The conspiracy to disconnect VoIP

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Can You Really Disconnect?

Can You Really Disconnect? 09/07/2004 02:12 PM
There have been plenty of stories about the always on nature of the worklife many people lead now that technology makes them reachable anywhere, anytime. Now eWeek is running a similar story that tries to look more at the importance of disconnecting, and suggests that, while this always on culture is enabled by technology, it's more a result of the way we view our workplace. While the whole idea of building up a work team is so that it can function without you present, people often have difficulty letting go -- either because they don't trust others, or they worry that if everything runs smoothly while they're away, they'll be viewed as expendable. Obviously, there are some situations where staying in touch is necessary. However, for plenty of workers, learning to let go (with maybe a brief connection to clean out the spam) would probably be helpful.

Cellular disconnect

Cellular disconnect 01/25/2004 04:04 AM
Boston Globe Jan 25 2004 7:34AM GMT

Consumer Confidence Disconnect

Consumer Confidence Disconnect 06/30/2004 02:37 PM
Apparently, we're confident. How come all the big retailers are warning?

INGATE® DELIVERS THE SKINNY ON VOIP AT
ABP’S “VOIP SIZZLES!” EVENT IN
DALLASEvent Educates Resellers on
Turning Today’s Heightened VoIP Interest
into Sales

INGATE® DELIVERS THE SKINNY ON VOIP AT
ABP’S “VOIP SIZZLES!” EVENT IN
DALLASEvent Educates Resellers on
Turning Today’s Heightened VoIP Interest
into Sales 07/10/2004 03:16 AM
Ingate® Systems (www.ingate.com), which produces and sells the world’s only fully Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-capable enterprise firewalls, will be participating in “VoIP Sizzles,” held in Dallas from July 22-23, 2004. Hosted by ABP Technology, this event for resellers will focus on the specific opportunities and challenges for traditional data VARs and telecom dealers who are moving into the Voice over IP (VoIP) market. [PRWEB Jul 10, 2004]

Innovating from the Ground Up, and the
Idea-Implementation Disconnect

Innovating from the Ground Up, and the
Idea-Implementation Disconnect 03/22/2005 04:54 PM

