[EAS] EAS test reporting

Alex Hartman goober at goobe.net
Fri Jul 21 07:33:19 CDT 2017


Odd. When i went to the ETRS site yesterday, it said it was just plain closed.

I find it stupid that we all did this last year and somehow they can't keep our information year over year? Thought it was supposed to be a one-and-done registration system? 

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Alex Hartman

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 2:37 PM, <tpt at sevenrangesradio.com> wrote:
>Just spent the last half hour trying to just get an "FCC username" for this round of stupid  FCC nonsense.  Requires more info than my on-line bank account.

>Classic case of of: 1: What happens when you get a bunch of government bureaucrats involved who are looking to justify their job; and 2) what happens when you let the IT geeks out of their cage.

>Among other things: -requires 12~15 character password with upper/lower/cas characters plus a number plus a punctuation sign  -requires full name including spelled out middle name  --bot protection runs you through the "which square has a sign in it" game five different times--  At that point it locked up!!.

>I suspect their return rate after this test will be considerably lower...

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