I am amazed when I see enterprise systems implemented without any thought whatsoever when it comes to concepts like
I believe this is a product of the lowest bidder, best salesman, and the highest profit margin for the contractor. More of a business decision then an individual designers lack of knowledge.
Humor you? People that maintain and patch MS systems for a living *should* have a favorite grouping of mailing lists and forums to follow information like this. If you are truely interested I would suggest you subscribe to the NTBugtraq mailing list for starters. Just because you choose to limit your knowledge to what is posted on slashdot does not mean these things do not exist. Many of the introduced bugs are somewhat small, may not effect more then a small % of the users, and fixed with relative ease but they still exist. Specific to NTBugtraq, if there is a problem, you will noramlly see a reply within a day or so of the lists announcing the MS patch. The group knowledge is very helpful in troubleshooting and repairing any issues. Very few of the patches cause something major to fail but that does happen also.
this mindless MS bashing just isn't funny anymore.
Some people see the current and past actions of MS over the last 10 years and have formed a very negative opinion of how they do business. Your opinion may be different, that does not make it mindless bashing. I consider it to be frustration based on past experience.
Looks like Intel and Nokia are interested in the technology, as well as a number of highroller venture capitalist groups.
As it stands now with wireless products being dirt cheap and easy to deploy, companies have to come up with something that they can cash in on. Will this technology have a real world advantage to the average Joe over existing wireless solutions? Sure but at what cost?
higher-speed, greater-range option will soon prove advantageous, even if it is not compatible with existing software.
Spoken like a product and service that any venture capitalist would love.
Charging for this is seen as a method for the carriers to raise your rate while you are under contract. Those long term contracts you sign with a carrier are in thier best interest. They get to keep you and your monthly fee for roughly 2 years. Problem though, they want the best of both worlds, long term contract AND ability to raise your rates if thier costs go up. Well maybe they should sign shorter contracts. Some justify the increase as passing on a mandated cost. IMHO, that is part of doing business. If OSHA requires a new AC unit in the customer service building, I would not expect to see a rate increase of an extra service charge on my bill. What if minimum wage increases? What if the phone company has to pay more taxes? Should they just add a surcharge to your bill to pass the costs on to the customers under contract? What if my county cell phone tax goes up? Can I subtract it from the portion that I owe the phone company as a cost of owning a phone?
The biggest issue is the way these charges are being refleced on bills. Sprint for example was charging it under the taxes section, giving the impression it was a mandated tax, the SPrint CSR's were standing ground that it was indeed a tax and if you had a problem with the charge to reread your contract and contact the FCC. They recently moved it to the surcharge section and modified the T&C to state it is not a tax, that is the main stickler for this whole issue is depending on who you talk to at Sprint, you may or may not be able to terminate without penalty and may or may not be told that it is a mandated tax. There are a few heated discussions in alt.cellular.sprintpcs about what people have been getting told and how far they have gotten with Sprint regarding thier specific issue with the portability charges.
Bottom line, For my 3 phones, I am now paying $3.30 more a month (Sprint bundles portability with number pooling into one fee) then I was before. They bascially rasied my rate 3% while only 4 months into a 2 year contract. Sprint has not disclosed the actual cost they have spent, how long they will keep charging and how much they will charge in the future when you actually try to exercise your right to number portability. All of this to their customers that already have contracts, and at the same time, trying to prevent people from getting out of the contracts by calling this a mandated tax. A win-win for Sprint. I'd like to know how he FCC figures it has the authority to let Sprint modify a contract that exists between me and them. Polictics I assume.
I agree all of your benefits of using natural gas but this resource is currently suffering from an unbalanced supply and demand also and it about to turn into a huge crisis if something is not done in the near future. Some articles I've read already claim it is impossible to ward of sharp price increases because it is too late to make up for the lack or exploration in recent years. Between gas and electric prices getting out of control and no nuclear expansion, it looks like geothermal or solar might finally make some inroads.
Our whole IT department has Nextel's. The PTT si nice for a quick question but nothing else. "Recall is here for the backup tapes, where did you put them". You reply with "On the 3rd shelf". Anything other then that and it is a complete pain in the ass. Very specific things like ip addresses or configuration items or anything that requires an explaination or more then a quick one line response definately requires full duplex that the PTT does not have. PTT is even much worse in low signal areas. You will hear 1/3 of the reply and end up yelling back and forth. When that happens, I simply reply back for them to call the phone directly. I personally do not think it is hard too dial a number and wait for an answer, my personal cell phone has voice dialing with a speaker phone (Sanyo 4900) which makes it very easy.
