[Cybertel-Ann] 9.24.8 :: Dont Link to Jones Day :: Dont Blog Bad Things about Principals in the Blue Mountain School District :: Dont Hack a Prez Candidate from Your Dorm Room ::

Wed Sep 24 08:06:38 PDT 2008

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Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didnt you?
Peopled call, say, beware doll, youre bound to fall
You thought they were all kiddin you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin out
Now you dont talk so loud
Now you dont seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal. - Bob Dylan, Rolling Stone, http://www.bobdylan.com/#/songs/rolling-stone

Muni Wi-Fi in Iraq, Muni
A wide-area Wi-Fi network has been deployed at the Joint Base Balad in Iraq to serve over US military personnel stationed there. It is scheduled to be complete by November 2008. The network operator charges $60 per month for 256Kbps (down) and 128 Kbps (up), and uses satellite as backhaul. At present the network has over 1000 users; it is designed to reach over 20,000. The network uses Aruba
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/muniwireless/~3/400856517/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/muni.htm

Verizon Has No Plans To Cap, Throttle - Fiber gives them breathing room -- For the moment, dslreports
When asked to comment on other ISP cap plans, Verizon has noted that the higher bandwidth provided by running fiber to the home doesn't make that a worry for them at the moment. I've asked Verizon in the past if the telco plans to implement caps or metered billing, and they've chosen their words carefully, making sure they don't rule out the possibility. Verizon this week was a little more specific when
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Has-No-Plans-To-Cap-Throttle-97950
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/neutralnm.htm

FCC Tests Dismiss Smut-Free Wireless Worries - Interference claimed by T-Mobile appears to be nonexistent…, dslreports
FCC boss Kevin Martin and M2Z Networks' plan for a smut-censored free national wireless service recently ran into opposition from T-Mobile, who claimed that the technology being used (Time Division Duplex (TDD)) caused interference. This claim was made despite the fact that T-Mobile has used this same technology extensively overseas, and was generally seen as a transparent effort to derail the
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Tests-Dismiss-SmutFree-Wireless-Worries-97931
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/waws.htm

Judge Says School Can Suspend Student For Fake MySpace Page Of Principal, Techdirt
Just about a month ago we wrote about a principal losing a lawsuit against some students for posting a fake MySpace page pretending to be the principal. However, in a different case, a court has ruled that a school has every right to suspend students for creating a fake MySpace page of a principal. The two cases are different in a few ways, as the first one involved the principal suing the student, rather than just suspending the student. That said, the ruling by the court in this case seems problematic, and I'd be surprised if it was upheld on appeal (assuming the student appeals). The Supreme Court's famous Tinker
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080917/0245292290.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm

Carterfone and Open Access in the Digital Era Symposium, October 17, Tech & Marketing Law
On October 17, we are having a neat event at Santa Clara University. A brief word about...
http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2008/09/carterfone_and.htm
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/cpe.htm

ESPN360.Com Locks Up It's Content — Let The Fragmentation Games Begin!, Tales from the Sausage Factory
There's been a lot of back and forth over whether letting broadband providers lock up content, or content providers lock out ISPs, is a good thing or a bad thing. And now, ESPN360.Com is going to kick off the fragmentation games and let us all fi...
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1324
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

I Am Pleasantly Surprised By Comcast Complaince, But Am Still Nasty And Suspicious By Nature., Tales from the Sausage Factory
Well, after saying that while Comcast might fully comply with the FCC's requirement to report on September 19, but I expected them to play games instead, Comcast handed me a very pleasant surprise. Not only do they appear to have made a thorough ...
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1330
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

Comcast Unveils Its New Traffic Management Architecture, EFF
Late on Friday night, Comcast filed an overview of its new traffic management arrangements with the FCC. This is the long term replacement for its controversial practice of using forged TCP Reset packets to limit the use of peer to peer protocols.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/09/comcast-unveils-its-new-traffic-management-archite
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

Evaluation of the Comcast/BitTorrent Filing — Really Excellent, Except For The Gapping Hole…, Tales from the Sausage Factory
After Comcast surprised me with their filing on Friday, I really wanted to believe they had turned a corner. Not to anthropomorphize too much, but I had hoped that Comcast had gotten such a bad public relations disaster out of this that they were...
http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1333
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

Comcast Says No One Has Complained About Its New Traffic Slowing Efforts, Techdirt
Last month, Comcast, in addition to finally revealing the broadband caps it had always had, admitted that it was going to test a system where it slowed down traffic for heavy users in congested areas -- effectively, sending their internet traffic to the back of the line. The company is now claiming that this plan is a success because in five trials there were no complaints about slower traffic. Of course, what the company means is that there were no direct complaints to the company. They don't know if people were pissed off and off shopping for competitive services (if any actually exist), or were complaining to friends or in online forums. Having dealt with Comcast customer service, and after seeing how Comcast (falsely) denied its traffic shaping efforts for months, perhaps customers impacted by this new syste
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080922/0252232326.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutralp2p.htm

U.S. Government Begins Largest Deployment of DNSSEC, CircleID
untied States government has launched an extensive deployment of DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) on the .gov top-level domain, and some expect that once that rollout is complete, banks and other businesses might be encouraged to follow suit for their sites.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/us_government_largest_dnssec_deployment/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/security.htm

Comcast v. FCC: Now what?, Tech Liberation Front
A divided FCC recently issued an order concluding that Comcast acted discriminatorily and arbitrarily to squelch the dynamic benefits of an open and accessible Internet, and that its failure to disclose its practices to its customers has compounded the harm. The commission does get a bit excited sometimes.  Anyway, the FCC required Comcast to end its network management practices and submit a compliance plan.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techliberation/~3/401458281/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm

Comcast: Users to Get 'Fair Share' of Bandwidth, Internet News
After coming under fire for throttling high-bandwidth activities, the ISP giant details new policies for managing its network.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/tOHBf-1vIBI/3773081
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/comcast.htm

Malaysia Jails Blogger For Two Years Without Trial, Techdirt
We've been trying to follow the situation with the government crackdown on opposition bloggers in Malaysia, and with different stories coming out every day, it got a little confusing. So when we wrote about a blogger being released following a public outcry, it was actually a different blogger than the original one we had reported as arrested. It now turns out that the original blogger has actually been immediately sentenced to two years in jail without any trial -- and those two years can be extended indefinitely at will by the government. As for the other blogger who was released, apparently that's just a
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080923/1125352347.shtml
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/asia.htm

China - Detained cyber-dissident Huang Qi finally allowed to see his lawyer - 24.09.2008, RSF
Reporters Without Borders is very worried about detained cyber-dissident Huang Qi, who was able to see his lawyer, Mo Shaoping, yesterday for the first time since his arrest on 10 June in Chengdu, in the western province of Sichuan. Until yesterday, the authorities had refused to allow any visit by his lawyer.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28695
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/intl/china.htm

EFF: claim that consent needed for linking is "preposterous", Ars Technica
A pair of public interest groups have weighed in on the curious case of BlockShopper, a tiny Chicago firm that has angered Windy City lawyers Jones Day. The law firm used trademark law to file a lawsuit, in part over BlockShopper's links to the firm's web site, but EFF and Public Citizen say that the case is nothing but hot air.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080923-eff-claim-that-consent-needed-for-linking-is-preposterous.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/link.htm

Palin hacker's IP address linked to Tennessee college dorm, Ars Technica
More details emerge on the identity of the person responsible for hacking into Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080922-palin-hackers-ip-address-linked-to-tennessee-college-dorm.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/hacker.htm

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