Re: Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?

I'm old. I was online @MIT-AI the night the pentagon (probably DISA?) started broadcasting messages that basically the ARPAnet was going down for "emergency testing" blah blah. I thought it was a prank so just kept working. Another message or two and it all went dead, CONNECTION LOST Couldn't dial back in. Idjits, oh well. The next morning I found out some students (not MIT students) had taken over the US embassy in Tehran so that would have been 1979-11-04 more or less. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*