Re: Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 3/12/19 3:39 PM, William Herrin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:50 PM <valdis.kletnieks () vt edu 
> <mailto:valdis.kletnieks () vt edu>> wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 13:45:23 -0700, William Herrin said:
> > > In many cases, only the foreground app has a clear understanding 
> of the
> > > state of the screen. Not the OS and definitely not the hardware 
> platform.
> > > I'd be super pissed if I died in Overwatch because the BIOS tried 
> to take
> > > over the screen to display an amber alert.
> >
> > Would you be super pissed if you died  for real because Overwatch 
> suppressed a
> > tornado or other severe weather alert relevant to your location?  
> Serious
> > question here.
>
> I'd prefer if my computer's BIOS didn't talk to the network at all, 
> that being far more likely to open a path for malware than to save me 
> from a tornado. Some things just have "bad idea" written all over 
> them. Serious answer.
What's with perpetuating the thought that it needs to be in the bios? 
It's just a normal app on a normal computer like Biff.

Mike