| Phone lines ready for 2012 NORAD Tracks Santa (Phone #) N O T E This is being posted to provide the phone number that kids can call ....to the Santa Trackers ______________________________________________________ PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. - Volunteers are pulling on their Santa hats, phone lines are in place and wall-size tracking screens are ready. NORAD Tracks Santa is primed for its 57th annual goodwill mission. The first shift of Santa trackers starts taking calls early Monday at 877-HI-NORAD (877-446-6723), telling children , and some adults , when Santa is due at their house. The last shift won't end until nearly 24 hours later. » www.philly.com/philly/news/natio···nta.html______________________________________________________ See Also: Santa Get Tracked: by StuartMW » Santa get tracked.... |
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| That's most awesome 
(From a technical standpoint, I can't fathom the amount of phone traffic this will generate, let alone how many people must be manning this operation)
Well done! |
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nonymousPremium
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Its NORAD so maybe just one intelligent computer is manning all the phone lines. |
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Are they tracking him with cookies he gets?  |
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And it all got started by a typo... so many years ago:
»govbooktalk.gpo.gov/2012/12/17/n···tracker/
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That just compounded the awesome!
WIN! |
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" And it all got started by a typo... so many years ago: "
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Oh but there was a bit of magic in the air that night......was it really a typo....hmmm,
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Edited: repeat post |
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Google seems to have its own Santa tracker.
»www.google.com/santatracker/
I bet they use the cookies on the sleigh  I guess Santa doesn't know about clearing his cookies.
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darciliciousCyber LibrarianPremium
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| Yes, for the first time this year (as mentioned in the article )
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Santa goes mobile… and Global!
[UPDATE DECEMBER 2012]:For Christmas 2012 Google is stepping aside to make room for other companies to help track Santa. Said a NORAD spokesperson: “This year, NTS and Google mutually agreed to go in new directions, and we are excited to welcome a number of new contributors, to include Microsoft, Windows Azure, Bing, and iLink-systems, among others, to help us in our mission of tracking Santa.“
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said by vaxvms:Are they tracking him with cookies he gets?
I'm sure Google is using cookies (as they do for everyone). NORAD seems to use EMI from Rudolph's nose.
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Santa’s journey differs on Google, Microsoft trackers
Where's Waldo Santa? 
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said by vaxvms:Are they tracking him with cookies he gets?
He doesn't accept cookies...only brownies with milk. He's gone high tech. |
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said by vaxvms:Are they tracking him with cookies he gets?
Internet cookies? |
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They told my daughter he was in New Hampshire and would be here in about an hr. Then the news said he was just spotted in Australia |
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| Obviously NORAD was right, and the new was wrong.
(Damn timezones can be confusing, my in-laws are in Sweden and, even worse, my sister is in Australia, fun "times" ha ha!)
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Multiple clocks in Vista/Win7/Win8 |
»www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Also if you're using Vista or above you can configure two additional clocks to show you the date/time in other timezones.
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| Oh, they're not confusing for *me* I dealt with my then future husband being 9 hours ahead like it was clockwork (ha ha) when he was still living in Sweden. Nothing like coming home from work, taking a nap until it was time to chat with the guy
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| Ahhh. And I'm sure you've had to covert to/from miles/kilometers and Fahrenheit/Celsius
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The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Computer Networks, 2nd ed., p. 254
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| Pretty much! (Well the temp more the an the mileage )
(It's the in-laws that are the problem -- it's always lovely getting a phone call at 5a because it's 2p for them!)
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