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• Telecommunications is downgrading.
• Telecommunications is downshifting.
• We're upgrading /dev/null
• Telecommunications is a BIT far fetched.
• Upgrading your memory gives you MORE RAM! - ad in MacWAREHOUSE catalogue.
• We're thinking about upgrading from SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5. -- Henry Spence
• out-of-band adj. [from telecommunications and network theory] 1.
  In software, describes values of a function which are not in its `natural' range of return values, but are rather signals that some kind of exception has occurred....
• war dialer n. A cracking tool, a program that calls a given list or range of phone numbers and records those which answer with handshake tones (and so might be entry points to computer or telecommunications systems).
  Some of these programs have become quite sophisticated, and can now detect modem, fax, or PBX tones and log each one separately....
• CDA /C-D-A/ The "Communications Decency Act" of 1996, passed on Black Thursday as section 502 of a major telecommunications reform bill.
  The CDA made it a federal crime in the USA to send a communication which is "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent, with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person....