Posted on 05/10/2011 10:19:00 AM PDT by shanevanderhart
Emergency officials will soon be able to blast critical alerts to anyone with a cell phone in a certain section of the city.
If Times Square needs to be evacuated because of a bomb threat or if a hurricane is bearing down on Queens, warnings will be bounced from cell towers.
"Making sure that [people] get useful and life-saving information, quickly and easily, right on their mobile phones, will help more people get out of harm's way when a threat exists," said Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator W. Craig Fugate.
The system - called PLAN or Personal Localized Alerting Network - uses cell phone towers to send messages to everyone currently in a certain area, regardless of whether they're visiting from out of town or have a phone registered elsewhere. People won't have to register in advance to receive the alerts.
The messages, including urgent blasts from the President, information on imminent threats and Amber Alerts about missing children, will supercede all other phone traffic so they won't be stalled or delayed.
FEMA's Fugate and Federal Communications Commissioner Chair Julius Genachowski plan to announce the new system at the World Trade Center site Tuesday in a press conference with Mayor Bloomberg and top phone company execs.
They system is expected to be up and running in New York and Washington by the end of the year - months before the rest of the country.
Mayor Bloomberg called the alerts a "quantum leap forward in using technology to help keep people safe."
The only alerts I want is when Bloomberg steps down and Obama is impeached and removed from office.
Bloomberg is ridiculous horse’s ass.
The only problem is that the City will elect someone even worse...
...like Weiner.
Bloomberg is ridiculous horse’s ass.
The only problem is that the City will elect someone even worse...
...like Weiner.
Didn’t Bradburry write this in farenheit 411? all step out and look around?
The USSR did this too.
Life saving info soon to reach your cellphone:
“Fast food kills with sugar, fats, cholesterol and animal byproducts.”
“Wear your seatbelt.”
“Take time to meditate on any anger you have towards gays.”
With my patented, new PPT (Politician Prevarication Translator) device, that would read: "Mayor Bloomberg called the alerts a "quantum leap forward in shoving government farther and farther up your ass in every conceivable way until you choke on it."
“it has been noted that you may be trying to leave the city. Before you do this, think about your duty to support others”
So instead of teaching people to pay attention and be alert for emergencies, we actually 1. Make people more relient on Govn’t, 2. Not allow people to think for themselves. Yeah this sounds about right for America now.
YES absolutely...I was thinking of just that image!
As long as I have the power to turn it off...not for Verizen to decide for me...they can mewl and cry all they want. I do NOT need some beuraucrat to “keep me safe...[snivelsimpwhine] And I certainly do NOT want ANY messages from DER Fuerher...er Leader. But I understand that in their wisdom, they are making that feature mandatory like the e911.
[I still haven’t figgered out how to shut that off....gotta be a way.]
Quantum: a discrete change in state so small that it took some of the most brilliant people of the 20th century to notice it at all.
If it is anything like the current system it will sound every time a child gets lost in Toys-R-Us or it starts raining and the station wants to go into Weather Emergency Mode. (It is odd how weather emergencies take place during normal program times but are nearly never important enough to interrupt a commercial. If a commercial is bumped, you know it is time to take cover.)
They've even started calling my home phone for Amber Alerts for a missing child.
And eventually it will be tailored to you:
"You're fat; you will not be allowed to buy anything with sugar or fat in it until you have lost 30 pounds."
"You need to go to the dentist more often; failure to do so will result in denial of your insurance claims."
"You exceeded the speed limit three times today; speeding tickets will be forthcoming."
Please report to your district Government Re-education facility in the next 48 hours.
17,000 NYC cab drivers receiving cell phone messages simultaneously. Isn't it illegal to use a cell phone while driving?
bfl
“You might want to choose a healthier restaurant.”
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