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Aprox 1 Year Cruise - Fall 2010
Hey All,
I first have to apologize for being MIA for a while. I have been suffering from PCS (Post Cruise Syndrome) :( I had an amazing Jan-May 08 in the Bahamas and have been bumming since being back in the States and paying for it all this past half year haha. We met some amazing people, saw and experienced a ton of beauty, and I got engaged while in Hawksbill Cay!
But now my boat is outside of Baltimore at Old Bay Marina wondering why she is in this cold and not headed back south.
The grand plan is for my wife and I to save up this next year and a half and depart for aprox a year starting late fall 2010 before we settle down wherever we are going to settle. I am roughly thinking we will be in the Bahamas late fall/early winter, then head through the Caribbean and get south of hurricane zone for the summer. Then start heading back north afterwards. Depending on how funds and the cruising is going we may extend the cruise to a year and a half.
We are a 36ft Ketch and it will be primarily just my wife and I but I will most likely have some help for some of the passages.
Items that I am going add/upgrade when boat is hauled out fall 09 and majority of pre-cruise work will be done: Definites: Solar (a panel most likely on the dinghy davits) & new AGM house batteries, newer used dinghy, replace worn dodger/bimini. Hopefully: replace head from electric to manual pump and replace fridge/icebox.
Other than that, we have a new Yanmar 4JH4E 56HP diesel that was installed right before we departed to the Bahamas last winter, year old sails and a portable honda generator to keep us topped off when the sun isnt shining.
Questions I already know I have: Boat and Medical Insurance? The boat for cruising the Caribbean and the Medical, we are both late 20's and healthy, but would like to look into something for emergencies.
I would welcome and appreciate any suggestions that anyone has on this.
I hope everyone head a great Christmas and New Years and for those that are cruising right now... you are a lucky bunch and I cant wait to join you!
Congrats on what sounds like a very successful cruise.
A couple of points responding to your questions:
1. Anything you plan to do on the boat that is labor intensive and can be put off until the mid point of your next planned cruise might be done more cheaply in Trinidad. Labor rates are a fraction of the US and the quality of work is very good. Example: dodger repair, painting, woodworking, cabin alterations, etc.
2. Boat insurance is expensive and some go without / self-insure. Question you have to ask is can you afford to lose the investment you have in the boat? If you can, you have a self-insurance option. If you can't, you should find a place in the budget for hull insurance.
3. Medical insurance is a different matter. If you're both young and healthy you might be inclined to take the risk. The low cost and generally good quality of routine and non-critical health care you can get in the Caribbean would also argue for self-insurance. The real risk you face is if you have a serious accident -- someone gets hit in the head with the boom which results in serious head trauma, or you're in a car accident while ashore somewhere and end up with broken bones and internal injuries. In these situations you may find yourself in a situation where you need to / want to come back to the US for care and/or recuperation. Without health insurance that will cover you in the US you're out of luck. There are health policies that will cover you outside the US and let you return should the need arise -- some require you to be outside the US for six months of each year. If I were you, I'd look into an option like that -- something that will allow cover treatment in foreign countries while you're traveling, but which will allow you to return to the US for if a major hospitalization is required or serious illness needs to be treated. You might try to keep costs down by accepting a high deductable where you pay the first $4-5,000. If nothing major goes wrong you'll end up paying very little beyond the insurance premiums. If disaster strikes, you can leave the boat and fly home for extended care and recuperation knowing that you're not destined for the poor house.
You might look into getting medical evacuation insurance, which can save you a lot of money and possibly your life if you have a serious medical emergency or problem. The Divers Action Network provides it to its members. So do several other companies/groups.
OK, you have a boat.........
you have experience, you have/will have sufficient funds, you seem to know what you are doing and you are young. On this board this is very refreshing, but why the flock are you asking these questions.
Forget medical insurance, you can get private medical treatment for a fraction of the US cost down island and in most countries it is very acceptable. If the boat is your major financial asset run the numbers and then decide on insurance. I would prefer to spend the money refitting.
I'm trying not to sound like a hard ass but... I'll bet that some folks who walked from US Airways flight 1549 are rethinking their life plans as we speak.:(
For the record I cruised for two years in the Caribbean, I'm back refitting a new boat and then I'm off again for good AND I'm old and don't know anything. :D
I saw the US Airways airplane drifting down the Hudson this late afternoon as it passed by Canal Street. There must have been about 30 'rescue' boats of different stripes (4 tugs, a ferry or 2, several CG and a host of smaller NYPD & FD vessels not to mention the helos overhead). The poor plane looked small next to some of the rescue boats and resembled a lost whale being herded except it had a wing and stabilizer above the surface.
I suspect that a bunch of the folks from flight 1549 will be taking Amtrak to Washington DC and figuring the rest of their trip out from there to Charlotte, NC or wherever.
They could not have chosen a better spot to do an emergency landing as there are always many boats out working the Hudson (Circle Line, NY Waterway ferries etc). Had they landed somewhere other then the Hudson it could have been a lot worse for the poor passengers.
Insurance? N'yah. Survival? Priceless.
You must make the boat insurance decision based on your own circumstances. Having been caught in Ivan in Grenada and seeing how no insurance (or poor insurance) affected and changed the lives of many, I am a big proponent...and it is not only storms that one has to worry about...other uninsured boaters, running into a reef etc. can be just as individually devastaing. If you decide to insure, may I recommend IMIScorp.net out of Annapolis and their Jackline policy from Markel. They took incredible care of us.
