A CDR may or may not have accurate information as to the source of the call. If the call is entirely local (the LEC handles call termination on both ends as well as transit), then it should have all the information. However, if the call transits a different carrier, then the LEC that handles termination for the target of the scammer only knows the caller ID that was passed to it from the transit carrier. If it's unknown, then that's what is passed into the CDR. You may be able to glean other source information about the handoff to the transit carrier, then get THEM involved to find the call that was routed to that handoff at that time, and so on.
Oh, and since those aren't her calls (the scammer wasn't calling HER), then you must have a subpoena. If one of the scam targets cooperates, then THEY might be able to request their own records, but to get intervening carriers to cooperate, you'll need a lawyer or law enforcement. I'd try the latter, first. Keywords like "terroristic threats" and such may get you some attention. Once you know it crosses state lines, and perhaps some idea of how wide sweeping the scope is, then you might have something the FBI can/will look at. Try your local state bureau of investigation first, as they may have more immediate resources.
Ob. disclaimer: Though employed in telecom, I am not a lawyer.
I remember in 1993 playing Doom on a NeXT turboslab. Romero's blog confirms that id used NeXTStep as the dev environment (http://rome.ro/2006/12/apple-next-merger-birthday .html), so it isn't a real surprise that Carmack would want to do his next engine (no pun intended) under Mac OS X. If the heavy lifting under the covers is cross-platform, I would think it not a tremendous effort to release a game for all platforms at the same time. Non-trivial, certainly, but probably within reason even for potentially a smaller audience.
Does my MacBook Pro count? I have all the Unix tools and office apps that I need, plus the occasional Windows-only app (via Parallels) all in one portable platform.
Your client gets a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing that all of the code resides among his own boxes. For that matter, I've seen outsourcing jobs that required the developer to use Remote Desktop back to the client site so that all source, dev tools and the entire environment were contained on the client machine.
I'm neither promoting nor denigrating such practices, merely relaying observed behavior.
I'll corroborate the tipoff from the news article I just read in the paper.. Saturday's Atlanta Journal Constitution.
As for the rest... people in power should not be trusted, no matter what party they claim. Power corrupts. For that matter, being in politics too long simply makes you stupid as to how the world works. Enforce term limits... vote against the incumbent.
Ah, like an old Control Data mainframe or similar ilk. It's hilarious when you get a leak, and a fountain of water shoots 20 feet in the air (it was a 2 story data room).
Maybe, maybe not. Call records are already maintained by the phone companies, and can be obtained by a subpoena. No warrant required (disclosure: I know this because I extract call records for subpoenas). Call records are not considered private information in the same context as the conversation itself.
Not up enough on telecom law to argue one way or the other.
Uh, re-read Tom Barnett. And check his blog entries. The Pentagon is just as focused on "Great Power War" and resulting budgetary requirements (F22 and other like nifty but hugely expensive hardware) as it ever has. The administration, while willing to use the Leviathan force, completely fails in the SysAdmin role.
Congress is still the bigger problem. The administration cannot create new law.
They are being treated the same way as phone records. Phone records (originating number, terminating number, etc) are not considered the same way as the *content* of the call itself. The records can be obtained with a simple subpoena. A log entry that shows some originating email address sent mail to another without revealing the content of the message is quite analogous.
I forget the case/legislation that established that difference in treatment. Someone else might can followup with that.
Actually, I heard a radio interview with former Rep. Bob Barr (when did he suddenly turn sane? relatively, anyway...) who said email has the lowest weight. Letters carry the most weight, but with the anthrax scares and such, they can be delayed by months.
Fax is the way. The perceived importance of a written letter, but doesn't need the massive security procedures and gets there faster.
And, by the way, letters should be short and to the point. There's lots of mail, they aren't going to spend time working through your thesis.
ok, from the telephony standpoint, those records are already collected. It's called a Call Detail Record, it notes things you'd expect like origination number, termination number, billing number, dialed digits plus things you might not such as interconnect call time, switching addresses, etc. It gets used for diagnostic information, billing, system monitoring (as in, how well phones are being switched, failure rates, etc).
In the US, that information can also be requested for police use, but requires a subpoena.
Retention of the records varies by state. IIRC, Florida has the longer of the retention laws, at around 5 years.
The capital on the DSLAMs was invested long enough ago that it should be depreciated
Um, not necessarily. When I was working with a Bell, the phone bean counters wanted to do 30 year depreciation on DSLAMs, which is/was typical for telephony. We got them talked down to 14 year schedules.. which was 7 years ago. Don't know what it might be now, since I left their employ 5 years ago.
That's not a defense of SBC or anyone else, I'm just pointing out ILEC accounting.
Don't write a letter. Send a fax. Letters take weeks to get through anthrax screenings and the like, and many are thrown away.
Like anyone else, members of Congress want to keep their job. Give them your performance review. If you don't participate in the process, don't bitch about their performance.
Ours is a civilian government. Military service does not grant significant advantage in elections. Many people do not like the military. Military recruitment has fallen. A large budget means that we are in an intractable war, not that we are a military state.
And even more so, the heavy reliance upon technology as a force multiplier as opposed to a million man army. That, and purchasing incompetence.
Fraudulent Elections
Our elections are real. Sure they are flawed in ways that only rarely make a difference, such as in Bush v Gore, but those flaws are not systematically designed to benefit the ruling party, they are often due to human laziness and incompetence.
And they happen regularly, with the names on the ballot changing on a regular basis.
America isn't perfect. Far from it. But it is also not Fascist. Fascism is far more organized than the US Gov. Which is fine... federal government entangled in their own red tape and petty squabbles stays out of my hair.
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A CDR may or may not have accurate information as to the source of the call. If the call is entirely local (the LEC handles call termination on both ends as well as transit), then it should have all the information. However, if the call transits a different carrier, then the LEC that handles termination for the target of the scammer only knows the caller ID that was passed to it from the transit carrier. If it's unknown, then that's what is passed into the CDR. You may be able to glean other source information about the handoff to the transit carrier, then get THEM involved to find the call that was routed to that handoff at that time, and so on.
Oh, and since those aren't her calls (the scammer wasn't calling HER), then you must have a subpoena. If one of the scam targets cooperates, then THEY might be able to request their own records, but to get intervening carriers to cooperate, you'll need a lawyer or law enforcement. I'd try the latter, first. Keywords like "terroristic threats" and such may get you some attention. Once you know it crosses state lines, and perhaps some idea of how wide sweeping the scope is, then you might have something the FBI can/will look at. Try your local state bureau of investigation first, as they may have more immediate resources.
Ob. disclaimer: Though employed in telecom, I am not a lawyer.
I remember in 1993 playing Doom on a NeXT turboslab. Romero's blog confirms that id used NeXTStep as the dev environment (http://rome.ro/2006/12/apple-next-merger-birthday .html), so it isn't a real surprise that Carmack would want to do his next engine (no pun intended) under Mac OS X. If the heavy lifting under the covers is cross-platform, I would think it not a tremendous effort to release a game for all platforms at the same time. Non-trivial, certainly, but probably within reason even for potentially a smaller audience.
Does my MacBook Pro count? I have all the Unix tools and office apps that I need, plus the occasional Windows-only app (via Parallels) all in one portable platform.
Your client gets a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing that all of the code resides among his own boxes. For that matter, I've seen outsourcing jobs that required the developer to use Remote Desktop back to the client site so that all source, dev tools and the entire environment were contained on the client machine.
I'm neither promoting nor denigrating such practices, merely relaying observed behavior.
I'll corroborate the tipoff from the news article I just read in the paper.. Saturday's Atlanta Journal Constitution.
As for the rest... people in power should not be trusted, no matter what party they claim. Power corrupts. For that matter, being in politics too long simply makes you stupid as to how the world works. Enforce term limits... vote against the incumbent.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
I'll take two. No, four.
Ah, like an old Control Data mainframe or similar ilk. It's hilarious when you get a leak, and a fountain of water shoots 20 feet in the air (it was a 2 story data room).
Well, it was funny for a short while, anyway.
My Powerbook palm areas are pitted from the very thing. Minor annoyance.
