U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and John Thune (R-S.D.)
reintroduced the Reliable Emergency Alert Distribution Improvement (READI)
Act today (October 24, 2019).
The READI Act would:
[...]
Explore establishing a system to offer emergency alerts to audio and video
online streaming services
On Thu, 24 Oct 2019, Michael Thomas wrote:
Content provider is pretty ill defined -- everything is "content". But I'm
not sure why it should reside in smart assistants either. What if I don't
want or use any of them? They're awfully invasive. And it doesn't seem that
you need them for amber ale
On Fri, 25 Oct 2019, Michael Thomas wrote:
Ok, you had me completely puzzled by digital assistant layer. I'm not sure
apps might not be interested in competing for users: "This 7.0 earthquake is
brought to you by Allstate!"
I'll assume you intended a smiley emoticon.
Do not use interstitials,
Number of apps available in leading app stores 2019
Google Play: 2,470,000
Apple App Store: 1,800,000
Windows Store: 669,000
Amazon Appstore: 487,000
Likely hood all, a majority, a minority or even a tiny percentage of App
developers will do the right thing? Close to zero. How many Apps are
On Sun, 27 Oct 2019, Sean Donelan wrote:
I do not expect Apple, Amazon or Google to do something until forced too.
The semi-joke amoung the emergency management community, if tech firm CEOs
lived in the mid-west (tornado alley) or south-east (hurricane coasts)
instead of west-coast (silicon
According to reporting to the FCC:
https://www.fcc.gov/document/ca-power-shutoff-communications-status-report-oct-27-2019
Cell sites out of service: overall 2.4% (630 out of 25,893)
Marin County: 49.6% out of service (105 out of 270)
Lake County: 19.3% out of service (11 out of 57)
Calaveras C
From the DIRS FCC report for October 29, 2019
https://www.fcc.gov/document/ca-power-shutoff-communications-status-report-oct-29-2019
Cable and wireline services (combined):
223,937 subscribers out of service, down from 454,722 yesterday. I assume this
only includes outages due to loss of
There is just so much I want to make sarcastic comments about, but I worry
about offending future potential employers (all of them).
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-takes-steps-enforce-quality-standards-rural-broadband-0
Description:
FCC Takes Steps To Enforce Quality Standards For Rural B
On Fri, 1 Nov 2019, John Von Essen wrote:
The thing that I always wonder about is the ability for citizens to
bypass the restriction via satellite internet nowadays. I guess they
need a law to make that illegal too, if found purchasing satellite
internet gear, off to the gulag!
Essentially al
On Fri, 1 Nov 2019, Fred Baker wrote:
This has nothing to do with cables, and everything to do with
information control and politics.
I agree with Fred, but trying to keep this on a technical list.
Has anyone compared the network resiliancy and reliability in countries
with centralized contr
Comcast's spokespeople aren't saying it explicitly, but Comcast service
representatives are giving some service refunds to customers which lost
Comcast service in California *BUT* still had power or backup generators
at their residences.
This appears to be customer satisfaction refunds for
On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Jared Mauch wrote:
I run mailing lists. I’ve had times where I find something stuck in
the system and instead of just deleting it, I actually try to make sure
it goes out based on the original intent. This has resulted in me
sending out e-mails a year or two later at times
The FCC's IAC has published its report on emergency communication impacts
of the various hurricanes and disasters in 2018 and early 2019. These
include Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, Michael and Nate.
No surprises. I've seen essentially all of the issues and recommendations
in other afte
On Thu, 14 Nov 2019, Mehmet Akcin wrote:
I am not a big fan of CLS deployments. They have limited networks ( like
only carriers and no eyeballs) and very expensive connectivity (usually)
Sometimes there isn't a choice, i.e. islands or other constrained
geographies. But I am not a fan of comb
Its very practical for a country to cut 95%+ of its Internet connectivity.
Its not a complete cut-off, there is some limited connectivity. But for
most ordinary individuals, their communication channels are cut-off.
https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1196366347938271232
Digging a little deeper, it looks like Iran's blocking is more complex
than I've seen before.
Consumer/mobile networks appear nearly completely blocked.
However, many important business/financial networks and B2B traffic appear
operating normally.
I don't yet have good data about of the g
On Monday, U.S. FCC Chairman Pai and Canadian CRTC Chairperson Scott made
the first official cross-border SHAKEN/STIR call.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/pai-scott-make-first-official-cross-border-shakenstir-call
Today, the U.S. FCC announced a proposed nearly $10 million fine for
spoofed ro
https://fcw.com/articles/2019/12/12/cisa-bill-new-authority-johnson.aspx
The Cybersecurity Vulnerability Identification and Notification Act of
2019 would allow CISA to subpoena subscriber information for enterprise
devices or systems [...]
Subpoenas would be issued when the director of CIS
I hadn't seen messages about this Internet outage affecting multiple
countries (Eastern Europe, Turkey and Iran) from Thursday.
Multiple fiber cuts affecting major parts of sub-continents don't happen
as much any more. Yes, I still remember the day of FIVE (5) simultaneous,
trans-continental f
On Tue, 31 May 2016, Lorell Hathcock wrote:
Our owner has hired a consultant who insists that we should have an ISP
license to operate in the United States. (Like they have in other countries
like Germany and in Africa where he has extensive personal experience.)
I am asking him to tell me whic
In the past, over 75% of submarine cable operators did not voluntarily
report outages of submarine cables with US landing points to the FCC. In
other words, less than 25% of submarine cable operators reported outages.
The FCC would learn about the submarine cable failures, sometimes days
lat
On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, cpol...@surewest.net wrote:
Thanks for identifying the source, I wish more people did this.
My nitpick is that RFC791 doesn't label MTU=68 as "standard";
it says (section 3.2, p.25):
RFC791 was written during the internet's anti-standard era.
We reject: kings, presidents a
CAIDA has submitted to the FCC its initial proposal for measuring internet
interconnection point performance metrics as part of the AT&T/DirecTV
merger conditions.
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db0812/DA-16-909A1.pdf
See that big red button on the wall under the sign "Do Not Push This
Button!"
DC 911 outage caused by contractor error
http://wtop.com/dc/2016/08/dc-911-outage-caused-by-contractor-who-pulled-wrong-switch/
WASHINGTON — D.C. is now operating two separate 911 centers after a power
outage
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has activated its Disaster
Information Reporting System (DIRS) in response to Hurricane Matthew.
DIRS is a voluntary, web-based system that communications providers,
including wireless, wireline, broadcast, cable and Voice over Internet
Protocol pro
On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Sean Donelan wrote:
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has activated its Disaster
Information Reporting System (DIRS) in response to Hurricane Matthew.
The FCC is now requesting daily reports. The FCC has also expanded the
area it requests reports, including North
Based on voluntary reporting to the DIRS, status as of October 9, 2016.
9% of the cellular sites are out of service in the disaster area (ranges
from 0% in some counties to 85% in Marion, SC)
8% of the video subscribers are out of service in the disaster area.
16% of the VoIP and telephone s
On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Mark Andrews wrote:
Why the hell should validating resolver have to work around the
crap you guys are using? DO YOUR JOBS which is to use RFC COMPLIANT
servers. You get PAID to do DNS because people think you are
compentent to do the job. Evidence shows otherwise.
https:/
In 2015, the only submarine cable connecting the Northern Marianas
Islands, a U.S. Territory, was damaged by a boulder. It cut off all
telecommunications to the U.S. Territory for several weeks. To obtain a
second cable for the islands, the CNMI government signed an agreement to
subsidize a se
A report on the telecommunications outages that affected Mendocino, Napa
and Sonoma Counties in the wake of the devastating fires of 2017.
http://www.mendocinobroadband.org/wp-content/uploads/1.-NBNCBC-Telecommunications-Outage-Report-2017-Firestorm.pdf
[...]
Results show that in the 3-count
https://www.popsci.com/sea-level-rise-internet-infrastructure
Rising sea levels are going to mess with the internet, sooner than you
think
[...]
Despite its magnitude, this network is increasingly vulnerable to sea
levels inching their way higher, according to research presented at an
acad
After wildfires killed 40+ people in northern California last fall, I
asked if Amazon and Google had any plans to include emergency alerts
in their smart speaker/intelligent assistant products. Smart speakers
seem like a way to alert people to imminent life-threatening danger during
the night
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018, Seth Mattinen wrote:
On 7/26/18 9:51 AM, Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG wrote:
Capitalist solution: Build yet another IoT device that just does emergency
alerting.
