Re: Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 11:57 AM Michael Thomas <mike () 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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