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Re:Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil by numpad0 on Sunday June 21, 2026 @06:31AM (#48617539)
The 4G/5G Public Warning System is fundamentally designed for instantaneous earthquake and tsunami response.

It's a bit like modern day equivalent of air raid sirens, or incoming nuke alerts, even. And as such, it's just unfit for things that don't require immediate and full alert. AMBER alerts are just not good use of it.

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Re:Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil by inigyou on Sunday June 21, 2026 @07:22AM (#48617893)
It's another instance of: give a politician a fish and watch him smear it on the walls to stink up the place, throw it in the garbage and then complain he's still hungry.
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Re:Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil by beng-nl on Sunday June 21, 2026 @09:19AM (#48618740)
What happens when you teach him to fish :-(
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Re:Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil by inigyou on Sunday June 21, 2026 @10:36AM (#48619339)
You can't, they're incapable of learning.
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Re:Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil by colonCapitalDee on Sunday June 21, 2026 @02:25PM (#48621298)
Hey, that's what the people want
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