[196296] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: California fires: smart speakers and emergency alerts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Oct 17 04:28:01 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:01:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: "Aaron C. de Bruyn" <aaron@heyaaron.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAEE+rGoRemC8aR6XywLZJJD504ROid8P059XM7vwW35j38kO-w@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG mailing list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mon, 16 Oct 2017, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote:
> Simple programming problem.
>
> Speaker: "There is a tornado warning in this area, would you like to hear more?"
>
> User: "How did you get my phone number?"
>
> Speaker: "You have opted out of tornado warnings"
>
> Fast forward to the next tornado and techno-darwinism will take effect.
>
> Alternatively you could have the speaker ramble on for 10-15 minutes
> about how the weather alerting system works and maybe the end-user
> will hang around long enough listening to the explanation...
Of course, on Amazon's Alexia, it will probably sound like this
Alexia: "There is an immediate evacuation due to wildfires in this area,
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members?"
