Cell phone number errors

[Jamie]

I tried several times to dial a number from my cell phone tonight
that was given to me, each time it came up with a number that does not
exist.
Finally, the party called me and I explain this to them, they assured
me it was correct and had some one there call it with their cell phone
and it worked. So I grabbed my wife's phone, and that too, won't make a
connection.
I am a Verison customer and the other party I think is a AT&T customer.
Is there some know problem with phone numbers coming up brain dead to
some services?

P.S.

I also tried my house phone which is with AT&T, same problem but
Like I said, they had some one in their home dial the number and it
worked. so, go fing.

Jamie

 

[tm]

Try a one (1) in front of the number.

 

[John S]

Pay your phone bills? Check to make sure that you don't have a brain
tumor scrambling your language centers?

Voted best answer! Woo hoo!

 

[Martin Brown]

I tried several times to dial a number from my cell phone tonight
that was given to me, each time it came up with a number that does not
exist.
Finally, the party called me and I explain this to them, they assured
me it was correct and had some one there call it with their cell phone
and it worked. So I grabbed my wife's phone, and that too, won't make a
connection.
I am a Verison customer and the other party I think is a AT&T customer.
Is there some know problem with phone numbers coming up brain dead to
some services?

P.S.

I also tried my house phone which is with AT&T, same problem but
Like I said, they had some one in their home dial the number and it
worked. so, go fing.

Jamie

They forgot to give you a part of their number?
The bit at the start that means AT&T.

 

[PeterD]

I tried several times to dial a number from my cell phone tonight
that was given to me, each time it came up with a number that does not
exist.
Finally, the party called me and I explain this to them, they assured
me it was correct and had some one there call it with their cell phone
and it worked. So I grabbed my wife's phone, and that too, won't make a
connection.
I am a Verison customer and the other party I think is a AT&T customer.
Is there some know problem with phone numbers coming up brain dead to
some services?

P.S.

I also tried my house phone which is with AT&T, same problem but
Like I said, they had some one in their home dial the number and it
worked. so, go fing.

Jamie

Forgot the area code?

 

[Jamie]

While I doubt that system updates take any appreciable time nowadays,
your problem reminded me of a similar problem I once had: Back in the
70s I could not dial some new phone numbers from work. The explanation
was that the new exchanges had to be programmed into the PBX. Dialing
from home, I had no difficulty, presumably becase the CO recognized
the existence of the new exchanges.

Problem solved.//

She has one of those dual phone systems with 2 numbers. One is a
general purpose number that she pays her self and is full access the
other number is paid by the business and that is how they get directly
connected with her or any one else on that same service. That service
requires a list of numbers that are acceptable. She happens to have her
family members on that list so they can call either number.


Jamie

 

[Jamie]

Pay your phone bills? Check to make sure that you don't have a brain
tumor scrambling your language centers?

Hmm, with a come back like that, I wonder how your health is lately?
Mental health that is.

It just so happens the problem was an incorrect phone number, even
though the number that was given to me was valid. It was a secondary
number used for the business and business members only and needs to have
my number added before it'll work. The full access number worked just
fine and goes to the same phone, the difference is, she pays that part
of the bill.


Jamie

 

[Jamie]

Actually, I lost both my father and my favorite uncle (his brother) to
gliomas. Both of them, as the tumors were eating their brains, would
lose distinct portions of their skills, one by one.

For my uncle, one of the first overt signs of neural degradation was that
he lost individual letters of the alphabet.

For my father (much to his disgust), he lost the ability to recognize
numerals, and with it the ability to have any sense of what time of day
it was.

Both of them went on to lose other abilities -- one of the
characteristics of glial cells is that they provide the framework on
which neurons are supported, so they tend to have a long, filamentary
character. Gliomas corrupt this into having a growth habit of growing
long, hair-like fibers through the sufferer's brain that essentially
short-circuit and destroy the neurons in their paths. So when one has a
glioma one gets to enjoy having ones mental abilities steadily
deteriorate over the course of a year or so, with pretty much nothing
available to stand in the way.

