Excuse me, but I live in America, too, and here, if someone is caught with a gun, he goes straight to the jail, and he won't get out for a darn good while. Do you not have concealed carry permits where you live?
It seems that there is a common misconception that the internet2 is this great, new internet. It's not. It's just a set of private, high speed network links connecting research institutes that operates transparently with the regular internet. They configure their routers to route traffic onto the faster, internet2 backbone if the destination is also on the internet2 backbone. If a student at Purdue, for instance, types "mit.edu" into Firefox, the website will be served over the internet2 backbone instead of the regular, slower internet.
It made for some excellent P2P downloads when I was in school. There was even a DC++ hub restricted to IP addresses at internet2 schools so as to guarantee crazy fast downloads.
In Florida, the call boxes are beacons only. There is a gas button, a tow button, a police button, and a medical button. You push it, it emits a signal which is received by the DOT. They dispatch whoever is necessary. It doesn't use the cellular network at all.
There was one road that they put actual voice call boxes on as a trial (SR528 outside of Orlando). They removed those last month because of the analog shutdown. They removed them rather than upgrade them because apparently they only got a handful of activations per year.
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It seems that there is a common misconception that the internet2 is this great, new internet. It's not. It's just a set of private, high speed network links connecting research institutes that operates transparently with the regular internet. They configure their routers to route traffic onto the faster, internet2 backbone if the destination is also on the internet2 backbone. If a student at Purdue, for instance, types "mit.edu" into Firefox, the website will be served over the internet2 backbone instead of the regular, slower internet. It made for some excellent P2P downloads when I was in school. There was even a DC++ hub restricted to IP addresses at internet2 schools so as to guarantee crazy fast downloads.
In Florida, the call boxes are beacons only. There is a gas button, a tow button, a police button, and a medical button. You push it, it emits a signal which is received by the DOT. They dispatch whoever is necessary. It doesn't use the cellular network at all. There was one road that they put actual voice call boxes on as a trial (SR528 outside of Orlando). They removed those last month because of the analog shutdown. They removed them rather than upgrade them because apparently they only got a handful of activations per year.