 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | reply to ISurfTooMuch
Re: Huh? said by ISurfTooMuch:Suppose you have a serious outbreak that requires immediate notification of all residents in an area. When everyone had landlines, you could call all numbers in a given group of exchanges and be pretty sure you'd reached everyone. With cells, people often move and keep their old number, which may be from an area across the country. I am sure the government, if it needed to send out such a message, could make use of emergency texting. The only problem of course is how do you make sure it is really from the government and not someone trying to cause a panic?
Come to think of it how do you prevent that if the government just tried calling everyone instead? I know that if anyone calls me saying they are from the government, I am quite skeptical.
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| said by pnh102:said by ISurfTooMuch:Suppose you have a serious outbreak that requires immediate notification of all residents in an area. When everyone had landlines, you could call all numbers in a given group of exchanges and be pretty sure you'd reached everyone. With cells, people often move and keep their old number, which may be from an area across the country. I am sure the government, if it needed to send out such a message, could make use of emergency texting. The only problem of course is how do you make sure it is really from the government and not someone trying to cause a panic? Come to think of it how do you prevent that if the government just tried calling everyone instead? I know that if anyone calls me saying they are from the government, I am quite skeptical. Isn't that why they have radio and TV and the "Emergency Broadcast System" ??? You don't call everyone in a city on the phone. You put out a broadcast on TV.
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TACSPEEDPremium
join:2001-04-14
Tacoma, WA | I rarely listen to the radio and watch very little TV. I also have text messaging disabled on the my prepaid cell phone.
However if they posted the information on the Internet, I would probably see it.
So the emergency broadcast system needs to include the Internet now.
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | said by TACSPEED:So the emergency broadcast system needs to include the Internet now. »ISPs Injecting Their Content Into Websites
You mean something like this? |
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But you wouldn't see an emergency messege because the pop up would probably be blocked 
I still have my landline....I could see the Census Bureau keeping tabs as well as the DOD
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to TACSPEED
I have text messaging disabled on my cell phone, however, carriers can override it. Eg. I will still get a message or 2 from AT&T.
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Our city just implemented a reverse 911 system. It is supposed to call everybody in the affected area including the whole town ~100,000. That is as long as you still have landline. |
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said by fAcEtIOUs:Isn't that why they have radio and TV and the "Emergency Broadcast System" ??? You don't call everyone in a city on the phone. You put out a broadcast on TV. The EAS (Emergency Alert System) is a joke. They didn't even use it during 9/11. |
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 AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ | they didnt have to. Every station was broadcasting info. They were qafraid a EAB would preempt local coverage. (ps: as i type this im in a path train stuck at the wtc train station) |
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