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[ NNSquad ] A phone, a concert, and "sorry about that"
A phone, a concert, and "sorry about that" By now you've probably heard about the performance of the New York Philharmonic that was brought to a halt by a continually ringing cell phone playing a particularly obnoxious ringtone. Today the culprit has come forward -- his identity protected since so many people are out for his blood -- and he has a convincing story, relating to inexperience with a new company-provided iPhone, and the iPhone's "feature" of playing alarms even when the phone is set to "silent" mode. The New York Times tells his strange tech story: http://j.mp/zXBtIz But the problems illustrated by this event were definitively predicted nearly a half century ago, in fact on September 18, 1965, within the first minute of the debut episode of a network television series that was to become a classic. "Sorry about that!" http://j.mp/kGNjZW (YouTube) --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad