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Cell-Phone Wars
Makarand writes "According to this article in the Houston Chronicle people
fed up with cell phone chatter have declared
war against cell phones.
They are arming themselves with detectors, jammers and other gizmos to defend privacy,
security, sanity and blissful silence. Although jamming cell phones is not
legal in the US, pocket-sized jammers are available online and even on
eBay. Cell-phone jammers typically work by disrupting
the communication between handsets and cellular towers
by flooding an area with interference
or selectively blocking signals by broadcasting on frequencies
used by these phones. The FCC
has received very few complaints about jammed cell phones
and has never taken action against anyone for that violation."
They tried to call and complain, but ...
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I'd like to jam your cell-phone in your butt...
It's the only language they'll understand
"I can't hear you now"
Wow, they sell jammers? That is terrible, so disruptive and bad, it's just wrong. Where do you buy those by the way?
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See the "..for smart people" banners Wired runs here? Look elsewhere guys.
> As a top IT executive for a fortune 50, I spend a lot of time on global conference calls. I would be extremely annoyed, and would consider it an attack on both me personally, and me professionally (and, by extension, my company) if someone were to jam my cellular during an important conference call.
As a normal person, I consider it an attack on me both personally and professionally, when someone use a cell phone in an inappropriate context.
I recommend you not do this.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
With a swift kick to the nuts!
While 'warfare' may not be the right answer, Its about time people are fighing back.
.. and thats why god made paint balls :)
About the only thing i can think of that is more rude, is a SUV driver
---- Booth was a patriot ----
And to me it just makes them even more annoying - people yelling into thier phones and saying "can you hear me?" over and over again are far more obnoxious than people carrying on a normal conversation in a low tone of voice.
What we really need is a jammer that will only effect 13 to 17 year old girls.
when you have AT&T's GSM: its like having a legal cell phone jammer at all times!
"As a top IT executive for a fortune 50, I spend a lot of time on global conference calls. I would be extremely annoyed, and would consider it an attack on both me personally, and me professionally (and, by extension, my company) if someone were to jam my cellular during an important conference call. ... I recommend you not do this."
I think proves the link between cell phones and brain damage.
If it's that important, find a land line.
...but at least I'm not bitter.
It's people like you that cause huge traffic jams because you're talking on your cell phone and not paying attention to the road, then you cut off a tractor trailer who then in turn jacknifes, and runs over a bus full of nuns which catches fire, burning alive all those inside.
You're lucky that people only jam your cell phone calls, if it was up to me, I'd stab you in the face with a soldering iron.
Everyone i screaming. Tink if the children with Heart disease. Think of the children in case of emergency.
All these arguments are good, but can;t the cell phone jammer ber used intermittenly. Lets see:
Cell Talker: yada yada yada
*AC turns on cell phone jammer*
Cell Talker: Can you hear me now?
*AC turns off cell phone jammer"
A few time like that and someone might get the idea to move somewhere else for a better signnal. Anything farther then a earshot away from me will certainly get a better signal. Once I get a jammer of course.
In an ambulance:
"Pity. If we'd been able to get to him sooner, I'm sure he would have lived...."
"Yeah....but the damned cell phone signal dropped out so they wasted twenty minutes trying to find a land line to dial out on while he bled out."
"Yeah....hey! What's this thing sticking out of his pocket?"
"A cell phone jammer...???"
I want to get one of those devices and just run after the Verizon guy all the time.
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
If movie-goers can't text-message their freinds how much the movie they're watching sucks, films like Gigli might at least have one night of good ticket sales.
BTW: Would somebody go see the Triplets of Belleville. I'm still not sure if I liked it and could use some advice.
Cut to the next scene:
I see somebody using a cell phone jammer. I tell my friends "watch this". I take a normal looking boot that I happen to be wearing and get it lodged up that guy's ass. It's pretty funny to see the look on that guy's face as he's laying on the pavement in pain. I can only imagine the idiot saying, "What did I do?"
