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Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study
From: Billy Crook <BCrook () unrealservers net>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 21:08:06 -0600
On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 4:13 PM Matt Hoppes < mattlists () rivervalleyinternet net> wrote:
How would that even work? Force a pop up into web traffic? What if the end users is using an app on a phone?
Mitch please.... If YouTube can mash back-to-back unskippable ads on demand into content, they can put an emergency alert in there, and I bet people would like them more than the ads. Just give users the ability to select what categories/severities they want to see, so I don't get disrupted every time there's a scary rain storm coming or some divorcee is behind on child-support. On a technical note (having read the comment about overloading the system) could a system like DNS help handle this? i.e. put the alerts in TXT records. every playback device can check for them at the US, state, county level. The TXT record links to an https JSON/XML with more detail, link to video. ISPs cache them to reduce load, TTLs prevent unnecessary traffic because everybody respects those.... Maybe the endpoints don't even query the federal records, but the county records instead, which mirror any relevant state and federal records, and counties that are too 'rural' just get managed by their state. I dug into how the actual emergency alerts in my area work many years ago and I could swear machine-formatted email was involved, at least regarding weather alerts. Then again how many people would benefit from adding this to online streaming, but don't already have cellphones that have emergency alert popups that get their attention. The kind of people who don't have smartphones are going to be the ones still watching bunny ears television anyway. In other words, you're not going to reach the people who *don't *have smartphones by ADDING more technology. Solution, seeking problem which explains why it's coming out of the federal government. Can't we just scrap it and have that tax money back please, mkay? How about we NOT build another mechanism for the government to incite panic? Did we learn nothing from 2020?
Current thread:
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study, (continued)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Masataka Ohta (Jan 04)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Brandon Martin (Jan 04)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Masataka Ohta (Jan 04)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Mike Hammett (Jan 04)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Jason Canady (Jan 04)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Masataka Ohta (Jan 04)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Mike Hammett (Jan 04)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Masataka Ohta (Jan 04)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Brandon Martin (Jan 05)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Masataka Ohta (Jan 06)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Chris Adams (Jan 04)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Richard Porter (Jan 04)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Jay R. Ashworth (Jan 04)
- Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study Mike Hammett (Jan 05)