensing agreements, copyright disputes continue to crop up on the Internet -- vexing media executives already trying to cope with eroding revenue as more advertisers shift their spending to the Web. Some of the online advertising appears to be flowing to Web sites that include copyrighted material without proper authorization. The not-for-profit AP has been affected by the trend because it relies on fees from its member newspapers and other commercial media sources for much of its revenue. The market conditions prompted the AP to freeze its basic rates for newspaper and broadcast members this year and keep them at the same levels again next year. Boosted by more online income, the AP's revenue last year rose nearly 4 percent to $679.8 million. But the cooperative's net income plunged 28.5 percent to $13.3 million. The AP doesn't intend to take a litigious approach in its enforcement of its copyrights and instead will try to negotiate licensing agreements consistent with its mission of keeping the public informed, Kasi said. Attributor's monitoring tools also could help AP's management get a better handle on what kinds of stories attract the most online traffic -- knowledge that Kasi said could be used to develop more creative approaches that generate more revenue. The AP's patronage could open more doors in the media for Attributor. The startup is already testing its service with about a dozen other undisclosed companies, said Brock, who hopes the AP proves the effectiveness of the service. "It's a very important feedback loop from one of the most important content producers in the world," Brock said. Privately held Attributor has raised more than $10 million so far from a list of investors that includes five venture capital firms: Sigma Partners, Selby Venture Partners, Draper Richards, First Round Capital and Amicus Capital. Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. And, discuss this and other topics in our forum at http://telecom-digest.org/forum (or) http://telecom-digest.org/chat/index.html For more news and headlines, please go to: http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/newstoday.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 12:18:56 CDT From: USTelecom dailyLead Subject: Incoming AT&T Chief Sees Possibilities in Overseas Buys USTelecom dailyLead May 30, 2007 http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/gZzsfDtusXsuAQCibudddYnb TODAY'S HEADLINES NEWS OF THE DAY * Incoming AT&T chief sees possibilities in overseas buys BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH * Windstream to buy CT Communications * Alcatel-Lucent signs on for WiMAX trial * Vodafone to invest heavily in India * Broadcom completes Octalica deal USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT * Secure Your Optical Network FoundationTuesday, June 5, 1 p.m. (ET) TECHNOLOGY TRENDS * Redline to build WiMAX network in Paraguay * Mobile ads coming to a phone near you * Analysts predict growth in surveillance-technology market * SMS voting guidelines set IP DOWNLOAD * Telecoms stepping up on IPTV rollouts * Microsoft unveils tabletop computer REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE * Court ruling revamps cell phone security EDITOR'S NOTE * New feature: dailyLead at work, home and on the road Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others. http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/gZzsfDtusXsuAQCibudddYnb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 15:47:15 -0500 From: Eric Auchard, Reuters Subject: Google Adds 'Street Level View' to U.S. Maps By Eric Auchard Google Inc. said on Tuesday it was introducing street-level map views of various U.S. cities, giving Web users a panoramic, 360-degree images as well as the overhead views Google Maps has offered. With the new "Street View" feature in Google Maps, street level imagery is available for maps of the San Francisco area, New York, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami, and will soon expand to other metropolitan regions, Google said in a statement. Users looking at Google Maps through a Web browser can navigate around a city, "virtually" walking the streets, checking out restaurants and landmarks and even zoom in on bus stops or street signs to make travel plans. Google is playing catch-up with street-level viewing features, following in the footsteps of A9.com's BlockView mapping feature introduced in early 2005 and showing street-level views in roughly two dozen major U.S. cities. A9.com, a unit of Amazon.com Inc., discontinued the feature in September 2006. A9 Chief Executive Udi Manber subsequently joined Google as vice president of engineering. Microsoft Corp. has offered what it calls a "birds-eye" view on parts of its MSN Virtual Earth three-dimensional mapping service for several big U.S. cites since late in 2005. Google also announced plans for "Mapplets," a tool for independent software developers to build mini-applications that be displayed within Google Maps. Mapplets can display a variety of information, from housing listings to crime data as well as ways to measure distances between different points on the map. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Inc. and MapQuest, a unit of Time Warner Inc.'s AOL online business, all continue to compete aggressively to create new online mapping features, said analyst Greg Sterling of Sterling Market Intelligence. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of Web sites now rely on one of the major online map providers to create hybrid mapping applications, popularly known as "mashups," he estimated. Google made the announcements at the Where 2.0 conference taking place in San Jose this week. More details can be found at http://maps.google.com/preview . Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. And, discuss this and other topics in our forum at http://telecom-digest.org/forum (or) http://telecom-digest.org/chat/index.html For more news and headlines, please go to: http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/internet-news.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 15:25:06 PDT From: Chris Kantarjiev Subject: Kilobytes for Minutes? I've got a smartphone on Cingular that I use more for data than for voice. As a result, I pay extra for a data plan, and have lots of minutes left over every month. I'd really like it if Cingular made those two commodities fungible -- I'd happily trade one of my bucket voice minutes for every kilobyte (or SMS). They don't seem to offer such a plan. Does any carrier? Thanks, chris [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I thought either Cingular or Cellular One offered an unlimited data transfer package for some sum of money each month. You'd have to ask them if 'unlimited' actually means 'unlimited' or not. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 18:53:52 -0400 From: Rick Merrill Subject: Re: I Want to Pay For Basic Service and the Extras Separately John Mayson wrote: > On Mon, 28 May 2007, lbrtchx wrote: >> Hi, >> I would like to pay for a basic service ideally as part of a family plan >> and if my son needs long distance, internet, or any other service, he would >> have to pay for it himself upfront. >> The thing is that I would like for the basic services to be always >> available. >> Is there any company offering such services? > Having looked into something similar I can say "no", at least not in > the United States. The billing doesn't work when part of it goes to > "dad", but "son" wants to add to it. All I can suggest is "dad" agree > to pay for the added service and "son" reimburse dad. > John Mayson > Austin, Texas, USA Most cable companies (Charter, Verizon, Comcast) offer phone service that has free long distance and unlimited local calling and basic TV and internet access. ------------------------------ From: www.Queensbridge.us Subject: Re: I Want to Pay For Basic Service and the Extras Separately Date: 30 May 2007 14:01:06 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com On May 29, 9:00 pm, John Mayson wrote: > On Mon, 28 May 2007, lbrtchx wrote: >> Hi, >> I would like to pay for a basic service ideally as part of a family plan >> and if my son needs long distance, internet, or any other service, he would >> have to pay for it himself upfront. >> The thing is that I would like for the basic services to be always >> available. >> Is there any company offering such services? > Having looked into something similar I can say "no", at least not in > the United States. The billing doesn't work when part of it goes to > "dad", but "son" wants to add to it. All I can suggest is "dad" agree > to pay for the added service and "son" reimburse dad. > John Mayson > Austin, Texas, USA Original poster does not state if he is referring to hardwired or wireless. With wireless it is easy. Use prepaid. I use Virgin and pay $16.21 with tax every 3 months. I removed voicemail so no one pays for a call if I do not anwer in person. For long distance you can prepay thru OneSuite and log on WWW to check on usage and to replenish. OneSite is as low as USA-Canada 1.9CPM! Works as prepaid phone card. PIN not needed for calls from home or cell phone. Compare the rates at https://www.OneSuite.com No monthly fee or minimum. Use Promotion/SuiteTreat Code: "FREEoffer23" for FREE time. Works FROM many other countries ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 14:11:00 PDT From: Mr Joseph Singer Subject: Re: Voicemail Messages Get BUZzed communicationsdirect pointed to this article: > http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/24628?11228 > Sure, your mobile phone has a unique, personal ringtone. But what > does your phone's voicemail message sound like? BUZ Interactive > is betting there's a lot of people who think that a musical, > personalized voicemail message is a great idea. That's why the > Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is offering GETaBUZ, a new way to Maybe I'm turning into an old fart, but I'm getting severely annoyed with the "need" to fix something that ain't broken. "Personalizing" voicemail with someone else's music is just another way to annoy people who are calling you. It's very likely that this "special" music which you like a lot others may not be so crazy for. 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Townson Web Site Error Rocks Global Oil Markets (Reuters News Wire) CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update (communicationsdirect_daily) Time Warner Digital Phone Question (John Mayson) Re: Touch Tone vs. Rotary -- Desk vs. Wall Sets? (Paul Coxwell) Re: Top Spammer Arrested; Watch for Decrease in Spam Mail (Rick Merrill) Re: Top Spammer Arrested; Watch for Decrease in Spam Mail (Steven Lichter) Re: Voicemail Messages Get BUZzed (Rick Merrill) Re: FCC Should be Required to Accurately Count Users (Matt Simpson) ====== 26 years of TELECOM Digest -- Founded August 21, 1981 ====== Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. 