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Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans (nymag.com)
President-elect Donald Trump will have access to a system which can send unblockable texts to every phone in the United States once he becomes the president. From a report on NYMag: These 90-character messages, known as Wireless Emergency Alerts (or WEAs), are part of a program put in place after Congress passed the Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act, in 2006. WEAs allow for targeted messages to be sent to every cell phone getting a signal from certain geographically relevant cell towers (or, in a national emergency, all of them). While it'd be a true nightmare to get screeching alerts from your phone that "Loser Senate Democrats still won't confirm great man Peter Thiel to Supreme Court. Sad!", there are some checks and balances on this. While President-elect Trump hasn't shown much impulse control when it comes to his favorite mass-messaging service, Twitter, the process for issuing a WEA isn't as simple as typing out a 90-character alert from a presidential smartphone and hitting "Send." All WEAs must be issued through FEMA's Integrated Public Alert Warning System, meaning that an emergency alert from the president still has at least one layer to pass through before being issued. While FEMA is under control of the executive branch (the head of FEMA is selected by the president, and reports to the Department of Homeland Security), the agency would have a vested interest in not seeing their alert system bent toward, uh, non-emergency ends.
LOLOLOLOL
Journalists, be careful what you publish. Don't give donald ideas!
What the fuck is this? I don't like Trump because I have a brain cell, but this is bullshit garbage. msmash/manish needs to go.
There's plenty Trump is actually doing that will have drastic consequences over the next few decades to be concerned about. Lets not start worrying about a power he hasn't abused yet, has made no comments that show he will abuse it, and if abused would be more an annoyance than a crisis. Priorities people.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
First FEMA tweet
Rosie O'donnell is a yuge bitch!!!!
And Obama had this power too. Don't remember quite how far back this goes, but pretty sure Bush was able to do it too.
And EVERY president going back to the start of the Emergency Broadcast System, since 1963, has had the ability to commandeer all airwaves as well. It was accidentally set off once, in 1971.
Meh.
Next story.
This is nothing new
create a ringtone thats 0.1 seconds of silence & set that as his ringtone.
So now I will have to turn my phone off or I'll get texts at 3am every night....
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Holding enormous official powers, he schemed ceaselessly to expand them, because it was expected of him by those who had pushed him into office. He had the cunning of the unintelligent and the frantic energy of the lazy.
--Atlas Shrugged
Trump will soon have the power and authority to launch a Preemptive Nuclear Strike and you are worried about the misuse of the WEA's Text Messages?!
Instead of reading a summary of Mr. Trump's 3AM tweets in The Wall Street Journal each morning, I'll be force to read each one as they come in real time.
Why is this news? Obama has the power now. I trust Obama, as a professional Chicago-machine politician, even less than Trump.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
I hate pointless fear mongering articles. Best example of fake news there is right here on slashdot.
Trump isn't likely to abuse the alert system but leave it to slashdot to make an issue of it.
Trump won. Get over it already.
Trump may be all kinds of things unsavory, but this kind of "news" says more about the people reporting it than about Trump.
Alt title: Democrats Terrified of Trump Controlling their Surveillance State.
This counts as a pressing concern? That Trump has the power to send spam?
Never mind that he has stoking the worst bigotry and racial violence in North America in recent history. Never mind that he now has access to nookoolar weapons. Never mind that he's going to gut environmental regulations and oversight over the entire energy sector.
No! He can send us a text message! Everybody panic!
Is there an emoji for eyeroll?
Emergency alerts can already be turned off on your phone. I don't need to be getting woken up at 3AM for flash flood warnings in a different watershed or missing children in a vehicle on a major interstate hours' drive away from my out-of-the-way little hometown, so I have them off already. If that means I don't get stupid fucking Trump tweets either, great.
-Forrest Cameranesi, Geek of all Trades
"I am Sam. Sam I am. I do not like trolls, flames, or spam."
Water is wet. Coverage at 5 and 11.
The FUD being spread is unreal.
I don't have cell phone, so I can't get these messages.
Try again.
And when breathless reporters then embed his Tweets to summon a fresh gale of outrage.
What the fuck is this? Seriously? What. The. Fuck. Taco must be turning in his grave/money pit at what the various owners of Slashdot have done to it since he sold it on.
Seems like an EO means the President can do whatever the fuck he wants with WEAs and for that matter, FEMA.
The vast majority of government agencies are going to be Trump's bitch for the next 4 years. And there is nothing that can be done about it.
Thanks rural alt-right rednecks!
