Re: Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>]

I’ve had issues with the amber alerts repeating or coming in from adjacent states because “reasons”. When they repeat 
for days/hours ugh. 

I do agree most people have devices. If there is a reasonable API method to fetch them then great. 

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> On Mar 8, 2019, at 7:51 PM, Clayton Zekelman <clayton () mnsi net> wrote:
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> Absolutely, we need public emergency alerting.  What we don't need is every alert to go out mandatory highest level 
> sound the klaxon, can't be blocked, even when it's an "all clear" cancelling a previous alert, and is being sent in 
> the middle of the night.
>
> That's the system that has been foisted upon us here.   I'm all for emergency alerting, but please make sure it's a 
> real emergency.
>
> At least in the US version, they target the region affected, and code it with the appropriate alert level instead of 
> sending alerts to people 1400 km away.
>
> https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/05/14/first-emergency-alert-sets-off-phones-ontario-wide-following-thunder-bay-amber-alert.html
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> At 07:43 PM 08/03/2019, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > Canada made a lot of improvements with its alert implementation.  It got to see all the things the U.S. did wrong. 
> > Unfortuantely, Canada also copied some wrong lessons from the the U.S. version.
> >
> > South Korea probably has the most ludicrous emergency alerts in the world.
> >
> > While improvements are needed, the various alert systems have saved people's lives.
> >
> > > On Fri, 8 Mar 2019, Clayton Zekelman wrote:
> > > Just wait until your connected home speakers, smart smoke detector, smart
> > > refrigerator, smart tv, cell phone, IP streaming box, satellite receiver,
> > > cable box, home security panel and your Fitbit all go off warning you of the
> > > cancellation of an Amber alert at 1:30am, because the good folks at
> > > AlertReady.Ca and Pelmorex think that everything needs to go out at highest
> > > precedence, because, well, think of the children!
>
> -- 
>
> Clayton Zekelman
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> 3363 Tecumseh Rd. E
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