People in tornado areas seem to be the most aware that alert radios already
exist. No internet access required.
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018, Chris Adams wrote:
My biggest concern is them making such alerts mandatory. At a minimum
they should be opt-out; a one-time notice during setup (or when the
functionality is added) to allow opt-in would be better IMHO.
That's a reason to get involved early, when everything
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018, Brian Kantor wrote:
I can see my way clear to supporting this bill ONLY if it ALSO
proposes to enhance the liabilities for officials of agencies
who issue a false or disproportionate alert.
Section 5 of the proposed bill is about emergency alert best practices.
That includ
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
Do those use a frequency band that's suitable for cellphones to monitor (antenna
size, power, etc)? Because your best chance of getting my attention in an
emergency
is to make my phone start shrieking.
15 years ago (way back in 2003), one of
On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Lou Katz wrote:
The NEST guys also didn't seem very receptive to the emergency alert stuff
when I contacted them.
And the NEST folk say there is NO WAY that you will ever be able to connect
to your own servers rather than theirs.
For the same reason I don't think Netflix
Its tought to prove a negative. I'm extremely confident the answer is yes,
public internet multicast is not viable. I did all the google searches,
check all the usual CAIDA and ISP sites. IP Multicast is used on private
enterprise networks, and some ISPs use it for some closed services.
I g
head-thunk
Source-Specific Multicast
Never post while extremely frustrated.
On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, Aaron Gould wrote:
As you all have said, to confirm, I use ssm Mcast to distribute TV from
satellite down links in the headend, out to a few different remote head
ends. From there it's converted back to RF video and sent to
subscribers via cable or hfc plant
I'm aware tha
Heavy sigh. Its not about AM radios, although some tinkers have
hooked up raspberry pi's to weather band radio chips. Its a cool hack, but
not the point.
Today, 99% of emergency alerts are diissiminated via the Internet, in
addition to other channels (over the air broadcasters, cable, twitter,
Thanks to everyone that helped. Off-list I heard from network engineers
at several global Internet providers. They all confirmed that multicast
is no longer supported on their public Internet backbones, no matter what
their sales people might say. If someone opened a multicast trouble
ticket,
On Thu, 2 Aug 2018, John Levine wrote:
In article you
write:
Multicast is being used in various private IP networks. It seems to work
very well for satellite content distribution because multicast doesn't
require ack's. Enterprise networks also use multicast.
I would think it'd work fine on
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-18-837A1.pdf
The Federal Communications Commission (Commission) solicits nominations
for membership on a new Disaster Response and Recovery Working Group of
the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC). This new working group
will assist the B
Hurricane warnings have been issued for Hurricane Lane, which strengthened
to a catagory 5 storm on Tuesday. The forecast cone of uncertainity shows
the path sideswiping Hawaii on Thursday.
The FCC has published a report "2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season Impact on
CommunicationsReport and Recommendations."
It is a bit excessive on the back-slapping about the FCC's leadership.
No independent ISPs submitted comments to the Commission. Are there any
independent ISPs left in Puerto Ric
On Mon, 27 Aug 2018, Mike Hammett wrote:
There are dozens of independents on the islands. They probably didn't know
their comments were desired.
The Commission is still looking for nominations for its disaster response
and recovery working group. Any independent ISPs can nominate a
represent
Today, FEMA published its Mitigation Assessment Team Report on the
Hurricanes Irma and Maria impact on buildings, critical faciltiies, solar
panels and other construction issues.
Recommendation USVI-1a: USVI should adopt the latest hazard-resistant
building codes and standards on a regular upd
FEMA invites the public to send comments on the nationwide EAS-WEA test to
fema-national-t...@fema.dhs.gov
Valuable information on the effectiveness of a national WEA capability
using the Presidential alert category includes:
1. Whether your mobile device displayed one, more or no WEA t
Since I know network engineers are geeks, and can't stop themselves from
looking...
On your iPhone (and android, and likely other cell phone OS), there are
detailed diagnostics logs. On your iPhone, look under
Settings->Privacy->Analytics->Analytics Data->awdd-
"awdd" means Apple Wireless D
On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, b...@theworld.com wrote:
Just to try to squeeze something worthwhile out of these reports...
