18th August 2005, 9:30 AM
To etovan: And how does that work exactly? If the internet is down, how do the calls get to your router? Further, if it's as far as your router, and therefor in your house, what's stopping it from just going straight to the phone lines? Basically what I'm saying is, what sort of network outage isn't really a network outage?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)