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Who is amber ? And why does him going missing warrant an alert ?
She was Amber Rene Hagerman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_alert#Namesake
TIL it's not a color designation
Add it to the list
https://notes.rolandcrosby.com/posts/unexpectedly-eponymous/
No way!
Sideburns, for your list
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideburns
Danggggg we gotta email that guy!
Some of these must have been plays on their name that they knew worked well. Like price club, taco bell which used a bell for a logo.
But why unilever for lever brothers? Bilever would be more accurate.
Price Club is an amazing play on the name.
But how good is Taco Bell? Stick the last name into the brand, then shove the image of a bell into the logo for no particular reason as far as Mexican-inspired food is concerned. Guess the proof’s in the pudding.
Unilever: it was the brothers’ marriage into business! They became one. …not sure if they co-CEO’d it though.
Nah dude it's a really more clever than that, first image when you look up "california missions" is:
https://www.missionscalifornia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/co01-san-diego-church.jpg
Those arches have the exact kind of bell in them that Taco Bell uses in their logo, and you can even still find TBs designed to LOOK like the missions, solidifying the connection even more.
So yeah it's his last name, but they actuslly tied it to Mexican history
Danggg I’ve seen these in person
Yet didn’t make the connection?! Thanks :)
Telescopes suffer distortion as an Airy disk. Named after George Biddel Airy.
Dove prisms, resembling a dovetail joint, are pronounced doh-vay, after Heinrich Wilhelm Dove.
Metropolis light transport in raytracing is named after Nicholas Metropolis, of the Manhattan project. And presumably pronounced met-RO-po-lis.
In radiology, the Radon transform, after Dr. Johann Radon. It's not nuclear medicine. His doctorate was in mathematics.
How in the world you know all that?!
Too much time on Wikipedia.
Ok that SF one should just be called Charles Main St. That's just egregious.
I don't get John Cassell to gasoline. Casselline but horiffically butchered?
That’s what I’m thinking
Lol, it definitely contrasts with the silver alerts, doesn't it?
For real, I assumed it was something like: the color of "Oh, honey" (as in, "you poor dear", etc) 😳🤦🏼♂️ I mean, "yellow alert" is "we might scrap" and "red alert" is "shields up, fire phasers!" (thanks, Star Trek), so amber's in there somewhere a bit earlier on, right?
Ugh.. it makes me nauseous when I find out they didn't catch the guy.
I think in the US there are alerts (called amber alerts) for when people go missing in the hopes of increasing the chance of finding the person by raising awareness.
Amber alerts are for missing children. Silver alerts are for missing seniors. Here is an article outline other types as well:
https://www.caller.com/story/news/2021/07/07/do-you-know-all-missing-person-alerts-here-your-guide-six-different-alerts/7890829002/
So many colors (if clear is considered a color) and then "endangered missing persons." I know EMP isn't a color, and I'd be a lot more concerned if I got an EMP alert, but surely they could've come up with something for that one.
It's specifically for missing children afaik. And it may only be used when it's an abduction, not just a missing child, but don't quote me on that. That's just the ones I've seen.
"And it may only be used when it’s an abduction, not just a missing child, but don’t quote me on that." -- @[email protected]
Listen here you little shit lol
😜
And you can't opt out ??? Weird
You can but it’s on by default and many don't realize you can
Depending on where you are, they might not use the different alert levels properly. In my area the local government uses the "the nukes have launched" alert level for everything, from amber alerts to tornado and ice storm warnings.
It annoying, but also leads to some wonderful moments. I was at small event yesterday, when a weather alert started rolling out. I can only describe it as glorious sitting at the back listening to a sea of angry alarms, and watching people frantically try to silence their phones. Idk if that outweigh the alarm fatigue it gives people, but it was a fun moment for me.
It's a great system but I mean....not exactly the most helpful sometimes.
Thanks Amber. I'll get right on that.
There is an emergency function in all mobile phones that overrides everything else and blasts a loud sound and takes over the whole screen. It is there for emergencies, like when the people in Hawaii got told that the apocalypse has come by accident. In the NL you get one per month when they check the air raid alert sirens. The US uses them for alerts for missing children.
Your phone would also do it if you are in the area, no matter where you bought it or your carrier.
Ok, but how do you disable it? Is it an Android setting, something I can do over adb, do I have to root the device, install a custom ROM, or disable part of the hardware?
It's an Android setting. Assuming you're in the US, you can disable all warning channels (including Amber alerts) except the National one, which I believe has to be on by law, but is only supposed to be used in apocalypse level emergencies. The Hawaii thing was triggered by accident, iirc.
On my S24, it's in Settings > Safety and Emergency > Wireless Emergency Alerts.
I don't know if it's even possible to disable the National warnings, but you'd likely have to use adb or root your phone to do it.
Thanks, but I'm in the UK, where only the national ones are ever used. I don't want to disable it, because I think it's useful, but I want control over my device, so I want to be making the choice to keep it enabled, if you know what I mean.
Oh neat, my phone has a function to detect tracking devices.
We live in hell.
So the backdoors are all but confirmed ? Or is it some different tech ?
It's not really a backdoor. It's an Emergency Broadcast System. Nobody can access your phone through it, they just blast data out to everyone in a preconfigured way that your phone knows to receive and relay to you.
It's not really any different than receiving a text message except that the text message comes with its own dedicated sound so that you know an emergency is happening.
Yep but someone mentioned you can't opt out .
That has nothing to do with whether something is a backdoor.
It's not a backdoor. It's a broadcast message system, like the emergency alert system used on television.
So why no opt out ? Atleast according to one person who saud that here.
Amber is an acronym named after a real girl.
That would be a "backronym"
Strange name for a child.