Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?

Sat Mar 9 01:44:17 UTC 2019

I’ve had issues with the amber alerts repeating or coming in from adjacent states because “reasons”. When they repeat for days/hours ugh. 

I do agree most people have devices. If there is a reasonable API method to fetch them then great. 

Sent from my iCar

> On Mar 8, 2019, at 7:51 PM, Clayton Zekelman <clayton at mnsi.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Absolutely, we need public emergency alerting.  What we don't need is every alert to go out mandatory highest level sound the klaxon, can't be blocked, even when it's an "all clear" cancelling a previous alert, and is being sent in the middle of the night.
> 
> That's the system that has been foisted upon us here.   I'm all for emergency alerting, but please make sure it's a real emergency.
> 
> At least in the US version, they target the region affected, and code it with the appropriate alert level instead of sending alerts to people 1400 km away.
> 
> https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/05/14/first-emergency-alert-sets-off-phones-ontario-wide-following-thunder-bay-amber-alert.html
> 
> 
> 
> At 07:43 PM 08/03/2019, Sean Donelan wrote:
>> 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 needed, the various alert systems have saved people's lives.
>> 
>>> On Fri, 8 Mar 2019, Clayton Zekelman wrote:
>>> Just wait until your connected home speakers, smart smoke detector, smart
>>> refrigerator, smart tv, cell phone, IP streaming box, satellite receiver,
>>> cable box, home security panel and your Fitbit all go off warning you of the
>>> cancellation of an Amber alert at 1:30am, because the good folks at
>>> AlertReady.Ca and Pelmorex think that everything needs to go out at highest
>>> precedence, because, well, think of the children!
> 
> -- 
> 
> Clayton Zekelman
> Managed Network Systems Inc. (MNSi)
> 3363 Tecumseh Rd. E
> Windsor, Ontario
> N8W 1H4
> 
> tel. 519-985-8410
> fax. 519-985-8409        