I wonder, if there were a real alert, what the odds are that one
wouldn't hear about it in 1 minute, 5 minutes, etc even if they didn't
personally get it.
What happens when people d
On Sat, 6 Oct 2018, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
Since there isn't infinite money to build a system that will reach *everybody*,
the only reasonable approach is to cobble together a set of overlapping systems
on existing technology that covers the most people while staying inside the
funding re
On Mon, 8 Oct 2018, b...@theworld.com wrote:
I suppose since every life is precious one can measure the
effectiveness based on "land mass" but then one wonders if some sheep
out in a field in Idaho really care that the US was just invaded...put
better: You do what you can!
How quickly we forget
On Mon, 8 Oct 2018, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote:
Google solved these problems with ~$120 smoke alarm and a decent cell phone app.
If they released a new version with weather alerts, I wouldn't think
twice about dropping $200 on it.
A company already made a combination smoke alarm/weather radio.
Hal
On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote:
Sure--I totally agree. But we don't build smoke detectors into our
cell phones because that's not a very good use case. And I'm not
aware of weather alerts being broadcast to cell phones without having
an app installed, and it's unreliable. (Althoug
On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, Scott Weeks wrote:
--- a...@andyring.com wrote:
From: Andy Ringsmuth
Yeah, this thread is getting somewhat removed from the
original question, so what the heck. I’ve often thought
that vehicle radios should have a location-based weather
radio built in
--
Communication service providers play a critical role, but too often
view public alerting as "someone else's job."
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/1051_IAS_Report-on-Alerting-Tactics_180807-508.pdf
Report on Alerting Tactics
August 7, 2018
However, there was not consensus o
On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, Naslund, Steve wrote:
I am wondering if this seems common to most of you on here. In my area
it seems that all cellular sites have backup generators and battery
backup. Seems like the biggest issues we see are devices remote from
the central offices that lose power and ca
Electric power outages (percentage out of service)
Florida
Bay County - 98%
Calhoun County - 100%
Franklin County - 97%
Gadsden County - 100%
Gulf County - 99%
Holmes County - 99%
Jackson County - 100%
Leon County - 91%
Wakulla County - 97%
Washington County - 98%
I haven't
I haven't found power outage reports from other states yet.
My bad, DOE moved its reports to a different URL on its site. Here are the
electric grid status for other states, along with some other status info I
found.
Electric power outages as of October 11, 2018 at 4:00pm EDT
Statewide aver
Note: although the FCC encourages independent ISPs to report outages, none
have.
13 fatalities reported as of 10/12/2018
Public Safety Answering Points (9-1-1) outages:
16 Public Safety Answering Points rerouted
Curfews:
Florida: Bay, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Liberty
Electric gr
26 fatalities reported so far, 4 hospitals closed.
Telecommunications:
FCC Chairman Pai and Florida Governor Scott issued loud complaints about
the speed of restoration of cell sites and telecommunications after
Hurricane Michael. This seems to be an over-reaction to the lack of
action aft
Gosh, I can predict the future (by minutes). Verizon has issued a
statement. It will automatically issue 3 months of mobile service credits
for each consumer and business line in the affected areas (Bay and Gulf
counties).
I predict similar statements from the other major carriers shortly
39 deaths in the US, at least 15 deaths in Honduras, Nicaragua, El
Salvador
After 12 days, most wireless service is restored in Florida. It took
over 6 months to restore wireless service across Puerto Rico/US Virgin
Islands.
Today, Oct 22 2018, Verizon Wireless reported wireless services has
Almost 100% use of the Emergency Alert System is for local and weather
alerts. Nevertheless, there are people who plan for the worst case
scenario (i.e. "the really bad, bad day").
If you wonder what a hardened Primary Entry Point station for the
Emergency Alert System looks like... a rare me
indeed to hear about 6 months delays in restoring for PR.
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 8:47 PM Sean Donelan wrote:
39 deaths in the US, at least 15 deaths in Honduras,
Nicaragua, El
Salvador
After 12 days, most wireless service is restored in
Florida. It took
over 6
Super Typhoon Yutu with sustained winds of 165 MPH and gusts over 200 MPH
has struck the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Guam was on
the "weak" side of the typhoon.