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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest, and why not support Net Freedom Now http://www.savetheinternet.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:27:22 -0500 From: Reuters News Wire Subject: Web Site Error Rocks Global Oil Markets World oil prices jumped briefly on Wednesday after a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma -- the No. 62 U.S. media market -- posted an erroneous story about a refinery fire on its Web site. At 10:14 EDT (1414 GMT), CBS affiliate KOTV reported that a lightning strike had caused a fire at an Oklahoma refinery -- sparking a flurry of excitement among energy traders and boosting U.S. crude prices 40 cents. The refining company announced the story was "completely wrong" and the station withdrew the story. "All it takes is a screw-up on a Web site to move the market. It just goes to show how tense this market is," said a Houston-based oil trader. A string of refinery problems in the United States has propelled retail gasoline prices to record highs in recent weeks. Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. NOTE: For more telecom/internet/networking/computer news from the daily media, check out our feature 'Telecom Digest Extra' each day at http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/more-news.html . Hundreds of new articles daily. And, discuss this and other topics in our forum at http://telecom-digest.org/forum (or) http://telecom-digest.org/chat/index.html For more news and headlines, please go to: http://telecom-digest.org/td-extra/newstoday.html ------------------------------ Subject: CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update From: communicationsdirect Reply-To: communicationsdirect_daily-owner@communicationsdirectnews.com Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:56:53 EDT ******************************** PricewaterhouseCoopers Presents The CommunicationsDirect Daily Update For May 31, 2007 ******************************** Ukrainian Telesystems Extends 3G Network to Crimea http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/24653?11228 Ukrainian CDMA operator Ukrainian Telesystems has launched 3G services in Simferopol, the capital of the Ukrainian republic of Crimea, reports Ukrainian News. The operator will now offer high-speed mobile internet and mobile communication and multimedia under the 'PEOPLEnet' brand, and has plans in place to extend its coverage ... Government Awards $20B Telecom Contract http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/130/24650?11228 WASHINGTON Five companies -- AT&;T Inc., Level 3 Communications, Verizon Communications Inc., Qwest Communications International Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp. -- on Thursday were awarded a federal telecommunications contract worth up to $20 billion over 10 years. Getting on the so-called Networx Enterprise ... VSNL Combats Falling Voice Margins http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/24644?11228 International data connectivity provider Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (VSNL) is feeling the pinch from falling profit margins in its wholesale voice business, and upcoming reforms to bandwidth pricing at home in India threaten to increase the pressure. In its financial results for the year ended March 31, the India-based operator ... Original WiMAX Entrants Still Lead Market http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/24642?11228 According to the latest report from In-Stat, the original vendors who entered the WiMAX market -- Alavarion, Aperto, Redline and Airspan -- still hold the dominant market positions. However, better-known equipment vendors such as Motorola, Nokia Siemens and Samsung received more press coverage in 2006, for their high-profile ... Survey Sez: Enterprise Comms Users Dissatisfied http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/24640?11228 Lack of open standards may be the cause of dissatisfaction of enterprise communications by nearly 70 percent of users, according to an independent survey of hundreds of respondents who attended the CeBIT 2007 show in Hannover, Germany, last March. Siemens Communications sponsored the research, which was conducted by an independent ... Palm's Constant Companion http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/24638?11228 Palm Inc. has finally unveiled its long-awaited new mobile computer -- a small notebook-like device intended to be used in conjunction with a smartphone for mobile email, Web surfing and more. Analysts, however, question who exactly will buy the symbiotic new device. Palm founder Jeff Hawkins unveiled the $500 Foleo "mobile... Will the Apple iPhone Ignite the US Multimedia Phone Market? http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/24636?11228 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Despite a rapid increase in the number of multimedia-capable phones, US wireless subscribers have not yet been persuaded to take advantage of these capabilities, reports In-Stat. More than one-third of respondents to an In-Stat wireless subscriber survey now carry a wireless handset that can play MP3 tracks, ... Your feedback on our e-letter is always welcome. Send email to: CommunicationsDirect Editor Copyright (C) 2007 PricewaterhouseCoopers. ------------------------------ From: John Mayson Reply-To: John Mayson Subject: Time Warner Digital Phone Question Organization: http://www.mayson.us Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:05:15 -0500 I hope this isn't too inappropriate a question for the digest. I finally fired Ma Bell. I had once-upon-a-time worked for AT&T and remainded a loyal telephone customer. However I just got tired of waiting for DSL on my street so I could take advantage of their phone/DSL/satellite package deal. I already had Road Runner high-speed Internet from Time Warner so I signed up for digital cable and phone. The Time Warner website is rather sketchy and I'm having trouble finding an answer to this, so I'm asking here. I understand I can continue using my existing telephones and jacks with digital phone. But can I use my computer to make/receive calls on my digital phone number? I have both Windows XP and Apple Mac OS X at my disposal. Note, I'm not talking about using Skype. I would like to be able to place and receive calls on my home number from my computer regardless of where my computer may be. Is this possible? Thanks, John Mayson Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 07:09:23 PDT From: Paul Coxwell Subject: Re: Touch Tone vs. Rotary -- Desk vs. Wall Sets? > P.S. While we're on the subject, would anyone know what percentage of > lines are still served by exclusively dial equipment? I don't think > they charge a premium for TT anymore. Also, many people have some old > rotary sets still in service (like me) even if their primary sets are > TT. Over here in the U.K. we didn't get TouchTone until the 1980s, but there was never any premium and it was made available on all lines automatically as soon as the C.O. equipment could handle it. All lines will still accept rotary/pulse dialing, at least regular "old fashioned" lines (some cable services might not). In fact the automated BT line test function still includes dial-tests for both DTMF and pulse. I still have rotary phones in service around the house, both Western Electric 500s and the old GPO 706 (nearest British equivalent of the WECo 500). Paul ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 07:16:23 -0400 From: Rick Merrill Subject: Re: Top Spammer Arrested; Watch for Decrease in Spam Mail Gene Johnson wrote: > By GENE JOHNSON, AP Legal Affairs Writer > A 27-year-old man described as one of the world's most prolific > spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer > users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk > e-mail. > Robert Alan Soloway is accused of using networks of compromised > "zombie" computers to send out millions upon millions of spam e-mails. > "He's one of the top 10 spammers in the world," said Tim Cranton, a > Microsoft Corp. lawyer who is senior director of the company's > Worldwide Internet Safety Programs. "He's a huge problem for our > customers. This is a very good day." > A federal grand jury last week returned a 35-count indictment against > Soloway charging him with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, > aggravated identity theft and money laundering. > Soloway pleaded not guilty Wednesday afternoon to all charges after a > judge determined that -- even with four bank accounts seized by the > government -- he was sufficiently well off to pay for his own lawyer. > He has been living in a ritzy apartment and drives an expensive > Mercedes convertible, said prosecutor Kathryn Warma. Prosecutors are > seeking to have him forfeit $773,000 they say he made from his > business, Newport Internet Marketing Corp. > A public defender who represented him for Wednesday's hearing declined > to comment. > Prosecutors say Soloway used computers infected with malicious code to > send out millions of junk e-mails since 2003. The computers are called > "zombies" because owners typically have no idea their machines have > been infected. They should try using the Rico Laws because of his use of zombies. Seriously! ------------------------------ From: Steven Lichter Organization: I Kill Spammers, Inc. Subject: Re: Top Spammer Arrested; Watch for Decrease in Spam Mail Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 08:30:53 -0700 Gene Johnson wrote: > By GENE JOHNSON, AP Legal Affairs Writer > A 27-year-old man described as one of the world's most prolific > spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer > users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk > e-mail. > Robert Alan Soloway is accused of using networks of compromised > "zombie" computers to send out millions upon millions of spam e-mails. > "He's one of the top 10 spammers in the world," said Tim Cranton, a > Microsoft Corp. lawyer who is senior director of the company's > Worldwide Internet Safety Programs. "He's a huge problem for our > customers. This is a very good day." > A federal grand jury last week returned a 35-count indictment against > Soloway charging him with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, > aggravated identity theft and money laundering. > Soloway pleaded not guilty Wednesday afternoon to all charges after a > judge determined that -- even with four bank accounts seized by the > government -- he was sufficiently well off to pay for his own lawyer. > He has been living in a ritzy apartment and drives an expensive > Mercedes convertible, said prosecutor Kathryn Warma. Prosecutors are > seeking to have him forfeit $773,000 they say he made from his > business, Newport Internet Marketing Corp. > A public defender who represented him for Wednesday's hearing declined > to comment. > Prosecutors say Soloway used computers infected with malicious code to > send out millions of junk e-mails since 2003. The computers are called > "zombies" because owners typically have no idea their machines have > been infected. > He continued his activities even after Microsoft won a $7 million > civil judgment against him in 2005 and the operator of a small > Internet service provider in Oklahoma won a $10 million judgment, > prosecutors said. > U.S. Attorney Jeff Sullivan said Wednesday that the case is the first > in the country in which federal prosecutors have used identity theft > statutes to prosecute a spammer for taking over someone else's > Internet domain name. Soloway could face decades in prison, though > prosecutors said they have not calculated what guideline sentencing > range he might face. > The investigation began when the authorities began receiving hundreds > of complaints about Soloway, who had been featured on a list of known > spammers kept by The Spamhaus Project, an international anti-spam > organization. > The Santa Barbara County, Calif., Department of Social Services said > it was spending $1,000 a week to fight the spam it was receiving, and > other businesses and individuals complained of having their > reputations damaged when it appeared spam was originating from their > computers. > "This is not just a nuisance. This is way beyond a nuisance," Warma > said. > Soloway used the networks of compromised computers to send out > unsolicited bulk e-mails urging people to use his Internet marketing > company to advertise their products, authorities said. > People who clicked on a link in the e-mail were directed to his Web > site. There, Soloway advertised his ability to send out as many as 20 > million e-mail advertisements over 15 days for $495, the indictment > said. > The Spamhaus Project rejoiced at his arrest. > "Soloway has been a long-term nuisance on the Internet -- both in > terms of the spam he sent, and the people he duped to use his spam > service," organizers wrote on Spamhaus.org. > Soloway remained in federal detention pending a hearing Monday. > Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. I think they should shoot him and posted a picture of his dead body on the net!!!! The Only Good Spammer is a Dead one!! Have you hunted one down today? (c) 2007 I Kill Spammers, Inc. A Rot In Hell Co. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 07:18:14 -0400 From: Rick Merrill Subject: Re: Voicemail Messages Get BUZzed Mr Joseph Singer wrote: > communicationsdirect > pointed to this > article: >> http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/24628?11228 >> Sure, your mobile phone has a unique, personal ringtone. But what >> does your phone's voicemail message sound like? BUZ Interactive >> is betting there's a lot of people who think that a musical, >> personalized voicemail message is a great idea. That's why the >> Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is offering GETaBUZ, a new way to > Maybe I'm turning into an old fart, but I'm getting severely annoyed > with the "need" to fix something that ain't broken. "Personalizing" > voicemail with someone else's music is just another way to annoy > people who are calling you. It's very likely that this "special" > music which you like a lot others may not be so crazy for. Another in > the same vein of annoyance is the service where you call someone's > number and instead of the familiar ringback tone you get the person's > choice of music blaring in your ear until such time as they decide to > answer. We know the reason for these services ... to make a buck. You can find your "mute" button? ------------------------------ From: Matt Simpson Subject: Re: FCC Should be Required to More Accurately Count Broadband Users Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:29:43 -0400 Organization: None In article , hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: > Sounds rather expensive. How much would it cost the taxpayer? > Of what benefit would it be? One possible benefit of more accurate reporting of broadband coverage might be more chance of somebody providing coverage to those who don't have it. An area with no existing competition might be more attractive to a provider who is considering serving that area. In my area, for example, a provider who looks at the false maps created with my tax dollars might assume that they would have a hard time convincing users to switch from cable. In fact, customers don't have cable and might happily jump at any option that was offered. Whether or not this is worthy of taxpayer dollars may be a matter of opinion, which may depend on whether or not you already have broadband coverage and don't care if anybody else does, or whether you're one of those on the wrong side of the digital divide. There are many in government (state, local, and federal) who feel that reliable broadband access for all is a plus for economic development, and that efforts to make that happen are worthwhile. Unfortunately, they're currently doing it in such a half-assed manner that their efforts may be worse than nothing at all. ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly to telecomm- unications topics. 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Townson eHarmony Sued For Discriminatory Actions (Jill Serjeant, Reuters) Canadian Natives Want Cut from Cell Phone Traffic (John Mayson) Report: Broadband Subscribers to Almost Double by 2011 (USTelecom dailyLead) Re: Time Warner Digital Phone Question (Rick Merrill) Re: Time Warner Digital Phone Question (Linc Madison) Re: Time Warner Digital Phone Question (Robert Bonomi) Re: Touch Tone vs. Rotary -- Desk vs. Wall Sets? (Adrian) Re: Top Spammer Arrested; Watch for Decrease in Spam Mail (Tom Horsley) Re: Top Spammer Arrested; Watch for Decrease in Spam Mail (mc) ====== 26 years of TELECOM Digest -- Founded August 21, 1981 ====== Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. 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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest, and why not support Net Freedom Now http://www.savetheinternet.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 23:19:29 -0500 From: Jill Serjeant, Reuters Reply-To: John Mayson Subject: Canadian Natives Want Cut from Cell Phone Traffic Organization: http://www.mayson.us Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 13:23:15 -0500 http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/05/canadian_native.html "Mobile phone calls in Canada may get a little more expensive if a native tribe there is successful with plans to levy a fee on every phone call that passes through its airspace. Manitoba First Nations is negotiating with Manitoba Telecom Service to take a cut of every call that passes over tribal land or water." In my humble opinion, this is ridiculous. Will they next demand a cut from satellite radio? Will they demand a cut of advertising revenue from radio and TV stations? Will amateur radio operators have to pay for a special license if their signals pass through First Nations airspace? What about airplanes that fly overhead? John Mayson Austin, Texas, USA [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: It is equally ridiculous for the various carriers to claim some sort of 'privacy in communications' rationale, and attempt to punish those persons who intercept or monitor or otherwise tamper with the carriers' signal, yet they (carriers) attempt to do that here in USA. Consider 'pay television' here in the United States. The carriers of same keep insisting that no one has a right to intercept their radio signals without the proper payment of their fee for service. On the other hand, some radio pirates insist upon their right to examine any/all particles entering upon their land, electronic or otherwise. A good illustration of this would be those persons who _routinely_ monitor radio-telephone communications and challenge the FCC to make them stop doing so. Their rationale seems to be 'if it is on my property I have the right to inspect it. If you do not like that, then build an impenetrable 'wall' around my property, forcing your radio signal to travel in some other direction, or possibly not travel at all past that point.' If it (radio signal) penetrates my property then I have the right to charge a 'transit fee' for same. Are radio waves suppoedly inviolate? I think not; since there are many theatres, restaurants, other public places in the USA which use 'mesh-like' devices to specifically neutralize or diminish radio transmissions. You might feel that radio waves have the right to do their own thing, or travel at will, wherever. Obviously not everyone would agree with that. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:50:34 CDT From: USTelecom dailyLead Subject: Report: Broadband Subscribers to Almost Double By 2011. USTelecom dailyLead May 31, 2007 http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/harcfDtusXsAzuCibuddfzLo NEWS OF THE DAY * Report: Broadband subscribers to almost double by 2011 BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH * AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel among winners in latest government telecom contract * Motorola cutting an additional 4,000 jobs * Verizon discounts bundle in Delaware * Alcatel-Lucent lands network-extension contract in Pakistan * AT&T offers smallest QWERTY BlackBerry * Executive at Deutsche Telekom's T-Systems resigns USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT * Register Now for VIP NXTcomm Access! TECHNOLOGY TRENDS * Apple to stream YouTube to TVs * Are you prepared for more mobile security threats? * Searching the Web, one phone call at a time IP DOWNLOAD * Opinion: OCS 2007 creates opportunities for VoIP * Cyber-criminals target VoIP REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE * Georgia governor signs video-franchise bill Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others. http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/harcfDtusXsAzuCibuddfzLo SmartBrief, Inc. 1100 H ST NW, Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20005=A0 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 16:21:37 -0400 From: Rick Merrill Subject: Re: Time Warner Digital Phone Question John Mayson wrote: > I hope this isn't too inappropriate a question for the digest. > I finally fired Ma Bell. I had once-upon-a-time worked for AT&T and > remainded a loyal telephone customer. However I just got tired of > waiting for DSL on my street so I could take advantage of their > phone/DSL/satellite package deal. I already had Road Runner > high-speed Internet from Time Warner so I signed up for digital cable > and phone. > The Time Warner website is rather sketchy and I'm having trouble > finding an answer to this, so I'm asking here. I understand I can > continue using my existing telephones and jacks with digital phone. > But can I use my computer to make/receive calls on my digital phone > number? I have both Windows XP and Apple Mac OS X at my disposal. > Note, I'm not talking about using Skype. I would like to be able to > place and receive calls on my home number from my computer regardless > of where my computer may be. Is this possible? > Thanks, > John Mayson > Austin, Texas, USA Well, "no" because your computer's modem isn't connected to the internet, "yes" because your new ATA (analog telephone adapter) MAY be able to muster enough REN to handle all your phones and your modem(s). "maybe" because some VoIP services have limitations on FAX and modem operation that use older technologies. You will just have to try it and see. I'll bet it will work! ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Time Warner Digital Phone Question Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 13:36:08 -0700 From: Linc Madison Reply-To: telecom@lincmad.com Organization: Linc Mad dot com In article , John Mayson wrote: > I hope this isn't too inappropriate a question for the digest. Not at all; it's right on target. > The Time Warner website is rather sketchy and I'm having trouble > finding an answer to this, so I'm asking here. I understand I can > continue using my existing telephones and jacks with digital phone. > But can I use my computer to make/receive calls on my digital phone > number? I have both Windows XP and Apple Mac OS X at my disposal. > Note, I'm not talking about using Skype. I would like to be able to > place and receive calls on my home number from my computer regardless > of where my computer may be. Is this possible? I don't think you can. I have cable telephone from Comcast, but I would guess it's nearly identical to Time-Warner. My cable comes into my apartment building, and then over the in-building coax cable wiring to my apartment, where I have a special cable modem that splits out the Internet signal to an Ethernet cable and the telephone signal to a wire that feeds into my existing in-home phone wiring. Without the special cable modem, with its serial number registered on Comcast's system, I don't have telephone service; however, if I take the cable modem with me and plug it in somewhere else, it wouldn't work. (I would guess that even if I plugged it in on a cable belonging to another Comcast customer with the same services, it would still generate an error because of the mismatched serial numbers.) I used to have RCN, also with cable/net/phone service. Their setup was a little bit different. The cable came into the building, but the phone signal was split off at the demarc into the existing in-building phone wiring, allowing me to use just a regular cable modem in my apartment for the Internet part. I also haven't tested how or whether the phones work in a power outage. I think the Comcast system, since it relies on the cable modem in my apartment, probably wouldn't. Linc Madison * San Francisco, California * Telecom at Linc Mad d0t c0m URL: < http://www.lincmad.com > * North American Area Codes & Splits Read my political blog, "The Third Path" US, California, and Washington State laws apply to LINCMAD.COM e-mail. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: VOIP services _will_ work when there is a power interuption assuming that you have a battery backup on the line. You would need to have your router and ATA get their power from the backup supply; something that might kick in when the power other- wise fails. Or perhaps you have, like myself, a power supply sufficient for your entire network, but only to allow for an 'orderly shutdown' of your computer system as needed. I experimented with this one day recently. I went over to the circuit-breaker box on the wall and flipped off the circuit serving my computer area. Instantly I heard something sounding like a 'click' as the battery backup started going. (Oh, on my battery backup I also have the telephone network wired in to it also.) After flipping the circuit breaker 'off' I went over immediatly to try this test: Dial '8' for the Vonage line; I heard dial tone, and dialed a number. Now, it would not work for very long; the battery is not that large, and it is mainly intended for the 'orderly shutdown' of my computers, _not_ to just keep on using them. But you probably see my point. Now, if the cable service went out, that would be a different matter entirely. But if your telephone central office went on the blitz, you would not be able to use your landline phones very long either. Typically, when my power goes off for some reason or another (which would also affect my telephone system) I 'cheat' by plugging the phone line directly into the central office line, enitirely by-passing the mini-PBX I normally run everything through. Its not a trivial effort in any event. PAT] ------------------------------ From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) Subject: Re: Time Warner Digital Phone Question Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 17:21:46 -0000 Organization: Widgets, Inc. In article , John Mayson wrote: > I hope this isn't too inappropriate a question for the digest. > I finally fired Ma Bell. I had once-upon-a-time worked for AT&T and > remainded a loyal telephone customer. However I just got tired of > waiting for DSL on my street so I could take advantage of their > phone/DSL/satellite package deal. I already had Road Runner > high-speed Internet from Time Warner so I signed up for digital cable > and phone. > The Time Warner website is rather sketchy and I'm having trouble > finding an answer to this, so I'm asking here. I understand I can > continue using my existing telephones and jacks with digital phone. > But can I use my computer to make/receive calls on my digital phone > number? I have both Windows XP and Apple Mac OS X at my disposal. > Note, I'm not talking about using Skype. I would like to be able to > place and receive calls on my home number from my computer regardless > of where my computer may be. Is this possible? Possible? yes. Trivial effort? no. Probably requires some extra hardware. Definitely requires some _significant_ extra software. On a Unix-esque platform, I'd be looking at Asterix as a starting point. On Windows, 'yate' maybe?? (dunno much about it). ------------------------------ From: Adrian Subject: Re: Touch Tone vs. Rotary -- Desk vs. Wall Sets? Date: 31 May 2007 15:41:50 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com On May 31, 7:09 am, Paul Coxwell wrote: >> P.S. While we're on the subject, would anyone know what percentage of >> lines are still served by exclusively dial equipment? I don't think >> they charge a premium for TT anymore. Also, many people have some old >> rotary sets still in service (like me) even if their primary sets are >> TT. > Over here in the U.K. we didn't get TouchTone until the 1980s, but > there was never any premium and it was made available on all lines > automatically as soon as the C.O. equipment could handle it. > All lines will still accept rotary/pulse dialing, at least regular "old > fashioned" lines (some cable services might not). In fact the > automated BT line test function still includes dial-tests for both DTMF > and pulse. > I still have rotary phones in service around the house, both Western > Electric 500s and the old GPO 706 (nearest British equivalent of the > WECo 500). > Paul Have you made any adjustments to your WECo 500s for compatibility with the UK system? Adrian ------------------------------ From: Tom Horsley Subject: Re: Top Spammer Arrested; Watch for Decrease in Spam Mail Organization: AT&T Worldnet Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 23:00:05 GMT On Wed, 30 May 2007 23:26:10 -0500 Gene Johnson, AP Legal Affairs Writer wrote: > federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice > a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail. Yea right. If kept detailed statistics I might notice a statistically significant decrease in the 4th digit to the right of the zero in the percentage of mail I get that is spam. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Quite frankly, I was not that impressed with the feds' efforts, either in this case. Now, if the feds did that sort of thing day after day for a couple weeks or so, _then_ I think we would see a substantial decrease in spam. PAT] ------------------------------ From: mc Subject: Re: Top Spammer Arrested; Watch for Decrease in Spam Mail Organization: BellSouth Internet Group Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 19:45:10 -0400 >> Prosecutors say Soloway used computers infected with malicious code to >> send out millions of junk e-mails since 2003. The computers are called >> "zombies" because owners typically have no idea their machines have >> been infected. > They should try using the Rico Laws because of his use of zombies. Definitely. And look at where his money was coming from. How many people were knowingly paying him to do fraudulent and illegal things? They're guilty, too. And was anybody paying him to sabotage and degrade the nation's e-mail system? [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: To answer your question 'how many people were knowingly allowing this ...' my answer would be 'the spam enablers are equally guilty'. The 'enablers' are the users who sit there and try to convince you that 'email filtering' is the answer; that we can repeatedly and without ceasing apply filters to our email and newsgroups, all the while Soloway continues to plug up our filters to the point they are almost unusable. Oh, when really pressed on this issue, they will bitch and moan about users (or actually, ABusers) like Soloway and how evil they are, yet they will rarely, if ever, 'vote' with either their money or their efforts to put people like Soloway out of business on his own, and if anyone dares to suggest some guerilla-like tactics to accomplish the same thing, they will shudder and tell you how awful you are for thinking and speaking about it. We should NOT have to use email filtering; why should WE have to endure it? 