(in this case it's a multiband ham radio, and when I know the weather is not as good as it can be I put the NWS WX broadcast on the secondary VFO and it will chime if the EAS tone is picked up on it, so I know to switch over. But they do make WX radios that non-hams can use, you know)
What harm is providing your name or identification going to cause? It's one thing to answer actual questions, but knowing your name and seeing your ID is in itself harmless is it not?
If I put myself in an officer's shoes - withholding that information would tickle my spidey-sense.
The Presidential Alert level has never been used. If you were to ever get one, it will be of the level of "we are going to be radioactive ash shortly" and not some propaganda.
If you got one, the least of your concerns should be that you were annoyed by said message.
Severe thunderstorm warnings are... warnings about severe thunderstorms!
Would you bitch if you ignored/missed such a warning only to have a tree land on your car as you drove to the store? Or perhaps if you had your skull busted in by a tennis-ball sized hailstone?
The fun part about flash floods is that they are flash floods. There is little to no warning, and the rain can be tens of miles away (or father, geography permitting).
Such a warning prevented my being killed out on the highway, because about 5 minutes later we went from nearly clear skies to rain so thick you couldn't see 10 feet in a matter of seconds. Severe weather is not something to ever get complacent about. The sheer amount of energy involved is mindblowing, and nature can direct it at you with very little warning.
You mean the alert type that's never been utilized, ever? If it were to ever go off, you'd likely be reduced to radioactive ash in the next few minutes, or half the country would be underwater.
You're not going to get an alert because the President decided you should hear about his new 12-step plan...
I thought it wasn't based on your current location, but rather based on your billing address.
I was getting alerts from a different state, and when I called in I found that billing (for some reason) had my old address when the rest of my account was up to date.
Because of that nonsense I disabled all but Presidential alerts and have a different application that actually tracks the county I'm in (and surrounding counties) and does it's thing based on that. I realize it's not perfect - no data connection means no alert info - but in general I will know about things well enough in advance that I can have my 2-meter radio handy (which can pick up the EAS tones from the NWS broadcasts and make a lot of noise).
Fortunately, on Android at least, you can disable everything except the Presidential Alerts.
I'm glad for this. I don't care to hear amber or silver alerts (it sucks, but I can't drop what I'm doing to start reading every license plate I see - that's what the Police are paid for!) and I have over means to keep on top of the weather.
For example, I have a real honest-to-god radio that I can use to listen to NWS broadcasts, and listen (and even participate!) in county-level spotter activities. Hell, I've attended an NWS spotter class - while I'm not active, I know how (and do) submit reports of damage and the like.
They already have that kind of thing for railroads, really. Instead of powering on an alerting system it would power on the energy delivery system. That's the harder part, not the encryption and selectivity.
So when Ubuntu updated their startup scripts to shave about 1 second off of boot time, and as a result AT and PS/2 keyboards no longer worked, that was a change for the better?
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(in this case it's a multiband ham radio, and when I know the weather is not as good as it can be I put the NWS WX broadcast on the secondary VFO and it will chime if the EAS tone is picked up on it, so I know to switch over. But they do make WX radios that non-hams can use, you know)
What harm is providing your name or identification going to cause? It's one thing to answer actual questions, but knowing your name and seeing your ID is in itself harmless is it not?
If I put myself in an officer's shoes - withholding that information would tickle my spidey-sense.
Gee, maybe to provide information on an actual crime that someone had committed?
Fuck right off. You've a right to be a citizen, but I don't have to enjoy being one with you.
I happen to believe that the entity enforcing the law should be paying for it, not you.
But that does not absolve you for destroying it to get away without having to deal with it. Ethically, I find that wrong.
That doesn't give you the right to quietly ignore it, destroying historical artifacts in the process.
It would be one thing if you were just saving time, but those places/objects are being irretrievably destroyed for your laziness/greed.
You want to dig in the dirt, you get to follow the rules.
Don't like it? Don't get in the earth-moving business. Tough cookies.
The Presidential Alert level has never been used. If you were to ever get one, it will be of the level of "we are going to be radioactive ash shortly" and not some propaganda.
If you got one, the least of your concerns should be that you were annoyed by said message.
I think the primary complaint here is not that the notices are there, but that the notification system itself has been demonstrated insecure.
Severe thunderstorm warnings are... warnings about severe thunderstorms!
Would you bitch if you ignored/missed such a warning only to have a tree land on your car as you drove to the store? Or perhaps if you had your skull busted in by a tennis-ball sized hailstone?
The fun part about flash floods is that they are flash floods. There is little to no warning, and the rain can be tens of miles away (or father, geography permitting).
Such a warning prevented my being killed out on the highway, because about 5 minutes later we went from nearly clear skies to rain so thick you couldn't see 10 feet in a matter of seconds. Severe weather is not something to ever get complacent about. The sheer amount of energy involved is mindblowing, and nature can direct it at you with very little warning.
You mean the alert type that's never been utilized, ever? If it were to ever go off, you'd likely be reduced to radioactive ash in the next few minutes, or half the country would be underwater.
You're not going to get an alert because the President decided you should hear about his new 12-step plan...
I thought it wasn't based on your current location, but rather based on your billing address.
I was getting alerts from a different state, and when I called in I found that billing (for some reason) had my old address when the rest of my account was up to date.
Because of that nonsense I disabled all but Presidential alerts and have a different application that actually tracks the county I'm in (and surrounding counties) and does it's thing based on that. I realize it's not perfect - no data connection means no alert info - but in general I will know about things well enough in advance that I can have my 2-meter radio handy (which can pick up the EAS tones from the NWS broadcasts and make a lot of noise).
Fortunately, on Android at least, you can disable everything except the Presidential Alerts.
I'm glad for this. I don't care to hear amber or silver alerts (it sucks, but I can't drop what I'm doing to start reading every license plate I see - that's what the Police are paid for!) and I have over means to keep on top of the weather.
For example, I have a real honest-to-god radio that I can use to listen to NWS broadcasts, and listen (and even participate!) in county-level spotter activities. Hell, I've attended an NWS spotter class - while I'm not active, I know how (and do) submit reports of damage and the like.
That's a rhetorical question, right? Because there is no other role.
They already have that kind of thing for railroads, really. Instead of powering on an alerting system it would power on the energy delivery system. That's the harder part, not the encryption and selectivity.
This one?
I could see it being used in high-traffic areas, so the electric cars can get a nice charge-up while they are sitting in the parking lot.
I'm not going to say it doesn't usually mean that... because it does.
But that is not what is actually being said!
You seem to be implying that there's a difference.
It says something (sad) about the state of our government when I'll take the word of a 29-year-old who ran to Hong Kong over that of the government.
So when Ubuntu updated their startup scripts to shave about 1 second off of boot time, and as a result AT and PS/2 keyboards no longer worked, that was a change for the better?
A lack of sympathy does not imply that you condone what is being done, only that there is no empathy for the person.
Does my name look like deusmetallum? No. I just think you're an ass and wanted you to know.
Let me guess, your a Windows shop?
Not much. Most of that population growth comes from other areas, like China or India.
Change for the sake of change is usually not a good thing when it comes to enterprise systems.