I wonder if this "DOS" they claim to be suffering is really too many users actually trying to get updates for once. After all, the code in this virus is not set to DOS MS until the 16th so they can not blame it on that. I doubt they would ever admit to not being able to handle the load. I use MS update at least a few times a day and have been for the last year on various client machines. Sometimes I need 10's of updates from a fresh install, sometimes just a few driver updates or the recently released. I don;t have any specific stats but I have noticed a definate slowing of the update site when the blaster worm was announced and it is getting slower as the days go on, today it took over 5 minutes to get a sound card update that for the previous year, only took 10 seconds. Another time today it took about 60 seconds. DOS causing this? Maybe, but I would guess they are having a hard time providing the update service for everyone and do not want to admit it. I bet hundreds of thousands of people are running the update service for the first time ever and they need a lot of updates. This move of names and connectivity is probably a hidden attempt to get the stuff hosted somewhere else or split up the load more then what they are currently doing and make it appear it is for security reasons. Reading bewteen the lines here but the amount of work involved with name change of this nature is massive compared to the relative ease a virus writer can simply point to the new site. Does MS honestly think a name change will stop a DOS? I doubt it, but it fits into thier FUD compaign of increased security and that they are under attack.
Lawyers are not the reason they lost the case and it had nothing to do with a unreasonable consumers expectations, the consumers got those expectations directly from Apples promotion and claims of the software, not off some guy on the street corner. Bottom line, Apple lost because they made false claims and/or did not make the software limitations clear. I have no doubt it was not intentional but it still happened.
Yes, this post may be considered anti-Apple so go ahead and mark as -1 troll.
I know it is the "in" thing to rag on script kiddies but it does not matter who did the damage. Why someone has more or less respect for a root kit user or a exploit writer because it was easy or hard to implement is beyond me. It would not matter to me if my systems were cracked by Solar Designer, Linus, or a t33n gamer. My claiming I was only cracked by a script kiddie does not make it any better, the damage is still the same. If it was something I could have patched but did not, I'd blame myself first.
IMHO (not probably not a popular one), someone who writes a virus that replicates by seeking out other victims through sockets is not what I consider to be a script kiddie. Code Red and Slapper were similar. Regardless of how poorly you think it is written, it has taken down between 250,000-500,000 internet users in only three days.
No, he meant PSX. That was the unofficial and popular name for the original Playstation pretty much since it was released. You will find thousands of usenet posts refering to it as PSX as far back as 1994. Sony must have been the only one that did not know that when deciding on a new name.
Where do you "store" your mail and attachments? Keep them on the server?
What if you have multiple accounts? You would have to check multiple web mail sites and or configure one webmail account to use POP to get the other ones. That mean password in the clear to the other accounts AND that password is stored on a third site. I dont know of any webmail sites that can be configured to fetch remote mail in any other manner then plain old POP.
Limited interface and functionality. You are bascially STUCK with whatever layout, filter options, spam solution (or lack of) that the provider feels is best for XXX amount of users they have. You are also stuck with the ads at login, during the session, and after logout (like Hotmail taking you directly to MSN after clicking logout). Hotmail specific but clicking on an email link always keeps Hotmail in a frame at the top of the page like a follow you function, even when opening in a new tab or window.
Stuck with HTML email along with all the web bugs and tracking links. This would be a spammers heaven. Of course with any modern browser (maybe even IE), you can turn of image loading with one click.
IMHO, I like web mail as an option but it is not a long term solutions for me.
I use Pegasus. The interface takes a little getting used to and the setup is not really tweaked for beginners because it does have a lot of options and features but it does work very good and it is free.
It used OE? A common thing for an html enabled applications in Windows is to use MSHTML.DLL which is the parsing engine for HTML for Internet Explorer and any other application that is designed to use it (Eudora, Outlook, Netmeeting, OE, Kazaa and Word, Media Player many many others). Some applications have their own internal parser which are normally limited to very basic HTML (like Pegasus) which is a very good thing for dealing with something as uncontrolled as email IMHO.