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Please make at least a single donation to cover the cost of processing your name to the mailing list. All opinions expressed herein are deemed to be those of the author. Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only and messages should not be considered any official expression by the organization. End of TELECOM Digest V26 #153 ****************************** From editor@telecom-digest.org Fri Jun 1 16:04:51 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ptownson Delivered-To: ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu Received: by massis.lcs.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 11648) id 1327A22A9; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:04:50 -0400 (EDT) To: ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu Approved: patsnewlist Subject: TELECOM Digest V26 #154 Message-Id: <20070601200450.1327A22A9@massis.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:04:50 -0400 (EDT) From: editor@telecom-digest.org (TELECOM Digest Editor) Status: RO TELECOM Digest Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:06:00 EDT Volume 26 : Issue 154 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson More Old Movie Phone Scenes (Lisa Hancock) CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update (communicationsdirect_daily) AT&T Adds International Text-Messaging Plan (USTelecom dailyLead) Re: Top Spammer Arrested; Watch for Decrease in Spam Mail (mc) Re: Web Site Error Rocks Global Oil Markets (John Mayson) Re: eHarmony Sued For Discriminatory Actions (mc) Re: eHarmony Sued For Discriminatory Actions (Fred Atkinson) Re: Time Warner Digital Phone Question (Jax) ====== 26 years of TELECOM Digest -- Founded August 21, 1981 ====== Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. 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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest, and why not support Net Freedom Now http://www.savetheinternet.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com Subject: More Old Movie Phone Scenes Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:24:38 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com The cable channel TCM (Turner Classic Movies) is excellent. It shows great old movies. Many of the films were very well written and produced. In B&W, the artful use of lighting and shadows to create mood is excellent. The film "The Night Holds Terror" (1955) was about a kidnapping. At the end of the film they're waiting for the kidnappers to call with the ransom demand. The victim's wife (who would get the car) was told she must stall them as long as possible to trace the call. The call came, and the scene switched to the phone company central office, showing technicians checking various Strowger switch units. Other units were still running. Then they showed the service center and lookups in the tub file (a file of each line and its repair history). Very realistic. Another film, "Dial 1119" (1955?) had some phone scenes (I couldn't stay up for the whole film, work calls). The film opened with the front page of the phone book listing 1119 as the emergency number for police fire and rescue. (I wonder if this was a common number for police back then, in those days we were taught to simply dial 0- operator). This film had an escaped murderer taking a group of people hostage in a bar, and using the telephone (an old 202 set with an E1 handset) to talk to police. Pay phones in the film were all two- piece. Part of the drama was that murderer dialed his calls in a very slow and deliberate manner. ------------------------------ Subject: CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update From: communications Reply-To: communicationsdirect_daily-owner@communicationsdirectnews.com Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 11:45:10 EDT ******************************** PricewaterhouseCoopers Presents The CommunicationsDirect Daily Update For June 01, 2007 ******************************** Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent Wins GSM Network Contract from China Mobile Pakistan http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/24687?11228 Ericsson yesterday announced that it has been selected by China Mobile Pakistan Limited (CM Pak), a company created after the former Paktel was acquired by China Mobile Communication Corporation (China Mobile), for the expansion of its GSM network throughout the southern Pakistan. Under the contract, Ericsson will provide a complete GSM ... EU Outlines Plans for "Super" Regulator http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/130/24684?11228 The European Union (EU)'s Information Society Commissioner, Viviane Reding, has outlined plans to launch proposals into the creation of a single 'super regulator' for the region. In a statement released on 31 May, Reding said she will launch the proposals by end of October 2007, seeking further powers to strengthen telecoms ... Ericsson Wins Vodafone Spain's 3G Deal http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/24682?11228 Global mobile giant Vodafone has selected Ericsson to modernise and expand its existing WCDMA/HSPA radio-access network throughout Spain. In a statement, Ericsson said that under the three-year deal, it will deliver WCDMA radio base stations to enhance Vodafone Spain's network coverage and add the latest Ericsson HSPA functionality .... Mirror Promises Better Telecom Lasers http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/24678?11228 A new high-performance mirror, developed by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, could dramatically improve the design and efficiency of next generation telecom devices relying on laser optics. The new mirror packs the same 99.9 percent reflective punch as current high-grade mirrors, called distributed Bragg ... Why Telcos Need Web 2.0 http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/24675?11228 IMS might not be the answer, it turns out. Service providers looking to create new revenue-driving applications will instead have to adapt to the Web 2.0 world, using the concept of 'mashups' to quickly create new Web-based services, according to the latest Services Software Insider report, Telco Web 2.0 Mashups: A New ... AT&T Offers International Text Messaging http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/24670?11228 AT&T has announced an international text-messaging plan. The new plan will include 100 international long-distance text messages for $9.99 a month. "A text package specifically for international use helps make friends and families across borders seem less far away by allowing them to communicate when time zone differences ... BT's Flat Fusion http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/24663?11228 BT Group plc has not given up on its fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) service, Fusion, despite flat subscriber growth. The operator now has 40,000 Fusion customers, which is the same number of customers it had about two months ago. With nearly two years of experience since BT first launched Fusion in 2005, BT says its FMC ... Your feedback on our e-letter is always welcome. Send email to: CommunicationsDirect Editor Copyright (C) 2007 PricewaterhouseCoopers. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 12:11:37 CDT From: USTelecom dailyLead Subject: AT&T Adds International Text-Messaging Plan USTelecom dailyLead June 1, 2007 http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/hbdwfDtusXsDuICibuddvAjb TODAY'S HEADLINES NEWS OF THE DAY * AT&T adds international text-messaging plan BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH * Qwest in discussions with movie studios * Covad makes good on ADSL2+ promise to businesses * Converged optical Ethernet networks boost Ciena * Google outlines mobile strategy, mum on handsets rumors * Nacchio may have to forfeit $52 million USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT * Secure Your Optical Network FoundationTuesday, June 5, 1 p.m. (ET) TECHNOLOGY TRENDS * Clearwire completes WiMAX-spectrum buy * Life after dial-up: Company looks to diversify * Study: Mobile TV to attract 155.6 million subscribers * EarthLink nears completion of Texas wireless network IP DOWNLOAD * Avaya buyout speculation reflects unrest in VoIP world REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE * FCC to wireless: Improve emergency-call standards EDITOR'S NOTE * New feature: dailyLead at work, home and on the road Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others. http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/hbdwfDtusXsDuICibuddvAjb ------------------------------ From: mc Subject: Re: Top Spammer Arrested; Watch for Decrease in Spam Mail Organization: BellSouth Internet Group Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 11:01:30 -0400 > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: To answer your question 'how many > people were knowingly allowing this ...' my answer would be 'the > spam enablers are equally guilty'. The 'enablers' are the users who > sit there and try to convince you that 'email filtering' is the > answer; that we can repeatedly and without ceasing apply filters to > our email and newsgroups, ... Well said! The spam-filtering and antivirus industries have often struck me as enemies disguised as friends. They rely on spam and viruses to continue, so they can continue selling us their technological solutions to human problems. And locksmiths don't want the burglary rate to drop ... it's bad for business ... What bothered me about the Soloway case is the time scale. They let him keep spamming for something like 5 years while slowly gathering evidence. Computer criminals just don't think in a 5-year time scale. Things happen too fast. They're like shoplifters -- they need to face substantial consequences on the *day* of the crime, or there will be little or no deterrent effect, and massive needless damage done. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: And, midst your examples above of people and industries who want to maintain the status quo for various reasons -- generally financial -- be sure to include the 'corrections industry' along with the locksmiths. Doesn't it almost make you go spastic with laughter when a police officer notes how 'all we are trying to do is reduce the crime rate; nothing would be better than for us (police officers) to be out of a job from lack of crime?' (or words to that effect; they are not too original in their thinking.) Once in our kindergarten class at school Officer Friendly came around to tell all us students about how 'police officers were our friends' and how they were trying to eliminate or do away with crime. I thought back then that sounded a bit odd, but it was not until fifth or sixth grade I began to grasp the irony of it all. So when Officer Friendly came around again to address us in seventh grade, I held up my hand when he asked if there were any questions or comments: I am sure he was expecting me to snitch on my parents or friends, claiming they were either (a) drug users, (b) drug pushers, (c) sex molestors or (d) other breeds of malevolent individuals; (no, I take that back, we did not have _open_ drug abuse nor sex offenders in those days, but he sure was looking for some type of malevolence to be certain so that he would make a big show of adding yet one more intake to his score of corrections industry inmates.) Drug use came along in the seventies and sex offenses came along in the 1990s. I held up my juvenile hand and asked him, "Officer Friendly, are you going to really stand there and tell us you'd like to see the ten thousand employees of the Cook County Jail and Sheriff's Department out of work? And you really want to see the several thousand police officers of the Chicago Police out of work? And what about the millions of dollars spent each year for the construction of new prisons? And what about the thousands of employees in the prison system?" Officer Friendly's face became sort of contorted with hate, but our teacher was unable to get me to shut up either. Finally, Officer Friendly looked at me and said, "you know something, kid, you really are a smart-aleck son of a bitch." And over the next half-century or so, we have witnessed an unbelievable growth in the corrections industry and its peripheral occupations, such as prison phone services, prison food service, private corporate prisons, etc. We had none of those 'periperies' back in the 1950-60's of course. To say nothing about MSNBC's thice weekly hour long program entitled 'LOCKUP' where we television viewers are given guided tours of the many correctional facilities in the USA. Lots of people depend on the status quo to gve meaning to their own lives. PAT] ------------------------------ From: John Mayson Reply-To: John Mayson Subject: TELECOM Re: Web Site Error Rocks Global Oil Markets Organization: http://www.mayson.us Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 09:51:49 -0500 On Thu, 31 May 2007, Reuters News Wire wrote: > World oil prices jumped briefly on Wednesday after a television station > in Tulsa, Oklahoma -- the No. 62 U.S. media market -- posted an > erroneous story about a refinery fire on its Web site. Someone explain something to me. Why would the price of a raw material go up due to a refinery fire? It'd be like the price of wheat rising on news of a fire at a Wonder Bread factory. I could see the price of gasoline rising, but not oil. John Mayson Austin, Texas, USA [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Not really, since there is a more than ample supply of wheat with which to make more bread, but oil is a somewhat more limited substance. And, refineries do more with crude oil than simply make gasoline. How about all sorts of 'petroleum-based' by-products? PAT] ------------------------------ From: mc Subject: Re: eHarmony Sued For Discriminatory Actions Organization: BellSouth Internet Group Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:58:11 -0400 I don't think the people who run eHarmony should lose their freedom to run the business the way they want. They are clearly not setting out to harm anyone. They simply believe that heterosexual matchmaking is different from homosexual matchmaking, and they've chosen to do one and not the other. They have (or can have) any number of competitors that make the other choice. There is also a free exercise of religion issue. As I understand it, the founder of eHarmony is an evangelical Christian and is specifically setting out to promote and uphold the conservative Christian concept of marriage, which is entirely heterosexual. Nobody sues Jewish grocers to make them sell non-kosher meat. Do they? [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: If you substitute the word 'black' for the word 'homosexual' in your comments above, (which is how _many_ but not all GLBT activists would have you handle it) perhaps you can see the problem. _Many_ LGBT (interchangeable with 'GLBT') activists place themselves on the same level as during the black/white struggles in the USA prior to the 1960s. Regards Jewish grocers and non-Kosher products, the fellow across the street from the Skokie Bus Station is Jewish, and operates a specific- ally Kosher market. One day I was joking with him and said "Please fix me a bologna and cheese sandwhich". His reply was "I will sell you the bread and a slice of bologna, then I will sell you a slice of cheese. What you choose to do with them when you get back to the bus station is your own business." His deli market was a large, sort of busy place, with many clerks on duty. But he (owner) always had a nice sense of humor. Over the delicatesan counter was a large sign, apparently due to complaints in the past: Entitled "Your Assurance of Kazruth (or Kosher)it said: "When there are at least two employees on duty at this counter, one will prepare your meat product. The other will prepare your cheese or other dairy (like potato salad) product. The products will be bagged separately if you request it. In the event there is only one employee on duty, then that employee will prepare your meat product, *then wash his/her hands*, and then prepare your dairy product. If our employees do not follow this procedure then your products will be given to you free of charge." The notice was signed by the chief Rabbi in charge of (Jewish) food sales for Village of Skokie. On this particular day, his shop was quite busy. Only one person was on duty at the deli counter. Two people were ahead of me in line, but I was known to be a regular customer, getting lunch to take back to the bus station. The owner himself was working there at the deli counter, obviously harassed and busy. He asked me what I wanted to eat that day, and I told him a liver sausage sandwhich (and then as a sort of afterthought, after pausing a couple seconds) give me an order of cream cheese to go with it. At first he said, "well, it will be a couple minutes before I can get to you," and he turned to the lady who was waiting there ahead of me and _touched_ the meat he was going to cut up for her. Then he said to her, "Do you mind waiting a couple minutes while I get Patrick's order ready?" No, she said she did not mind ... he placed the roast (or whatever she had ordered) back in its bin, turned around a bit and _touched_ the cream cheese he was fixing to add to my sandwhich order. I immediatly made a 'tsk, tsk' sound and he looked at me and said, "You are not Jewish are you?" ... I assured him I was not. "Well then," he said, "our laws do not apply to you." I told him that was correct, they did not apply to me, "but they apply to you, Mr. Rosen, so I will take my order for free today." He fixed my order at no charge, handed it to me, and he said "but the only reason I have that (rabbi-ordered) sign at the counter is because of the young black guys working here who don't give a damn and my regular customers who moan and bitch all the time about Kosher requirements. My clerks have to follow Kosher requirements at all times (even though they are not Jewish). I gave him his two dollars for my sandwhich and told him 'do not let that happen again; or I will have to report you to the chief rabbi for food sales here in Skokie. (smile). His reply was "yeah, yeah, go ahead and report me, you would not be the first." PAT] ------------------------------ From: Fred Atkinson Subject: Re: eHarmony Sued For Discriminatory Actions Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 05:45:05 -0400 > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Gay, or LGBT persons may wish to get > in touch with attorney Todd Schneider in San Francisco in inquire > about being added to the pending lawsuit. PAT] Hi Pat, I don't understand why the LGBT community would want someone who is not well qualified to evaluate the dynamics of their relationships to be providing such a service to them. It would probably turn into a disaster (because of shortcomings in such unqualified evaluations) and result in a lot more lawsuits from people being 'mismatched' because of those shortcomings. Those lawsuits would probably be far more justified. There are plenty of sites that do offer this service and could have been developed by people who are far more qualified to do it. The students of Gallaudet University underwent DPN (Deaf President Now) to bring about the first deaf president of Gallaudet University because they wanted their education to be managed by someone who understood (from having lived it) the problems faced by the Deaf community (if you do not know about DPN, you should read a book entitled 'The Week The World Heard Gallaudet'). They did not want the Hearing (who did not live the Deaf experience) to be the ultimate manager of their education (this did not mean that teachers from the Hearing community could not teach them, just that they wanted their deaf leader to be the ultimate manager of their educational affairs). Would not the LGBT community want their own qualified professionals to do the same for them and not rely on someone who hasn't lived their own experience? It makes very little sense to me. I would liken it to going to a podiatrist to be evaluated for a problem with your hands (the dynamics are not the same). It would probably require Dr. Neil Clark Warren go back to pyschology school to study a new speciality (or do a bunch of costly independent research) to resolve this issue. I'm not entirely sure that that is fair to him especially since other specialists are already more qualified to do it. Why should he reinvent the wheel? The result would probably not be as good as with someone who lived the experience. So now do we sue general practitioners for discrimination because they do not provide pyschological services? Would you not be better suited to choose an experienced mental health practitioner? Do we sue psychologists who specialize in child psychology for not providing counseling to adults as well? These adults can get refered to a psychologist that specialize in their dynamics. Do we sue magazines that specialize in writing about the Black community for not writing about the White or Hispanic communities? Or do we subscribe to a magazine that writes articles about events in our own respective communities? Do we sue Yahoo or Google for not providing dictionary services when we could go to dictionary.com or m-w.com for those services? Do we sue the Reverend Farrakhan for not providing ministries to Protestants or Catholics? What about atheists and agnostics? How about The Washington Blade? Do we sue them because they exclusively support the Gay community and not the Heterosexual community? I don't think so. It's just that I don't see it as a discrimination issue. I see it as an issue of professional specialization. Just my two cents worth. Regards, Fred [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Please see the first part of my reply on the previous message. Substitute the word 'black' for the word 'gay'. Now you perhaps see where many GLBT activists are coming from. And you are correct -- when the shoe is on the other foot, discrimin- ation is not a lot of fun. In Australia, where GLBT 'rights' are very strong, a couple of restaurant/tavern owners have specifically banned _heterosexual_ people from using their establishment. _Many_ (not all, but a substantial number of) LGBT Americans are making the comparison to the white/black struggles in America a half-century ago. I am not sure that is an accurate comparison, but it is a very common one these days. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Jax Subject: Re: Time Warner Digital Phone Question Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:19:13 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com On May 31, 11:05 am, John Mayson wrote: > I hope this isn't too inappropriate a question for the digest. > I finally fired Ma Bell. I had once-upon-a-time worked for AT&T and > remainded a loyal telephone customer. However I just got tired of > waiting for DSL on my street so I could take advantage of their > phone/DSL/satellite package deal. I already had Road Runner > high-speed Internet from Time Warner so I signed up for digital cable > and phone. > The Time Warner website is rather sketchy and I'm having trouble > finding an answer to this, so I'm asking here. I understand I can > continue using my existing telephones and jacks with digital phone. > But can I use my computer to make/receive calls on my digital phone > number? I have both Windows XP and Apple Mac OS X at my disposal. > Note, I'm not talking about using Skype. I would like to be able to > place and receive calls on my home number from my computer regardless > of where my computer may be. Is this possible? > Thanks, > John Mayson > Austin, Texas, USA As a former Time-Warner Technical Support employee, I will have to say no, this can't be done with just the eMTA (that's the phone modem.) It is possible to get this working with additional hardware/software that others have suggested, but beware - Time-Warner will not troubleshoot this connection, since it is not an ordinary phone jack and therefor beyond their scope of work. If you had any problems getting this to work, or keeping it working.....the only place you could go for help is a forum - assuming others have tried this and succeeded. Also, in our division at least, the service goes out A LOT. It is not the most reliable to say the least ... You'd be amazed at how much we, as a culture, have come to assume that when you pick up the phone there will always be a dialtone. If you have gotten Digital Phone, please leave that notion at the door ... and try not to get too frustrated with Tech Support -- they're there to help ... If the service goes out too much for you to handle, then cancel it. No harm, no foul. I know it sounds unrelated, but I am trying to do something similar but without phone service at all. 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Townson Re: eHarmony Sued For Discriminatory Actions (Fred Atkinson) Re: eHarmony Sued For Discriminatory Actions (mc) Re: Web Site Error Rocks Global Oil Markets (Rick Merrill) Re: Web Site Error Rocks Global Oil Markets (John Mayson) Re: Web Site Error Rocks Global Oil Markets (Robert Bonomi) Re: Time Warner Digital Phone Question (John Mayson) ====== 26 years of TELECOM Digest -- Founded August 21, 1981 ====== Telecom and VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Digest for the Internet. All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. Articles may be used in other journals or newsgroups, provided the writer's name and the Digest are included in the fair use quote. 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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest, and why not support Net Freedom Now http://www.savetheinternet.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Fred Atkinson Subject: Re: eHarmony Sued For Discriminatory Actions Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:56:08 -0400 > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Please see the first part of my reply > on the previous message. Substitute the word 'black' for the word > 'gay'. Now you perhaps see where many GLBT activists are coming from. No, I really don't. And I'm not trying to be condescending. This Web site supports blacks and people of other races who are *heterosexuals*. Are you honestly going to tell me that the dynamics are essentially the same for homosexual relationships? I'd find that hard to believe, and no disrespect is intended. I would agree that it was discriminatory if eHarmony was refusing service to people it was qualified to serve. This fellow has made his career out of a study of heterosexual relationships. He is not qualified to evaluate alternative relationships. Why would they want to put themselves at risk like that? Today my landlord told me a story about a woman he knows. She used an online dating service and met a guy she fell in love with via the Internet and the phone. She never met him face to face.n They swapped pictures and messages via email. It progressed to the point where they starting phoning each other. After several months, he said he was in financial trouble and asked her for help. Then again. Then again. In all, I think he said that this fellow was into her for about twenty-two hundred dollars (someone she had never seen face to face). More time went by and she got suspicious. She had the calls traced. Guess where they were coming from? Nigeria. With your knowledge of Internet scams, I guess that I don't need to explain to you any more. If this story is true and complete (I don't know for sure that it is, of course), then that particular dating service has been compromised and their customers have been exploited. Whether or not it was the service's fault will take more information. But if there is legal action it could be costly to the service company even if they win. My only point in telling this story is that there is a weakness in that service if this story *is* true. I would leave it to the lawyers to determine if there is any legal liability here. Maybe or maybe not. It would probably require a lot more information before they could determine anyway. And maybe it's a weak comparison. I only want to point out [by telling this story] that there can be legal pitfalls in running any service of this (or other) kind(s). If you're sued and have to defend yourself, it can be costly. Even if you win, you lose [because you are out money to your attorney]. To the original point I was trying to make was for someone from the LBGT community [evaluation by someone who was only qualified to evaluate heterosexual relationships]: This well might open eHarmony to legal liability (the lawyers would have to fight this out to settle it. But I suspect their opinion would mirror mine) if there was any negative issue that might arise as a result of what a court would probably say was an unqualified evaluation. This is just my evaluation of the situation. I'll be very surprised if they don't ultimately dismiss her case. But not until after eHarmony has to spend a bunch of money on a lawyer. Is this a case of 'you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't'? Regards, Fred [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: A few points for you on this: There are many (again, not all) 'gay activists' who compare being gay in America to formerly being black in America. Whether or not this is a good, intellectually honest and sound comparison, I, of all people, am not in a position to judge. I know that we Episcopalians these days are almost constantly having this hammered in our heads by our rectors and bishops; that is, by the more liberal bishops and rectors. Regards 'who is qualified to administer a romantic web site directed to GLBT people', I am reminded that for many years in the 1960-70's, formerly 'white only' barber shops, the barbers used as their excuse for not wishing to cut a black person's hair was that 'they' (the barber) 'did not know how to do it properly'. That statement (either truthful or a guise to cover up their bigotry, suit yourself!) managed to get them out of cutting a black man's hair for many years. And no one, black or white, wishes to have their hair screwed up by someone doing a bad job, re: "I would not mind cutting his hair, if only I knew how." Some then suggested that the barber shop hire a black barber (presumably with experience in knowing 'what do to') to handle black customers who came in seeking a haircut. Then, the truth came out; many barbershops had racist white owners who did not wish to do that. Regards 'the dynamics of _properly_ servicing GLBT clients in a dating service', I _personally_ do not think there is that much difference in gay and straight relationships. Again, many GLBT folk would disagree with me on that point. But as my friends tell me, since I had my brain aneyrysm in 1999, and now mostly just sit here in my shell, I am not a very good person to evaluate gay relationships, having had so few of them in the past seven years, not of choice, but out of health reasons. But, I retort, "touche! and all that rot; I am not now nor was I ever in a position to evaluate heterosexual relationships all that well either." Regards the high cost of justice -- either way -- in the USA these days, truely this case will cost plenty of money for the winners and the losers. On that topic -- the cost of justice -- I am sort of qualified to speak: we Episcopalians (and by far, we are not the poorest church body in the USA) are getting eaten alive by legal fees already established by lawyers (read, $475 per *hour*) in the liberal Episcopalian vrs. conservative Anglican battle currently going on; a battle we are told will last at least through September over our property rights in Virginia and elsewhere, all on account of that damned gay bishop in New Hampshire. PAT] ------------------------------ From: mc Subject: Re: eHarmony Sued For Discriminatory Actions Organization: BellSouth Internet Group Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 18:08:23 -0400 > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: If you substitute the word 'black' for > the word 