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Cell Phone Jammers: Coming To An Event Near You?
DarwinDan writes "The L.A. Daily News has an article about Cell phone jamming to prevent terrorists from detonating bombs remotely. Jamming technology is already being used "to protect President Bush." An interesting quote from the article: "Public safety is more important than public convenience.""
It's a small price to pay to guard one of our greatest treasures... G.W. Bush!
We're jammin', jammin',
And I hope you like jammin', too.
And exactly what number is that? I had an old math teacher in highschool... err... nevermind.
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I hope there's a video game character called Anonymous Coward, or we're in big trouble! (I'm sure they've added a google test for that after the last claimed incident.)
if by pressing the button yourself you mean standing next to the bomb, well at least that terrorist won't be trying it again (if it works). also i've noticed detonate by 'phone becoming increasingly popular.. this sounds like a good move imho.. if only to stop innocent people with phones annoying me :D
was designed to apply to political speach. You have the right to speak out against the government. You do not have the "right" to public obsentity, profanity, any of the myriad of things "artists" claime are "speach." Using a cellphone is not "speach," although it's "speaking." Where the hell do you have the right to a telephone, anyway? Maybe the 9th amendment. But that's a stretch. Cell phones piss me off. seriously. Personally, I think they should be so prohibitly expensive that only doctors and drug dealers can afford them. The drug dealers could easily be culled out. Then only people who actually have emergencies would be able to interupt the public serenity.
and just to cover godwin's law and make sure no one replies:Nazi Himler Hitler SS Bush Cheney Eva Bruan is hot.
Only terrorists use BASIC.
"public safety IS public convenience" Surely it would serve both by not having GWB at an event in the first place?
the hell with the president...I say we start putting these things in SUVs and Lexuses ( Lexi? ).
No more soccer moms meandering all over the road, screaming at their kids and yapping on their cellphones!
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[i]The police have this nifty gadget called a radio...[/i]
Good thing the terrorists can't get those, or they could remote detonate bombs even with their cellphones jammed!
Wasn't the athens bomb (100 days before the olympics) made up of some sticks of dynamite connected to an alarm clock?
Police are looking for a brown coyote with suspected association to an organisation known only as ACME.
Just yell out "BOMB!!!!!". Someone will notify the police the old fashioned way of screaming.
Please please please for the love of god/buddha/allah will people stop spelling rediculous.
Repeat after me, ridiculous, ridiculous, ridiculous!!!
FFS!
I don't want to be interrupted by a ringtone while watching Van Helsing
ANY excuse to get out of that movie would be better than nothing.
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