From BCOP-TV Copenhagen:
Trigger warning: the rape and alleged acts may disgust you.
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Peer to Peer SIP Telephony, Will It Work? Part three
DevNotes: Your SIP Router is Calling you. Please try catching it! How various SIP phones work differently and could annoy you!
Peer to Peer SIP Telephony, Will It Work? Part two
Steven has posted a series if the standard Voice over IP protocol can work decentralized… is he for Port 5060 or is he becoming so against it?
Peer to Peer SIP Telephony, Will It Work? Part two
Well over a year later, there is a follow up to an earlier focus on Session Initiation Protocol and can it work just having some SIP phones tied together without the expense of time and resources of having a phone system?
In short, if your router is calling you, that call may be a hopeless outcome.
Basically SIP is the modern-day landline with an IP stack, with a functionality similar to the web. You use Safari or Chrome to go onto say Facebook or The Museum. In the SIP context, the phone is the browser, and the telephone number is the Web address.
Search results in the past say you can use SIP without any proxy, gateway, etc. by zero-ing out the said addresses. Therefore these devices can work by dialing the latter portion of the IP address, so if your IP address are in the 192.168.1.0 range, you could call an IP address of one phone of 192.168.1.13 by dialing 13. This is called “Direct IP Calling”, and should remain for this single use case.
If you have some knowledge on this subject, you may ask, well “what’s wrong with that? Isn’t this part of VoIP?” If you want to have SIP be part of the greater cyber world, it has to be done in the form of Uniform Resource Locators or URLs much like melanie at clickford dot net. or steven dot clickford at clickford dot private. SIP requires a bunch of other Internet protocols to be set up simultaneously. SIP was to allegedly be more of an “open standard” to the already open standard of H323, that was a bit more opaque but SIP is just as guilty.
What does this all mean? Some of the major vendors wanted to put some additional features to work more like an office telephone, since SIP is basically a landline with all the standard 19 features you can currently get from your broadband provider, and if you’re a 90s kid, you had the Baby Bell service when Call Waiting alone was $3 x/month. Essentially to have PBX-like features, the vendors had to get creative and make SIP an open standard to troubleshoot and monitor the quality by keeping the logs easy to read. A lot of the forwarding, ACD, and Camp On like features would be done discretely through making a button called Features, that basically opens up to what appears to be web page with scripts to go back to the phone system to activate some feature.
By theory, Mitel, Avaya (Nortel and legacy Lucent), Cisco can operate phones off their native PBX or Key system, but it’s again it becomes a landline with an IP stack. They can work like a home phone, with a couple more “appearances” that acts like a visual call-waiting, and be able to do basic telephone calls.
Another issue is “ghost calls”. This is often referred to be malicious and cause toll fraud, but for isolated, LAN based SIP telephony, this means if a rogue telephone that doesn’t comply to SIP standards, a phone will ring off the hook for hours, maybe days only because the ringing telephone didn’t get a proper SIP signal or because you are calling it by an IP address, or part of one, this can also cause issues.
In the age of wireless, and the erosion of landlines, SIP has matured to be basically a Landline telephone service to modernize that dial tone for sites with office telephones. It’s great for trunking, in fact the only Internet telephony standard that supports Caller ID systematically. When it comes to phones, if you expect it to do a lot of what you have expected in legacy Nortel, Avaya or heck even Cisco, it’s just as functional as a phone you would’ve bought at Radio Shack, if only they were still around to sell disposable IP phones. But this “open” protocol has it’s downsides, it’s open to 1,001 different issues, quirks and if one phone has an older firmware and has a bug and another phone of the same type with newer ones, this would cause even more headaches, as other centralized VOIP systems, the bugs live in the router, brain or server, and not on the end device.
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Are VOIP Phones other than SIP Worth It on Asterisk Systems?
I’ve played with Asterisk over the years, and it’s somewhat to write home about (you know the phone system-like snapin to any Unix or Linux operating systems?)
One of the things that caught my attention from almost the early days was it’s “support” for some proprietary IP phone drivers and protocols. Particularly Cisco’s SCCP and Nortel’s UniSTIM. Session Initiation Protocol or SIP is an “open” standard, meaning that the way the phone communicates to the phone system (that’s now a server) is supposed to use a uniform specifications outlined in Request for Comment in the Holy Grail of Internet Standards. That RFC is rather interesting, because while these phones could work on any system that supports SIP, basically, it’s almost like having a house phone with an IP stack instead.