'homosexual' in your comments above, (which is how _many_ but > not all GLBT activists would have you handle it) perhaps you can see > the problem. Not comparable. Black people marry exactly the same way white people do. But heterosexual mating is (mathematically provably) different from homosexual mating. Look up "stable-marriage theorem." eHarmony is being asked to provide a fundamentally different type of service, not merely provide the same service to a wider range of people. If they tried to provide it, there would be immediate (and valid) complaints that they're not doing it competently. Their software would probably perform very poorly (again, look up the relevant theorems). I don't think gay activists would actually support this lawsuit if they thought about the probable consequences: (a) eHarmony moves to Texas and continues as usual but no longer contributes to California's economy. (b) Gay activists come to be viewed as enemies of personal liberty. Until now, they wanted freedom to do their own thing; now they seem to want to take freedom away from people different from themselves. (c) Legislators conclude the California anti-discrimination law is too broad, stamping on personal liberties, and decide to narrow it. If somebody wants to set up a same-sex matchmaking bureau, why not do so, and take advantage of the lack of competition from eHarmony? [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well, they already have. Without making any references to eHarmony except in a very veiled, obscure way, this televison commercial for chemistry.com (? I think ?) seems to imply they want GLBT business. Regards your (b) and (c) above, gay activists are typically liberal Democrats, and liberal Democrats tend to have no problem with taking away personal liberties. The gay activists who, conversely, are conservative Republicans -- and yes there are a few -- spend most of their time merely explaining themselves to whoever will listen. They by and large will say they are 'traditional Republicans' but they object to the party's evangelical religous leanings in recent years. And then, there are the gay activists who are libertarian either with an upper case /L/ Libertarian (as in political party membership) or lower case /l/ libertarian (as in general philosophy and sympathies but without formal party membership). I place myself in this latter category. Geeze, I could start an entire mailing list/newsgroup on this topic, and I wish I had some help from gay activists one way or the other on it. But, as Ralph Blair (founder and head of the gay religious group *Evangelicals Concerned*) phrases it, "There is overall so much hated and building of agendas in the world these days. Everyone has their own agenda, and refuses to listen to the agendas of anyone else." On that topic -- agenda building and protecting -- he is absolutely, one hundred percent correct. If anyone wants to read what I believe is a _comprehensive_ 'gay rights' view on things, I suggest they go to my web site for same: http://gaynews.n3.net . And this discussion on the eHarmony lawsuit is getting a lot of coverage in the gay press. Lots of GLBT people hate me for 'allowing' all these views to be present in my daily newspaper. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:34:02 -0400 From: Rick Merrill Subject: Re: Web Site Error Rocks Global Oil Markets John Mayson wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2007, Reuters News Wire wrote: >> World oil prices jumped briefly on Wednesday after a television station >> in Tulsa, Oklahoma -- the No. 62 U.S. media market -- posted an >> erroneous story about a refinery fire on its Web site. > Someone explain something to me. > Why would the price of a raw material go up due to a refinery fire? > It'd be like the price of wheat rising on news of a fire at a Wonder > Bread factory. I could see the price of gasoline rising, but not oil. > John Mayson > Austin, Texas, USA > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Not really, since there is a more than > ample supply of wheat with which to make more bread, but oil is a > somewhat more limited substance. And, refineries do more with crude > oil than simply make gasoline. How about all sorts of 'petroleum-based' > by-products? PAT] I think that is a good question. Perhaps the competition says, "hey, buy us more oil so we can make a run at the marketplace while that refinery is down." Thus bidding up the price of crude. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 19:04:35 -0500 From: John Mayson Subject: Re: Web Site Error Rocks Global Oil Markets Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, John Mayson wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2007, Reuters News Wire wrote: >> World oil prices jumped briefly on Wednesday after a television station >> in Tulsa, Oklahoma -- the No. 62 U.S. media market -- posted an >> erroneous story about a refinery fire on its Web site. > Someone explain something to me. > Why would the price of a raw material go up due to a refinery fire? > It'd be like the price of wheat rising on news of a fire at a Wonder > Bread factory. I could see the price of gasoline rising, but not oil. > John Mayson > Austin, Texas, USA > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Not really, since there is a more than > ample supply of wheat with which to make more bread, but oil is a > somewhat more limited substance. And, refineries do more with crude > oil than simply make gasoline. How about all sorts of 'petroleum-based' > by-products? PAT] Let's say we have 10 refineries and each can handle 10 barrels of oil per day (this is a very simplisitic example). So everyday the market sells 100 barrels of oil to the 10 refineries. One of the refineries goes offline. Now the market can only supply 90 barrels, but still has the capacity to supply 100. My understanding of supply and demand would say the price should fall since the supply remained the same, but the demand fell. However on the opposite end of the refinery, I could understand the price of GASOLINE rising because the supply fell 10%. John Mayson Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------ From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) Subject: Re: Web Site Error Rocks Global Oil Markets Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:46:23 -0000 Organization: Widgets, Inc. In article , John Mayson wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2007, Reuters News Wire wrote: >> World oil prices jumped briefly on Wednesday after a television station >> in Tulsa, Oklahoma -- the No. 62 U.S. media market -- posted an >> erroneous story about a refinery fire on its Web site. > Someone explain something to me. > Why would the price of a raw material go up due to a refinery fire? > It'd be like the price of wheat rising on news of a fire at a Wonder > Bread factory. I could see the price of gasoline rising, but not oil. Because the amount of oil being 'sold' on the market is _many_times_ higher than the actual volumes delivered. Many operations buy and sell oil 'futures' to protect themselves against changes in the price of various kinds of refined products -- especially when they do not have the ability to buy/sell futures on the particular product they require. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 19:16:10 -0500 From: John Mayson Subject: Re: Time Warner Digital Phone Question Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Jax wrote: > As a former Time-Warner Technical Support employee, I will have to say > no, this can't be done with just the eMTA (that's the phone modem.) It > is possible to get this working with additional hardware/software that > others have suggested, but beware - Time-Warner will not troubleshoot > this connection, since it is not an ordinary phone jack and therefor > beyond their scope of work. If you had any problems getting this to > work, or keeping it working ... the only place you could go for help > is a forum - assuming others have tried this and succeeded. I'm not all that interested in a "hard" solution. :-) As a consumer, I think offering the ability to make calls on my home number from my home phone, computer, or wifi phone would rock!! > Also, in our division at least, the service goes out A LOT. It is not > the most reliable to say the least ... You'd be amazed at how much we, > as a culture, have come to assume that when you pick up the phone > there will always be a dialtone. If you have gotten Digital Phone, > please leave that notion at the door ... and try not to get too > frustrated with Tech Support -- they're there to help ... If the service > goes out too much for you to handle, then cancel it. No harm, no foul. Which is exactly why I refused to drop Southwestern Bell/SBC/at&t for so many years. When I lived in Florida we had a hurricane that took out our electricity and cable TV (the power came back on days before CATV, that's how I knew CATV went out) but good ole BellSouth kept our phones going. My decision is strictly financial. Right now we have at&t telephone, rabbit ears, and Road Runner. For LESS money we can have digital phone, digital cable TV, and Road Runner. Even after the introductory pricing it's still a small savings. I have called/emailed at&t practically begging them to get DSL out this way. They have service literally three streets over. I understand the technical barriers of DSL, but given we're a somewhat affluent neighborhood, it seems like it'd be worth their while to install the necessary equipment to get this section online. But 5 years have gone by ... Since we all have cell phones, our home phone has become somewhat superfluous. > I know it sounds unrelated, but I am trying to do something similar > but without phone service at all. I want to hook my computer, cell > phone, and house phone (which has no dialtone) all to run off of > Bluetooth technology, but I'm running into a lot of road blocks. > Phreaking just isn't as easy as it used to be. No it's not. I can think of a lot of projects I'd love to tackle, but these days it can't be done (or the cost is too prohibitive). John Mayson Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------ TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly to telecomm- unications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of networks such as Compuserve and America On Line, Yahoo Groups, and other forums. It is also gatewayed to Usenet where it appears as the moderated newsgroup 'comp.dcom.telecom'. TELECOM Digest is a not-for-profit, mostly non-commercial educational service offered to the Internet by Patrick Townson. All the contents of the Digest are compilation-copyrighted. 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