It Took Nearly Three Hours For France's Terror Alert App To Respond To Nice Attack (theverge.com)

Amar Toor, reporting for The Verge: A terror alert app released by the French government last month has come under criticism after taking hours to notify users of Thursday night's attack in Nice. The app, called SAIP was released by the French Interior Ministry on iOS and Android in June, ahead of the Euro 2016 soccer tournament. According to the ministry, the app would provide users with alerts and information within 15 minutes of a terrorist attack being confirmed. But it apparently took much longer to send out alerts following last night's attack in Nice, where a man drove a truck into a crowded seaside promenade during Bastille Day celebrations, killing at least 84 people and leaving 18 others in critical condition. Users who had downloaded the app posted phone screenshots to Twitter last night showing that SAIP sent out its first alert just after 1:30AM local time -- nearly three hours after the attack began. Facebook, by contrast, activated its Safety Check feature shortly after the attack was carried out, and French politicians urged those in the area to check in using that feature, as SAIP remained silent.

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Re:YOU HAVE TO GO BACK

[Mashiki]

You could almost say that the oil industry is really to blame. We've got a 60 year history of destabilizing a region where this mad ideology originates and then funding (and arming) their dictators. Oil industry and banksters have wrought this upon us. And a family named, "Rothschild"

We'll never deal with terrorism until we deal with that and the fallout from Balfour.

Okay, let's roll with this. You know the US is now sitting on more oil, coal and NG, then there are proven supplies in say Saudi Arabia? Canada comes in just under that US total too. So let's cut the snake off at the head, and start using our own oil/NG/coal/etc. Sounds good right? Oh wait, what do you mean those environmentalists are starting to whine, and the nimby's are so uptight that their assholes are where their mouths are? And there's a brain dead president in power that doesn't want to do anything and impose more bans on developing those sites or continues with the environmentalist anti-nuke policies.

Solution and answer are right there and could end it all in 30 years.

Re:When will they get it?

[Kjella]

Reality is that the attacker was stopped by the first man with a firearm. Reality is that automatic and semi-automatic gun ownership just got another solid, not even a theoretical card, to use when defending the gun ownership from nutty gun fearing zealots. Reality is that a single semi-automatic rifle would have been extremely effective in stopping the madman in Nice attack.

If he had an automatic rifle, would he need a truck? Just spray and pray, when it's packed with people you're going to hit somebody. And if you pull a gun, are you a terrorist or a good guy? During that police shooting in Dallas, you had 20-30 open carry activists in the crowd. How many of them pulled out their guns to try help shoot the bad guy? I'm guessing none, because they wanted to live. I'm sure there were many police officers along that parade, as France is still in a state of emergency. That doesn't mean firing into the driver's seat of a truck that's ramming through a crowd would be easy. If you look at that truck it was riddled with bullet holes, it took a lot more than one bullet to bring him down...