To be fair, I've used the rogue BIOS excuse in quite a few Overwatch matches, and nobody buys it. So even if it did happen at this point, nobody would believe you.
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 4:47 PM William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 11:57 AM Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> wrote: > > Yes, that's exactly my point: it should just be a requirement of the > > hardware platform to implement this. Just like e911. Enumerating the > > types of devices that are required to implement this is way easier than > > enumerating the types of apps/sites that need to implement it. All the > > government needs to do is set up the server infrastructure to source the > > alerts. > > Hi Mike, > > 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. > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > -- > William Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us > Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/> >
