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Re:Ramstein air base in Germany experiences potential incomi... by Voloskaya on Sunday December 13, 2020 @05:43PM (#25411155)
> but not the German national alert app

You are in a way complaining about not getting a false positive. Surely, if you had received an alert when nothing happened, you would take the next alert less seriously.

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Re:Ramstein air base in Germany experiences potential incomi... by La1n on Sunday December 13, 2020 @06:26PM (#25411531)
But if they don't get that false positive, it'd not be weird to assume they also wouldn't get the true positive (or at least not as early as the people living on the base).
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Re:Ramstein air base in Germany experiences potential incomi... by stingraycharles on Monday December 14, 2020 @01:22AM (#25414134)
Of course not, it means that there was an additional check before sending out a massive alert which prevented a false positive.
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