The Ideas: (1) Instead of thinking about technological innovation that applies top-down (improving our cities, our institutions, our communities) what if we thought about such innovation at the personal level, bottom-up, the way nature does? (2) Why are we so inept at moving from brilliant ideas to ubiquitous delivery of solutions? I have long been an advocate of bottom-up, front-line-focused, personalized solutions to business problems, because I've seen them work, and because I've seen imposed top-down one-size-fits-all management solutions continually fail. And I've proposed bottom-up, community-based solutions for our political, social and economic woes. Everything I've learned so far tells me that bigger-is-worse, that there are no economies of scale, that centralized is much less effective than decentralized, and that the people at the top of power and money elites are totally disinterested in solving real problems, and merely consumed with further increasing their power and wealth. So if bottom-up problem-solving is the best answer for business, social, political and economic challenges, how about technological challenges? I have mentioned my revelation at a recent wind energy conference where a large number of people seeking to become personally energy-independent overwhelmed one gentleman who wanted the state to set up more centralized, "efficient" wind farms for all, and how I, as a liberal accustomed to the role of the state in organizing things for the greater benefit, was at first ambivalent, but by the end of the day was won over by the self-interested. While I still believe innovation and technology need to be focused on solving basic human needs, I've begun to think that they might better solve those needs by looking at personal bottom-up solutions instead of institutionally-deployed ones. I'm even wondering whether community-based renewable energy co-ops are too centralized. No, I haven't suddenly become a libertarian or a Dawkins selfish-gene adherent: Nature, in its technological design and innovation (look at birds' wings and the thermal design of feathers), doesn't use centralized solutions -- animal communities are bound together by social imperatives, not shared technologies. Why should we be any different? Maybe we need to merge the great cradle-to-cradle design thinking of guys like Bill McDonough, who creates wonderful zero-waste designs for institutions, with the bottom-up, personalized approaches that I have advocated for business. Here are some of the fragments of ideas that I've been kicking around since I contemplated this. Since I was thinking at the time about renewable energy, the End of Oil and global warming, that's what most of these ideas are focused on: What if solar energy collectors were designed to look like trees, not like flat panels -- more surface area, better fit with the environment? Could they even be 'grown' using fractal patterns and crystal-forming ingredients? What if hats were designed as personal solar energy collectors -- instead of just protecting us from the sun's rays, why not have them harvest them? What about hair, even, which again has more surface area. Could our shampoo double as an application of wireless nanotech energy collectors? What if we could harvest our nervous energy, and the energy expended when we exercise? I've heard of PCs and flashlights powered by hand-cran k devices. Why not PCs and TVs powered by foot pedals, or ergonomic bicycle-type devices under our desks? Deskwork and good exercise at the same time. What if instead of heating and cooling whole buildings, we designed our clothing (the design of which now is, let's face it, pretty useless, not nearly durable enough, and quite silly) to heat and cool our bodies? No more fighting over where to set the thermostat -- we each set our own. And don't tell me it would look geeky or restrict our movement -- good design can solve that. Just use birds as models. What if we merged the technologies of the Smart Car (lightweight materials, miniaturization) with the technologies of the recumbent bicycle, the ele ctric scooter, and the Segway, to create a human-powered enclosed vehicle that would achieve highway speeds and give us good exercise while using no fuel whatsoever? Can't be done? That's what they told the Wrights. What if we developed a toilet that produced fertilizer instead of sewage, and delivered it through the sprinkler system right to your garden? Yes, I hear you saying that these aren't new ideas, they've been tried, some are even being used as we speak. But how do we make them commercial, mainstream, available to and affordable by everyone? After all, millions of houses are still being built with wasteful, inefficient North American style hot water heaters instead of the long-coil European "instant hot water" heaters. If we're going to save the world and stuff we can't quit when people nod and say "good idea" -- we need to commercialize it, make it better, experiment with real working models, and drive it out until everyone has one, so the need for the old technologies that these ideas replace -- power plants, the electrical grid, furnaces, air conditioners, internal combustion engines, passive hot water tanks, toxic non-recyclable batteries, maybe even buildings (to the extent their primary function is to keep heat in, or out) -- can be done away with. What is the reason that so many bottom-up ideas and innovations never make it into the commercial marketplace? I'm not a believer in conspiracy theories that corporations deliberately buy up and suppress more durable inventions to keep them from cannibalizing their market. I think it's more likely that people with good ideas are just disconnected from those with the skills and resources needed to implement those ideas. And vice versa -- those with commercialization skills and resources are rewarded by the market (and by shareholders) for not fixing what ain't broke, for not changing what they're doing until and unless they have to.  So on the one hand we have an astonishing and unprecedented flood of good ideas, made possible by the democratization of knowledge (the Internet etc.), and on the other hand we have this incredible inertia by those who could make those ideas reality, change everything. Not dissimilar to the paradox of our staggering surplus of cheap (thanks to subsidies) foods and medicines at the same time we have epidemics of hunger, malnutrition and disease. "It's the distribution system", some say. "It's the lack of security and ethics in the areas of suffering" say others. "It's the whole economic system, which is designed to artificially create scarcity to drive up demand and hence profits", say others. It's time to stop excusing ourselves and blaming others for these disconnects. It's time to stop amusing ourselves to death with fake-reality shows and the fate of some poor brain-dead woman in Florida. Where there's a will, there's a way. It's a question of priorities, of combining energies, and of collaborating in a focused, informed and urgent manner to fix the disconnects and make it happen. We have a responsibility to make it happen. We certainly have the money, the ingenuity and the organizing technologies to make it happen, so what are we waiting for? We need to get past our learned helplessness and start talking to each other about things that matter, things we can fix, and enrolling ourselves to do so. Are we just disorganized, or is our passivity, our inaction, our feelings of helplessness, are these things symptoms of something deeper, darker? Or is all this noise, this online cacophony, the sound of a billion revving engines just now shifting into gear?