On the medical insurance front...we opted for a very high deductible policy from BC/BS in our home state figuring we were in good health and could handle the "little stuff" at down island prices. Medical prices really are quite lower elsewhere but so is the level of care. Fine for broken bones and cuts but I'd want to get back to the states for anything really serious. Short story:
A friend of ours came down with appendicitis in the Dominican Republic. It took 3 hours to get her to the hospital where she was operated on. Sanitary standards were not up to par and she had a massive infection and had to be flown back to the states for another operation 2 weeks later...very lucky to survive.
The evacuation policies may be of value if finances are tight, but we figured we could handle those ourselves if the need arose. Depending on your existing health and finances you have to make your own decisions. We figured we could handle most anything that came along, but wanted the protection of a high deductible policy in case of cancer or stroke or other long term debillitating and expensive illness. You can get deductibles up to $10k in some places which really lowers the monthly payments.
We insure our employees through BUPA...cost about $1500 a year including medivac.
As far as boat insurance goes....It may be required in some marinas...not sure.
thanks for the replies and I am asking the questions in part to get myself out of the doldrums of work and not cruising :eek: planning the trip is at least half of the fun and I have appreciated and had recieved a lot of great info before we left for the Bahamas last year...
we are moving to the greater annapolis area from nyc this spring so I will very much be looking forward to doing boat projects when I am not floating around the gulf of mexico while at work. I will be doing most of the pre cruise work myself/with friends, but the Trinidad suggestion is a great one (although I am not sure if my dodger can make it that far though haha). the only hired anything I plan on at this point is to have my rigging checked out by a pro. It should be in good shape, but I would rather pay the "insurance" to have that checked out than not.
One thing I've been thinking about in terms of cutting down hassle and cost of cruising - long term anti-foul. Nothing irritates more than a boat that gets messy underwater and there is either no way of getting it properly cleaned or where it can be it's prohibitively expensive.
Have a look at coppercoat.com - it comes with a lot of good credentials and reports. It is a whole lot more expensive than an ordinary anti-foul and the prep is a wole lot more arduous but I reckon I'd rather deal with that while I'm at home than have an on-going hassle on a cruise. The blurb reckons up to ten years of protection - that's long enough for most cruises.
And no, I have no connection of any sort to the product, it just seems a good way to cut some of the grind out of boat maintenance while cruising.
A good idea... and the stuff works. I've got two friends who recommended it to me, one is on year 14, the other on year seven.
It is also what I used on my boat two seasons ago, and all I had on the hull this past season after hauling out, was slime, which pressure washing took care of. While it is a bit more expensive than regular bottom paint, if you look at the long-term costs of it, it turns out quite reasonable.
If you consider the cost and time of hauling the boat and painting each time—the stuff is very reasonable. I figure, if I get five years out of it, it will have paid for itself. If it lasts the ten they say it will... I'll be seriously ahead of the game... and if I can get 14 years out of it like Sherri has, I'll be very happy. :)
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Samaria, West Bank (CNSNews.com) - Suicide bombers regularly pass through Palestinian Authority controlled Ramallah on the way to their final destinations, which has prompted Israel's tight closure on the area, a high-ranking Israeli military officer said Thursday.
Speaking to an army tour for journalists, the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said it was up to politicians to argue about peace and the future of Israeli settlements in disputed areas, but it is the duty of the army to protect Israelis who live there and to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel to perpetrate attacks.
Israeli communities in the disputed areas are a focal point in the Israeli-PA conflict. Various militant groups, including leaders of PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction, have vowed that there will be no end to the 10-month old violent uprising, until the more than 200,000 settlers who live there are evacuated from their homes. Israel considers the areas to be part of their Biblical inheritance.
"Our mission is to give security to the Israelis here," the officer said. "We are not attacking...[only] responding."
He added that he didn't like to see Palestinians confined to their cities, but he said it is "effective" for preventing terrorists from getting into Israel.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been prevented from reaching jobs in Israel since the outbreak of violence last fall. It is also difficult and sometimes impossible for them to travel between different sections of PA controlled areas.
There have been more than 6,500 terrorist attacks in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Israel during the last 46 weeks, in which 153 Israelis have been killed, the officer said.
More than 500 Palestinians and 13 Israeli Arabs have also been killed during that time, primarily in clashes with Israeli security forces and as a result of retaliatory actions.
A week ago, a suicide bomber managed to evade authorities and reach the heart of Jerusalem where he detonated explosives in a downtown restaurant, killing 15 and wounding more than 100 others.
Three days later, another suicide attacker killed himself and injured 15 others in a second restaurant bombing.
"Israel knows nowadays that in the PA cities and villages there are several suicide bombers waiting [to carry out attacks]," said Col. Ilan Paz, brigade commander of the 1,100 square kilometer Benyamin region, which includes PA-controlled Ramallah.
"It's our job to prevent [the attacks]," Paz said.
There are some 300,000 Palestinians living in more than 100 villages and 60,000 Israelis in 60 settlements in the area under Paz' command. Ramallah, the largest Palestinian city in the area, is a center for the PA authorities.
Palestinians Await Media Before Throwing Stones
One of the entrances to Ramallah, the Ayosh Junction, has been closed for months. It is still a hot spot for Palestinian clashes with Israeli soldiers.
The road leading into the city there is blackened from the fighting; the surrounding area is littered with baseball and football-sized rocks, the remnants of previous demonstrations.
Nearly every Friday after Moslem prayers, the Palestinian youth come out to this intersection to demonstrate.
"They are waiting for two things," Paz said - Palestinian ambulances and the television cameras. Without the media, they don't have a reason to demonstrate, he added.