I was not trying to be anti-MS and I belive my statement about using a non MS email client and browser will definately reduce your risk of viruses and not only because they are not as homogeneous as you claim but because they are NOT integrated into the OS and NOT tied to multiple core functions of the OS that allow these worms to work as efficently as they do. That is a fundamental issue that will always make any closely tied system at risk. The use of raw data and application code and executing them from an application that is tied directly to the core of the OS will ALWAYS be harder to maintain security then a system that does not have this integration. That is a fact no matter which way you look at it. People are always told to not run an unknown executable file. Well any time you deal with documents, emails, web pages, help files from any JoeBlow on the internet on a MS Windows system, you are dealing with files that can and will execute code. Couple that with a known weakness elsewhere in the system and you have a new worm and or a virus. This is the basis for almost every major worm and email virus for the past 5 years.
I believe this is a side effect of the Windows dominant world. Many people have no idea that there is an alternative. If you look back at the media coverage of any of the many Outlook/OE and IE related viruses and worms, like Melissa, and many others.. You will find people claiming that it is an "email" virus. It is not, it is an OE/Outlook virus and can ONLY spread if using those products. 99% of the time, if you are not using a MS provided mail client/web browser you would be completely safe even with no firewall and virus scanner from those "email" viruses, although not the case here with MS Blaster. I think if the media stated that fact every time this happened, it might sink into peoples heads that it might be a good idea to look for something else. Funny that this virus name actually contains a reference to Microsoft being called MSBlaster. I wonder if they tried to get that changed, funny how they call it Blaster, not MSBlaster like everyone else.
They will simply fire the guy that sent out the mesage. It is probably the "same" temp employee the RIAA fired for the same thing. Damn, he's a real fuckup. Maybe he can pull a Kenneth Lay "I do not recall" when asked if he sent them.
This is a loaded question. What evidence are you refering to? I've read numerous studies that claim widely different outcomes about marijuana use, good and bad and many in between. As with anything in life, you have to weigh the pros and cons and make a decision based on your CURRENT needs. There is no one size fits all.
I bought a 12x DVD drive at my local CompUSA last month from the clearance rack for $29. When I got home and opened it, it was a perfectly packed and wrapped physically broken cdrom drive and not a new DVD drive. I was pissed. I took it back and while explaining what happened to the cashier, she told me to hold on. I could see inside the managers office and they were talking and looking my way for about 5 minutes. The assistant manager came over to the counter and was putting on a show, looking at the drive, looking at the box, saying things to herself out loud like "That's odd, we don't even sell this brand, and said a few other things out loud. I knew things were about to take a bad turn. She finally offered me a store credit and that's all she could do. I asked her if that was the store policy for a credit card purchase with a reciept, she jumped on my shit with a very loud voice and said "No, but it is our policy to call the police when someone tries to return something they did not buy". I went livid. She flat out blamed me for stealing in front of about 10 other customers, 5 employees and my son. After some more heated "discussion", the manager came out and said, just credit his card so he leaves. I am not an irate person by any means, but I could tell by the body language before she even spoke what was going to happen.
I have never been back there and I will NEVER shop there again. Not only was I ripped off and had to return a broken mislabeled product, I was also blamed for doing it myself. I understand this happenes in retail but in this case, the previous person who bought that thing did it, not me. Not a single person of authority in that store even considered that was a possibility.
My Sanyo 4900 has a location service. The paper instructions and phones internal help system claim if I shut the location system off, only 911 facilities will be able to know my location. What this really tells me is that it is always on from the phone end but Sprint will only pass the signal to the 911 system, not anyone who wants it. I also assume that the police will also have access to this also if needed or wanted. There is NOTHING that prevents law enforcement from going to Sprint or any other carrier and requesting a list of all users that were in a certain area at a certain time. This IS what the system is really being pushed for and why the Office of Homeland Security is the government department responsible for this E911 service implementation.
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I am amazed when I see enterprise systems implemented without any thought whatsoever when it comes to concepts like
I believe this is a product of the lowest bidder, best salesman, and the highest profit margin for the contractor. More of a business decision then an individual designers lack of knowledge.
