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Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by kefka »

GHFigs wrote: post #204
a_p wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WCVB is reporting that [NAME 1] has died from his wounds [1]. [NAME 2] is still at large — the police are setting up a perimeter and the search will become much easier in several hours when the sun rises. [1] http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/Boston-Marathon-suspect... EDIT: As I follow the news, it becomes clearer that a large majority of the information is coming from the police scanner. It is interesting to see…

The article does not use either of those names.

Those names were redacted. I can also attest that the same names were mentioned as the lead suspects.

I am still listening to the police feed as I type.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by kefka »

buro9 wrote: post #208
kefka wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Older reddit thread hit limit and crashed. New link http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1co395/live_updates_of...

What limits exist on a thread?

100,000 users clicking reload every second. 500 posts per second. And there's a text capacity on an article text body.

buro9 : This is just a complete conjecture. I do not know Reddit's internal hardware infrastructure. I just know that real-time police radio transcription is the best news source, bar none. And it's getting hammered.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by nikcub »

denzil_correa wrote: post #179

It seems one suspect (at least) connected to the shootings (as heard on the BPD scanner) was identified by reddit user yesterday ID'ed the brown male guy - Sunil Tripathi. Wow!

the Sunil Tripathi thread started when his roomate saw the FBI photos and said on Twitter that it is Sunil

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by mh- »

ars wrote: post #164
ra wrote: post #71

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Having never lived in the US, I find it astounding that you could make a comment like that and get so many nods. I've never even heard a gunshot, and I don't know anyone who ever has.

I live in the US and neither have I. Most people who live in cities in the US haven't either. People outside the US have this image of people dodging bullets left and right as they walk down the street.

I say let's not fight that stereotype; it makes us sound agile and stuff.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by buro9 »

kefka wrote: post #212
buro9 wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What limits exist on a thread?

100,000 users clicking reload every second. 500 posts per second. And there's a text capacity on an article text body. buro9 : This is just a complete conjecture. I do not know Reddit's internal hardware infrastructure. I just know that real-time police radio transcription is the best news source, bar none. And it's getting hammered.

Interesting.

Are those are by-products of the threaded display? As a flat display of a thread would just result in new pages at the end, all of which would be incredibly cacheable.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by GHFigs »

kefka wrote: post #211
GHFigs wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The article does not use either of those names.

Those names were redacted. I can also attest that the same names were mentioned as the lead suspects. I am still listening to the police feed as I type.

Mentioned by whom, where?

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by kefka »

kefka wrote: post #211
GHFigs wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The article does not use either of those names.

Those names were redacted. I can also attest that the same names were mentioned as the lead suspects. I am still listening to the police feed as I type.

It was from here: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web

From which police officer? I do not know. Probably command central.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by dandelany »

spitx wrote: post #187

Family of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him. Source: http://gawker.com/5995034/active-shooter-incident-at-mit-mit... Cached version of FB page : http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=help+us+find+sunil+tripathi... Twitter account : https://twitter.com/findingsunny ABC News segment from March 30, 2013: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/sunil-tripathi-video-missi…

NBC/MSNBC now reporting that Sunil is NOT the suspect at large.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by kawsper »

__david__ wrote: post #192
spitx wrote: post #187

Family of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him. Source: http://gawker.com/5995034/active-shooter-incident-at-mit-mit... Cached version of FB page : http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=help+us+find+sunil+tripathi... Twitter account : https://twitter.com/findingsunny ABC News segment from March 30, 2013: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/sunil-tripathi-video-missi…

> Family of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him. This has to really suck for them. I can't imagine what they must be going through right now... Edit: Just 10 days ago his family and friends made this video: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Missing-Brown-Stud... To go from that to discovering he's one of the marathon bombers... Edit 2: Looks like h…

> To go from that to discovering he's one of the marathon bombers...

Wait, is that confirmed?

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by signed0 »

dandelany wrote: post #218
spitx wrote: post #187

Family of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him. Source: http://gawker.com/5995034/active-shooter-incident-at-mit-mit... Cached version of FB page : http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=help+us+find+sunil+tripathi... Twitter account : https://twitter.com/findingsunny ABC News segment from March 30, 2013: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/sunil-tripathi-video-missi…

NBC/MSNBC now reporting that Sunil is NOT the suspect at large.

"Speculation that one of bombing suspects is a missing student is not correct, sources tell @PeteWilliamsNBC"

via https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/325178091947323392

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