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Geek Guard to the Rescue

Posted by michael on from the minutemen dept.

Ant sends a link about the Geek Guard proposal that is floating around. Supposedly technology companies would form the backbone of a fast-response technology force. But Verizon was and is part of the problem with regard to communications, not part of the solution. A lot of technically-inclined people and groups like NYC Wireless did assist in lower Manhattan after Sept. 11, and they're still helping out businesses and people with no internet/phone connections and not even an ETA from Verizon on when Verizon might get around to hooking them up. If Verizon fulfilled their Geek Guard duties with all the rapidity that they, say, install DSL lines for competing DSL providers, they would have "rescheduled" their disaster response three times and we'd have an appointment for early November right now.

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  1. A poem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A brown log within the hand of thee
    offered in never ending love to me
    a squat atop the porcelain throne
    and I've left you another anal scone
    eat hearty my love, my pet
    we've so much shite to beget
    twixt muddied thighs so rank and foul
    our true love sloughs and splats overall
    and should thine sweet colonic morsels cease
    and you constipate and grow obese
    I'll purge your mighty nether regions
    my greased fist let flee the legions
    of chocolate dumplings and pungent stools
    I slither in yon pile o' steaming jewels.

  2. Stephen King, author, dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

  3. Re:Ho Hum by skeller · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Well, it's Friday night at 10:30 EST and it seems as I'm the only browsing Slashdot. I think I should be one of the first appointees to this Geek Guard ;-)

    I'm in the same boat, PLUS I'm watching the Star Trek marathon on TNN. I beat you. ;)

  4. Burn, Muslim Boy, Burn! Destroy All Islam! Kill. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Our precious dead cry out for vengeance:
    1. Kill all Muslims.
    2. KillallMohammedans.
    3. Kill all Arabs.
    4. Kill all Towel Heads.
    5. Kill all Camel Jockeys.
    6. Kill all Dune Coons.
    7. Kill all Islam.
    8. Nuke their countries to hell.
    9. Nuke them again.
    10. Death to Islam.

    I piss on Mecca. I shit on the Koran. I spit on Mohammed.

  5. Is this for real? Link, anyone? (OT) (NT) by Andorion · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (NT)

  6. +1 Cluetrain on the MQR standard by MarkusQ · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    If you are a company, business, organization or individual who has been disconnected (primarily internet access, but VoIP is a possible solution) by the WTC attacks and would like assistance from NYCwireless, send the following information: ...

    I have no mod points at present, but this post belongs much higher than (1).

    -- MarkusQ