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Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers
40hz:
^Actually, it's more like they'd use the Emergency Broadcast System that you hear them test at weird times on TV and radio.
That's what the EBS was created for. They'd just announce the president was shutting the net down and include a code word at the end to let the telcos and ISPs know it's not just a drill. It works the same for broadcasters. They receive the EBS tone and an authorization code. If the codeword sent matches the codeword for the day they know it's a real emergency and suspend broadcasting and wait for further instructions from the government.
Fun. I grew up living with this stuff as a kid.
Deozaan:
Oh man, I haven't heard them test the EBS in ages! (Of course, I haven't been a regular TV viewer in ages, either.)
40hz:
^If you're a Cablevision subscriber you can also hear it there. 8)
Deozaan:
What I meant by "regular TV viewer" was frequency (regular basis, or lack thereof) as opposed to method (over the air/antenna TV stations).
I hardly ever watch TV, though when I do, it's usually something that was recorded on the DVR at my parents' house. So I guess both interpretations apply after all.
Curt:
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg. - Abraham Lincoln
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-40hz (June 28, 2010, 04:47 PM)
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The quote is kind of right, but it was not said by Lincoln.
(and if he had said it, I imagine he would have used the proper doesn't...)
Edward Josiah Stears' Notes on Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853) p. 46:
'"Father," said one of the rising generation to his paternal progenitor, "if I should call this cow's tail a leg, how many legs would she have?" "Why five, to be sure." "Why, no, father; would calling it a leg make it one?"
-Edward Josiah Stears
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