I wasn't so close to my uncle in his last few months, but I know that my
father experienced loss of vision in patches, with patches occasionally
coming back in the wrong places in his visual field.

So I have experience with that sort of thing that comes much closer than
I ever wanted it to.

Sorry to hear about your family members departing in such a way. At
least you know how they past, for me, I lost my mother on New Years
eve and they really don't know what she died of? Even though she made
frequent doctor and hospital visits, the only thing she ever complained
about was a pain in her stomach. However, they never found anything?

She just slowly got weaker as the days went on and finally when her
fingers and toes started curly up and she wasn't eating, I guess that
was when they called the family.

I wasn't there when she actually past, mainly because I was informed
of her condition kind of late. You see I live 350 miles from where she was.

For all you spooks, earlier that day before I had any news of this,
at exactly 2:45 PM, what the clock on my stove said, I got very agitated
for some unknown reason and just could not make up my mind what I wanted
to do. So I jumped in my Jeep and took a ride to the pet store to get
some food for my dog. Later after chinese that night, I got the call and
her passing time was at 2:45 PM. Kind of strange, taint it?

All she wanted to know just prior to her passing was to make sure
they had called me. Shortly after, she was gone. The other strange part
to this is how she was talking about some long past family member
telling her it was ok. That is weird, too.

Jamie

 

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It sounds like the brain was attempting to "rewire"
around the damage but got the intended location
wrong in the process.

Very sad stories but that detail is intriguing.

My brother had a series of strokes about ten years ago. In the process of the
brain rewiring itself, the nerve that serves the right side of his body got
"confused" with the one to his heart. If he's bumped on his right side, he
drops to the floor, unconscious. He has had a pacemaker-defibrillator put in,
which helps, but it still ruins his day.

All of us have a central blind spot right in front
of us, but our brain fills it in so we never
conciously see it. Some peripheral vision
seems to be similarly reassembled subconciously.

You can see it but, yes, the brain attempts to fill in that space using
information from the other eye. There is a reason the spot isn't centered,
too.

It's tempting to reverse anthropomorphize your
father's rewired visual patches to see the
symptom in terms of an electronic system, except
self repairing systems aren't very common, at
least not yet.

Redundancy is. ECC is, in a way, "self healing". Memory arrays often are
"self healing", as well. Telephone networks? There are many examples of
"self" healing electronic systems.

There are so many kinds of organic failures
and diseases conspiring to end our lives that
it's incredible to me how many people make
it to their 90's with their wits intact.

There are *so* many people. ;-)

If you reverse anthropomorphize our entire body
the level of complexity would reach a point that
the expected failure rate would approach 100%.
We are totally at the mercy of the self-repair
functions in our body.

Well, it's pretty obvious that without an immune system we couldn't survive.

The practice of medicine is still pathetic
and primitive compared to the complexity of
our body.

I think it's rather amazing what's already been accomplished and it's
accelerating (if Obamacare doesn't kill advancements completely). Indeed, I
think it's rather amazing that any drugs work without poisoning the host.

Condolences, Mr. Wescott.

Agreed.

 

[josephkk]

I can't put my finger on the article (I think it was in IEEE Spectrum a
decade or more ago), but at one points some reliability engineers did a
study on death rates in humans at various ages.

They tried fitting various curves to the available data, and nothing did
until they started with the assumption of a massively redundant system
that starts from day 1 with a number of pre-existing failures -- then
they quickly got the curves to fit exactly.

It's a powerful result, and intuitively obvious when you think about it.


Yea verily. If you're a Trekkie, think back to "The City on the Edge of
Forever", and remember McCoy's comment about 20th century medicine.


It's been long enough that the pain is a memory, and both my father and
my uncle spent very little time in the really gruesome part at the end
where you're at the mercy of your caregivers and an increasingly-failing
body.

I'd much rather have that happen to me than to get whacked in the head
tomorrow and spend the next 40 years drooling in an institution somewhere.

Well understood. My family has always been about reasonable quality of
life of life instead of maximum extension of life.

?-)