Sorry, that second link should be here
Humor you? People that maintain and patch MS systems for a living *should* have a favorite grouping of mailing lists and forums to follow information like this. If you are truely interested I would suggest you subscribe to the NTBugtraq mailing list for starters. Just because you choose to limit your knowledge to what is posted on slashdot does not mean these things do not exist. Many of the introduced bugs are somewhat small, may not effect more then a small % of the users, and fixed with relative ease but they still exist. Specific to NTBugtraq, if there is a problem, you will noramlly see a reply within a day or so of the lists announcing the MS patch. The group knowledge is very helpful in troubleshooting and repairing any issues. Very few of the patches cause something major to fail but that does happen also.
Here is a couple of quick finds from Google. I don't track or keep lists of problems like you are requesting. I do monitor select mailing lists and web sites and take note of things that will directly effect me. These bugs or lack of fixes were a little bigger so they got news coverage.
NT patch causes other services to fail
Microsoft patch causes system failure
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 192816
Super patch fails to fix worst flaw in Internet Explorer
Microsoft fails Slammer's security test Not a direct patch failure but describes the complexity of deploying some patches and the side effects.
Researchers: Newest Microsoft IE patch flawed
this mindless MS bashing just isn't funny anymore.
Some people see the current and past actions of MS over the last 10 years and have formed a very negative opinion of how they do business. Your opinion may be different, that does not make it mindless bashing. I consider it to be frustration based on past experience.
Looks like Intel and Nokia are interested in the technology, as well as a number of highroller venture capitalist groups.
As it stands now with wireless products being dirt cheap and easy to deploy, companies have to come up with something that they can cash in on. Will this technology have a real world advantage to the average Joe over existing wireless solutions? Sure but at what cost?
higher-speed, greater-range option will soon prove advantageous, even if it is not compatible with existing software.
Spoken like a product and service that any venture capitalist would love.
Charging for this is seen as a method for the carriers to raise your rate while you are under contract. Those long term contracts you sign with a carrier are in thier best interest. They get to keep you and your monthly fee for roughly 2 years. Problem though, they want the best of both worlds, long term contract AND ability to raise your rates if thier costs go up. Well maybe they should sign shorter contracts. Some justify the increase as passing on a mandated cost. IMHO, that is part of doing business. If OSHA requires a new AC unit in the customer service building, I would not expect to see a rate increase of an extra service charge on my bill. What if minimum wage increases? What if the phone company has to pay more taxes? Should they just add a surcharge to your bill to pass the costs on to the customers under contract?
What if my county cell phone tax goes up? Can I subtract it from the portion that I owe the phone company as a cost of owning a phone?
The biggest issue is the way these charges are being refleced on bills. Sprint for example was charging it under the taxes section, giving the impression it was a mandated tax, the SPrint CSR's were standing ground that it was indeed a tax and if you had a problem with the charge to reread your contract and contact the FCC. They recently moved it to the surcharge section and modified the T&C to state it is not a tax, that is the main stickler for this whole issue is depending on who you talk to at Sprint, you may or may not be able to terminate without penalty and may or may not be told that it is a mandated tax. There are a few heated discussions in alt.cellular.sprintpcs about what people have been getting told and how far they have gotten with Sprint regarding thier specific issue with the portability charges.
Bottom line, For my 3 phones, I am now paying $3.30 more a month (Sprint bundles portability with number pooling into one fee) then I was before. They bascially rasied my rate 3% while only 4 months into a 2 year contract. Sprint has not disclosed the actual cost they have spent, how long they will keep charging and how much they will charge in the future when you actually try to exercise your right to number portability. All of this to their customers that already have contracts, and at the same time, trying to prevent people from getting out of the contracts by calling this a mandated tax. A win-win for Sprint. I'd like to know how he FCC figures it has the authority to let Sprint modify a contract that exists between me and them. Polictics I assume.
I agree all of your benefits of using natural gas but this resource is currently suffering from an unbalanced supply and demand also and it about to turn into a huge crisis if something is not done in the near future. Some articles I've read already claim it is impossible to ward of sharp price increases because it is too late to make up for the lack or exploration in recent years. Between gas and electric prices getting out of control and no nuclear expansion, it looks like geothermal or solar might finally make some inroads.
Our whole IT department has Nextel's. The PTT si nice for a quick question but nothing else. "Recall is here for the backup tapes, where did you put them". You reply with "On the 3rd shelf". Anything other then that and it is a complete pain in the ass. Very specific things like ip addresses or configuration items or anything that requires an explaination or more then a quick one line response definately requires full duplex that the PTT does not have. PTT is even much worse in low signal areas. You will hear 1/3 of the reply and end up yelling back and forth. When that happens, I simply reply back for them to call the phone directly.
I personally do not think it is hard too dial a number and wait for an answer, my personal cell phone has voice dialing with a speaker phone (Sanyo 4900) which makes it very easy.
I wonder if this "DOS" they claim to be suffering is really too many users actually trying to get updates for once. After all, the code in this virus is not set to DOS MS until the 16th so they can not blame it on that. I doubt they would ever admit to not being able to handle the load. I use MS update at least a few times a day and have been for the last year on various client machines. Sometimes I need 10's of updates from a fresh install, sometimes just a few driver updates or the recently released. I don;t have any specific stats but I have noticed a definate slowing of the update site when the blaster worm was announced and it is getting slower as the days go on, today it took over 5 minutes to get a sound card update that for the previous year, only took 10 seconds. Another time today it took about 60 seconds. DOS causing this? Maybe, but I would guess they are having a hard time providing the update service for everyone and do not want to admit it. I bet hundreds of thousands of people are running the update service for the first time ever and they need a lot of updates. This move of names and connectivity is probably a hidden attempt to get the stuff hosted somewhere else or split up the load more then what they are currently doing and make it appear it is for security reasons. Reading bewteen the lines here but the amount of work involved with name change of this nature is massive compared to the relative ease a virus writer can simply point to the new site. Does MS honestly think a name change will stop a DOS? I doubt it, but it fits into thier FUD compaign of increased security and that they are under attack.
Lawyers are not the reason they lost the case and it had nothing to do with a unreasonable consumers expectations, the consumers got those expectations directly from Apples promotion and claims of the software, not off some guy on the street corner. Bottom line, Apple lost because they made false claims and/or did not make the software limitations clear. I have no doubt it was not intentional but it still happened.
Yes, this post may be considered anti-Apple so go ahead and mark as -1 troll.
I know it is the "in" thing to rag on script kiddies but it does not matter who did the damage. Why someone has more or less respect for a root kit user or a exploit writer because it was easy or hard to implement is beyond me. It would not matter to me if my systems were cracked by Solar Designer, Linus, or a t33n gamer. My claiming I was only cracked by a script kiddie does not make it any better, the damage is still the same. If it was something I could have patched but did not, I'd blame myself first.
IMHO (not probably not a popular one), someone who writes a virus that replicates by seeking out other victims through sockets is not what I consider to be a script kiddie. Code Red and Slapper were similar. Regardless of how poorly you think it is written, it has taken down between 250,000-500,000 internet users in only three days.
It has been annexed by France.
No, he meant PSX. That was the unofficial and popular name for the original Playstation pretty much since it was released. You will find thousands of usenet posts refering to it as PSX as far back as 1994. Sony must have been the only one that did not know that when deciding on a new name.
Pros:
Easy to get to and use.
Cons:
Where do you "store" your mail and attachments? Keep them on the server?
What if you have multiple accounts? You would have to check multiple web mail sites and or configure one webmail account to use POP to get the other ones. That mean password in the clear to the other accounts AND that password is stored on a third site. I dont know of any webmail sites that can be configured to fetch remote mail in any other manner then plain old POP.
Limited interface and functionality. You are bascially STUCK with whatever layout, filter options, spam solution (or lack of) that the provider feels is best for XXX amount of users they have. You are also stuck with the ads at login, during the session, and after logout (like Hotmail taking you directly to MSN after clicking logout). Hotmail specific but clicking on an email link always keeps Hotmail in a frame at the top of the page like a follow you function, even when opening in a new tab or window.
Stuck with HTML email along with all the web bugs and tracking links. This would be a spammers heaven. Of course with any modern browser (maybe even IE), you can turn of image loading with one click.
IMHO, I like web mail as an option but it is not a long term solutions for me.
I use Pegasus. The interface takes a little getting used to and the setup is not really tweaked for beginners because it does have a lot of options and features but it does work very good and it is free.
It used OE? A common thing for an html enabled applications in Windows is to use MSHTML.DLL which is the parsing engine for HTML for Internet Explorer and any other application that is designed to use it (Eudora, Outlook, Netmeeting, OE, Kazaa and Word, Media Player many many others). Some applications have their own internal parser which are normally limited to very basic HTML (like Pegasus) which is a very good thing for dealing with something as uncontrolled as email IMHO.