Trying To Unravel Study About
IT/Employee Security Disconnect

Trying To Unravel Study About
IT/Employee Security Disconnect 04/28/2004 02:31 PM
Websense, a company that is trying to sell filters to IT staff, has put out a new study talking about how there's a disconnect between IT staff and employees when it comes to threats on their machines. Unfortunately, it also appears that there's a disconnect between the study, the press release about it and some reporters. Two different articles on the study present some very different numbers - and some of the conclusions in the press release seem equally questionable. Silicon Valley Business Journal says that employees claim they spend two hours a week surfing personal sites, while Wired News gives the number as 3.3 hours. Both, however, agree that IT staff believes it's more like six hours. The disconnect between IT and employees isn't surprising. Of course employees are going to play down how much time they spend surfing non-work sites, because they don't want to get in trouble. At the same time IT often has the incentive to boost those numbers to suggest they need more resources to handle the "problem". The press release shows that the number is 2 hours - but even that's a little confusing. They say that 51% of employees admit to surfing 1 to 5 hours a week, for an average of 2 hours. It's not clear if it's just those 51% who average 2 hours, or if that includes the 49% who apparently don't do personal surfing at work. The next bit of confusion is over spyware. Wired points out that 6% of employees admit to downloading spyware, but that 30% of computers are found with spyware, while the press release gives the number as 29% (just a little rounding, I guess). This isn't all that surprising, since spyware is known to install itself without people knowing. The Business Journal, however, focuses on the fact that the press release claims 92% of companies ended up with spyware - highlighting the discrepancy between the 6% and the 92%. That's misleading, since even if 1% of all employees at every company ended up with spyware, 100% of companies would have spyware. The Business Journal piece also follows the press release in saying that the study asked people if they "visited sites" that install spyware, whereas Wired News assumes the question was whether or not they knowingly "downloaded" spyware - two very different things. Finally, Wired says that 93% of IT staff claim they're adequately protected against viruses - but that two-thirds admit their company has been hit by viruses. The Business Journal phrases things a bit differently. First, they claim the number is 95% instead of 93% (the press release says "nearly 95%" so this is understandable) and instead of saying protected against viruses, they say "protected from threats such as spyware, peer-to-peer file sharing, instant messaging and maladies such as the MyDoom virus -- all potential conduits for Web-based viruses." That paints a very different picture. First off, it's a bit problematic to simply lump together things like spyware and instant messaging as global "threats," but even worse that list doesn't include email - the main source of viruses getting onto computers. The press release, however, indicates that the study simply asked if their anti-virus software was effective. Anyway, it is very likely that there's a disconnect between IT staff and employees concerning protecting computers in the work place, and better tools would probably help. However, relying on this study, or any of the articles about it, doesn't seem like a particularly useful exercise.

Sysinternals PsTools Fails to Disconnect
Shares

Sysinternals PsTools Fails to Disconnect
Shares 07/22/2004 08:12 PM

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“Alan Ridgeway has reported a security issue in PsTools, potentially allowing malicious users to gain administrative privileges on remote systems….Solution: Only system administrators and trusted users should be granted access to systems used for system administration purposes. Reportedly, the latest version properly disconnects when the utility is closed.”…

Porting problems disconnect carrier
swaps

Porting problems disconnect carrier
swaps 01/22/2004 12:56 PM
ZDNet Jan 22 2004 5:29PM GMT

3WTel’s Superior VoIP - Lightyears Ahead
in VoIP Security and Dial-Up Capability

3WTel’s Superior VoIP - Lightyears Ahead
in VoIP Security and Dial-Up Capability 02/01/2005 08:48 PM
Hackers can easily access confidential information from customers of VoIP services that utilize open and interpretable industry standard codec and industry standard protocol. VoIP services offering secure lines hosted on proprietary patented technology are reaping the benefits because of the optimal security it creates. [PRWEB Jan 31, 2005]

HBF Group, Inc. Announces I-911™ Voice
Over IP (VoIP) Solution for VoIP
Providers and the Emergency Services
Industry

HBF Group, Inc. Announces I-911™ Voice
Over IP (VoIP) Solution for VoIP
Providers and the Emergency Services
Industry 06/14/2004 02:24 AM
i-911 addresses the deficiencies in other commercially VoIP 911 available solutions by providing a 911 emergency calling service that is deployable immediately , requires little or no change to the public safety answering points (PSAPs). i-911 offers a significant improvement over other VoIP solutions as it delivers accurate call back and location information from a 9-1-1 call in real-time. [PRWEB Jun 14, 2004]

VoIP Signs Agreement with VOIP-4U;
Lucent Announces Contract with Verizon
Wireless and AT&T to Launch Internet

