it can occur on your landline bill and your wireless bill. i think that needs to be dealt with in a technology neutral way. whether it is happening on the landline or happening in a wireless wave. >> this is the "communicators." our coverage of the cable show continues next week. as a reminder, if you'd like to view any of the tran-ones, you can go online to c-span.org/communicators. >> you're watching c-span 2 with politics and public affairs, weekdays, featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. on weeknights, watch key public policy than spend every weekend, the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules at our website, and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> in a few moments, a forum on the state of the european union. in little more than an hour and a half, we will continue to focus on europe within atlantic council discussion on the future of the euro. after that, coverage of the annual convention of the national cable and television association. next, a form on

now hardly anyone under the age of 35 uses a landline phone. be in a world soon where you will have to go into online and new technologies to reach people and it will be a real challenge for the industry. we're doing experimenting in this. you're not seeing results public yet because you experiment before you roll them out publicly. this is something that's going to be a change. what it means in practical terms is there will probably be in the next couple of election cycles more mistakes than we are used to. the way you perfect these technolotec techniques as you do a poll and compare it to what really happened. it's a change that's coming. something that we're working on and everyone else in the industry is working on in different ways to try to deal with this shift. in terms of what we're looking at, one of the -- it's similar to what i just heard but we tend and especially people in the city tend to talk about everything in terms of republicans versus democrats. the people who are undecided don't. the way that i describe it and police forgiv

as we get rid of those landlines we are exponentially increasing our salary -- cellular plan. we have our old previous fines and now we have data plans on the phones so the growth and expense in our technology and how much we are spending seems to be going up. i would love some -- like some backup information and if we are going down acellular path, what can we do to reduce expenses? i wonder how we plan to rule that out over time. we had put in the budget this past year money to invest in pursuing those contract projects. i do not have any sense of where those are and where the big ones that are left to be negotiated. can you provide that information for us? >> we will do that. we do have an active intern program where we have brought in insurance to work on various programs. on our website, maybe translation services are not perfect. we do maintain 60,000 web pages. we would get very literal direct translations of all those web pages after they were -- if departments cannot afford those specialized excellent translation services. we do work with departments to allow users to

to be told that, for instance, wireless and wireline -- or landline are allowing third parties to build. the problem with cramming. everybody probably knows about this. that is a problem where consumers find services on their freundel -- phone bill that they may be ordered or had a discussion about or maybe even never heard about. that is an inappropriate billing mechanism called cramming. that can occur both on your land line bill and on your wireless bill. that kind of consumer impact needs to be dealt with in a technology neutral way, whether it is happening on a land line or in a wireless space. >> this is "the communicators" on c-span. we have been talking with julie brill. we are on location at the 2012 cable show in boston. as for two members of the federal trade commission. our coverage continues next week. if you'd like to view any of "the communicators," you can go online to c- span.org/communicators. >> tomorrow, mark murray of nbc news will speak about tuesday's wisconsin recall election between scott walker and thomas barrett. then, one commentator from george washington un

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. >> i actually have a landline. you mean a telephone? >> it has a wire. here in washington, political stuff, thank god for caller id. >> one thing that you have not touched on, is the impact that the fact that people don't call anymore, don't answer, phone calls from numbers that they don't recognize has had on polling. we have not addressed the question on how accurate are they? given the same people refused to pa talk to pollsters. who are the people left they are very bored and lonely americans. with nothing better to do than talk to strangers. shouldn't we be re-evaluating? >> we are. we are hiring a firm that is doing it online. i'm sure that has it's own set of biases. but the industry has had to rethink the issue. >> people look at caller id and thirdly, i'm sure you have been robocalled. if you pick up the phone, and there's not somebody there right away, you hang right back up. i do. and i know most people do. poling has become more difficult is it less reliable? >> it is more difficult. >> how are you getting to the people who wouldn't otherwise

. -- a landline. [laughter] [applause] yes, it has a wire. >> but people don't call any more. >> spoke, yes, they do. clacks -- oh, yes, they do. >> thank god for caller id. [applause] >> there is something that we have not really touched on. it is the impact, the fact that people do not calling more or that we do not except phone calls from numbers that we don't recognize. it does not address the question how accurate they are really given that most sane people -- [laughter] i think there is a very small minority. they talk to strangers. >> i know a little bit about this because i am currently doing a poll. you have online panels. the polling industry has really had to rethink strategies pierre >> first of all, because people don't have landline sprint secondly, because i do look at caller id. if it is a number they don't know, they don't pick it up. i am sure you have all been robocalled. if you have been vulnerable and lonely and you pick up the phone and their is a pause because it is a robocall,

message on both sides people are sick of answering their phone frankly for those people who have landlines they say it's just been non stop whether it's polling whether it's asking for support asking for money so certainly that money money has played a big role for the residents of wisconsin and you know perhaps in some respects kind of a shady role too and there are some some reports today that people were getting robo calls saying that if you've already signed a recall petition don't worry you don't even need to come out and that's all we have time for tonight christine thanks for filling us in. about. right still to come tonight we have show and tell and will continue our discussion about the wisconsin recall elections after the break we'll get to you first take on the role that money is playing politics. sigrid laboratory tim curry was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why you should care about humans in the world this is why you should care only on the. down low the official ante up l

