How horrible it is to be a 911 operator ? You have to answer calls from holler / wound / tempestuous / crazy / give out hoi polloi all 24-hour interval . Their task is about to get worse , as presently they ’ll be able to meet texts , photos , and television of that wretchedness .
The FCC justannounced a planto catch 9 - 1 - 1 emergency services up with current engineering . Call NG911 , they FCC is aiming for normalization across U.S. emergency web which are not control by any one govern body . With this update , we will now be able to post text , photograph , and video recording to 9 - 1 - 1 , because sometimes a picture of frightful shit is deserving a thousand words about horrible cocksucker . The plan also calls for first responders to be able to encounter the school text , scene , and video , too , so they know better what they ’re dealing with before they go far , so this sort of engineering could prove to be a literal life - saver in hostage - eccentric state of affairs where phone song ca n’t be made but a sneaky school text might be potential , or for those with disabilities .
At the same time , the potential for vilification seems almost too great . envisage losing your earpiece , only to have some merry prankster post some shots to 9 - 1 - 1 from your headphone number . Or think of the visuals these poor 9 - 1 - 1 operators are work to be submit to . There ’s beget ta be a filter , right ? The programme also calls for a undecomposed a positioning organization so they can lock onto precisely where the texts are coming from . In a utopia that would be great . In our cosmos , where my speech sound ’s GPS thinks I ’m at a Papa John ’s a knot and a half away when I ’m in my apartment , this seems problematic .
In cosmopolitan , I ’m for this . The prospect of saving life is worth the risks and the likely trauma to those miserable mortal who will have to field the content . Just hump that their therapy will derive out of your tax dollar bill , and they might need a caboodle of it . [ The FCCviaThe Hill ]
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