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Stop Cell Phones Without Stopping Pacemakers...
metoikos writes "A company based in Fairfax, Virginia, has come up with a subtler method of
preventing cell-phone addicts from using the world as a phone booth than a faraday cage or even those little hand-held jammers.
Cell Block Technologies (that name must go over well with law enforcement) is developing a smoke-detector sized device which sends signals of 'no service' to cellphone frequencies, prompting phone to send calls directly to voicemail.
Admittedly this is better than messing with everything that uses the same frequencies cellphones do . "
Thursday must be leftover-crack day for the moderators - this post is "Informative" and one about doctors whose patients die because they can't reach them is "funny".
The mics have improved. They're good enough that you can whisper and the other person can here you fine. The problem is, people are such "incredibily self centered" that the rest of the world melts away when they're on a cell phone. But it's not just that. There's no reason why a phone should ring in the middle of a lecture or a concert. There's no reason to talk on your phone during a movie. You're right, you do have a right to free speech, but you don't have a right to be disruptive. And since most places that would impliment this are PRIVATE institutions, you have no right to free speech in their building anyway.
If emergency medical people are on the scene, I'm sure the system will be turned off. As for doctors, well they need to get a pager or find a non disruptive way of being notified. As for hotels, well that's too fucking bad isnt it.
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Are you honestly suggesting we should restrict our medical/religious/government officials from going to the theatre? The doctor (and usually the other two) requires some serious hardwork to do and now you want to punish them by telling them not to go to certain places??? Brilliant.
How the fuck was this moderated as insightful?
Yes, life existed before cellphones. Yes, he doesn't NEED to have one at all times, but equally stupid is this "insightful" guy acting like having a kid is no big deal.
I mean, damn, some things are just important.
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