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Old 13-01-2018, 06:12 PM #1
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Yeah no...

False ballistic missile threat emergency alert sent to Hawaiian phones
http://www.kktv.com/content/news/Fal...469146363.html
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Yeah no...

False ballistic missile threat emergency alert sent to Hawaiian phones
http://www.kktv.com/content/news/Fal...469146363.html
Those poor people. Very frightening. Thank god it was a false alarm though.
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Bloody hell, imagine waking up to all that.
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This must of been absolutely terrifying. So sorry you had to go through this.
Thank goodness it was a false alarm.
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That's terrible...
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bet there was some extra underwear washed there today
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I suspect a certain North Korean found this quite amusing.
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He's up to something.... My guess is this is a warning shot to let the rest of the world know how vulnerable they are.
I would say there would be no way these message would be generated without a series of codes.
Tricky Tricky...
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Such a weird incident, surely you can't accidentally press a button and trigger this sort of thing?
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Such a weird incident, surely you can't accidentally press a button and trigger this sort of thing?
It’s a good job that the same button doesn’t trigger their military defence systems
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Not surprised in the least

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well dam u never really kno cus sometimes it really do be like dat
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Well, this will be the unfortunate footnote in just about every UX/UI design manual going forward...

This solution is not much better imo...
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its a dreadful layout
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Surely it would be easier if things were just... clearly labelled
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