What would be the point of setting up a central and easily overloaded system (one point of failure) to disseminate information? The Emergency Broadcast System already has the cabability to cover the entire country in a distributed manner via television and radio. In the event of a major disaster, phones and TVs will likely not work, but battery operated AM/FM radios are in abundance. While this does not offer the user an interface, what would be the need for one in the first place? One is simply distributing the information required for survival. The ability to listen to portions of the recording instead of the entire loop seems superfluous to me.
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What would be the point of setting up a central and easily overloaded system (one point of failure) to disseminate information? The Emergency Broadcast System already has the cabability to cover the entire country in a distributed manner via television and radio. In the event of a major disaster, phones and TVs will likely not work, but battery operated AM/FM radios are in abundance. While this does not offer the user an interface, what would be the need for one in the first place? One is simply distributing the information required for survival. The ability to listen to portions of the recording instead of the entire loop seems superfluous to me.
Wouldn't it really be the Bizarro-Gimp?