As the old adage goes: "Let's cross that bridge when we come to it"
Can we stop complaining about things that may possibly is some crazy parallel universe happen?
I didn't vote for the guy but can we at least wait until he is in office and doing stuff before we jump off the deep end?
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
We are going to bring texts back!
We have some of the smartest texts, it's going to be YUGE!
....grabs popcorn....
I wonder if an article would have come out saying "Hillary would..." if she won? Or is it only news because of the identity of the winner and apolitical bias?
I'm all for this "feature" if it comes with a "Reply All" button.
Neutral.. to matters that do not directly concern me
That's a Huuuggggeee capability, right there!
All of a sudden, the left and the media are afraid of the powers that have been given to the president...
The Trump hysteria is getting a bit out of hand.
I seemed to recall reading on Slashdot a few years ago about how the Obama admin was putting this into place
Coder's Stone: The programming language quick ref for iPad
Correct. This is a totally sensationalist story.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
I mean, really? Is this what slashdot has become? I used to like comming to this site to get my tech news. This is just fucking stupid. I'm done.
Seriously, I don't like Trump either, but this is just a random Facebook rant post that somehow made it to Facebook. Has Trump given any indication that he wants to do this? Has there been any serious abuse of this in the past? Is it the end of the world if he does? Couldn't he just order the phone companies to send out text messages?
What else might Trump do?? He could order the wireless providers to set his picture as the default background. He could order the navy to arrange the boats to spell out his name on Google Maps. He could order NASA to fly to the moon and rearrange the dirt to resemble his face as seen from Earth. This isn't news and it's not even interesting.
This isn't even click bait. This is a random speculation, and a counter, wrapped into one. It's a mental patient babbling to himself.
Stop it. Get some help.
Yeah, yeah, right. Presidents have been able to do this for a long time. No big deal.
Why this is news is because in the past, presidents were sane.
(Idea: incoming administration should modernize nuclear launch system for the 21st century so it is possible to give launch orders via Twitter.)
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
Brunner ref for you kidz
Disable all texts. I hate texts any way, block them all!
...in 5... 4... 3...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
I can absolutely block them, some of us are not sheeple that refuse to learn how to master technology.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I hate pointless fear mongering articles. Best example of fake news there is right here on slashdot.
Trump isn't likely to abuse the alert system but leave it to slashdot to make an issue of it.
Trump won. Get over it already.
I'm so weary of all this one-sided bickering and sniping over Trump that I've decided that Democrats should be considered enemy combatants.
To be more clear, I now consider Democrats to be the equivalent of the "other side" in a war - they will still oppose every and any thing your side does, they can lose a battle and still wage war, incessant and total non-compliance, they will fight to the last man, and any victory - even pyrrhic - is still a victory. Any means are justified in the pursuit of their ends.
All the things an unruly child does, but forever.
In my mind the Democrats are *permanently* a party of dishonour, disgrace, and corruption. A group that simply gets no "benefit of the doubt" or "concessions of fairness" or anything like that. They are children, now and forever. We should treat them as such.
I was thinking through the recent news (last night) that Trump got Carrier to keep 1000 jobs in the US, and how I couldn't see a way to frame that in a bad light. Lo and behold! Recent comments on Slashdot manage to paint this as a bad thing. They even pulled out the Hitler comparison for good measure.
The Democrats are defeated. Leaderless and feckless, the only thing they can do is complain.
No plan, no leadership, and rife with corruption.
It's hard to see why anyone would be a part of that crowd.
Trump is, if nothing else, extremely adept at self-promotion, and so he wouldn't use this unless he felt it would be hugely popular.
Remember: Trump is a narcissist. Every one of his actions is motivated in convincing himself that he is powerful and loved.
My phone is rooted. Good luck with that.
Not the presidential ones
all the others yes.
I'm pretty sure this is false. You can easily block them.
But you don't understand. This is Trump we're talking about.
Actually that's a good point. We're talking about Trump. We're defending him. We're brushing this off as a non issue. And yet the real news of the past few days is what what kind of psychopathic fuckwits he's appointing to positions of power potentially setting America back to the early 1900s.
Cyanogenmod is FOSS.
I'm not sure if Trump's small hands will allow him to type more efficiently, making fewer mistakes, or will require him to use two hands because he likely got a ginormous screen phone and can't reach both sides of the keyboard.
And Obama had this power too. Don't remember quite how far back this goes, but pretty sure Bush was able to do it too.
And EVERY president going back to the start of the Emergency Broadcast System, since 1963, has had the ability to commandeer all airwaves as well. It was accidentally set off once, in 1971.
