Coming to a Phone Near You
From: U.S. pushes back national wireless alert test to Oct. 3
FEMA, which will send the alert, said last week that the messages would bear the headline “Presidential Alert,” and that phones will make a loud tone and have a special vibration.
The test has been scheduled to ensure that the alert system would work in the event of a national emergency, and U.S. cellphone users will not be able to opt out. The message will read: “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.”
In its statement last week on the test messages, FEMA said the presidential alerts can be used only for national emergencies and the president has sole responsibility for determining when such alerts are used. [emphasis added]
Forewarned for this one anyway. Can you imagine what the T might consider an emergency?
I plan to turn my phone off between 2:00 and 3:00 pm as I truly dislike sudden, loud noises. Thought: What if the nation (okay half of it) had their phones turned off? The phone companies would certainly report such an anomaly.
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Thanks for the heads up! It's already bad enough
without having to endure so-called 'Presidential Alerts.' Last week, there were so many flood warnings, fog alerts, and Amber Alerts, that we turned off all but one phone.
Blue Onyx
"Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong."
~~W. R. Purche
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
I think the point is to
make us all nervous wrecks.
In regards to this particular alert, I question the lack of oversight as to what the T can send out (it is at HIS discretion). Is the emergency that his Twitter account has been blocked?
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
alert
I don't have a cell phone, and also don't have tv. I get to be blissfully unaware as the bomb drops on my head.
Surprising to me that they can adjust the vibration level on a phone from afar, but I suppose it shouldn't surprise me. That would bug me.
I cannot wait to see how dear leader abuses this alert capability!
That ranks up there with dying in my sleep
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
LOL, I'm feeling that
I'm feeling that "special vibration" already!
“We may not be able to change the system, but we can make the system irrelevant in our lives and in the lives of those around us.”—John Beckett
ummm, tmi? = )
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass