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A Microsoft scripting language that is embedded in many Microsoft applications. Although it allows for powerful interoperability and functionality, it also creates a great deal of security risks unless it is tightly controlled.
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VBScript - In article , Jack Decker wrote:<-----much material snipped-----> Please remember that the cellular telephone industry was around for two or three decades before they were expected to comply with E911, and they still haven't completely got it right. VoIP is a new technology and I'm not saying we can't come up with some way to make sure that most VoIP calls to 911 get routed to the correct 911 center most of the time. But, that's going to require technology that may not yet have been developed, and it may also require the 911 centers to actually invest in a little new technology. NASUCA just wants everything their way, and they don't care if it restricts customer choice or forces VoIP companies out of business. All I can say is, they do not represent me nor my views.Interesting comments, interesting problem (as per the old saying, "Mayyou live in interesting times").Would it make any sense in the (somewhat) long run to envision a world(or at least a U.S.) in which* Telephony in the current sense becomes converted totally to theInternet, and becomes just a minor part of the TCP/IP data that flowsfrom everywhere to everywhere, from anyone's temporary broadbandconnection at home, office, or the local Starbucks to anyone else'sbroadband connection, wherever they are and however they make thatbroadband connection. (Sure seems to me that's going to happen, andrapidly, in any case.)* But, suppose the current local telco physical plant -- that is, thecopper wires that come from current local telco offices to physicallocations, like your home or office -- also remain in existence and inoperation, but they no longer do any telephony or switching or person toperson or point to point communications in the existing sense.* Rather, this plant, and its future extensions, are converted more orless totally into simple but vital safety, alarm, monitoring andsignalling applications.In other words,* You continue to have (in most cases) *one pair* (maybe more) running(unshared) from your residence, office, etc, to the nearest local formertelco office -- but the purpose of that wire is no longer telephony, orcommunications.* Rather, although these pairs may be (and in the near term mostly willbe) the same pairs that already exist, they'll no longer be used ormaintained by "the phone company" but by a new company or agency whosetotal business is to be a connection point and to provide a hard-wiredlink signalling link between your physical location and a variety ofpublic safety and other local agencies and businesses.* One of the primary services on this pair in fact could be a "new 911"that's directly connected to emergency call buttons you have at variousplaces around the house -- along with the emergency button that yourelderly parent has on their wrist or pinned to their clothing, and maybea link to the cordless phones on the VOIP box that's in your house(which has a physical connection to the pair so long as it is in yourhouse). Punch the button, the local office sees the signal, andtransmits the info about this (but does NOT make any kind of two-wayconnection) to the appropriate local agency.(Actually for 911, but not other services, maybe it does make a voicelink.)* The local office of this new agency is of course connected inreliable fashion (though smart switches, and with appropriate batterybackup) to the appropriate local police or public safety departments.* This "new 911" can in fact be an "extended 911" that's alsohard-wired to the intelligent smoke and temperature detectors aroundyour residence, while the local agency office is of course appropriatelywired to the local fire department. Temp rises, smoke alarms go off,and the local agency lets the fire department know.* Your local power utility, working with and through this new localagency, can now read your electric and gas meters over this line --meaning a simpler design for the smart meters, which no longer need tocope with the phone system -- and, incidentally,
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