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Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp ris... by krapp on Friday May 04, 2018 @06:44PM (#16999037)
>If a building shuts down it's fire warning systems and blocks the fire exits for a week because of some construction work, that doesn't mean that they should just be removed because obviously they are not needed.

Do fire alarms have a 95% failure rate? Because the TSA does.

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Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp ris... by 4ad on Saturday May 05, 2018 @08:48AM (#17001591)
Going on a tangent here...

I don't know the failure rate of building file alarms, but the damn ceiling alarms seem to have a failure rate of 99.99%. We don't use those in Europe, and every time I travel to the US I get frustrated beyond belief how they scream at me every time I cook or take a shower.

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Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp ris... by orf on Sunday May 06, 2018 @08:09AM (#17006103)
We use them in the UK, but they are sensitive to only smoke particles in the air and not heat.
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