I have focused on SIP in other posts, and I don’t really support this idea on phones, because it’s almost like having a landline just that it communicates over the Internet. I personally feel that SIP is way too religious in the way a vendor must follow. In fact, there is a movement to obsolete that with WebRTC. With that aside, SIP is going to be withheld for the rest of this story.
Vocal Minority Against Kari’s Law: Editorial
Freelanced for Techicenter where the FCC is regulating in businesses they wouldn’t touched before. Published in April 2018. The last post, that happened to be on the subject of Kari’s Law, has had some unusual activity in the last couple of weeks with no way to capture where that audience from.
A MONTH INTO KARI’S LAW – GOVERNMENT OVERREACH OR KILLING PHONE SYSTEM VENDORS?
A phone system killed a mother, not the actual man behind it or bad admin who misconfigured it. Or says the media.
In 2013, a Texas mother named Kari Hunt died from being murdered by her estranged husband in a motel. The daughter tried to call “9-1-1” but the number didn’t work because it was tied to a Multi Line Telephone System, where one has to dial a trunk access code to get to the outside world. MLTS can be a private branch exchange or a key telephone system (PBX and KTS respectively.) The mainstream media immediately jumped on the bandwagon that the PBX killed the mother, not some grossly incompetent PBX administrator, and not the murderer.
The Vocal Minority of Opposition Kari’s Law
Your same Federal Communications Commission that decided to do a Friday news dump around Thanksgiving to eliminate franchise fees to communities to mostly fund First Amendment access content by municipalities for local cable TV subscribers is the start of a new F.C.C. that for an American should be extremely concerned. Not just a lack of democracy; or an agency that isn’t worried about use of s-Bombs at midday TV programming; or even concerned about potential “white noise” of wireless devices as they continue to deregulate.
From 2014 to 2017, in various platforms, mostly at The Museum of Telephony, I wrote strong opposition against Kari’s Law, a law mandating at gunpoint to private businesses of how their private branch exchange can be used to call emergency services (e.g. 9-1-1.) Kari’s Law became a name in Texas by a then 29 year old woman who was slayed by an apparent creep and the daughter desperately “9-1-1” as she was taught against a hotel phone system, that often requires a trunk access code or TAC to get out.
Because Kari’s father, Hank Hunt was so bothered, and couldn’t learn that life sucks and some people perish in the most perverted way, he and an Avaya VP (vis a vis the Nortel Enterprise Unit) decided to fantasy that the PBX was the murderer and as a result as of 2018, Kari’s Law is now enforced by the F.C.C.
A Facebook Update
Over the last 3 days, I’ve taken time off to “disconnect” from online from other-people’s-issues to divisive political postings, and other people’s successes I will never have. I know that I may had put an emotional burden to others especially in the last month or even before Christmas. Some have not accepted my befriend request perhaps because of my demeanor that I never had full awareness of lacking self controls on emotions until 2016. I am also disconnecting from technology because I am tired of feeling like others are entitled for immediate response of me, feeling a bit exploited and will not tolerate that in the go-forward basis.
My life is going on a severe change to a new definition. As a result I will not be using Facebook the way I have. Given the really dicey corporate in-governance of the company, and how they lock you in as always signed on, I am getting creeped out. I also don’t feel it’s best that I am on and depress others while I am in a heightened stress. Also I feel it’s highly unhealthy to have Facebook-friends and empty promises.
AS A RESULT. I AM NOT CLOSING DOWN MY FACEBOOK. I am not falling onto a bandwagon of pissing on social media and looking all good by saying “I deactivated my Facebook and never looked back” attitude. I will not be as active on the social platform. This also means, that Messenger conversations may not be answered immediately.
The Primary and Official Facebook profile is steven-dot-clickford-dot-7 (replace “dot” with periods) will be the official place to find me online. Like I said, I will not be as active as I used to. Over time Instagram and other platforms will slowly be less active.
I still believe in the concept of social networking and social media in the long run, it’s the platforms that owns the entire industry that is the concern.
I am also on the awareness that I may not have meaningful relationships – at all. I have to radically accept that and move on. I may have to settle with Facebook-friends as a poor man’s “friendship”.
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Video: Running on Empty: The Brain Drain in Local TV News
Produced by two professors at Quinnipiac University in C.T. in 2011, just after the recovery of The Great Recession, this documentary focuses on slow but shallow nature of local news that went to viral video and same day “flash and trash” journalism. While in 2019, people obsess about D.C. government closures, and other things that aren’t in their back yards, local journalism is on their last legs, and it’s worse than when this was rolled 8 years ago.