According to Paz, he has offered to re-open the intersection if his PA counterpart will prevent rioting there. But his offer has been refused, he said, because he has been told that the area, where several Palestinians have been killed, is a symbol of the Palestinian struggle and a monument to war. Vestiges
Several hundred yards from the Ayosh Junction is one of the last vestiges of the Oslo Peace Accords - a District Coordinating Office where Israeli and Palestinian security officials still work together.
The compound, built in 1992, is divided by only a chain link fence. The officers on both sides there invest a certain amount of trust in their counterparts on the other side.
Lt. Col. Radwan Manzoun, head of the Israeli side of the DCO, said relations exist between Israel and the PA 24 hours a day. Those relations are based in part on personal contacts and the DCO tries to guard them, he said.
Most recently, the PA's DCO officers turned over the body of a 17-year-old Israeli, who disappeared from a north Jerusalem neighborhood and was discovered dead in PA-controlled territory. His body was one of six transferred to Israel through the Ramallah DCO since last September.
Ironically, the Palestinian and Israeli flags flutter side by side over the boundary fence.
But Manzoun pointed to the giant concrete fortification wall, which now surrounds the perimeter of the Israeli side of the DCO, as a sign of the reality of the situation. The PA's side has no need for such a wall, he said.


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Indie Kickstarter hopeful Project Phoenix is coming to the PlayStation 4 and Vita. Project Phoenix is a JRPG (Japanese RPG) that features squad based gameplay with RTS elements — sort of a hybrid between JPRG and RTS. Developed by Creative Intelligence Arts, Inc., the game is so far a success on Kickstarter, having raised almost $750,000 (the initial goal was just $100,000).
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Apple Earphones have been ridiculed for years from all corners. They leak, they sound rubbish and they barely block out the noise of the outside world at all. Apple wants to remedy most of these problems with the EarPod headphones, which will be thrown in for free with the new iPhone 5 and iPod Touch. But are they any good?
Apple EarPod Design
The Apple EarPod headphones use a hybrid design that sits half-way between a pair of earbuds like the old Apple Earphones and an IEM-style pair like the Sennheiser CX 310. They're made of unyielding hard, white plastic that's curved to sit snugly in the cleft of the ear, just above the earlobe. We'd imagine Apple thinks of these as in-ear headphones for people who really don't like in-ear headphones.
Unlike a rubber-tipped IEM earphone, there's no seal made with your ear canal, and consequently they feel much less invasive than proper isolating earphones. They effectively use the natural architecture of your ear - the cartilage - to keep the earpieces in place, and do so more effectively than a traditional-shape earbud.
As with a traditional earbud, though, the exact nature of the fit will depend on your ear shape. And too much fiddling about will cause ear discomfort - in the war of cartilage versus hard plastic, your ears have no chance.
These are earphones that are tuned to deal with some leakage. While they sound best with a partial seal in place, like Apple Earphones the sonic equation is based on letting some of the mid-range sound that the drivers produce float away into the air. Crucially, though, this has been diminished because the "sound flow" is much more carefully directed toward your ear canal than a vanilla earbud. However, technically the Apple EarPods are much closer to a pair of earbuds than a pair of IEM earphones.
You'll also notice a little grille'd port on the side of each earpiece. This vent lets the air - and to an extent the sound - flow more freely throughout the earphone. With all these oversized vents punching holes in the plastic outer wall, you might guess that the Apple EarPods don't offer great sound isolation. And you'd be right.
These earphones offer marginally better isolation than the traditional Apple Earphones, but are far from a massive improvement. The extra directionality of the sound's passage means it can cope with the intrusion of ambient noise more successfully - they're harder to drown out - but you can still hear pretty much everything that's going on around you unless your music is blasting. Passing cars, train announcements and the like will all be audible.
Whether this is a very good or very bad thing is up to you. As people who like to escape from the noise of Central London with music, most of the TrustedReviews team favours the fully-isolating IEM type of earphone.
Leakage is significant too. It's less of a social catastrophe as it was with Apple's previous earphones, but crank up the tunes in the office and you're likely to tick off whoever's sitting next to you. However, overall comfort is good once you learn to live with how the Apple EarPods are meant to fit. They can feel as though they're forever on the cusp of falling out of your ears, but they seemingly never actually do.
Apple EarPod Accessories
For an entry-level pair of earphones, the Apple EarPods are reasonably well-specified. The cable is - just as with the original Earphones - fairly thick - and there's a great little remote housing that also acts as a hands-free kit.
It's fairly long, but entirely lightweight and has a generous dip in the middle that makes using it blind a cinch. You normally pay at least an extra £10 for a housing like this.
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I was very disappointed with these. Originally, I bought a cheap 'fake' version of these earphones on Amazon (though it claimed they were genuine ones) for about 3 pounds and found them comfortable and excellent sound. These lasted quite a while until I damaged them, at which time I found the supplier had gone out of business. So I thought, why not invest in some real ones since they are bound to be good, and ordered a genuine pair direct from Apple at 25 pounds. When I got the genuine ones though I found the sound was very poor and flat compared to the knock-off ones, and definitely not worth the high cost
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we challenge you to find a pair of £25 earphones on Amazon that sound worse than this - you won't be able to.
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Performing live always has been one of Chaptal's main strengths, from the time he started out some ten years ago with his first group Le Clic to the recently formed live-duo with producer David Labeij, MFD. (MFD is also the name of the brand new vinyl-only label the duo have started). As a solo live act he's also made quite a name, performing at many of the leading clubs and festivals in Europe and as far afield as San Francisco, Seoul and a South African tour, which closed 2012 for him. Yet playing live (and traveling with a lot of equipment) is relatively rare in Julien's busy tour schedule. Renowned as one of the best DJ's Amsterdam has to offer – with a diverse style that ranges from deep house and house to tech house and into techno - he has a DJ residency in one of the hotspots of the city: the famous Studio 80, and is a regular on both the WKND Thursday nights and the Welcome to the Future parties.
2013, however, has the look of a vintage year. Julien's 'Illin' EP debuted on Saved at the beginning of February, which kicks off a stellar run of releases through until summer. 'Tout Près De Toi' follows on Supernature, 'The Look On Your Face' EP is scheduled for release on Defected in April, along with a pair of remixes for Luke Solomon on Classic. A collaboration with Lauhaus on Supplement Facts 'Jujuman' - with remix from Franck Roger and a scheduled EP on Classic rounds out a prolific run of form.
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With investors still shaky about the health of the nation's economy -- and hoping for more interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve -- stocks finished slightly lower Monday.
The major averages opened higher but slipped into negative territory. In afternoon trading, the market recovered slightly and recorded modest gains. But the good news didn't last into the closing bell.
The market was still digesting government data released Friday that stated the economy lost jobs in April at the fastest pace in a decade. The data fueled hopes for more aggressive interest-rate cuts to help stimulate corporate and consumer spending. The Federal Reserve's next policy meeting is scheduled for May 15.
"I think the stock market has bottomed out. We are at the bottom of an U-shaped recovery," Steve Crowley, manager of the Kopp Emerging Growth Fund, told Standard & Poor's research unit.
Economic news aside, there was plenty of corporate news to occupy investors. Among the stocks in the news Monday, 3Com Corp. (COMS ) said it would cut its work force by 3,000 people, or 30%, as the computer network equipment maker works to return to profitability. Shares of 3Com ended down nearly 5%.
In the energy sector, independent oil refiner Valero Energy Corp. (VLO ) will buy rival Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corp. (UDS ) for about $4 billion in cash and stock, plus the assumption of about $2 billion of debt, creating the No. 2 U.S. refinery. Shares of Ultramar Diamond Shamrock surged more than 18%, while Valero Energy stock was off 6%.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended down 16.79 points, or 0.15%, to 10,934.45. The Nasdaq Composite index shed 18.15 points, or 0.83%, to 2,173.38. Meanwhile, the broader S&P 500 lost 3.13 points, or 0.25%, to 1,263.48.
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World Markets
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In Asia the Nikkei ended up 107.77 points, or 0.75%, to 14,529.41. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index gained 209.79 points, or 1.57%, to close at 13,600.78.
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But what really shows the article isn't even worth the bandwidth to pull it up is the mentioning of Marshal & Sanow in the first couple paragraphs. This proves it's not to be taken seriously.
The reason the author of the article is anonymous is because he didn't want his name associated with that steaming pile of dreck.
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i have designed a power supply using psud2 (see attached jpg) , it is to power 2 kt88 tubes and 2 pre-amp tubes (undecided on exact type), i just wondered if someone could take a look and tell me what they think. is there anything i should do differently. i need a power supply to give 2 different voltages for the power and preamp tubes this seemed the easiest way.
the transformer resistance of 150r is just a guess but the chokes 82r is a hammond 193j.
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I just noticed i now have a red paw, but is this a mistake?...
I assumed the sales for a Red Paw (i.e. $1000 – $5000) was based on what "we" make AFTER our commission percentage. I am still under $1000 for my earnings, yet I have a Red paw.
Is the paw color really the total earned by your templates, before the percentage commission?
Total earnings.
guess it shows the total sales you generated…
Not that it's hard to guess how much you made
it shows the total sale accumulated from your files, not actual earnings from it.
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Re: Find the center!
In article <3p652m$kb1 at news0.cybernetics.net>
wagner at bullwinkle.cs.Colorado.EDU (Dave Wagner) writes:
> In article <3p1dtm$n2n at news0.cybernetics.net>,
> Gottfried Mayer-Kress <gmk at pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> >
> >There are a bunch of points in 3-space and they are supposed to be
> >scattered around the surface of a sphere. You want to find the
> >center of the sphere and the radius.
> >
> >NB: The data are noisy (about 2% of the radius) and only cover a patch
> >on the sphere.
> >
> >I think I have a reasonable solution, but maybe someone knows of some
> >real elegant method?
> There were several approaches to this problem in The Mathematica Journal
> a couple of years ago, in several different issues. They probably were
> in Paul Abbott's "Tricks of the Trade" column.
> Dave Wagner
You could also check out "An Efficient Bounding Sphere" by Jack Ritter in
_Graphics_Gems_, ed. Andrew Glassner, Academic Press, 1990. This
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I recently came across a pistol and I am unsure which model it is.
It looks exactly like the Contender, switchable from rimfire to centerfire, dark oak grips, panther engraving, etc but when I look at the stock it only has one screw instead of 2. Could it just be an aftermarket stock? It is a .22 Hornet if that helps.
I am confused and I see people saying its one thing and others saying its another so id figure i would go to a gun forum and find out for certain.
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Article featured in Total Telecom talks about Japan's intentions to work towards developing an NGN standard.
"The Japanese government is to urge private telecom carriers to upgrade domestic telecoms networks to next-generation IP-based telecommunications networks (NGN) by 2007.
According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper, the policy has been decided in order to try and push Japanese NGN standards in the hope of getting a big slice of the international equipment market for Japanese equipment manufacturers.
The International Telecommunication Union is expected to decide on the global specifications for NGNs by around 2008. The Japanese Ministry of Communications aims to have developed and proposed a standard to the ITU by then after working with the country's major telcos, including Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT), KDDI Corp. and SoftBank, as well as manufacturers of communications equipment including NEC Corp., Fujitsu Ltd., and Hitachi Ltd."