Internet connectivity is still working on parts of the islands.
Super Typhoon Yutu has passed over the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory, and moving to the northwest. According
to the National Weather Service, the sustained winds in the eyewall was
180mph.
The power is out on Tinian, and communications is spotty, mostly thro
Parts of Saipan airport was heavily dmanaged. Sea ports are closed.
Utility power is out in Saipan, and hundreds of power poles are reported
down. Backup generators are operating at critical facilities.
The first disaster relief flights are expected at 10am Friday, after the
runways at Sai
Unlike the major carriers on the US mainland, which generally provide few
details and only generic happy, happy, joy, joy messages after hurricanes,
IT&E CNMI has been tweeting as it re-aligning antennas at each cell site
that service is restored in an area.
IT&E updates
Update 6:34pm:
As of
The official damage assessements for CNMI are coming in ...
As of October 27, 10am ChST
1 fatality reported so far
Utility power is out on all CNMI islands. Saipan has generator fuel. Rota
and Tinian all feeders are down. On Tinian - power plant damaged.
Hospitals on Saipan and Tinian are o
1 confirmed fatality on Saipan.
100% utility power was out of service (Saipan, Tinian). Today, Roto
has 99% power restored. Saipan and Tinian still ahve damaged feeders and
power plants. Some utility power expected to be restored by October 31.
Public water utility out of service. Water distrib
The FCC has announced the members of the Broadband Deployment Advisory
Committee working group on disaster response and recovery.
Chair:
Red Grasso, FirstNet State Point of Contact
North Carolina Department of Information Technology
Vice-Chair:
Jonathan Adelstein, President & Chief Executive
1 confirmed fatality (unchanged)
The island of Rota (relatively small) has all services restored.
Ssipsn (the largest) and Tinian still have service outages.
Saipan:
6 of 9 power feeders offline; 29 generators installed
12 of 19 gas stations operational; 3 on line power
Cellular service
The public, first responders and other service providers can also submit
comments to the FCC.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-seeks-industry-input-review-wireless-resiliency-framework
To that end, Chief Fowlkes’ letters ask wireless companies participating
in the framework to summarize h
This one is a chuckle. Wireless providers that want to keep their network
outage information secret from the public and their customers want better
details and coordination from their backhaul suppliers, which keep their
network outage information secret from the public and their customers.
Yes.
Look for NENA (National Emergency Number Association).
20+ years ago, 911 routing required telco connections in each LATA. Some
legacy (e.g. copper) still uses LATA-based 911 routing, but a lot of 911
routing (i.e. cell, voip, next-gen voice, etc) has been consolidated to a
few service
I was disappointed that it was just a misdial. I was looking forward to
how IP geolocation worked with 9-1-1 calls from space. I always wondered
how that altitude parameter in 911 packets was used. :-)
https://www.newsweek.com/astronaut-accidentally-calls-911-space-1276892
Network operators are involved in most weather disasters.
March is Severe Weather Month in the U.S. The National Weather Service and
many states use severe weather month to encourage public planning and
preparedness.
https://www.ready.gov/
https://www.weather.gov/wrn/
Remember, your Amazon
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/08/tech/emergency-alert-netflix-hulu-streaming/index.html
New York (CNN Business) The federal emergency alert program was designed
decades ago to interrupt your TV show or radio station and warn about
impending danger — from severe weather events to acts of war.
Canada made a lot of improvements with its alert implementation. It got
to see all the things the U.S. did wrong. Unfortuantely, Canada also
copied some wrong lessons from the the U.S. version.
South Korea probably has the most ludicrous emergency alerts in the world.
While improvements are n
Software has bugs. If this happens to you (or anyone else), a hard power
reset of your mobile phone will clear up the problem.
I have not figured out what causes the repeating duplicate alerts. I've
asked FEMA and some engineers at a cellular carrier. It seems to be a
"known problem." But I ha
On Fri, 8 Mar 2019, Matt Erculiani wrote:
The world is evolving and I don't think interrupting streaming is necessary
given all the other ways there are to alert a population.
The headline:
TLDR; Technology changes, so should emergency alerts. Think ahead to 2029.