My thoughts exactly, recently I've been using P2P to backup my music files.
I was not trying to be anti-MS and I belive my statement about using a non MS email client and browser will definately reduce your risk of viruses and not only because they are not as homogeneous as you claim but because they are NOT integrated into the OS and NOT tied to multiple core functions of the OS that allow these worms to work as efficently as they do. That is a fundamental issue that will always make any closely tied system at risk. The use of raw data and application code and executing them from an application that is tied directly to the core of the OS will ALWAYS be harder to maintain security then a system that does not have this integration. That is a fact no matter which way you look at it. People are always told to not run an unknown executable file. Well any time you deal with documents, emails, web pages, help files from any JoeBlow on the internet on a MS Windows system, you are dealing with files that can and will execute code. Couple that with a known weakness elsewhere in the system and you have a new worm and or a virus. This is the basis for almost every major worm and email virus for the past 5 years.
I believe this is a side effect of the Windows dominant world. Many people have no idea that there is an alternative. If you look back at the media coverage of any of the many Outlook/OE and IE related viruses and worms, like Melissa, and many others.. You will find people claiming that it is an "email" virus. It is not, it is an OE/Outlook virus and can ONLY spread if using those products. 99% of the time, if you are not using a MS provided mail client/web browser you would be completely safe even with no firewall and virus scanner from those "email" viruses, although not the case here with MS Blaster. I think if the media stated that fact every time this happened, it might sink into peoples heads that it might be a good idea to look for something else. Funny that this virus name actually contains a reference to Microsoft being called MSBlaster. I wonder if they tried to get that changed, funny how they call it Blaster, not MSBlaster like everyone else.
They will simply fire the guy that sent out the mesage. It is probably the "same" temp employee the RIAA fired for the same thing. Damn, he's a real fuckup. Maybe he can pull a Kenneth Lay "I do not recall" when asked if he sent them.
This is a loaded question.
What evidence are you refering to? I've read numerous studies that claim widely different outcomes about marijuana use, good and bad and many in between. As with anything in life, you have to weigh the pros and cons and make a decision based on your CURRENT needs. There is no one size fits all.
I bought a 12x DVD drive at my local CompUSA last month from the clearance rack for $29. When I got home and opened it, it was a perfectly packed and wrapped physically broken cdrom drive and not a new DVD drive. I was pissed. I took it back and while explaining what happened to the cashier, she told me to hold on. I could see inside the managers office and they were talking and looking my way for about 5 minutes. The assistant manager came over to the counter and was putting on a show, looking at the drive, looking at the box, saying things to herself out loud like "That's odd, we don't even sell this brand, and said a few other things out loud. I knew things were about to take a bad turn. She finally offered me a store credit and that's all she could do. I asked her if that was the store policy for a credit card purchase with a reciept, she jumped on my shit with a very loud voice and said "No, but it is our policy to call the police when someone tries to return something they did not buy". I went livid. She flat out blamed me for stealing in front of about 10 other customers, 5 employees and my son. After some more heated "discussion", the manager came out and said, just credit his card so he leaves. I am not an irate person by any means, but I could tell by the body language before she even spoke what was going to happen.
I have never been back there and I will NEVER shop there again. Not only was I ripped off and had to return a broken mislabeled product, I was also blamed for doing it myself. I understand this happenes in retail but in this case, the previous person who bought that thing did it, not me. Not a single person of authority in that store even considered that was a possibility.
Sounds like a a very good business plan to ensure future business. Maybe the RIAA should try blocking the sale of used cd's, oh wait..
WTOP just reported Belway slows at Suitland, get in the right lane quick.. ;)
My Sanyo 4900 has a location service. The paper instructions and phones internal help system claim if I shut the location system off, only 911 facilities will be able to know my location. What this really tells me is that it is always on from the phone end but Sprint will only pass the signal to the 911 system, not anyone who wants it. I also assume that the police will also have access to this also if needed or wanted. There is NOTHING that prevents law enforcement from going to Sprint or any other carrier and requesting a list of all users that were in a certain area at a certain time. This IS what the system is really being pushed for and why the Office of Homeland Security is the government department responsible for this E911 service implementation.