"The ministry hopes Japan will seize the initiative by being the first to come up with a tried and tested set of standards that might be accepted for international adoption, thus giving local manufacturers a huge leg up on international markets. While Japanese manufacturers have dominated their domestic market for telecommunications equipment through working with NTT, U.S. firms control 90% of the global market for routers. The Japanese firms are hoping the switch to a new set of standards for NGNs will help them overcome this imbalance.
The adoption of NGNs is expected to substantially lower communications costs because they will require only half the plant and equipment investment and maintenance expense required for current phone systems, according to the report, which says the networks will use a new breed of low-cost routers. Replacing Japan's current domestic phone networks will require an investment of an estimated 3 trillion to 6 trillion yen (22 billion to 44 billion euros) in plant and equipment over a five-year period. KDDI has been proposing replacement of its copper network by 2007 and NTT by 2010, but the Ministry hopes to speed this up to fit in with the ITU's schedule."
Finnish citizens are to be offered the opportunity to use mobile telephones equipped with digital certificates to identify themselves when conducting business online.
The first SIM cards equipped with the security certificate are now being offered by Elisa, Finland's second-largest mobile network operator, for official transactions with the Finnish Population Register Centre.
If, for example, a citizen wants to register a move to a new home online, he opens the corresponding page on the Internet, fills out the form, and receives a message from the registration office on his mobile telephone requesting him to enter his mobile signature for the online request. The citizen enters a personal PIN to permit the generation of the digital signature. This is generated by the SIM card and returned to the registration office as a special encrypted message.
Citizens who want to use the mobile signature can register at a local police station and sign up for the service. The 128KB, Java-based SIM cards have been supplied by Giesecke & Devrient and are currently available at selected Elisa outlets.
By the end of 2005, the Finnish OKO Bank, the social insurance agency, the Tax Administration, as well as the Ministry of Labour want to offer the mobile citizen certificate as a new form of authentication for their services.
The article above was published on the Finextra.com website.
The Office of the Information Commissioner (ICO), enforcer of the UK's main anti-spam laws, has received around 600 spam complaints in the past 12 months. But it has taken no legal action, in part because its powers are inadequate and impractical.
For the full article click here.
See: Information Commissioner's Report, July 2005
See also: Information Commissioner publishes annual report
Australia's broadcasting and telecommunications watchdog has won its first injunction against an alleged spammer under anti-spam laws introduced early last year.
The full article can be accessed here.
A senior partner at Ofcom recently gave a speech entitled "Trends in Television, Radio and Telecoms", highlighting some interesting points about the convergence of broadcasting and the internet.
"We already see the capability and the propensity to access audio and video content in different ways at different times and over many different platforms. How do we think about the watershed when the ten year old is watching a PVR stored 18 rated movie on Saturday morning, while the parents are doing the shopping? It's not intrinsically different to what is possible with a VHS; its the ease of access and the immediacy of the access that makes a difference.
How do we think about impartiality of news services for a television home media hub, where the viewer can access not only the traditional, impartial broadcast news services but a range of entirely partial, opinion driven audio and video services over broadband and internet? The content regulation model will have to evolve. David Currie and Stephen Carter have already, in separate contributions, already suggested that the time for a debate is soon. I want to endorse that view and give you a practical reason and a couple of simple ideas about the problem.
The practical reason for pressing ahead, is that the debate about TVWF has begun: * The EUs working proposals include the idea that the regulations be updated to include all audio visual content services, including non-linear content. * We expect a Draft Directive by the end of the year, with the debate kicking off firmly during the UK Presidency. If we seek a consistent approach, in a world where distinctions according to different distribution mechanisms becomes less and less practical, then the question is do you regulate up to the highest common factor or regulate down to the lowest common denominator? Do television standards apply to all content, or do the absence of standards on the internet apply to all television and radio? In a world where significant numbers have video capable broadband access, the question really can be posed as starkly as that. Or is there a compromise somewhere between these starkly opposed positions. Will, in reality, traditional services endure, with everyone accepting a fringe of alternative activity that is beyond the regulatory ambit. A sort of tolerable and tolerated black economy? Accepted because it remains marginal to the main event. Or is there a consistent framework that is beyond general law, but perhaps not as detailed as present day broadcast regulation?
Perhaps the difference can be addressed by a combination of greater personal responsibility alongside practical technologies which enable filtering and labelling. Alongside market choices by companies seeking to offer viewers and web surfers a safe environment, or by opt-in regulation to specified public service standards' which might then be kite marked or certified to indicate, an impartial news service for example. Or indeed there may be by other forms of self regulation which yield similar results."
For the full text, click here.
Article accessed through CommsWatch.
Article in The Register talks about Scott Richter, who has been dropped from an authorative list of known spammers after cleaning up his act. "Richter and his OptInRealBig option were a fixture in Spamhaus's Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) for years. Only hard-core spammers who become the subject of repeated complaints feature on the list."
"Presence in the rogues gallery makes it difficult to obtain internet service from ethical suppliers and problematic to register domain names. Only those who refrain from sending bulk unsolicited email for six months are eligible for removal from ROKSO. Richter switched to a confirmed opt-in mailing list business model that contrasts with his previous business activities. Richter was sued by New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and brought to the brink of bankruptcy by Microsoft over allegations the he used a network of 500 compromised computers to send millions of junk emails to hapless Hotmail users. Richter denied any such wrongdoing in settling the NY lawsuit last July but he was forced to agree to stop sending deceptive emails and generally abide by the US's CAN SPAM Act."
For the full story click here.
Article in The Register was accessed through fergie's blog.
A brief history of mobile phone texting in the United Kingdom described below.(Source: Media Center):
The full article can be accessed here.
