Public emergency alert - being sent to your phone
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Brilliant idea, brings back a bit of nostalgia for the Cold War, in particular the 80's. Everyone knew it could kick off, but nobody cared.
It would be brilliant if your phone made an air raid siren noise when one of these alerts land, and then started playing Two Tribes by Frankie goes to Hollywood (which has the air raid siren intro built in). When the alert status when back to normal, they could inform us by playing Relax by travelling Frankie & co. too.
"WARNING: the sun has got his hat on, so should you and some factor 50, hip hip hooray"
"WARNING: some girls are bigger than others and some girls mothers are bigger than other girls mothers"
"WARNING: may contain nuts"
"WARNING: always read the label"
"WARNING: a gamma ray burst has been detected and all life on earth will end in sixteen minutes"
"WARNING: can you hear, can you hear the thunder, you'd better run, you'd better take cover"
"WARNING: love is a battlefield"
It would be brilliant if your phone made an air raid siren noise when one of these alerts land, and then started playing Two Tribes by Frankie goes to Hollywood (which has the air raid siren intro built in). When the alert status when back to normal, they could inform us by playing Relax by travelling Frankie & co. too.
"WARNING: the sun has got his hat on, so should you and some factor 50, hip hip hooray"
"WARNING: some girls are bigger than others and some girls mothers are bigger than other girls mothers"
"WARNING: may contain nuts"
"WARNING: always read the label"
"WARNING: a gamma ray burst has been detected and all life on earth will end in sixteen minutes"
"WARNING: can you hear, can you hear the thunder, you'd better run, you'd better take cover"
"WARNING: love is a battlefield"
voyds9 said:
EmailAddress said:
voyds9 said:
I'm happy to get messages for likely to be life saving. Things like biblical floods, earthquakes, meteor crashes, zombie attacks
The whole thing is an oxymoron.If I can do something about it, it's not important enough to be nominated as an emergency or to be big brother-busting alerted by the government's grubby little paws into my device.
If it is an actual emergency, what the actual f
k am I going to do about it!I'd rather live in ignorance of the apocalypse. It's not like I can even give the Post Mistress a quick knobbing for the end of the World in our last five minutes on Earth as the nearest Post Office is a 15minute drive away.
Turned it off. No biggie
Kinda defeats the object though, no? If this alert is so important that 68m people have to have it, surely I shouldn't be able to? If it's warning me of a bit of rain, I can look out the window
How much tinfoil is required to link this to escalating tensions with China or Russia? Or even meteorites? (Separate Daily Mail thread running)
Kinda defeats the object though, no? If this alert is so important that 68m people have to have it, surely I shouldn't be able to? If it's warning me of a bit of rain, I can look out the window
How much tinfoil is required to link this to escalating tensions with China or Russia? Or even meteorites? (Separate Daily Mail thread running)
Turned off in settings on my phone.
Stupid idea put in place by stupid people who think that they are "doing something".
Utterly unnecessary and all part of the pushed narrative that the government will keep us safe.
I wouldn't trust them to run a bath, I certainly don't trust them to not eventually turn this into a system to control us more.
Stupid idea put in place by stupid people who think that they are "doing something".
Utterly unnecessary and all part of the pushed narrative that the government will keep us safe.
I wouldn't trust them to run a bath, I certainly don't trust them to not eventually turn this into a system to control us more.
Getragdogleg said:
Turned off in settings on my phone.
Stupid idea put in place by stupid people who think that they are "doing something".
Utterly unnecessary and all part of the pushed narrative that the government will keep us safe.
I wouldn't trust them to run a bath, I certainly don't trust them to not eventually turn this into a system to control us more.
Same here.Stupid idea put in place by stupid people who think that they are "doing something".
Utterly unnecessary and all part of the pushed narrative that the government will keep us safe.
I wouldn't trust them to run a bath, I certainly don't trust them to not eventually turn this into a system to control us more.
Are they so out of touch that they don't realise the contempt in which their actions & interference are held?
Getragdogleg said:
Turned off in settings on my phone.
Stupid idea put in place by stupid people who think that they are "doing something".
Utterly unnecessary and all part of the pushed narrative that the government will keep us safe.
I wouldn't trust them to run a bath, I certainly don't trust them to not eventually turn this into a system to control us more.
You only have to look back over the last 3 years to see how easily it would be for the authorities to abuse this system.Stupid idea put in place by stupid people who think that they are "doing something".
Utterly unnecessary and all part of the pushed narrative that the government will keep us safe.
I wouldn't trust them to run a bath, I certainly don't trust them to not eventually turn this into a system to control us more.
Biker 1 said:
Presumably alerts would be localised? Would that mean you would need to have location access activated also?
I think it goes to all cell towers in a ward / area so just needs your phone to be connected to those towers ie not location based in terms of looking at your phone.CoolHands said:
I think it goes to all cell towers in a ward / area so just needs your phone to be connected to those towers ie not location based in terms of looking at your phone.
Sounds logical - although there are places along the south coast that pick up French phone signals, so it could all get rather confusing....Biker 1 said:
CoolHands said:
I think it goes to all cell towers in a ward / area so just needs your phone to be connected to those towers ie not location based in terms of looking at your phone.
Sounds logical - although there are places along the south coast that pick up French phone signals, so it could all get rather confusing....Getragdogleg said:
Squadrone Rosso said:
Sent over 5g with a subliminal get v@X€d message no doubt.
Will it warn of conspiracy types about to go boom?
HONK ! Storm trixie approaching! HONK! Omg... Wtf... Bbq... PANIC..... QUICK. YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT BUT HOOOOONK! Will it warn of conspiracy types about to go boom?
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ts. If it was me with regard to the 4 minute warning I would play White Riot by the Clash twice and still have 4 seconds left.
colin_p said:
It would be brilliant if your phone made an air raid siren noise when one of these alerts land, and then started playing Two Tribes by Frankie goes to Hollywood (which has the air raid siren intro built in). When the alert status when back to normal, they could inform us by playing Relax by travelling Frankie & co. too.
Not sure about this; I once had an air raid siren set as my alarm noise, but I rarely ever used my alarms so I forgot about it. Then one day I set one as a reminder to do something, and it went off, on full volume, while I was on a busy dual carriageway. I can't stress enough that I completely forgot I had done it. I nearly crashed the car 
Honk said:
Getragdogleg said:
Squadrone Rosso said:
Sent over 5g with a subliminal get v@X€d message no doubt.
Will it warn of conspiracy types about to go boom?
HONK ! Storm trixie approaching! HONK! Omg... Wtf... Bbq... PANIC..... QUICK. YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT BUT HOOOOONK! Will it warn of conspiracy types about to go boom?
t
ts. If it was me with regard to the 4 minute warning I would play White Riot by the Clash twice and still have 4 seconds left.
Getragdogleg said:
Honk said:
Getragdogleg said:
Squadrone Rosso said:
Sent over 5g with a subliminal get v@X€d message no doubt.
Will it warn of conspiracy types about to go boom?
HONK ! Storm trixie approaching! HONK! Omg... Wtf... Bbq... PANIC..... QUICK. YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT BUT HOOOOONK! Will it warn of conspiracy types about to go boom?
t
ts. If it was me with regard to the 4 minute warning I would play White Riot by the Clash twice and still have 4 seconds left.
Seventy said:
Honk said:
Can I help?
If it was me with regard to the 4 minute warning I would play White Riot by the Clash twice and still have 4 seconds left.
Shame it’s not five minutes. If it was me with regard to the 4 minute warning I would play White Riot by the Clash twice and still have 4 seconds left.
It’d be Teenage Kicks twice for me.
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