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Verizon's NYC 911 System Shutdown
Dead Nancy writes "A combination of human error and software that didn't anticipate it brought down New York City's 911 emergency line for several hours on Friday night."
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to get emergency services?
What doesn't kill you only delays the inevitable
well the calls were routed to 311, so the calls got answered, just maybe not as quickly. Yes this sucks, but the calls didn't go nowhere.
I aint go no reason to doubt what you say.
dude.
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Two words:
Navel Gazing
Right you are. OT, but it just occurred to me that that's a very good way to explain Phoenix DRM, Longhorn, et al to the neighbor whose box your helping to patch.
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