If the cops receive an anonymous tip that CowboyNeal is an insensitive clod, and then decide to arrest him without checking out any of the evidence, I blame the cops. There's plenty to bitch about with Flock but "the cops don't care about doing their job" isn't one of them. That's a cop problem.

Don't treat any stupid robots as somehow "better" than an anonymous tip called in from a payphone. It's just, like, something's opinion, man.

As "a teen"? The funny thing about stupid people (such as yourself) is that when you post bullshit it is so easily verifiable as such. Even if it was AI, there have already been multiple members of ShinyHunters arrested around the world, some of which admitted to being members of the group, and who thus far have not been teens.

I do want to change my answer:
Before: Fuck all the way off with your crime excusing bullshit.
After: Fuck all the way off with your crime excusing bullshit and be less of a retard.

What people do is irrelevant. Emergency preparedness should be taught, and not fostered on people in a completely insufficient way that may actually get them killed. Heck this could work against actual emergency response by teaching the people who have no forethought "Oh I have a car which does AM, I don't need this."

Most houses lack the legal minimum number of smoke detectors. We need to educate rather than accept societies

You claim cars are superior while also writing about your car's poor reception. Cars have had horrendous reception compared to basic portables for about 25 years now thanks to sleek hidden antenna designs not at all tuned for AM. Precisely no one is mandating a wire wound dual band MW antenna here. Combined with the high frequency electronics of an EV and you're lucky to pickup anything at all. On the flip side your portable allows you to step outside of the car and actually get reception.

Also you're conflating an emergency plan with a nice to have. A working phone is also useful in an emergency. That doesn't mean there should be any consideration to having this be part of your plan or codified in any law.

That is short sighted for someone calling someone short sighted who thinks the other person is short sighted.

I too am trained in emergency response dumb-arse. When I worked for SES I saw precisely the things I listed as references.

I LOVE this. Yet another Slashdotter doesn't bother to do basic research and picks a side based on what they think someone's qualifications are without question. And on the internet no less.

You know what, I'll speak your languge: I'm not trained in emergency response. I am the king. I rule you. Now listen to me. Does that make me more authorative than the OP? Maybe now you will think about what I wrote and do some research instead of blindly picking who your favourite Slashdotter is.

How local are we talking? Are you saying that a branch of a supermarket in one city should be open at a different time to another? And are we talking only shops that interact with local customers, or ones that require on upstream interstate trade?

To be clear, everything eventually gets solved, but the solution is to eventually settle on the time scale we have now. Schools, businesses, banks, supermarkets, late night bodegas, they didn't all get created by decree, they naturally evolved to where we were on a societal level, and that's why I'm suggesting it's not possible to change something on a local level. Society synchronises to itself.

Were you arguing against me or making my point for me. The fact you pointed to "U.S. Banks" (an industry) rather than differences in individual bank branches or companies emphasises what I said: Society is synchronised. Banks (industry wide) adjusted their time scale to suit society and every aspect of business around them works with them to do so. Just like key delivery drivers get up earlier to do deliveries before shops open, the system breaks down when all their customers don't work in unison.

You're using this browser for work? Common, share your use case. I'm was asking you what this is good for, not asking you to critique the reason why it's not good for me.

But since you're here I doubt you're getting any work done anyway.

This has nothing to do with cranks. This analogy was just bad. Like... I have no idea what side of the argument the GP was on level of bad. Maybe you can help explain it to us? But the fact you need to shows how bad it really is.

I honestly have no idea what it is you're trying to say. Are reflections not real? Is spaghetti not real? Are reflections of you not you in a form that resembles you?

Honestly your analogy is so bad I'm not actually sure if you're arguing for or against the case of calling what AI does "emotion".

Shinyhunters has directly taken claim of scores of databreaches affecting 10s of millions of people in companies the world over. Fuck all the way off with your crime excusing bullshit.

You're incredibly short sighted for an emergency responder. How about sharing other stories of Sandy, the stories of people walking on foot, of people who abandoned their cars due to lack of fuel, or people who abandoned cars due being unable to pass damaged / flooded areas?

AM radio is critical in emergencies, but there's a reason FEMA says your emergency kit should included a *PORTABLE* AM radio and not a Ford F-150. A car is not part of an emergency plan, it's emergency avoidance. An AM radio should be part of your emergency plan, and that plan should consider you not having access to a functioning car.

AM radios belong in emergency kits. In supermarkets and cafes, in service stations, in community halls. No one cares about a car, and those who do, should go to FEMA's website and learn some basic emergency response and emergency preparedness.

WTF has 9/11 got to do with anything? That wasn't an emergency for anyone other than people in a building and those moving away from the immediate surrounds. There was no wide spread flooding or cut-off access for populations.

While the idea of relying on your car for communication is dumb, on average some community in the USA being cut off from all communication other than radio during an emergency event happens on an almost yearly basis. Usually during hurricane season.

I mean shit, "has it ever happened?" What a dumb question for someone with a Slashdot UID low enough to remember all the stories we ran here about ham-radio operators forming an essential part of a communication system during hurricane Katrina, because medium/long wave was about the only communications into or out of a disaster area where some 1.5million people were without power for far longer than any backup battery on any "modern" communications systems is designed to handle. Shit they started routing 911 (not 9/11) calls over MW just to keep basic emergency response functioning.

Emergency kits are for your emergency. If you're not where the hurricane hits then you're not in an emergency and you won't need your AM radio either. Leaving before an emergency happens is not an emergency plan. It's a lucky privilege. Cars are not part of an emergency plan.

I agree with you on technical grounds. AM is essential for emergencies, so essential that you should own a dedicated receiver you can carry with you should your attempt to outdrive a disaster fail.

WTF are you talking about? There's constant scenarios where AM Radio emergency kits are effective primary forms of communication. It only takes on average 8 hours of a power outage in the USA to lose all mobile and fibre routing coverage in emergency areas at which point radio becomes the most effective forms of communication.

On average a community is without mobile phone coverage due to a disaster situation *YEARLY* in the USA, almost always during hurricane season. Just because you live in places where the power doesn't go out, doesn't mean this isn't a regular occurrence in your country.