> They're in a public place, if they want to talk on a cell phone, it's their right. Hell, if they want to sit there whistling "It's a small world, after all" while banging on pans, they can do that too.
Yeah, try that next time you're in a restaurant, theatre, or museum, and see what happens.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Well, now at least we have a good lead on who this "Anonymous Coward" guy is.
Dude. You're a top IT exec for a Fortune 50 company. You have to have something better to do with your time. And I thought I posted too much.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
scenerio #1 w/o jammer:
(in a small quiet cafe)
guy on phone: i'll meet you at the movie theater around 6pm. ok. bye.
(hangs up)
scenerio #2 w jammer:
(in a small quiet cafe)
guy on phone: i'll meet... WHAT!?! I can't HEAR YOU! BAD CONNECTION! AT THE THEATER! THEATER!! T H E A T E R!!!!! YES!! YES!!! NO!! THEATER!!!
6PM! PM!!! PM!!! AM? WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GET AM!!! PM!! YES!!! I CAN'T HEAR YOU, SAY THAT AGAIN!!! BAD CONNECTION!!! CAN'T HEAR YOU, SOME GUY IS HITTING HIS TV REMOTE ON THE TABLE!!! TABLE!!!
(20 minutes later, pieces of tv remote on the floor)
yeah, movie theater, 6pm. k, bye.
(hangs up)
As for heading into and out of the shower room, please put a towel around your ugly stuff. If fear of camera cell phones makes people a bit more modest in the locker room, I'm all for it. There's nothing worse than sitting on the bench trying to tie up your shoelaces when some guy with a dick he's proud of walks up completely naked and tries to start a conversation. You look up and you're in direct eye contact with his one eye. Horrible. Would it kill you to wrap a towel around you when you come out of the damn shower?
...going on ebay right now to look at prices for one of these? I am!
Jonathanjk.com
I always imagined the EMP gun frying itself.
Cut to end scene:
Being an engineer he's built in some additional functionality too.
Zap!
Que the credits...
A couple of years ago I was visiting the North rim of the Grand Canyon, when I encountered some prick sitting on a bench in one of the little tourist areas. He was telling some poor gullible woman on the other end of the conversation that he was sitting alone on top of one of those spires in the canyon which he had just finished climbing (not remotely true.)
He proceeded to tell the woman (I assume it was a woman from his lothario manner, tone, etc,) that the view of the canyon was so beautiful from where he had climbed, that he just had to call and share the experience with her.
Myself , and others around me heard this bald-faced lie, and we all looked at him and then each other - keep in mind that none of us there knew each other, then we all spontaniously started making background sounds to illustrate to the woman on the other end that this loser was not where he claimed he was. I said something like: "Sir, you're gonna haveta move your car!" Others made similar noise.
The look he gave us was wonderful. Then he started to explain to the woman that there must be cellphone interference happening.
The good news is that they're putting automatic defibrilators in airports and malls, which are saving lives everyday.
Jammer manufacturers should create a product that combines a cell phone jammer with a defibrilator. "You're having a heart attack? Your cell phone won't work? Here, use my jam... uhh, pocket defribilator." It might relieve some people of the guilt from jamming an emergency call.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi
Two weeks ago a private EMS service got off the elevator with a gurney in tow, walked through our office, grabbed one of our employees, and wheeled her out. Their explanation: "she is having a heart attack, although she doesn't know it yet". Pretty weird experience.
Sounds pretty scary to me. So did they arrive in black helicopters?
Not when it's just as easy to carry a cattle prod in your back pocket and accomplish the same thing. ;)
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
Phone Bashing
The solution is simple. Remove their phones from the theatre, you'll probably find that they take a swing or two at you then go running after their precious.
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, but teach a man to phish...
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Come play Moral Decay!
I like the way you went from calling me a warmongering fascist to calling me gay. Nice bit of cognitive dissonance, that.
Kinda turned me on, really.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!