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From: Kurt Ullman on 9 Apr 2010 23:53
In article <hpofju$gt7$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote:

> On 04-09-2010 09:29, Phillip Jones wrote:
> > phone for personal stuff. Cell phones are just a form of two way radios
> > and if some one has the right equipment they might could listen in. As
>
> Tapping a land line is trivial, whereas the equipment to eavesdrop on a
> cell phone is complex and expensive.

Stanley Kubrick and his buddy Hal, now don't look that abstract.
_Jimmy Buffett "Fruitcakes"

--
I get off on '57 Chevys
I get off on screamin' guitars
--Eric Clapton
From: Paul Sture on 10 Apr 2010 06:28
In article <4bbf1ff8$0$24285$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>,
Warren Oates <warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> In article <4bbe3d58$0$24219$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>,
> JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> > It is interesting to find a generation who swear by facebook and nothing
> > else, and they don't care to use email to inform people privately of stuff.
>
> We used to use the telephone. It's private, and in times of crisis or
> tragedy there's always someone (family or close friend) who's willing to
> do the 'phoning. Does the telephone not work anymore, now that everyone
> seems to have one in his pocket?

Good point. However, while I still have the same cell phone number I had
a dozen years ago many don't, and lots of folks have also dropped their
landlines, so there's a churn in phone numbers there didn't used to be.

--
Paul Sture
From: Tom Harrington on 10 Apr 2010 23:40
In article <michelle-C3A404.17230309042010(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <4bbf959d$0$2826$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>,
> JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> > Remember that 9 years ago, a computer was able to read the lips of crew
> > members who thought the computer couldn't hear them, discussed the
> > possibility of disconnecting it, and the computer reacted by trying to
> > kill all crewmembers.
>
> Wow! Has it been that long already?

That's right, and this year we'll send a second ship to find out what
happened to that computer. I expect dramatic results.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/
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