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the surge of 5 calls a day that we received for 6 weeks was traced to a US company in Calif. (we know the name) who hired a telemarketer in India. They used VoIP on the internet with a faked US caller ID (ANI) number. Sadly, any VoIP system can insert any phone number these days. I filed a police re...

the surge of 5 calls a day that we received for 6 weeks was traced to a US company in Calif. (we know the name) who hired a telemarketer in India. They used VoIP on the internet with a faked US caller ID (ANI) number. Sadly, any VoIP system can insert any phone number these days. I filed a police re...

I correct myself... If I were King For A Day in the US.. Every voting ballot shall have "NONE OF THE ABOVE, BRING ME A NEW BALLOT" phone companies: of late, where I live, we have but one copper wire POTS phone company now: The SBC/AT&T a-holes. The only alternatives are cellular and Ti...

Robert Reed wrote:As to Telco dereg - Put people out of work; higher costs;poorer service. Is't that wonderful.
Now we are going thru the same thing with power co. dereg!

If I were king for a day in the US...

TERM LIMITS FOR SENATORS!

I started getting lots of telemarketer calls again recently. I searched for a call blocker that would go ahead of all phones in the house and not let any ring for telemarkters or black-listed numbers. I found one product. $100. Privacy Corps Caller ID Manager One of many retailers for this product i...

I've been using Google email - gmail - 3GB or so free. And some freeware that creates a virtual disk drive on my PC for that space. Drag and drop like any drive on the PC. The files are there as individual "email" messages too. OK for sharing - but not archiving... Those many small on-line...

Wireless LAN (WiFi) is not in 900MHz; it's in 2.4GHz. There are issues if your cordless phones are 2.4GHz rather than (old) 900MHz, or (new) 5.8GHz. Most weather station stuff runs in the unlicensed area of 433MHz (US). The FCC has tough rules about the duty cycle - must be low - to prevent too many...

RDL2004 wrote:Why not just take the easy and cheap way out?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6842117003

- Rick

fine, if your ISP has all of his head-end and outdoor system elements on UPS.

My cable company has parts of their field network that are UPSed and parts that aren't. Service outage depends on where the power failure occurs. It's getting better with digital phone on cable, but they put that no-service on power failure warning in bold face type. And they don't ship the backup b...

why is the press and TV trash-news ignoring the FCC spectrum-sales? Selling the public its own ether. Not enough sex or blood? No evangelist? Starting this year, we'll see "road use taxes". As in London. Soon Manhattan and elsewhere. In addition to all the taxes you now pay, they'll charge...

S&H = supplemental-profit & ha-ha

I wish the media would do us all some good - by 1) investigate and report on what the FCC has done with the 10's of billions of dollars they took in for the cellular spectrum auctions for the last 15+ years. They must have all bought leather chairs for their offices and took lots of junkets before t...

looks like a high gain UHF TV receiver antenna to me. Perhaps someone's HD-TV

AVR Studio from Atmel is primarily for writing assembly language programs. The public domain GCC C compiler version for Atmel AVRs, winAVR or whatever its nam du jour is, can be added to AVR Studio just to use AVR Studio's editor and IDE. In either case, a .HEX file is typically what results. That i...

Isn't it fun, with any vendor, to see $8 or $12 S&H in the invoice and note that the item came USPS for $1.50?