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FEMA sending out Presidential Alert today nationwide
- Thread starter Soriku
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That's your signal to get to the chopper for extraction.
You may already be too late though.
It reminded me of those wonderfully annoying and terrifying tv alerts I ran away from as a small child in the early '80s.
Lmao I'm hearing someone's go off just a minute ago. If there was an actual emergency they would've been screwed.
Depends. When they wrote the laws to govern it, they made it illegal to use it for non-emergency purposes. It's essentially supposed to be a version of the nationwide EAS for your phones (presidents have had the ability to use the national EAS system for emergencies for a while but that only covered radio and TV).
It actually blew out some people's mics while on the Skype meeting and they had to rejoin.
I got 4 in a row while working. Fuck off with this. I don't want Trump's shitty paging system on my phone.
I'm all for critisizing him, but testing services like this are necessary. Pick your battles.
You should document this and send it to FEMA for feedback. Seriously. I think it's important we make sure these kinds of systems are tested properly in the event of an actual emergency. https://www.fema.gov/emergency-alert-testOkay, wtf is happening...
I am surprised that with all the custom firmwares on Android and iOS jailbreaks, there are no ways to disable these mandatory alerts.
time get a new cellphone yours got infected with trump-wareOkay, wtf is happening...
Labeling it presidential alert is stupid, but testing the alert system is an overall good.
They've been working on coordinating between the different carriers and such for about 3 years. It's not the worst idea in the world.
The problem is that we're directly associating it with the current president. It should just be a "National" or "Nationwide" alert.
"There are presently three categories of alerts sent through WEA: imminent threat alerts about threatening emergencies in an area including extreme weather, AMBER alerts, and Presidential alerts about emergencies of national consequence. Users may opt out of receiving alerts in the imminent threat and AMBER categories but cannot opt out of receiving Presidential alerts."
Sounds necessary to me.
People are getting crazy about this shit. This isn't Trump trying to tweet you directly on your phone. The laws behind this date back to the 1930s.
(unrelated, FEMA's incorrect use of the word "presently" in that quote bugs the shit out of me)
Nothing to do with the system test, but just based on probabilities, its safe to assume that he hates you.
A nationwide service from the president? For what? In case Independence Day becomes reality? There are already localized emergency alerts on phones.