[82348] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: London incidents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Tue Jul 12 22:25:03 2005
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:24:38 -0700
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: North American Networking & Offtopic Gripes <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <1121163365.16020.28.camel@localhost>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Jim Popovitch wrote:
> I think the world has shown that cellphones have been used over and over
> to detonate explosive devices. Why wait for it to be proved again
> before doing something? AFAIK "Emergency Only" mode allows for 911
> calls,
And means nothing if power is cut to the cell sites and you can't connect to
anything. Emergency mode only works where there is a signal.
> -Jim P. (who is tired of being caught in traffic behind weaving,
> slowing/speeding, hand-waving and head-shaking, cellphone "drivers")
Well, Jim, it's a good thing that your dislike of cellphone drivers isn't
completely orthogonal to this discussion, eh?
It also doesn't make you sound biased.
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