An interview in the article also mentions that "law enforcement officials need better capabilities and more resources to deal with electronic crime whether it is committed in cyberspace or traditional crimes involving digital devices."
The article goes further on to say that "Some businesses arent reporting cybercrimes to law enforcement, but instead handling them internally. With the advent of instant messaging, voice over IP and other communication technologies, there are legal issues of intercepting messages to determine whether a crime has been committed. And getting information about possible crimes from Internet Service Providers might also pose a problem."
Article accessed through fergie's tech blog.
The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, has released a draft version of the minimal security requirements for federal agencies. The report comes one month after government auditors found that the agencies are not prepared to deal with the triple Internet menaces of spam, phishing and spyware.
Full C|Net article can be found here.
Article accessed through fergie's blog.
John Cox writes in NetworkWorld: The IEEE group charged with creating a standard for wireless LAN mesh is rounding up about 15 proposals at this weeks 802.11 meeting in San Francisco. Members of the 802.11s task group hope to have a draft standard completed in 12 to 18 months. Today's wireless LAN mesh networks use proprietary algorithms and are typically deployed outdoors. With a IEEE mesh standard implemented by WLAN vendors, it's possible that in the future every wireless LAN would also be able to configure itself as a mesh network, similar in concept to the Internet. A wireless mesh uses a radio to interconnect the access points and route wireless packets over the best available route. Mesh benefits include potentially higher performance and more reliable nets.
For a quantative analysis of mesh network benefits, see Dave Beyer's presentation linked from in this article.
via Fergie's tech blog.
A recent PCWorld.com article article reports that "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security needs to develop a recovery plan for widespread attack on the Internet, and it needs stable leadership in cybersecurity".
The article goes on to say that "While DHS can track Internet threats, it doesn't have an Internet recovery plan or a national cybersecurity threat assessment". Seemingly DHS is making progress but more work still needs to be done.
Last week Cisco joined Yahoo, Sendmail and PGP Corp. in submitting the DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) specification to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). DKIM results from Cisco and Yahoo merging separate e-mail verification technologies with similar attributes, which both companies had worked on for more than a year.
"Since all this [spam] traffic is running on Cisco networks in large part, many customers often ask, 'Why can't Cisco do something about it?' " says Sanjay Pol, vice president and director of Cisco's Anti-Spam Initiative. "The less trust people have of the Internet, the worse it is for Cisco and our customers."
Click here to view the full article.
A study titled "Open to Exploitation: American Shoppers Online and Offline" finds that "Internet users in the United States are dangerously ignorant about the type of data that Website owners collect from them and how that data is used, making them vulnerable to fraud and misuse of their personal information".
For the full story click here.
Article published in InfoWorld, accessed through fergie's blog.
From Paul Hoffman's blog:
The IETF has finally emitted the email anti-spoofing documents for the SPF and Sender-ID protocols. The most important thing is that the two protocols are issues as experimental RFCs, not standards. There is a huge difference, and the IESG tried to make that as clear as possible:
"The following documents (draft-schlitt-spf-classic, draft-katz-submitter, draft-lyon-senderid-core, draft-lyon-senderid-pra) are published simultaneously as Experimental RFCs, although there is no general technical consensus and efforts to reconcile the two approaches have failed. As such these documents have not received full IETF review and are published "AS-IS" to document the different approaches as they were considered in the MARID working group.
The IESG takes no position about which approach is to be preferred and cautions the reader that there are serious open issues for each approach and concerns about using them in tandem. The IESG believes that documenting the different approaches does less harm than not documenting them.
The community is invited to observe the success or failure of the two approaches during the two years following publication, in order that a community consensus can be reached in the future."
"The following documents (draft-schlitt-spf-classic, draft-katz-submitter, draft-lyon-senderid-core, draft-lyon-senderid-pra) are published simultaneously as Experimental RFCs, although there is no general technical consensus and efforts to reconcile the two approaches have failed. As such these documents have not received full IETF review and are published "AS-IS" to document the different approaches as they were considered in the MARID working group.
The IESG takes no position about which approach is to be preferred and cautions the reader that there are serious open issues for each approach and concerns about using them in tandem. The IESG believes that documenting the different approaches does less harm than not documenting them.
The community is invited to observe the success or failure of the two approaches during the two years following publication, in order that a community consensus can be reached in the future."
And, to be clear, neither protocol is directly anti-spam: they simply help the receiver believe that the mail is sent by the organization that claims it sent the message.
On 15 July 2005 WSIS Executive Secretariat released the Advanced Draft of Stocktaking Report (WSIS-II/PC-3/DOC/3). The Report is available here.
This advanced draft of the stocktaking report has been prepared on the basis of activities received up to 10 July 2005. It is posted for comments and additional inputs, which should be sent to email@example.com before 15 August 2005. The draft will then be revised and translated for PrepCom-3.
For more information on WSIS process click here.
The European Commission has issued a decision on the harmonised use of radio spectrum in the 5 GHz frequency band for the implementation of Wireless Access Systems including Radio Local Area Networks (WAS/RLANs). Additional background information is available in a press release and here.
European Commission and roaming charges: The European Union is planning a web site to help cut mobile phone charges.Phone companies charge consumers too much for using mobile phones while abroad, the European Commission stated, promising to publish details of charges in an effort to let market forces push down prices. The European Union executive has been probing international roaming charges for years amid accusations that mobile phone operators are ripping off customers who make mobile calls while on trips abroad. Together with telecoms regulators from the EU 25 nations, the Commission has now concluded that "retail charges in the European Union are currently very high without clear justification." Roaming charges are also very complex and murky for most users which prevents full competition, the Commission said. The Commission's remedy is a Web Site from this autumn that lists all charges when mobile phone users travel from one country to another, Commission spokesman Martin Selmayr told a daily news briefing.Deutsche Telekom's (DTEGn.DE) T-Mobile unit rejected the Commission's charges. "We don't think that is justified. We have recently taken several measures to cut roaming fees and to make them more transparent. Apart from that, we can only pass on what the foreign operators charge us, and we see some discrepancies there especially when it comes to southern Europe," said a spokesman for T-Mobile International.