Stop pointing out the facts, you're foiling the F.U.D. apparatchiks!
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
One of the reasons I very rarely visit this site any more.. .
What is this leftie blatant fearmongering bullshit? This mechanism is for emrgency alerts and was actually put in place by Obama, so yes any President can use it, including both Obama and Trump. Trump won, get over it and move on
Wow, in the last two months, I've been seeing nontechnical, Trump 'news' here. The president shouldn't pay much attention to technology, or science. I'm ok with a tech idiot president. His job is to deal with humans, be it the nation of Japan, to crazy guys in Afghanistan. Maybe he'll send money. Maybe he'll send Americans to murder some of those people. Maybe he'll give speeches on diversity, and say the people in Afghanistan have to embrace the crazies. Congress can deal with tech.
I guess I'll have to go back to looking at that soylent place again.
Yellow journalism?
Now you all know why Wikipedia listed Hillary Supporters as the leading salt producers in the world.
This is almost as bad as the comment trying to argue that Trump tweeting at 3 AM amounted to the "permanent warfare" of fascist regimes.
I don't see why sensationalizing Trump in this header is important since Obama has the same "power".
Agreed, when I first read the article I asked myself "And?". Why is this even showing up on a tech forum?
Time to move on to technical discussions and move away from the politics that have been a major distraction this past year.
Ha ha
It sure is nice to see authority mocked again — after eight years of any such mocking being racist.
And we just escaped it becoming sexist for another eight years...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
well played sir
This one is obviously for the lark. Have a sense of humor.
Someone had to do it.
Ridiculous overreactions much??
You got me.
Android can block this, and I'm pretty sure iOS has a similar feature.
/.'s left wing brainwashing propaganda machine!!!
It's buried under a couple layers of menus within "Settings" but it's definitely there. I wish I could post a screen capture. It's where you can block emergency warnings, tornado warnings, Amber alerts, etc.
But, hey, don't let facts get in the way of
Because Donald Trump is technically a sociopath?
You are welcome on my lawn.
The difference is none of the other Presidents are known to go on twitter rants at 3 am.
So Bush and Obama had this 'scary' power as well....
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But then I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain
Seriously?
I'm done with Slashdot. This isn't news. This isn't Technology. This isn't interesting.
I don't know who the new batch of editors are, but they suck. Like a hole in a spaceship.
I am tired of reading stuff I've already seen and trendy crap from hipster websites from 'authors' (to use the term extremely loosely) who need to get a real job.
And Obama had this power too.
Yes. Obama also has the power to indulge in incoherent rage-Tweeting. However, what Obama does not have is Trump's flaming dumpster full of personality disorders.
This is news not because this capability is new, but because Donald 'effing Trump may be using it to "shake things up".
WRONG!!!
This smartphone messaging news item has nothing to do with Trump but loser libtards can't stop crying. What a bunch of mindless and gutless pussies you people are. I hope Trump continues to tweet up a storm in order to drive you jackasses insane.
News for liberals. Stuff that matters to people who think Hillary should be President.
This isn't something that Trump championed through, this was an existing idea that finally received approval.
The real headline should be:
"Office of the President now able to send unblockable mass text message to all Americans".
I don't like the guy just as much as the next person (and I don't like Hillary either), but slashdot needs to stop throwing his name out there for a reaction.
I didn't see this article as fear-mongering. Abuse of the WEA for political purposes could result in it being ignored in a real crisis. As much as I distrust Trump, I think he knows this.
What makes this news is not that it's fear-mongering, but that it's ironic.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
"President-elect Donald Trump will have access to a system which can send unblockable texts to every phone in the United States once he becomes the president. From a report on NYMag:"
Which Obama has now.
He'll also have access to the nuclear launch codes, the US Military, the FBI, CIA, the IRS, the entire executive branch.
Are you guys even for real with your breathy vapourous crying jags? No offense.
So are 1 out of 5 CEOs of all major corporations (Google, FB, Amazon, MS, Apple, Alphabet) take your pick which one.
I guess people can imagine getting a text that Obama created ISIS or some other ludicrous horseshit and they don't like it.
There's plenty Trump is actually doing that will have drastic consequences over the next few decades to be concerned about. Lets not start worrying about a power he hasn't abused yet, has made no comments that show he will abuse it, and if abused would be more an annoyance than a crisis. Priorities people.
