"Better hope your technorights-based lawsuit doesn't make it all the way to the US Court of Last Resort, because these august judges might not have a freakin' clue of what's going on. Turns out they don't know the difference between email and a pager, among other things. In a case that looked into whether a Cali PD violated the personal rights of an employee by reviewing personal text messages (i.e. "sext messages") sent by an employee on a department-owned paper, the black-cloaked set displayed a stunning disconnect from basic technology, asking such questions as what's the difference between "email and a pager" (thank you Judge Roberts) and what would happen if a text message was sent to a popo while he was responding to someone else. "Does it say, "Your call is important to us and we'll get back to you?" queried Justice Kennedy. Hey, their lack of familiarity with the issue at hand only lends to their objectivity, right?" http://consumerist.com/2010/04/supreme-court-doesnt-know-difference-between-email-and-a-pager.html
I doubt he was asking the question how you may be inferring, I am sure they know what the difference in device is... but perhaps asking for where the distinction is between say email, voice mail, SMS, MMS, twitter posts, facebook post, phone calls, talking to each other on the playground with a string between two cans... etc... is. SMS and MMS are two separate things... but you could say they are the same. My guess is the question was along those lines.
Wait--I've been waiting for the internet to deliver my text messages on a big truck. You're saying it's a series of tubes, now? That can be clogged by enormous amounts of material?
This. I read the question to mean, "we have all kinds of precedents and case law related to pagers, how should those precedents be considered with respect to email and text messaging?" The key thing that binds these things together is electronic messaging.
They haven't said yet. Lopez Tonight is filmed in Burbank @ WB Studios, so odds are they will do "The Conan O'Brien Show" (working title) there as well. It would be a few miles away from NBC Studios in Burbank which would make it easier for everyone involved on the show rather than shipping everyone back to NYC. I imagine most of them were just finally getting settled, buying homes, etc. when the plug was pulled. Its also easier to get guests in LA than NYC.
I saw that on the news! Nice to know some tech savvy people are shaping the future of this nation! lol. Savvy they are not. One would think by now they would know what an email is and what a pager is.
