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France to Allow Cell Phone Jamming
ZuperDee writes "According to this article, the French industry minister has approved a decision to allow cinemas, concert halls and theaters to install cell phone jammers, on the condition that emergency calls can still get through."
you cant ... ... ... otherwise shut the hell up.
i think its just to stop people whining
if you can block calls with out blocking 112 / emergency calls then you can have a jammer
That's what they're called. Get over it.
need such a system - because everybody is too arrogant to turn off their fone
in australia if you answer a mobile call you usually get verbal abuse from your other sitting patrons
i can see cinema prices go up to manage this new form of mobile resistance infrastructure
viva le french!
Yep, if by "kind of" people you mean rude, uncultured American Nigger animals! Damn straight!
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Sure the law "says" emergency calls will make it through, but writing it down doesn't make it so.
Emergencies tend to be just that, emergencies. Sometimes that might me a doctor calling up another doctor on their cellphone. Or even a payphone.
They simply CANNOT guarantee that emergency calls will make it through. What if you're on the bomb squad and you decide to go see a movie on your day off? etc, etc.
That's what makes this absolutely stupid. THEY ARE RISKING THE LIVES OF HUMAN BEINGS BECAUSE OF A FEW FRICKIN WHINERS.
It's not worth it.
If you want to have a super-silent theatre then DO WHAT LIVE SHOWS HAVE DONE FOR CENTURIES: HAVE AN ACTUAL HUMAN IN THE CROWD.
Life is too short to proofread.
What's with you and anti-social anyway?
See, banning something just because the majority do not like something is stupid and more anti-social than anything that I suggested.
It's not the question of how many people would be taking up calls. Guess what, statistics show that where I live (Atlanta), Blacks commit more crimes than people of other races. And not too many blacks attend this particular pub that I frequent. But let's not let any other Black attend the club either, he's more likely to commit a crime than not.
Sounds good? That's how your comments come across to me. I have a need, and just because there are fools out there who misuse their cellphones does not mean you rule out MY legitimate need. It may not be important to YOU, but it sure as hell is important to me.
By saying that because the majority does not receive calls on cellphones and find it annoying, and therefore you'd ban cellphones altogether is STUPID and more anti-social than anything I suggested. You're effectively telling me not to go to movies so that you can have a good time.
Why can't people learn to fucking accept that there may be others with different needs? Is that so hard?
It's funny, Slashdot groupthink amuses me. Essentially, the theater is infringing upon my personal rights. Sure, there'll be a stream of idiots who'll ramble on that if I do not like it, I do not go to the theater. Well, that's defeatist because then all theaters will have the same thing - minority voices are simply drowned.
Professors who make policy like that tend to be anal retentive assholes. Sure, phones are annoying, but it's ridiculous to lower someone's final grade by that amount (easily a pass or fail margin) because they forgot to turn their cell off once. That takes a grade A asshole.
The only prof I had who ever said a word about turning cells off...get this, she asked nicely. It wasn't ever a problem.
I keep hearing about professors that do that, I wonder what they do when a student says "Fuck you I'm not handing over my phone" or complains to the department. Granted, if they're tenured I imagine nothing at all happens (which is a shame in its own right) but it would be mildly amusing to see some jerk done for assault because he tried to take the phone from the student.
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Frustrating to whom? I suspect you're the only one who gets angry when a cellphone starts ringing. As a student, I can safely say that neither myself nor my friends are disrupted by a cell ringing (and for the record, I've never had my phone ring audibly in a classroom). We're all comfortable with the sound of a cellphone. Yes, it's impolite, but it's nothing to get upset about. What really disrupts us are obnoxious professors who can't have to stand their perfect little world shattered by a three-second ringing. I've long suspected the fact that professors get angry at cellphones has nothing to do with the noise. I think they get angry because it seems disrespectful, and many (not all) professors seem to think they have some sort of entitlement--how fucking dare a student disrupt Him.
Far more often than not, the best professors I've had are the type who simply ignore a cell phone. It isn't a problem until a professor calls attention to it.
I don't know which type you are, but I sincerely hope you don't disrupt your class by making snide remarks at people's phones.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -Voltaire
The social ills of cell phone use comes up on /. pretty regularly. Without fail, a European will post, "What's wrong with you Americans. Here in (my country), everyone has cell phones and we just get along with one another". I lived in Europe for many years. I can certainly believe that in many parts, cell phone users are more considerate of others and that those others are more tolerant of any trangressions. However, stories like this show that problems exist on both sides of the ocean.