Part of good priority utilization is in taking care of low hanging fruit when optimal. Hashtag (mobile phone) root matters (more than the general reaction of the public in recent history has suggested). If this story directed at this audience could better achieve the critical mass of getting the vast minority of mobile phone users having root, versus the vast minority, then I would consider that something of a possibly forgivable quasi-Trumpian troll.
At this point we're all just hoping he screws up (on things that don't start a nuclear war) that even the alt-right will want to throw him out in 2020, right?
It wouldn't be too bad though if he sent out text alerts for discount bargains on membership to his golf courses or hotel booking discounts. Those sort of texts would be useful to some people.
1. Any person acting as president would have access to the same thing, so why is this worth a story? :O
2. Just because Trump has access to it doesn't mean he's going to abuse it.
3. Obviously there are fucking checks and balances in place... so again, this story is a non-story
4. Guess what - Trump also has access to 911!
Why the fuck are people so pissy about Trump? They fucking voted him in! If everybody is so serious about Clinton 4 prez, where were they on voting night? I assume the Clinton circlejerk ran a bit late.
You oughta move to Mexico, amigo.
Donald Trump is a narcissist.
Hilary Clinton is technically a sociopath.
FTFY
Required viewing? Not sure if 1984 or Max Headroom applies. Given the originator I'm inclined to go with M M M Max
You can get your daily text with the Presidential comment of the day. If only Chairman Mao had this kind of power!
You don't understand! 3AM tweets are a sign of fascism. It's all spelled out right here under the "permanent warfare" section!
One day you're Tweeting at 3AM, and BAM! The next thing you know, you're ignoring the Treaty of Versailles, then invading Poland.
Don't say that nobody warned you!
Trump texting us is gonna get old real fast.
https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendaEM
Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans..
Any advertiser / spam company wet dream!
See subject: I'll NEVER block his messages after he kills the Federal Reserve & declares war on them + fires the corrupt congressmen (& we all KNOW there ARE those).
* :)
You'll never see ME block your messages Mr. Trump, especially if you do those 2 things above & PARK Hillary, Soros, Podesta, & Weiner away for "pizzagate" !
(From what I have read on it, especially from InfoWars? Especially their payments to COMET Ping Pong?? They are sicko moloch worshippers who apparently rape & murder kids as well as sodomize them along w/ their 'high priestess' the 'artist' named Marina Abramovic (talk Aleister Crowley reincarnated!)).
No, not all the DIRTY MEDIA as you call them (& they are, best big money can threaten, fire or buy (see Glenn Beck regarding "Darth SOROS") can convince me otherwise... & I am FAR from alone!
APK
P.S.=> The "NWO" needs to have its lights put the F out so we can restore the USA economy & those 1st 2 items above w/ a few more things can do it... apk
And Obama had this power too. Don't remember quite how far back this goes, but pretty sure Bush was able to do it too.
And EVERY president going back to the start of the Emergency Broadcast System, since 1963, has had the ability to commandeer all airwaves as well. It was accidentally set off once, in 1971.
Meh.
Next story.
Uh, every president before Trump wasn't rather addicted to social media, as his beaten and battered Twatter account obscenely reflects against your call to quell the masses...
So next time someone proposes a new power for the President, ask yourself, "Would I be comfortable with Donald Trump having this power?"
We reap what we sow.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
"Now I've the useless pathetic SMS has downgraded me to 90? SAD."
CEOs don't carry launch codes for nuclear missiles.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Why this is news is because in the past, presidents were sane.
The reason this is a non-story is because if the president-elect really *is* a dangerously thin-skinned sociopathic narcissist unsuited for the job of leading a country armed to the teeth with nukes and the purported free world- which he certainly is- then a few shitty unwanted SMS messages at two in the morning are the least you (or anyone else) has to worry about.
"Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
He's obnoxious and thin skinned, but not a sociopath. I don't see any evidence to conclude that at all.
And how many of them were spoiled little narcissists that spew our ranting tweets as odd hours in the morning. Just because a grownup has the ability to do something does not mean that you should entrust that ability to a child.
I don't believe for a second that mere text is gonna be the only thing we have forced into there...
Not that it won't get nasty when some spam agency manages to get their hands on that trick too....
Because Donald Trump is technically a sociopath?
Then you must be REALLY relieved that the Clintons didn't get the executive power they were hungry to regain.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Yeah, been there. Still kinda there. Still wondering why managers think it is a good idea to have me half asleep with CLI windows open to mission critical boxes, though I guess in cases where said boxes are actually completely belly up, it might be better than not.
rm -rf /*
and back to sleep. Let those fuckers figure it out themselves, after I've had a bit of kip.
On a serious note, I would not accept employment at a job with that kind of requirement. It's one thing to be on call, it's another to get spammed with bullshit all night and not get a decent night's sleep.
I did not vote for Trump and will never, EVER support him, but this has to be one of the stupidest headlines ever to have made it on the front page of sd.
Is this an actual claim that Trump will use the cellular reverse emergency alert system for political spam?
Will he be calling them Orange Alerts?
PopeShillzo, they still paying per post or do you get a check at the end of the month now like salary?
And Obama had this power too. Don't remember quite how far back this goes, but pretty sure Bush was able to do it too. And EVERY president going back to the start of the Emergency Broadcast System, since 1963, has had the ability to commandeer all airwaves as well. It was accidentally set off once, in 1971.
Meh.
Next story.
But Trump is the first one who'll use this to market christmas ornaments.
You are correct they do not, they just try and buy the presidency.
how is this not the same as the Emergency Alert System (EAS)?
Direct deposit.
You are welcome on my lawn.
It's because the current fear-mongering isn't working well enough. The sun has been routinely coming up in the morning. Stocks are doing well. I was able to get my morning Starbucks without incident. Outside of the "safe spaces", life is generally going on as normal. So a new "boogey-man" needs to be invented to re-fan the flames of fear.
300 million Americans at ~5 cents per text message = $15 million per incident. He can have the phone companies give him a kickback.
It might actually help in the long run. I mean, if he spends all his time sending stupid attacks on Brazillian supermodels at 3am using the National Emergency Alert System, rather than, say, playing with the Nuclear football, or dreaming up ways to deport suspected sympathizers of flag burners, we might be a little safer.
Come to think of it, all those rumors about Twitter banning him? Maybe, for the safety of our nation, we need to let him continue with the distraction.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
The limitations on what such text messages say don't apply to the acting President. They only apply to appointed staff, not to him.
Yes, it's a nightmare.
No, it won't get better.
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
I'm looking forward to it. I'd like to see trump sending at least a dozen non-blockable texts per day to every cell phone in America, sold in America or owned by an American. He certainly understands the power of being able to control the media, and by "control" I mean "Hey! Look at me! Look at me! I'll have more bs for you ignorant toads later! In the meantime, here's a pic of my woo-woo!".
I can't imagine how popular he'll be after a week of this.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
I don't think you realize how launching nukes actually works. He can't do this on his own. He doesn't have a red button on his desk.
At least one other person needs to approve the order and then needs to convince people actually in the position to launch the nukes to do it.
this is clickbait... pure and simple. no one cares.
If anyone is interested, it is apparently quite simple to block presidential alerts on a rooted android phone. I never looked it up before because why would I care... before
My phone is rooted but I'm not blocking them... yet
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Nice.
It's quite obvious the reporter for NY Mag is a Trump-Hater.
As the reporter eventually points out, the messages are going to be coming from FEMA during some regional emergency event, NOT Trump sending out Tweets.
Shame on you, supposedly-impartial-reporter.
With Trump's limited vocabulary, how many bits do we need to represent every word to make a nice compact dictionary? 8? 9? Fewer?
What about when Romney insulted 47% of the US?
What about the protests and threats of lynching for Obama's election?
You must have a bad memory.
I'll see your non-sequitur and raise you standing on one leg until you fall over. You're so cute when you do that.
What a stupid fucking article. Boogey man bullshit... I find myself wondering why I visit Slashdot more and more lately.
Bush and Obama have both had this "power". You're probably leaving out those details and using Trump's name because you didn't vote for him and you're trying to stir up controversy. Quit being a liberal snow flake!!
Didn't you know, they are racist. That is why they crashed the Canadian immigration site. Not the Mexican immigration site.
Of course he does, hes the damned president and they all get this.. You may disagree with him but hes not the anti-christ... Get a grip people.
I'll bet Melania would comply.
You are welcome on my lawn.
DURR HURR TRUMP WILL HAVE ACCESS TO AN EMERGENCY MESSAGING SYSTEM THAT ANY PRESIDENT BEFORE AND AFTER HIM SHOULD ALSO HAVE DURR HURR
Yeah, that's how idiotic this post sounded.
What's the next headline? This just in, Trump will have a spot in the oval office? OMG, he might start a fire there and shit on the floor! OMG!
He'll mind blowingly have secret service access? OMG! He might use them to kill all democrats! He'll definitely tell them to rape your daughters late at night!
They let him speak with Obama, and other high political figures! Do you think he told them I peed my blankies when I was a kid?
You guys elected him. Now, shut the fuck up about it. Give if a fucking rest. When and if he starts implementing bad policies in office, THEN you start complaining.
Sound like a bunch of retards that can only overreact to crap that doesn't matter... you deserve Trump. That's what this is.
Trump will forever gain my respect if his first text is "Grab America by the Pussy!".
Thank you for recognizing that fact too. People seem to be fixed on the ideal that Trump can just roll out of bed and nuke the planet. Actually, pulling this off is much more complex than people think it is.
Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification
They screw this up every time because any system that relies on humans, eventually screws up. Or screws up from the git-go like our local fire company's land line telephone alert system. I learned they had one when my wife got a call in her hospital room at 10 pm with a recorded message saying be on the lookout for a lost child last seen 10 miles from town. Morons get positions of authority and decision-making across the board. That one had to publicly apologize and got demoted. Yes, I expect a call from the White House advertising the newest vintage from the Trump Winery. By coincidence it's located near where that child was last seen.
Is how they will differentiate between americans and non-americans?
Trumps cabinet is so anti gay, that shit ain't ever gonna happen. Let alone his supporters... who are probably all closeted gays.
Though, thankfully, just this once I'm okay with it... because Peter thiel is a piece of crap.
OK, so "tiny hands" is approved sexism?
Like prison rape is funny?
Like women excluded from Selective Service is equal before the law?
Just trying to keep up.
Hypocrite.
and you're worried about text messaging?
Because Donald Trump is technically a sociopath?
Then you must be REALLY relieved that the Clintons didn't get the executive power they were hungry to regain.
Why does hate for a political party need to be a partisan issue?
Trump retroactively did this!
Are we going to go through this every time the party in the White House changes? When this was first put in place conservatives were bitching that Obama was going to use it as a political platform. Now liberals are taking their turn. This isn't twitter, it's part of a larger national alert system that has, in long history never, once, been activated at the national level by a president. Activating this would also activate all of the other components of the alert system as well. No one is going to use it for BS political messaging.
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
Sucks. Still, better than giving a Neolith sand.niggar that power.
How shocking! The President will have the authority to use the tools assigned to the President! News at 11!
Since the implementation of the new system has there been a single presidential alert?
It's the only type of alert I'm not allowed to disable but I've never gotten one.
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
"That's the emergency channel!"
What? My point is that he's complaining about Trump, who he calls a sociopath. The point is that the Clintons are the very definition of such, only worse - there's two of them, and they have a demonstrated history enriching themselves and otherwise abusing the power of public office.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
...you shouldn't have built it in the first place.
I know, preaching to the choir. If only I could send Amber Alerts to the idiots who are apparently in control.
Interesting potential
'You up?'
(Score: +1, True ) (Score:0)
Oh well. Nice try.
He promised he'd never spread loquacious views
Those definitely don't sound like words Trump would use.
Run an older phone/android version. Anything less than 4.2 or 4.3 didn't have these features and thus the messages don't show up.
As an added bonus most of those phones were easier to jailbreak so you can actually control most of the hardware, even if the baseband processor and trustzone kernels are still locked up. :)
Did /. get bought out by NBC or something? The mass text issue is nothing new. Bush could have used it. Obama could have used it. Hey! Your biass is showing.
Because Donald Trump is technically a sociopath?
Then you must be REALLY relieved that the Clintons didn't get the executive power they were hungry to regain.
Yeah, militarily, 1993 - 2000 REALLY sucked.
Either give me the ability to BLOCK the messages, or give me the ability to RESPOND to the messages and tell the sender what an asshole he is!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
So next time someone proposes a new power for the President, ask yourself, "Would I be comfortable with Donald Trump having this power?"
That's why I got a "very bad feeling" three years ago when Senate Democrats used "The Nuclear Option" to lower the bar to breaking a filibuster on the Senate floor. Sure, they wanted to make it easier to get bills for Obama to sign, but I knew it would eventually come back to bite them.
Doesn't matter. Any sane person wouldn't have voted for either. Unfortunately, that means 50% of the US isn't sane (and the other 50% is mostly apathetic).
Learn to love Alaska
No, the other option we had slept though the 3AM phone call and 4 people including a US ambassador died because nobody got sent help...
For the sake of our diplomats I think I'll take a chance with Trump sending me a 3AM text myself, at least he's up and paying attention to something, even if the twitter wars at 3 AM were about as important as his last hang nail...
