In Italy, when visiting friends and the school we attend, SMS is used far more often than voice. Easily 5/day during class, 2 otherwise.
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]>wrote: > It's all a big ho hum here too. I very rarely use SMS (maybe 1-2 > messages per month, which are effectively free, and in any case comes > out of a different budget than IP charges, which WhatsApp et al use), > as its an inferior platform to email. WhatsApp, Viber, Line just seem > to be more of the same - inferior to email, so I never bothered. > > The main use I have for SMS is as an independent channel - I can send > authentication details (username by email, password by SMS) to my > users. Of course, it would be so much better if the users in question > actually used encrypted email (PGP), but for some reason, after more > than 15 years, email encryption hasn't been widely adopted. > > Using an IP-based app for this purpose would be vulnerable to IP > sniffing anyway... > > Cheers > > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 05:14:43PM -0500, Pamela McCorduck wrote: > > The Internet was conceived and first implemented by a small group of > government and university researchers: J. C. R. Licklider, Bob Kahn, Vint > Cert, and several other pioneers. (So when I hear Silly Valley Libertarians > go on and on, the best I can do is laugh.) > > > > My question to this august group is: now that the momentum for > innovation has moved to the private sector, are we going to see nothing but > these trivial, mostly copycat apps that make your eyes glaze over? Is the > private sector capable of genuine innovation? > > > > Pamela > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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