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South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals
Corey Brook writes "The South Carolina state prison system wants the FCC to grant them and local officers permission to block cell phone signals. News has been out about the growing problem of them perps smuggling cell phones into prisons for a while now. Inmates use cell phones as commerce, to implement fraud, smuggle drugs and weapons, and to order hits. Of course, some may use it to just talk to a loved one any time they can." Hopefully movie theaters and restaurants do it next.
slashdot has no other choice to be sensational about 75% of all stories. otherwise we'd realize how much these people are just a bunch of crying little babies. that goes double for cmdrtaco and his crap.
You just get no respect do you.
I guess with the movie theater, if you start asking the usher or manager for a refund, even get a little loud about it claiming that if you can't watch the movie in piece because they don't enforce their own rules, you shouldn't be screwed out of your money. Then if thy don't give it to them, document their name and write to the main office, and if the main office screws your, spend the $50 or whatever it is in your area and take them to small claims court for the $8-10 back. The negetive publicity is going to hurt their sales only a little but you might get enough other people fired up to put their foot down too and then something will be done about it.
As for the smoking in the bus shelter, well, mind your own business or stop taking public transportation.
and in some co-ed prisons apparently sex by climbing through the ceiling, see http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8056440
The point of it is, they cannot control easily what gets in because the punishment for doing so or being caught isn't severe enough to stop it. This trial in Atlanta http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/11/17/nichols_trial_atlanta.html shows all the sorts of things even prisoners can set into motion while locked up!
The harsh fact is that prisons are anything but locked down. Too many "rights" give prisoners many opportunities to get around some of the rules. Don't bring up prison rape and such like that, that is not something the government sponsors or supports.
Prison should be annoying and entirely scripted. Every moment of your day should be doing a required activity, from prison work, reading, education, and more. They should have only limited visitation - its prison.
Yeah, never been to one and won't ever either because I am not stupid, thank you.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
your post = "i am pulling this out of my ass"
So, your brother is locked up, huh? I hope he likes revolving doors. Your parents did a bang-up job with him... makes ya wonder how fucked up you YOURSELF are, even if you don't realize it.