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Re: London incidents

  • From: Steve Sobol
  • Date: Tue Jul 12 22:25:41 2005

Jim Popovitch wrote:

I think the world has shown that cellphones have been used over and over
to detonate explosive devices. Why wait for it to be proved again
before doing something? AFAIK "Emergency Only" mode allows for 911
calls,
And means nothing if power is cut to the cell sites and you can't connect to anything. Emergency mode only works where there is a signal.

-Jim P. (who is tired of being caught in traffic behind weaving,
slowing/speeding, hand-waving and head-shaking, cellphone "drivers")
Well, Jim, it's a good thing that your dislike of cellphone drivers isn't completely orthogonal to this discussion, eh?

It also doesn't make you sound biased.

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