On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, Matt Erculiani wrote:
Linking relevant past thread about devices that don't alert for
emergencies and, of course, a heated debate on if they should:
https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-March/199721.html
Yep. I'm not naive. I keep saying something, because one
Isn’t this a better topic for CNet as opposed to NANOG?
Chuck
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ITechGeek
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2020 4:12 PM
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Subject: Re: Wildfires: Reminder smart devices don't include emergency warnings
while streaming
At least cell phones h
Yo ITechGeek!
On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 16:11:48 -0400
ITechGeek wrote:
> At least cell phones have a reliable way to know where they are at any
> given moment.
Only when the cell towers are working. Early on in the Santiam Fire
the cell towers went down early. With the telephone poles.
The Santia
I would trust it more than not getting an alert.
Especially if it started with something along the lines of "There is a
tornado warning for Springfield and North Haberbrook" and I had enough
brain cells to know what city I was in.
-A
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 1:14 PM ITechGeek wrote:
> At least c
At least cell phones have a reliable way to know where they are at any
given moment. Would you really trust providers sending out emergency
notifications based on something like GeoIP or based on the zipcode on the
account?
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On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, William Herrin wrote:
tl;dr: keep your cell phone on and with you 'cause only a few things
get emergency alerts and only when they're turned on.
You sound like the CTIA in the 2000s when it was opposed to requiring
emergency alerts on cell phones. "Its unnecessary to requ
Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Alphabet Android TV executives don't see a
need to support emergency alerts on their products.
You can enable severe weather alerts on both google home and Alexia. But I
get the point.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 2:58 PM Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> As some of the largest wi
Linking relevant past thread about devices that don't alert for
emergencies and, of course, a heated debate on if they should:
https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-March/199721.html
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 1:24 PM William Herrin wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 11:58 AM Sean Donelan
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 11:58 AM Sean Donelan wrote:
> you won't get emergency alerts on those streaming devices.
> Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Alphabet Android TV executives don't see a
> need to support emergency alerts on their products.
Also worth noting that you won't get emergency alerts o
As some of the largest wildfires burn along the West Coast, and over
500,000 people evacuate, a reminder that streaming devices do not
include local emergency alerts. Cord-cutters using Alphabet Android TV,
Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV "smart" devices should remember they don't have
emergency al
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