SMS to emergency services in Sweden is still alive. It has a registration requirement, though.

Location accuracy isn't good enough just to make a voice call and hope for the best without further communication. A case like this was recently documented by the Seattle authorities, where the location was off by four blocks, and the disabled victim was only saved by the fact that the parents were able to call 9-1-1 and give the precise location.

Most deaf and hard of hearing people do not use TTYs anymore. Many now use video and captioned telephone relay services, but 9-1-1 calls through relay services suck, to put it mildly. Call routing doesn't work well for these situations, and there are many documented cases of introducing 5-10 minute delays before the call is finally connected to the emergency responders. Compare that to sub-10 second response times for the majority of voice calls.

No, it likely won't. The reason it works for voice calls is that the standards are established for "non-service initialized phones." There is no equivalent for SMS, and it is doubtful whether there will be any incentive to make this happen for a technology that already is on its way out.

Black Hawk County in Iowa has been offering text-to-911 for quite a while. The public safety answering point says that call volume has not been a problem for them. In fact, they have been urging more carriers to join this program.

Meanwhile, people get hurt or die because they are unable to make a voice call to 9-1-1. The deaf, hard of hearing, and speech impaired are in a situation right now where they effectively have no access to 9-1-1 - almost no one uses TTYs anymore, and on wireless these TTYs do not work well anyway.

That will be part of next-generation 9-1-1 services. Check out the NENA i3 specification and standards. But the rollout of next generation 9-1-1 is still 5-10 years in the future at a minimum.

The problem is that we have 6200 public safety answering points in the USA under state and local jurisdiction. Many of these don't have the funds to upgrade their equipment to receive SMS, and for a fair number of them it likely is not possible to get the funds anytime soon. That doesn't leave many options. One of the possibilities that has been raised is to implement an SMS to TTY gateway, with all the limitations that this entails.

10. e5 is one of the lines in the Poisoned Pawn variation, so I was assuming that he was referring to this one.

Like a Tamagotchi, Gentoo will roll over and die if you do not tend to its needs on a daily basis.

Don't get me wrong, I loved this distribution while I used it, but at some point maintenance became too time-consuming, let alone the risk of stuff breaking right before an important deadline.

hg rollback will show the affected files as modified in your working directory. You can commit again straight from this point.It's one of the most frequent reasons why I use it: i commit, then realize that I forgot a modification or have to add one more file. hg rollback will let me do that.

I won't let me merge multiple past commits, though.