{"id":34,"date":"2005-05-27T11:36:26","date_gmt":"2005-05-27T10:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pgregg.com\/wp\/2005\/05\/skype-founder-from-a-distant-planet\/"},"modified":"2005-05-27T11:36:26","modified_gmt":"2005-05-27T10:36:26","slug":"skype-founder-from-a-distant-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/skype-founder-from-a-distant-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype founder from a distant planet."},"content":{"rendered":"

Skype is panicing about being forced to offer 999 or 911 emergency telephony services. Skype responded to a demand in Norway by turning off links to the PSTN networks and their founder Niklas Zennstr\ufffdm said "When there is a burglar in my house, I don\ufffdt want to call the police; I want to email or IM them. The burglar may hear my voice!"<\/p>\n

Utter tosh… if there’s a burglar in my house while I’m in it, I want to hit them with a baseball bat and then call the police.  Or other medical\/fire emergency I’ll also want to SPEAK with the operator. The conversation is most definately going to be a two way thing – hopefully with the operator giving useful advice on the situation to manage it until the qualified people arrive.  Doing this while sitting and typing it out on a computer is just silly.<\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/05\/26\/skype_911\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Reminds me of, back in 1993ish, in an online "room" a girl asked people to call 911 because her violent ex-boyfriend was banging on her door. She couldn’t do it herself because her internet connection was using the phone line.   Well d’uh – you deserve a beating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Skype is panicing about being forced to offer 999 or 911 emergency telephony services. Skype responded to a demand in Norway by turning off links to the PSTN networks and their founder Niklas Zennstr\ufffdm said "When there is a burglar in my house, I don\ufffdt want to call the police; I want to email or … <\/p>\n

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