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They just have the ability to destroy economies of countries when they get as big as they are right now.
it will not take too long until someone writes an Xposed module for filtering this type of messages.
I'm not a big government type, but this is an idea I floated not too long ago. Seems to me it would be nice to know if a fire is coming your way while your sitting there watching netflix with your ringer off. Flashing blue light.. hmm wonder what that could be.
I think the issue is that he's so out of control that his own campaign had to lock him out of his Twitter account..
Basically, yeah Obama has had the power and hasn't used it, but the thought is that Trump will not be able to resist the temptation to be able to directly message every cell user with unblockable text...
Also, I've already seen several excellent posts helping people block unwanted Amber alerts and some folks offering advice on rooting phones to allow that to be shut off.
I'm willing to take a wait and see attitude, but if he sends one of those texts and it's not because the Great Meteor we've all been hoping for is on its way, I'll consider rooting my phone if there's a way to block the Presidential Alerts.
He gets ONE chance on that.
The Digital Sorceress
Doesn't matter. Any sane person wouldn't have voted for either. Unfortunately, that means 50% of the US isn't sane (and the other 50% is mostly apathetic).
One of the two of them was going to win. They're both annoying, though Clinton is far more sinister. Regardless, whoever one was going to shape the Supreme Court for decades after their turn as POTUS is long gone. Clinton said she'd be choosing activists to "reinterpret" the Constitution so she could get things done that she couldn't get through a congress that didn't agree with her agenda. Trump said he'd pick from a list of SCOTUS candidates that he published well in advance, most of whom are textbook constructionists disinclined to allow the court to be treated like a way to circumvent the legislature. That shit matters. Any "sane person" would choose the lesser of two short-term evils in happy exchange for not screwing the court up by turning it into a newly empowered lefty activist legislative branch.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Do ya honestly think it was going to only be used by Democratic presidents? Good grief it was approved in 2006. I'm certain it will be used for legitimate purposes for the most part. I'm getting weather related alerts already.
Take a deep breath and lay off the medications. Just a hype piece. The NSA is already collecting data far worse than the remote possibility Trump is going to text something silly.
We're fucked.
There should be. I mean, the signal should be unique enough that it's easy to block..
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
I believe it was to confirm some of his cabinet, and yes, I'm betting Democrats wish they had that power now as the Trump cabinet picks come rolling in.
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I think that someone has lost his/her mind. This is even to stupid for a tabloid. The emergency broadcast system is just that and has nothing to do with Trump.
"Buy my new juicy steak,Trump steak. Believe me, this is the best steak you will ever eat. It's huge."
Then we better schould get ready to receive more "Fashion Alerts"
bickerdyke
Trump said he'd pick from a list of SCOTUS candidates that he published well in advance,
Ah, so you are a fucking idiot. He hasn't even taken office, and he's broken nearly every promise made. Want to wager that his first nomination won't be from his list?
Learn to love Alaska
Doesn't matter. Any sane person wouldn't have voted for either. Unfortunately, that means 50% of the US isn't sane (and the other 50% is mostly apathetic).
Uh, no. You need to check out percentage of voter turnout sometime, me laddo. The story is very, very different from what you think it is. More than 50% of the voting public stayed home. They did precisely what you said they should do.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Trump will continue to use Twitter so he can talk to folks like Tim Kane who blamed the Radical M--lim attack on gun control when it was carried out with a vehicle and a knife. Just like ISIS/ISIL instructed the sleeper cells to do a month ago. This is news for nerd, so do your homework nerds, know what a threat is that isn't coming over the wire.
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How can he break any promises, he hasn't even taken office yet. He has merely SAID he is going to break promises. I guess he's backed himself into a corner with that. Pretty clever, now he can swear he kept his promises and just ignore the other set on contradictory promises.
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"I don't recall the Republicans..."
Well you wouldn't, that is unfortunately one of the side effects you'll suffer living your life as a partisan wingnut.
The question is why are you telling us again? We already know - your repeated posts giving evidence to the fact aren't exactly subtle.
It is easy to confuse 'did not get as much media coverage' with 'did not happen'.
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Thanks, Obama!
Learn to love your Do Not Disturb function on your phone. Mine's set to kick in every night for messages, notifications and texts though I do allow alarms for waking up for work and calls in case of emergency but as of yet no disturbances with DND mode on while I sleep
Yeah, okay, people. We get it. You liberal goons hate anything and everything about conservatives and Trump. You haven't learned your lesson, yet have you?
Want to know WHY you lost the election? Because Americans are sick and bloody tired of the constant fear-mongering, name calling and attempted character assassinations. We're tired of being told only you liberals know what's best for us. We're tired of the liberal hypocrisy. (Trump supporters will protest and not accept the election results!!!!!) We're tired of being labeled with some sort of -ism just because we disagree with you (sexist if you don't vote for Hillary, racist if you disagree with Obama, ad infinitum). We're tired of watching you bankrupt cities like Detroit, Baltimore, Atlanta (and the state of California) while blaming the the failure of your 'progressive' causes on the conservatives.
Hell, we're tired of you blaming ANYTHING and ANYONE for your failures. Sexism stopped Hillary from being elected. America is full of racists. Blah, blah, blah.
The bottom line is, liberals, your ideology is nothing but hypocrisy. Your ideology is built on false premises. If your ideology was so good, why do you insist on resorting to nothing short of domestic terrorism to get your way? Why do you riot, and protest and threaten when things don't go your way? No ideology is perfect, but yours is the most self-righteous, pseudo-religious claptrap this side of Scientology. It engenders the same fanaticistic psychology you get from Radical Islam (and Radical Christianity for that matter).
And yet you just don't get it. You continue doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result. Then placing blame everywhere but where it belongs.
I've said for a long time that Liberalism is a mental illness. And you've continued to strengthen my theory by how you act.
Pax Vobiscum
Ketchup had to be graded as a food for DoE and USDA purposes. It's not a meat, it's not a starch, so it's a vegetable.
Ronnie personally had nothing to do with it.
Just as 0 had nothing personally to do with recent failures of the VA.
Stop ascribing everything to a president or administration, and not the bureaucracy that is behind it.
I recall the Republicans rioting before Bush was elected. Which helped get him elected. And flying the rioters in on planes supplied by corporate donors. And paying the rioters for their time. And pretending that it wasn't a partisan effort, it was the Good People of Florida spontaneously rising up.
https://www.consortiumnews.com/2002/080502a.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2000/11/sweeney_and_the_siege_of_miami.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11...
http://www.poetrywar.com/Music...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2008/11/20/a-gop-dirty-trickster-has-second-thoughts.html
http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=28
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/2242...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/23/us/counting-vote-miami-dade-county-wild-day-miami-with-end-recounting-democrats.html
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
So...the man who can't restrain himself from posting constant hectoring tweets online to harass and goad everyone who ever dares to cross him is going to be given the ability to send them directly to our phones unless we root them. Okay.
I see either a sudden upsurge in the number of people who root their phones, or a sudden massive crackdown on rooting exploits.
Wait and see can turn in to complacency. The Cabinet picks alone are enough to set one's hair on fire.
Prepare for the worst and expect the best.
trump has shown who he is, and who is is not. Believe it. If anything, this speculation is getting ahead of itself because the whole emolument thing will probably knock him out of the box on Day One.
Trump will have privatized the bridge, so bring a sh*tload of dimes!
Yes, I know the sky is falling, everyone will move to Canada, World War 3, genocide, sexual slavery, and all evil will come about.
Nothing hysterical going on here, eh?
I had this image of getting 3AM drunk texts from POTUS.
More than 50% of the voting public stayed home.
That's what I said. Read the numbers. It rounds to: 50% voter turnout, 24%Hillary 23% Trump 3% other.
Also note, not voting for Hillary *or* Trump is an option without staying home. If Jill had gotten 10% of the vote, and Gary 15% of the vote, and 38% Hillary and 37% Donald, the discussion now would be vastly different. Even more so if the 3rd parties managed to get enough states to "block" an outright majority.
3rd party votes aren't wasted. Voting D or R is a wasted vote.
Learn to love Alaska
But he already has twitter with 16 million followers!
...is gonna be YUUUUUUUUGE.
It's not a sensationalist story, it's a somewhat funny "did you know" story.
(((Jeff Zucker))) (head of CNN): jew
Zuckerberg (facebook): jew
Janet Yellen (Federal Reserve): jew
New York Times: almost all jew
Supreme Court: 3 of the 9 (currently 8 while awaiting replacement for recently deceased justice Scalia) - jew
Ben Bernanke (Federal Reserve): jew
Alan Greenspan (Federal Reserve): jew
Why did YOU allow Obama to have this power if you didn't want people like Trump to have it as well. That's why giving ANY president extraordinary powers is NEVER wise and should be avoided no matter how "good" your president/party/side is!! Honestly how short-sighted are people? Pretty damn myopic!