Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?

Tue Mar 12 22:35:39 UTC 2019

To be fair, I've used the rogue BIOS excuse in quite a few Overwatch
matches, and nobody buys it. So even if it did happen at this point, nobody
would believe you.

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 4:47 PM William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 11:57 AM Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> wrote:
> > Yes, that's exactly my point: it should just be a requirement of the
> > hardware platform to implement this. Just like e911. Enumerating the
> > types of devices that are required to implement this is way easier than
> > enumerating the types of apps/sites that need to implement it. All the
> > government needs to do is set up the server infrastructure to source the
> > alerts.
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> In many cases, only the foreground app has a clear understanding of the
> state of the screen. Not the OS and definitely not the hardware platform.
> I'd be super pissed if I died in Overwatch because the BIOS tried to take
> over the screen to display an amber alert.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
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