You don’t have to study journalism to understand, you could be an observer and understand the stuff. I am on the camp of Brett Shipp, from WFAA where some flashy stories is part of a “media diet”, which he said in this documentary in the end.
Sadly some of the people featured in this documentary had their careers totaled by mismanagement by larger media conglomerates, or their iTeam units cut. And the Belo building in Dallas was sold in 2012 as they sold the TV group to Gannett (later branded as Tegna the following year.) Belo was really big on local journalism, being based in Texas where every damn thing is “big” and yes Belo defined “big journalism”. WFAA had set the national standard in my judgement.
I watched this documentary a few years ago and watched it like a Disney movie, because watching it over and over makes me feel very nostalgic of the days before we got so polarized and were active in our own community’s issues rather than obsessing about the Federal governance.
“Trigger Warning” – it may make you tear up.
No Politics Here!
I don’t like to discuss politics. My family have certain views, and some of my other extended family members have apparent views as well. From my subjective view, I see them lean to the right, but often repeating what their media they are consuming are telling them,
Not only that, we don’t talk about issues anymore. The “big picture” stuff. Stuff that politicians don’t control and bureaucrats can manipulate policy.
NOT ONE Member in my family puts their own politics in their own words. It’s often rip-and-read from whatever talking-head on cable news tells them.
This is what I also see on social media, people “sharing” content and remark with what they are instructed to do. It’s really sad.
We as Americans for over a decade are picking and choosing a side and then mock the other one, and what has been forgotten for the last decade is issues! We as Americans who were interested in politics, had a high level intelligence (meaning they were thinking on diplomatic and implicit tone). Now today it has stooped down to low level, emotional and sensational and explicitly telling people how to think, and not use original thinking.
I will not chant #MAGA like some person being directed by dictator. I think for myself and therefore I believe in a democratic society.
Put Roger Ailes’ manipulation with Joel Cheatwood’s If it bleeds it leads mantra of 7 News and politics in the last decade evolved from the National Review type of conversations to the National Inquirer, of tabloid trash of political chatter, mixed with name-calling, and flashy political news that doesn’t have substance. I also can’t stand the current rendition of HuffPo, where they really rip the right on frivolous stuff.
I have been registered as an Independent since I was eighteen, and I have voted both parties in various offices. Also I can brag that I have voted in Town Meetings around my birthday in New Hampshire because municipal elections enable citizens to have more control on their government than voting for a congressperson and outsourcing democracy and citizenry to a D.C. Office. I noticed that the people who obsess about D.C. Politics in my family are the ones who grew up when my old town was more “rural” where rural governments were non existent and focus on the next largest government body – the Federal system.
Not only that, we don’t talk about issues anymore. The “big picture” stuff. Stuff that politicians don’t control and bureaucrats can manipulate policy. But low calorie, same day news, mixed with the “happy moment caught on camera” is the norm. And as a result, we as Americans, both left, right and centrists have subjected to ourselves to lower class in less than a generation!
If you believe in holding ALL PEOPLE IN POWER accountable, you also have have investigative journalism. No not “consumer investigative journalism” like how an iPhone protector doesn’t work the way they claim. Go onto YouTube and search for some old News 8 Investigates from WFAA in Dallas, the station that pioneered enterprise journalism for TV, and was once a sister entity the prestigious Dallas Morning News.
I am afraid at times to share my issue- driven policy because I fear I would be painted by my loved ones as a liberal. I am sick and tired of fitting into a political cookie cutter anymore. I am sick and tired of “Liberal Democrat” to have same dirty tone as calling someone a c–t or a Republican that is cold hearted, or whatever stereotype.
Issues, Municipal Affairs, White collared crime… whatever happened to ball busting reporting? It’s been long gone and you can thank the demented POTUS Ronnie Regan who allowed deregulation of the media so you can entertain yourself to death with cable news copying the late Casey Kasem’s AT40 of Liberal Hipocracy instead of serious news.
I watch, FNC barely today, FBN is a joke, because it’s FNC2, and watch CNBC with my fingers to my nose, I barely stand the lefist Bloomberg TV, and I don’t watch the 6:30 news anymore, so after that, where do I turn? On Friday nights, since 1998 (with a few on and off years), I’ve tuned to my journalistic idol, Emily (the daughter of the late Andy) Rooney to geek out on the news media’s coverage of week events, Beat The Press the local WGBH show. Because BTP focuses on issues in the media when the other Sunday Morning shows, Reliable Sources and Media Buzz on CNN and FNC are so flipping polarized.
I will not chant #MAGA like some person being directed by dictator. I think for myself and therefore I believe in a democratic society.