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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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one more in the name of love...
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Still doesn't explain why MY phone didn't ring on Friday night.
Not that bad really, it's an article describing how/what happened because of it, not saying that this has happened!
It bet it's hard work to be a COCK-SMOKING TEABAGGER.
isn't it?
does anybody remember how the old one looked?
That's almost as bad as someone I know breaking the entire Verizon cel phone number portability for several weeks... dunno if it's working yet... probly is...
Here's a tip, don't try to forward a verizon number to a t-mobile number and then try to move the verizion number to the t-mobile phone. Things go ka-boing.
-- Liberalism is a mental disorder.
to get emergency services?
What doesn't kill you only delays the inevitable
Doesn't work
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.
The information is now incorrect! Don't mod me up, mod people who deserve it!
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... hi bingo
I know god exists. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
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~The Simpsons
I know this post has a chance of being a little off topic, but it was a classic episdoe........OF OUR LIVES!
Who fucking cares except you? Oh right, no one.
Mind your own business and let the mods mind theirs.
Two words:
Navel Gazing
And it's AC. Pure comedy gold.
I especially love this part:
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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"Our interests are to see if we can't scale it up to something more exciting," he said.