The long story:
Technology
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019, Brandon Martin wrote:
Any reason the ISP has to be directly involved in this? The relevant
government organization originating the alert could easily have a service to
make that information available to the public via some standard API (maybe
they do)?
ISPs with Akamai se
Some background information for network engineers unfamilar with emergency
alerts.
In the United States, there are approximately 500,000 emergency alerts
nationwide a year, not counting another million or so test alerts. Only
about 7,500 emergency alerts are severe enough to activate public w
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019, Seth Mattinen wrote:
On 3/9/19 12:03 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
Automatically geo-locating indoor smart speakers and smart TVs is more
difficult, but if advertisers can get geolocation information from AT&T,
Amazon, Apple, Google, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, etc; why c
On Sun, 10 Mar 2019, Scott Weeks wrote:
No, it is overreach and Doing The Wrong Thing (AKA we do
evil now even though we said we wouldn't in the beginning)
for businesses as well.
There is weird business feedback loop between proprietary app creators and
smart device platform providers.
Gove
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
This is why the service(s) should use confirmed opt-in on a per-device basis
and offer sufficient granularity that alerts are only sent to the people who
need/want them on the devices they need/want them on.
Other than nerds, which means people on the N
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019, William Herrin wrote:
My cell phone woke me up in the middle of the night during a recent landline
outage because the county felt the need to let me know that I wouldn't be
able to call 911 if, you know, I happened to need to call 911. Thanks guys.
Thanks a lot. And I can't b
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019, Michael Thomas wrote:
It seems to me that it would be much better to use the standards we already
have to deliver text, voice and video, and just make it a requirement that
some list of devices must be able to listen for these announcements and act
accordingly. It's not lik
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019, Sean Donelan wrote:
Apple has announced its going to announce something on March 26.
I wonder if any reporters will ask if the new Apple TV supports emergency
alerts?
Ugh, typo. March 25 at 10 a.m. PDT
Hopefully, Tim Apple will forgive me :-)
I still want a reporter
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019, Scott Fisher wrote:
It would be nice if someone from the E911 space could add their 2cents
on this. Anyone from Intrado/West-Corp on the list?
See the FCC Electronic Comment Filing System for 911 Governance and
Accountability (PS Docket No. 14-193) and Improving 911 Reliab
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, Michael Thomas wrote:
All the government needs to do is set up the server infrastructure to
source the alerts.
In the U.S., the IPAWS server infrastructure was set up in 2012. Akamai
servers on many ISP networks carry emergency alert CAP messages.
However, the smart devi
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, Livingood, Jason wrote:
[JL] Going onto to hardware like a smart TV will still result in lower
penetration that if you went to the app layer that is where attention
time is spent (which may be on a laptop or non-cellular-connected tablet
or a game console).
That's the pro
[JL] Going onto to hardware like a smart TV will still result in lower
penetration that if you went to the app layer that is where attention
time is spent (which may be on a laptop or non-cellular-connected tablet
or a game console).
I should also mention the desktop Windows and Linux operatin
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, Clayton Zekelman wrote:
It's very fortunate that nobody was seriously injured after that total
failure of the process.
The people who run this stuff need to understand that a false alert can be
very dangerous.
I agree lack of training and funding for local emergency mana
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, Michael Thomas wrote:
What's with perpetuating the thought that it needs to be in the bios? It's
just a normal app on a normal computer like Biff.
I know, after working with network engineers in too many meetings.
As I keep repeating, for smart devices (Smart TVs, Smart Sp
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, Michael Thomas wrote:
This seriously seems like something that needs formal standardization.
No one is paying me to work on this, so I don't plan to spend time
doing free tutorials for Amazon, Apple and Google program managers; or
money flying to standards meetings around
This year's test of the U.S. national emergency alert includes something
for ISPs and network operators.
The wireless portion of the national test is scheduled 2 minutes (2:18pm
EDT or 1818 UTC) before the main broadcast test at 2:20. Mobile phones
usually receive the alert about a minute
On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Sabri Berisha wrote:
Makes me wonder what I have to do to opt out of this. We all remember what
happened in Hawaii.
Do you mean the 98 people (at least) who died due to the Maui Lahaina
wildfires. Seems like the same people who complain about the testing of
public warnin
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