For the full story see Yahoo! news article (Reuters article)
A new push is being made to deliver television over an internet platform, with the potential to transform the medium into a new technology that offers more competition and program choices. The long-awaited "convergence" of television and the internet is being pushed, interestingly, by the major regional US phone companies SBC Communications and Verizon, which plan to roll out their first systems later this year in the US market. BellSouth, another major phone carrier, is also testing Internet protocol television (IPTV), and trials are underway in Britain, Switzerland and elsewhere.
Delivering television via Internet technology would give viewers access to virtually unlimited channels and programs, because instead of "pushing" video through a cable with limited capacity, the viewer would access servers that store the content. IPTV would also make the TV set and computer interchangeable and allow consumers to schedule or record programs via other devices, such as mobile phones. "While cable companies are constrained by the size of their pipe, we have virtually unlimited content potential," said SBC spokesman Larry Solomon.
For the full article click here.
Accessed through Yahoo! News
The Working Group on Internet Governance has released its final report (Word, PDF).
The Report has been translated in all UN languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish (all Word format).
A Background Report (Word) is also made available. It will be translated into French and posted on this website in due course.
Click here (PDF) to view the Press Release.
The US FCC has recently released new data on high speed Internet use by US businesses and households where they state growth in 2004 has risen 34% for a total of 38 million lines in service. The full report (PDF) is available on the FCC web site.
In December 2004, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held a public workshop entitled Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Technology: Consumer Protection and Competition Issues. The two-day workshop explored a wide range of issues relating to peer-to-peer or "P2P" file-sharing technology, and included seven panels featuring more than 40 representatives from the P2P file-sharing software industry, entertainment industry, high-technology research firms, government agencies, academic institutions, and consumer groups. FTC staff has just releasaed a report entitled Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Technology: Consumer Protectionand Competition Issues (PDF) to present information concerning the consumer protection, competition/economic, and intellectual property issues discussed at the workshop.
In November 2004, the UK's Ofcom published a consultation on Next Generation Networks: Future arrangements for access and interconnection which explored the potential regulatory issues raised by the move to Next Generation Networks (NGNs). In a follow-up consultation released in June 2005, Ofcom aims to establish a regulatory framework to address those issues and to support the development of NGNs.
The full version of this document, along with the Annexes, are available via the links below.
A gallery of retro telecom ads can be found here [via EuroTelcoBlog].
European Union home affairs ministers have promised that in October they will agree on a set of Europe-wide rules requiring companies to store phone call and e-mail data. The pledge was made at an emergency meeting of ministers in Brussels on Wednesday in response to the bombings in London last week which killed over 50 people.
The rules would require fixed and mobile telephone operators, ISPs (Internet service providers) and SMS (short messaging service) providers to keep data for at least a year with a possible maximum of three years. Only traffic data such as the time, duration and destination of calls would be kept, not the content of communications.
According to IT and Telecoms: Liberalisation of the long-distance telecommunications market has been postponed from 1 July 2005 until 1 January 2006, Russia Journal reported on the press service of the IT and Telecommunications Ministry. The government has been asked by the Ministry for the delay because some documents required for the deregulation had not yet been drafted by the Economy Ministry. According to the Telecommunications Ministry, the postponement has already been ratified. The Ministry itself asserts that it has presented all the documents required.
Russia Journal further informs that long-distance telecommunications services were included into the list of licensed services in February this year. Prior to that, Rostelecom had been the only nationwide long distance and international telecommunications operator. In late May, the federal telecommunications supervision service granted licenses to three more operators Centerinfocom, Golden Telecom and Multiregional Transit Telecom (MTT). However, these three companies are not entitled to render the services unless the rules of joining, which stipulate operators behavior on the market, come into effect.
The Nigerian Anti-Scam Network is a movement that is composed of Nigerians who are concerned about the bad image that cybercrime and spam has brought to Nigeria. The Nigerian Anti-Scam Network is an online youth network consisting of young Nigerian professionals who are concerned about the situation and are willing to take actions for change. They aim to expose the supporters and perpetrators of online crimes on their online message boards so that people have a place where they can do spot-checks and thus hopefully avoid being spammed. The Network expresses its concern that foreign parties have anti-scam sites that are little more than anti-Nigeria sites. They believe that the activities of the Nigerian Anti-Scam Network can give a more balanced opinion.
The Network realizes that; "throughout the world, cyber crime is a very serious topic and a very contentious one at that. A lot of countries are losing a lot of money due to the activities of cyber 419s. Nigeria have been touted as the major breeding ground for most of these online scams. Nigeria's ranking in the corruption index have been very discouraging for the past three years and we know that this is not only as a result of Government officials' corruptness, but also as a result of activities of online scammers. To be better prepared to fight these menace and bring back our lost reputation, some young Nigerian professionals started the Nigerian Anti-Scam network and have been doing extensive research on the activities of these scammers and ways of salvaging the country's image."
For more information visit the Nigerian Anti-Scan Network website and online forum.
Via Africa: Creating local and regional IXPs to save money and bandwidth has been released by The ITU Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D) Regulatory Reform Unit.
This booklet has three sections that seek to look at how national and regional Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) might be created, particularly in the African context but it also draws on lessons from elsewhere:
There is also a discussion of the regulatory issues that may need to be considered and the appendices of the booklet contain a list of useful documents and references.
Following months of discussions, China has agreed to sign up to the London Action Plan, which will mean greater cooperation between countries in analyzing spam campaigns, investigating their origin and encouraging ISPs around the world to take appropriate measures to defend innocent users.
Click here to view the full article.
The US government has released a significant evolution in its policy stance in a newly released U.S. Principles on the Internets Domain Name and Addressing System in the run-up to the second phase of WSIS in Tunis and the upcoming release of the Working Group on Internet Governance's report on Internet Governance.
A corresponding news article from AP is U.S. Won't Cede Control of Net Computers.
According to a CNET article, computer security and software companies are urging the U.S. Senate to approve the world's first treaty targeting cybercrime.
A letter from the groups, including the Business Software Alliance, VeriSign, InfraGard and the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, called on senators to ratify the controversial document, which was the subject of a brief flurry of attention last year before it expired without a floor vote.
"The cybercrime convention will serve as an important tool in the global fight against those who seek to disrupt computer networks, misuse private or sensitive information, or commit traditional crimes utilizing Internet-enabled technologies," said the letter, which was sent Tuesday. "It requires countries to adopt similar criminal laws against hacking, infringements of copyrights, computer-facilitated fraud, child pornography and other illicit cyberactivities."
Today's WSIS Thematic Meeting on Cybersecurity Sessions 13 and 14 includes discussion of the Convention on Cybercrime.
ITU-T has recently hosted a workshop on IPv6 organized in cooperation with the European Unions IPv6 Task Force Steering Committee (IPv6 EU TF-SC) and the IPv6 Forum. The event, held in Geneva, between 22 to 23 June 2005, examined the current status of IPv6, with regards to rollout, policy, technology and applications. An additional aim was to promote awareness of IPv6 to countries where Internet use is relatively low. The agenda and presentations have been made available on the event web site.
From the Seattle Times: Calls increasing for safer, more-secure Internet
Built by academics when everyone online was assumed to be a "good citizen," the Internet today is buckling under the weight of what is estimated to be nearly a billion diverse users surfing, racing and tripping all over the network.
Hackers, viruses, worms, spam, spyware and phishing sites have proliferated to the point where it's nearly impossible for most computer users to go online without falling victim to them.
Built by academics when everyone online was assumed to be a "good citizen," the Internet today is buckling under the weight of what is estimated to be nearly a billion diverse users surfing, racing and tripping all over the network.
Hackers, viruses, worms, spam, spyware and phishing sites have proliferated to the point where it's nearly impossible for most computer users to go online without falling victim to them.
During this morning's session at the ITU WSIS Thematic Meeting on Cybersecurity on Information Sharing of National and Regional Approaches, Good Practices and Guidelines, Myriam DUNN, Head, International Relations and Security Network (ISN), Center for Security Studies (CSS), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland presented a background paper (PDF) on A Comparative Analysis of Cybersecurity Initatives Worldwide.
The final presentation at yesterday's session on spam at the ITU WSIS Thematic Meeting on Cybersecurity, John LEVINE, Chair, IETF Antispam Research Group (ASRG) made a presentation entitled the Limits of Security Technology: Lessons from the Spam Wars.
The European Commission recently hosted an Open Workshop on Identifying Policy and Regulatory Issues of Next Generation Networks (PDF) on the 22 June 2005. The presentations made at the workshop can be found here.
Yesterday, at the ITU WSIS Thematic Meeting on Cybersecurity, during the day focused on spam, a session was dedicated to discussing national policies and legislative approaches to spam. As part of this session, a Background Paper commissioned by ITU, entitled A Comparative Analysis of Spam Laws: the Quest for Model Law, was presented (presentation) by Derek BAMBAUER, Research Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The authors of hte paper are Derek BAMBAUER, John PALFREY, Executive Director, and David ABRAMS, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, United States. From the introduction to the report:
The goal of this paper is to help policymakers understand the potential benefits and challenges of model spam legislation as a tool to improve the security of and user confidence in information and communications technology (ICT), as well as the potential that model spam legislation holds for Internet users worldwide. First, it sets forth a framework for understanding spam and identifies key issues confronting regulators. Next, the paper examines the set of options for spam laws based on existing and proposed legislation gathered by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU). It analyzes the level of consensus among these extant laws and the degree to which a particular component is included in most legislation and in the degree to which provisions addressing this component are similar or harmonized. The paper points towards zones where there is considerable consensus while simultaneously illuminating the most fundamental differences, so that policymakers can tackle the hard issues and choices involved in spam laws. Finally, the paper makes preliminary recommendations for spam law efforts and considers both the potential for and the likely efficacy of a model spam law.
The goal of this paper is to help policymakers understand the potential benefits and challenges of model spam legislation as a tool to improve the security of and user confidence in information and communications technology (ICT), as well as the potential that model spam legislation holds for Internet users worldwide. First, it sets forth a framework for understanding spam and identifies key issues confronting regulators. Next, the paper examines the set of options for spam laws based on existing and proposed legislation gathered by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU). It analyzes the level of consensus among these extant laws and the degree to which a particular component is included in most legislation and in the degree to which provisions addressing this component are similar or harmonized. The paper points towards zones where there is considerable consensus while simultaneously illuminating the most fundamental differences, so that policymakers can tackle the hard issues and choices involved in spam laws. Finally, the paper makes preliminary recommendations for spam law efforts and considers both the potential for and the likely efficacy of a model spam law.
During the same sessions, there were presentations from:
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