VoIP Signs Agreement with VOIP-4U;
Lucent Announces Contract with Verizon
Wireless and AT&T to Launch Internet 07/16/2004 03:44 PM
Financial News USA Jul 16 2004 5:58PM GMT

Pure VoIP Won't Be Regulated, Phone-Like
VoIP Might Be

Pure VoIP Won't Be Regulated, Phone-Like
VoIP Might Be 02/12/2004 02:16 PM
As expected, the FCC ruled on the Pulver VoIP petition today, and gave something of a split decision. They claim that "pure" VoIP systems shouldn't be regulated, since they're just like email or any other internet application. However, they're reserving judgment on VoIP systems that more resemble regular phone service, such as Vonage that touch on the PSTN. This seems like something of a cop out, and may be difficult to sustain over time. Most of the "pure" VoIP systems are offering (or planning to offer) gateways that let them connect to the telephone system. Where do they fall along the regulatory spectrum? This would take away the incentive of VoIP providers to connect to regular phone service, creating two different levels of phone service, rather than connecting the two and leading to a more orderly migration. Of course, it still remains to be seen what sorts of regulations they will include for PSTN-connected VoIP. Chances are, they're talking about adding in 911 service and phone-tapping abilities.

3WTel’s Superior VoIP Adds Newest
Features Including Call Transfer to Cell
Phones/Telephones Plus Accessibility to
Personal VoIP Account Anywhere in World
When Travelling

3WTel’s Superior VoIP Adds Newest
Features Including Call Transfer to Cell
Phones/Telephones Plus Accessibility to
Personal VoIP Account Anywhere in World
When Travelling 02/05/2005 09:23 PM
Lightyears ahead in VoIP security and ability to be used on dial-up, broadband, wireless or satellite connections, 3WTel’s Superior VoIP now rocks the VoIP industry by offering its customers additional free features such as call transfer, worldwide login capability, group folders, audio devices, and proxy support. [PRWEB Feb 3, 2005]

Conspiracy?

Conspiracy? 01/16/2004 11:01 AM
On the subject of NetNewsWire requiring that Atom feeds be well-formed XML, Mark Pilgrim wrote:

A member of the RSS advisory board -- a group whose charter explicitly states that you "advocate for RSS" -- has announced that he will use his product's dominant market position to punish his own paying customers by applying a double standard that makes Atom appear less useful than RSS.

I'm not usually given to conspiracy theories, but Jesus H. Christ, are you f$@#ing kidding me?

Good question.

I’m not trying to cut down on Atom’s chance of being popular. On the contrary—what I haven’t expressed is that I’m excited by the chance to do this right, to not have the ugly workarounds in my code that exist just to parse that minority of bad RSS feeds.

I certainly didn’t discuss my decision with other members of the RSS board.

If Atom’s popularity is dependent on whether parsers are liberal or not, then that’s a problem with Atom, or Atom feed generators, not the parsers. I don’t think that this is the case: I think Atom will be popular whether parsers are strict or liberal. And I think NetNewsWire will help Atom become popular.

What I’d like to see is a commitment to well-formed XML on the part of everybody that has anything to do with Atom. Atom has the chance to set a high standard, not just as a good spec but as good-in-practice. I bet Mark agrees with me on this.

"Conspiracy"

"Conspiracy" 09/13/2004 09:46 PM

FC Now: Conspiracy of Fools

FC Now: Conspiracy of Fools 03/14/2005 06:02 PM
Kurt Eichenwald's new book on the Enron scandals, Conspiracy of Fools, is being published today. It's richly-detailed and highly illuminating. Eichenwald portrays the debacle as an explosive combination of crime and incompetence. He shows how CFO Andy Fastow and his...

The Spike conspiracy

The Spike conspiracy 09/17/2004 10:39 AM
His latest film has enraged lesbians, but Spike Lee is used to causing a stir. He talks about George W. Bush, male sexual fantasy and how nothing in life is quite as it seems.

