Amber alert madness
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Can't disable it? I can turn off all of these with the exception of 'Presidential Alerts', like I wanna see those X| .
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The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
yep, we have those in the midwest as well. got a test one many years ago at 2am on a sunday. People were NOT happy. We(I) can turn off most of the notices. But still herself likes to get them. So I get to listen to hers get notices about the weather/amber/etc....
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Just watch the accident rates - a siren goes off in your pocket at 80 on the motorway ... :~
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OriginalGriff wrote:
at 80 on the motorway
I assume you mean 80kph - you wouldn't want to be seen encouraging illegal behaviour, after all. :laugh:
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The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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yep, we have those in the midwest as well. got a test one many years ago at 2am on a sunday. People were NOT happy. We(I) can turn off most of the notices. But still herself likes to get them. So I get to listen to hers get notices about the weather/amber/etc....
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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In Florida we only really need them when a hurricane is imminent.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
I power my phone off during sleeping hours. Making oneself accessible to notifications 24/7 is nonsensical.
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I power my phone off during sleeping hours. Making oneself accessible to notifications 24/7 is nonsensical.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Just switch off emergency alerts on your phone. Although I am considering being present in Tesco on Sunday when everyone else's phone goes off and then proceed to run around babbling "We're all going to die!" Goodness knows what is going to happen on the roads when a bunch of drivers reach for their phones to switch off the loud alarm.
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Typical government behavior.And there probably won't even be an apology, let alone anyone getting disciplined or fired.
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let alone anyone getting disciplined or fired
Like all of us here got disciplined or fired for every mistake in our code (that undoubtedly made it to production)? :rolleyes: Luckily, the world doesn't work like that.
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The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Got your attention though, didn't it? In that sense it proved something useful.😉
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I power my phone off during sleeping hours. Making oneself accessible to notifications 24/7 is nonsensical.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
I guess that when Putin cracks and presses the button, you'll never get the warning, and never know why it all ended.😉
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Typical government behavior.And there probably won't even be an apology, let alone anyone getting disciplined or fired.
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. -
The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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The whole of Florida USA was woken up just after 4:00 AM this morning by the loud noise of an amber alert on their phones. It turns out the alert was "just a test"! A test that time of the morning!? They must either be very stupid or crazy! :mad:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Yeah, I've never made a mistake in system management, ;) . The company is losing their contract as a result since Ron (Mr. Perfect :laugh: :laugh: ) DeSantis has so ordained it. I'm not saying it wasn't a really dumb error, but let he who hath not sinned cast the first stone?
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Oh dear. It's bad enough when a weather alert for an area of the state hundreds of miles away comes through. I have nearly all alerts turned off on my phone. I can look out the window for myself. When we were in L.A. last week someone "thought she smelled smoke" and pulled the hotel fire alarm at 04:00 one morning. :mad:
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Oh dear. It's bad enough when a weather alert for an area of the state hundreds of miles away comes through. I have nearly all alerts turned off on my phone. I can look out the window for myself. When we were in L.A. last week someone "thought she smelled smoke" and pulled the hotel fire alarm at 04:00 one morning. :mad:
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
It's bad enough when a weather alert for an area of the state hundreds of miles away comes through. I have nearly all alerts turned off on my phone. I can look out the window for myself.
Around here, people complain if the weather forecast isn't on target three days ahead. The forecast reaches eight days ahead, but we all know that the further ahead, the less reliable. Usually, we get the wind, rain and cold in the (approximate) order forecast, but it often is delayed or comes earlier than suggested in the long-time forecasts. The view from my window isn't great, but I don't know of anyone with a view where they can see the weather three days ahead, and certainly not eight days.
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THe UK government plan to force this on us soon. It's nice to know they have nothing important to work on.
reminds me of the emergency drills they had in the USSR. probably they had some in the USA, too. just the US was not obsessed with the drills like the USSR. in the past 3 years the west has got a lot traits of the Warsaw Pact countries. sadly... Those that put *class* in JavaScript are the same that put *var* in C#
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Oh dear. It's bad enough when a weather alert for an area of the state hundreds of miles away comes through. I have nearly all alerts turned off on my phone. I can look out the window for myself. When we were in L.A. last week someone "thought she smelled smoke" and pulled the hotel fire alarm at 04:00 one morning. :mad:
