This new law should help, until US based scammers outsource to India, where call center employees are immune to US laws. Authentication of spoofed call origins should help, if AT&T and Verizon CEOs are motivated to do it. "STIR/SHAKEN" is nothing more than smoke and mirrors, to fool the public. It hasn't happened yet. The best solution is to require telcos to disallow spoofing and to prosecute telco CEOs who fail to do so. India based IRS scammers will be laughing at the Traced Act until or unless AT&T and Verizon CEOs disallow spoofing and require display of the 91 country code for India on the Caller ID display (CID). The real question becomes, "what are the loopholes, in the Trace Act?" You can bet your paycheck that AT&T and Verizon legal teams will be ferreting out whatever loopholes they can find,.

India scammers are immune to US laws. Remember the "Can Spam" act? 100% failure, no enforcement. The fix is EASY, but Ohhh Noooo!!! AT&T and Verizon refuse to do it. The fix is to disallow spoofing. Turn it off. The other fix is to disallow switch spoofing from India, and charge long distance rates on calls from India.

What is NASA's plan, to return her to face criminal charges? According to the news, she is active duty US Army officer. -- If she is prosecuted under appropriate jurisdiction criminal law or -- if no charges are filed. Then, the question becomes Will she be charged, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for Conduct Unbecoming a Commissioned Officer? Will she be ultimately become eligible for a Dishonorable Discharge or a Bad Conduct Discharge? Then, is she in violation of Bill Clinton's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" regulation for the practice of open homosexuality?

Haha, PC is the official abbreviation for the IBM-PC. Windoze boxes not made by IBM are IBM-PC Clones.

Wow, 450,000 facebook users from all over the world going to LAS. And so, are airlines scheduling charters to transport facebook users to LAS? Which airline will declare itself to become "The Official Airline of the Area 51 Event?" Are LAS rental-car companies ready with additional vehicles? Are busses chartered to run from LAS to whatever staging area the protesters plan to use? Have port-a-potty companies been contracted to set up port-a-potties in the desert? Can the town of Rachel, NV serve up meals for 450,000 diners? Are hotel rooms (on the LAS strip and downtown) being reserved for facebook users? Are US embassies scrambling to prepare visas for non-US facebook users to attend this? What about bands and outdoor concert stages and equipment? Will this whole thing become Woodstock in the Desert?

Spaghetti code from India. Another case of US programmers being fired, in favor of replacement workers from India. Years ago, a USAA senior vice president argued, on TV, that they had to have replacement workers from India, because programming skills from India do not exist in the US. Never mind that those skills were learned in the US.

Hi, Apple's attorneys will be like sharks in a feeding frenzy, going after anyone who has anything to do with this.

[quote]...an exchange of authenticated calls between two separate providers ...[/quote] What about scam calls made _WITHIN_ AT&T or Comcast? Are they going to be screened or not? Scammers have so much power (as in admin rights), they can switch their calls thru any switch. Easy fix. Given that AT&T and Comcast, _ALLOW_ callerID spoofing. Scammers have total control over their victim's caller ID display. The fix is to _DISALLOW_ spoofing. Switch it off.

Dear Mr. Freer, PayTV is for paying for programming without commercials. With the addition of pause commercials, will you eliminate or reduce viewers' subscription fees? May viewers opt out of pause ads? If not, why not? Will your addition of pause ads result in complicity between Hulu, AT&T* and other payTV providers to do likewise? In other words, will your implementation of pause ads trigger a collective end to commercial-free payTV. *Obviously you're already complicit with AT&T.

For Google employees with time on their hands, I can certainly set up a flow of emails between 2 different google accounts. Such emails can contain images and descriptions of my latest COLONOSCOPY for their perverted reading enjoyment.

A number of years ago, USAA Insurance replaced its IT staff with H-1B replacements from India. US employees were required to train their replacements as a condition of unemployment benefits. Local news caught up with the incident and the story made the newspaper and was broadcast on local TV. USAA senior vice president argued on TV that Hindu replacement workers bring skills that do not exist anywhere in the US. They got those skills from the US citizens who were fired in their favor. According to the news, a while back, Tata Corporation has the capacity to send an additional 10 million [indentured] H-1B replacement workers as fast as the airlift and sealift can transport them. If Hillary had been elected, this would be happening already. The solution is to terminate the H-1B program and repatriate replacement workers back to India. H-1B advocates argue that they would retaliate by increasing offshoring from India (never mind they already do this).

When I lived in HNL a number of years ago, HI was considered to have fastest IP in the US, unless the main HNL-SFO Pacific Undersea Cable went offline. The backup cable or switching to SATCOM was noticeably slower until the main cable was brought back online. Upon moving to the US mainland, IP was noticably slower. Gamers experiencing latency should ask their ISP which undersea cable is being used or if its switched to SATCOM.

Hi, Certification for emergency evacuation requires a test of real people evacuating in less than a specified amount of time. These tests are done with all airline employees as passengers, all physically fit, all alert, all expecting the drill to occur, and with no luggage. More seats means more less-physically fit passengers, clueless and sleepy passengers, kids, handicapped pax, and lots and lots of luggage and obstructions. Make safety the number 1 reason for seat minimums.