"The Volokh Conspiracy"

"The Volokh Conspiracy" 12/19/2003 11:55 AM

The Volokh Conspiracy

The Volokh Conspiracy 11/19/2003 08:04 AM
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The Volokh Conspiracy - -

The Volokh Conspiracy - - 03/22/2005 09:58 PM
fisks the recent ABC poll .. Biased Questions

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Conspiracy Theories

Conspiracy Theories 11/07/2003 08:47 AM
CBC's long-running series The Fifth Estate recently ran a very unsettling episode (in Canada) entitled 'Conspirac y Theories'. The show dealt with all manner of claims surrouding 9-11 including a possible US/Saudi/ Bin Laden connection, major intelligence breakdowns, etc. Their website provides further reading for those who like to believe the worst.

conspiracy theory 911

conspiracy theory 911 04/26/2004 02:04 AM
September 11th panel working to overcome conspiracy theories.

The Microsoft and SCO conspiracy

The Microsoft and SCO conspiracy 03/06/2004 01:54 AM
I am not into speculation nor am I into pointing fingers when documents are put on the web and conspiracy...

The conspiracy against our in-boxes

The conspiracy against our in-boxes 10/31/2003 10:35 AM
Opinion Why trusted bulk email is an oxymoron

Jackson Says He's Victim of Conspiracy
(AP)

Jackson Says He's Victim of Conspiracy
(AP) 03/27/2005 09:37 PM
AP - Declaring himself "completely innocent" of child molestation charges, Michael Jackson said Sunday that he is the victim of a conspiracy and asked fans around the world to pray for him.

Former WorldCom CFO Pleads to Conspiracy
(AP)

Former WorldCom CFO Pleads to Conspiracy
(AP) 06/07/2004 10:24 PM
AP - Scott Sullivan, former chief financial officer of WorldCom, pleaded guilty Monday to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said.

Incompetence or conspiracy? No-one's
saying

Incompetence or conspiracy? No-one's
saying 12/10/2003 11:22 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Dec 10 2003 10:46PM ET

MSNBC - Conspiracy Redux

MSNBC - Conspiracy Redux 07/19/2004 06:36 AM
MERYL STREEP: I'M NOT PLAYING HILLARY .. preview article .. Jonathan Demme .. Yeah Right

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The liberal college conspiracy

The liberal college conspiracy 09/20/2004 08:24 AM
Conservatives like David Brooks love to blame academics for making lopsided donations to Democrats. A closer look reveals otherwise.

The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and
Stupid

The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and
Stupid 10/31/2003 03:54 AM
Website Of The Day: The Conspiracy To Keep You Poor And Stupid .. what it did to Donald Luskin’s .. blogger .. sallies

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Conspiracy theories springing up

Conspiracy theories springing up 02/03/2003 10:14 AM
One person on Google noted that shuttle debris came down in the general area of Palestine, Texas, while another observed that this was the first time that an ...

McMurder * COM * Global Conspiracy

McMurder * COM * Global Conspiracy 05/05/2004 09:43 AM
McMurder.com Threatened with Legal Action .. McMurder

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Jackson: I'm the Victim of a Conspiracy
(AP)

Jackson: I'm the Victim of a Conspiracy
(AP) 03/27/2005 11:59 AM
AP - Declaring himself "completely innocent" of child molestation charges, Michael Jackson said Sunday that he is the victim of a conspiracy and asked fans around the world to pray for him.

International Jewish Conspiracy

International Jewish Conspiracy 11/14/2003 01:47 PM
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The Hunted on the vast right-wing
conspiracy

The Hunted on the vast right-wing
conspiracy 06/17/2004 05:57 PM

Joseph Wilson vs. the right-wing
conspiracy

Joseph Wilson vs. the right-wing
conspiracy 07/16/2004 08:21 AM
Gleeful conservatives insist the Senate Intelligence Committee report impeached the former ambassador's claims about Iraq and uranium. But Wilson is firing back.

Adelphia Founder, Son Guilty of
Conspiracy (AP)

Adelphia Founder, Son Guilty of
Conspiracy (AP) 07/08/2004 10:34 PM
AP - Adelphia Communications Corp. founder John Rigas and his son Timothy were convicted Thursday of looting the cable company to line their own pockets and deceiving investors by hiding its backbreaking debt.

Adelphia Founder Guilty of Conspiracy
(AP)

Adelphia Founder Guilty of Conspiracy
(AP) 07/08/2004 03:34 PM
AP - Adelphia Communications Corp. founder John Rigas was found guilty of conspiracy Thursday.

"Bilderberg: The Ultimate Conspiracy
Theory"

"Bilderberg: The Ultimate Conspiracy
Theory" 06/04/2004 08:14 PM

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