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Looks like either someone decided to play a prank or by some odd coincidence The Buzzer went offline just now: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/06/06/032235/My

• pyre 16y ago
  "Chances are, it's a power failure. The area reportedly had a significant storm yesterday. It's possible that the power failed and that they didn't have enough fuel or battery capacity or whatever to keep it running during an extended outage. That would also neatly explain why it reportedly came back and has reportedly died again." http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1676500&cid=32473652 http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1676500&cid=324... Sounds like it might not be a dead-man's switch if it just takes a large storm to knock it out.
  • thorax 16y ago
    When I heard about this long ago, I assumed it was just a mechanism they used to remotely monitor some equipment was still running without having to have staff on premises there. Probably remotely detecting power outage or damage was precisely what this is sort of thing was for.