message on both sides people are sick of answering their phones frankly for those people who have landlines they say it's been non stop whether it's polling whether it's asking for support asking for money so certainly that money is money has played a big role for the residents of wisconsin and you know perhaps in some respects kind of a shady role to others and some reports today that people were getting robo calls saying that if you've already signed a recall petition and don't worry you don't even need to come out and vote that's all we have time for tonight christine thanks for filling us in. about. hyde sort of comes and i have show and tell i will continue our discussion about the wisconsin recall elections after the break we'll get to you first take on the role that money is playing politics. wealthy british soil. that's right in front of the. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on our. you're. right it's time for our show and talent to

emergency managers are upgrading the emergency alert system, allowing citizens to register their e-mail, landline phone, and mobile phones to receive information during times of crisis. >> it lets you decide a little more discreetly how you would like to receive information. we are very mobile society. we embrace technology. >> forecasters predict 9-15 storms hitting the u.s. during the 2012 hurricane season. it is expected that up to three of them will be classified as maj. it is good to be notified about things like that. >> as long as you get the information. >> you cannot have too much information. around here we have been dealing with the stain -- the same storm system that brought the severe weather friday. now we are on the less severe side of the storm. we were picking up severe thunderstorms and now on the back side of it, we are seeing showers working the way down from new england through pennsylvania. some of the wet weather in central pennsylvania may reach us overnight, especially the central and eastern part of the state. the area of low pressure sitting out over here is not in a hu

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and this is vtech, it lets you do landline and cell phone from the same device.f you put this where your signal is strongest in your home, it pulls the signal to the rest of your house. so it actually increasing your cell phone coverage inside your house, very smart from vtech. finally over here we've got the onstar fmv. now onstar, you know, gm cars have onstar, this great talking system for directions and what not. this can go into any car now, a ford, 0 honda. $100, includes installation, turn by turn guidance and crash response. >> your rear-view mirror. it's amazing. $100. >> you have a new show on. >> "invention hunters." mondays, 9:00 this episode is one of my favorites, if you haven't seen the show before, this is the week to watch. >> all about kitchen gadgets. >> our search for the next great kitchen gadget, we found some good ones this week, so i'm hoping people tune in. >> steve, thank you for joining us for great father's day ideas. >>> coming up next half hour of "news4 midday." a new push to stop distracted driving. we break down the national initi

hardly anyone under 35 ever uses a landline phone. be in a world soon where you will have to go on line and into new technologies to reach people. this is going to be a real challenge for the industry. we are doing a lot of experimenting. they are not public, because you experiment first. this is something that is going to be a change. what it means, in practical terms, is there will probably be, in the next couple of election cycles, more mistakes than we are used to. you perfect these mistakes by doing a poll and comparing it to what really happened. that is a change that is coming. it is something everybody in the industry is working on in different ways to try to deal with the shift. in terms of what we are looking at, it is mi

-- and the landline that is connected into a wall? can they hack into those things? host: why are you scared? what makes you nervous? caller: my children and grandchildren in the school system do not know how to use the books. they use the ipad. they flip this little doohick ey. they get lost. they don't let me take a book home. now their personal information is logged in through the school system in all of this stuff. the child does not know how to protect those things. if it is taken, it is gone. host: let's get a response to those concerned about privacy and the prevalence of computers. also a question about what is connected to the grid. entirely cleart on what kind of machine she was asking about in the first part of her question. i think it is safe to say that almost any new technology that creates considerable new convenience is also collecting a great deal of information about whatever habits are associated with the convenience that it is increasing. so, smart grids are one of the -- and smart meters on our energy system are beginning to be integrated here an

they don't take telephone calls but maybe they don't have a land loan cash to a landline at home. what's most important thing in life? they have become technologically savvy so to think of this for any campaign that is just targeting younger voters is wrong because that might have been true fighters ago or 10 years ago. not anymore. if you go around the country to see different campaigns are better at it but they all learn. it's like any competitive business. someone is doing something right, you borrow their idea. >> twitter, facebook, google, old school innocents. they been around for a couple of years. what's new? what are you keeping your eye on? >> all of those. aggregation. you say they are new but people are using them in different ways. i think that even facebook, that campaign through their facebook pages. what i watch for is -- i'm a democratic and organizing tactic what's fascinating most is how to turn people out. how are they committing in spanish language but are they communicating different in the west than they are in these? how are they communicate to older voters

it would include calls that were transacted through a mobile phone as well as a landline phone.>> not someone like mr. murdoch. i would always go through diamond street. he would always want someone on the phone call. you would want to have a record of what was being said. and you want to know exactly the time you did the call and everything else. there's no question that any phone call could have been made without it going through this procedure. >> it says, if for some deliberate reason they didn't want to record of what was said, that might be a reason for arranging the call to take place without going through diamond street. >> i would never have done that. if i was calling a newspaper proprietor or i was calling a political leader around the world or calling someone about a policy issue, i would always go through diamond street because i would always want someone on the call to verify what happened. i don't think there is any doubt that there content that is what i did things come and in that is the way to most people i know would be doing things. there is no call that woul