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Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users

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Post by bombcar »

colanderman wrote: post #89
bombcar wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My earliest computers were amazingly capable and powerful devices, I could do anything I could think of and spend hours and hours on them. Now my computer is insanely more powerful but without an Internet connection it feels dead and useless.

Optimize some low-level numeric algorithms, CPU or GPU, it brings back that feeling.

It's even sadder - I used to be able to play computer games for hours offline, now I get about five minutes into even the ones WITH on offline mode, and I'm grabbing for a wiki or other reference. Ah, some of it is just getting old.

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Post by grungydan »

Isn't it wonderful that we allow almost entirely unregulated monopolies that have no actual obligation to provide the service for which they take your money?

Telecoms, airlines, insurance scam..ahem companies...

Must be nice. I wonder if I could just stop showing up to my job and keep collecting my check. No? Why not? We allow the entities that write our laws and have politicians rubber stamp them to do it. Seems a mite unfair.

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Post by joshstrange »

bombcar wrote: post #101
colanderman wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Optimize some low-level numeric algorithms, CPU or GPU, it brings back that feeling.

It's even sadder - I used to be able to play computer games for hours offline, now I get about five minutes into even the ones WITH on offline mode, and I'm grabbing for a wiki or other reference. Ah, some of it is just getting old.

I think some of it is just not having oodles of free time to figure it out on your own. When I was young I would just keep trying things till I figured out the game, my time wasn't worth much or at least I didn't value it highly. Nowadays I don't want to spend 1-3 hours figuring something frustrating that's blocking my progress. The "rush" I get from solving it on my own does not make up for the time lost. Also I feel like games made today almost expect you will need the wiki/guide to figure out certain things. Or at least I often think "How the heck was I supposed to figure that out?" when reading the wiki for some aspect of a game I'm stuck on.

Re: Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users

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Post by grungydan »

softwaredoug wrote: post #55

I'm just curious how we as a society manage the uptime of such a critical service? Do we have laws or enforcement in place to regulate / enforce how well basic cellular service (at least the emergency tier) must work in the US? Just imagining the dropped emergency calls today, etc? (Genuine question)

> laws or enforcement

No no no, see, we have those. But we only use them to make sure that our for-profit prison complex stays massively profitable and the people in power retain that power.

Re: Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users

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Post by bobo_legos »

midwestfounder wrote: post #48

I wonder if this is a cyber incident. Curious if any telecom folks know what the most likely explanation for an event like this would be, and what telltale signs/symptoms might first indicate this was caused by something nefarious.

Kind of weird that there's been almost no coverage of this event this morning. CNBC has barely mentioned it. All 3 carriers having a major outage seems like it should be major news.
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