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I recommend these, anyway.
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Maybe, maybe not. Call records are already maintained by the phone companies, and can be obtained by a subpoena. No warrant required (disclosure: I know this because I extract call records for subpoenas). Call records are not considered private information in the same context as the conversation itself.
Not up enough on telecom law to argue one way or the other.
Uh, re-read Tom Barnett. And check his blog entries. The Pentagon is just as focused on "Great Power War" and resulting budgetary requirements (F22 and other like nifty but hugely expensive hardware) as it ever has. The administration, while willing to use the Leviathan force, completely fails in the SysAdmin role.
Congress is still the bigger problem. The administration cannot create new law.
While no ticket systems exactly, useful tools at http://www.37signals.com/
Well, there's the mandatory 2 years of intense driver education, as opposed to the "drive around the cones please" pseudo-test.
Out of the 9 in my team at work, 7 of us are running Powerbooks. Up from 1 (just me) in 2002.
It's a slow growth. But it's growth.
They are being treated the same way as phone records. Phone records (originating number, terminating number, etc) are not considered the same way as the *content* of the call itself. The records can be obtained with a simple subpoena. A log entry that shows some originating email address sent mail to another without revealing the content of the message is quite analogous.
I forget the case/legislation that established that difference in treatment. Someone else might can followup with that.
Actually, I heard a radio interview with former Rep. Bob Barr (when did he suddenly turn sane? relatively, anyway...) who said email has the lowest weight. Letters carry the most weight, but with the anthrax scares and such, they can be delayed by months.
Fax is the way. The perceived importance of a written letter, but doesn't need the massive security procedures and gets there faster.
And, by the way, letters should be short and to the point. There's lots of mail, they aren't going to spend time working through your thesis.
ok, from the telephony standpoint, those records are already collected. It's called a Call Detail Record, it notes things you'd expect like origination number, termination number, billing number, dialed digits plus things you might not such as interconnect call time, switching addresses, etc. It gets used for diagnostic information, billing, system monitoring (as in, how well phones are being switched, failure rates, etc).
In the US, that information can also be requested for police use, but requires a subpoena.
Retention of the records varies by state. IIRC, Florida has the longer of the retention laws, at around 5 years.
Um, not necessarily. When I was working with a Bell, the phone bean counters wanted to do 30 year depreciation on DSLAMs, which is/was typical for telephony. We got them talked down to 14 year schedules.. which was 7 years ago. Don't know what it might be now, since I left their employ 5 years ago.
That's not a defense of SBC or anyone else, I'm just pointing out ILEC accounting.
There's more to the issue than just New Orleans. Many small towns in LA and MS have gotten little attention.
or may perhaps your congressman...
Don't write a letter. Send a fax. Letters take weeks to get through anthrax screenings and the like, and many are thrown away.
Like anyone else, members of Congress want to keep their job. Give them your performance review. If you don't participate in the process, don't bitch about their performance.
Supremacy of the Military
Ours is a civilian government. Military service does not grant significant advantage in elections. Many people do not like the military. Military recruitment has fallen. A large budget means that we are in an intractable war, not that we are a military state.
And even more so, the heavy reliance upon technology as a force multiplier as opposed to a million man army. That, and purchasing incompetence.
Fraudulent Elections
Our elections are real. Sure they are flawed in ways that only rarely make a difference, such as in Bush v Gore, but those flaws are not systematically designed to benefit the ruling party, they are often due to human laziness and incompetence.
And they happen regularly, with the names on the ballot changing on a regular basis.
America isn't perfect. Far from it. But it is also not Fascist. Fascism is far more organized than the US Gov. Which is fine... federal government entangled in their own red tape and petty squabbles stays out of my hair.
powerbook.. cooler.. hammock..
works for me.
Nothing like a good ol' flogging. AND removing their current net worth. Not just a repayment.. all of it.
just convince everyone that the 22,500 Mile High Club is the newest coolest thing...
Guess I'll tell the system engineering departments of several companies I know that they must return their Powerbooks now.
I haven't been to LISA or USENIX in awhile, but from what I hear the number of Mac's have increased greatly.