[BC] satellite eas

[Rich Wood]

------ At 11:28 AM 10/6/2005, Scott Cason wrote: -------

>How does the sat providers not passing along EAS messages endanger the lives
>of children?

They might miss the announcement that Howard Stern is on. EAS must 
warn children that somewhere there's a naked person they might 
encounter. This is the true value of EAS. Every house of worship will 
have a button that will activate the system when a naked person is 
sighted. We have to make sure the person activating it doesn't look 
too long before pushing the button. That hasn't been solved, yet.

They haven't calculated the coordinates of nude beaches, camping 
areas and nudist colonies, yet, so the system isn't perfect. Once 
it's done, GPS units like mine will recalculate routes to avoid those 
areas. Serious penalties must be imposed on anyone who hacks the 
system to lead the user to those areas.

EAS is dead. Long live EAS.

Rich