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Title: Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?
Post by: Coredweller on April 23, 2004, 11:44:34 AM

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A portable device designed to look like a cellphone, but instead it jams cellphone usage within a range of 15 meters.

I totally dig this thing.  If I could be certain it was effective, I would buy one of these in a minute.  I HATE cellphones, and it would be great to turn it on while you\'re in a movie theater to quietly enforce the theater\'s policy of no cell phone usage.  

Of course with great power comes great responsibility.  :)  Could you make yourself NOT use it in other situations, like when someone is having an annoying conversation on the bus?  Maybe I\'d carry it around and only turn it on to take care of the worst offenders.  :D

Title: Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?
Post by: Kurt Angle on April 23, 2004, 12:02:19 PM

That is a great idea, I work in a shop and I hate it when I am talking to a customer and they just answer their phone while I am mid conversation. It\'s very rude and that device would come in handy in such situations.

Title: Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?
Post by: clips on April 23, 2004, 12:30:47 PM

i think you will also have the scenario where immature a$$holes will use it just for the hell of it..

Title: Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?
Post by: fastson on April 23, 2004, 01:14:12 PM

Sweet, how much? :cool:

Title: Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?
Post by: Ashford on April 23, 2004, 01:16:08 PM

On the down side, if an emergency were to happen and a cell phone was the only option to call for help................

Title: Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?
Post by: Coredweller on April 23, 2004, 01:24:14 PM

Then someone finds a landline.  I don\'t see this device being used in any place that is so remote that no landlines exist... and if so, all you do is walk 50 feet away and use the cell.

Title: Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?
Post by: FatalXception on April 23, 2004, 01:44:14 PM

Jamming devices are illegal, no matter what they tell you.

You are making a choice you don\'t have a right to make, because you are affecting people around you to a large degree, and not accepting any concequences yourself.  You don\'t know that that guy in the movie theatre isn\'t a heart surgeon who misses his on-call emergency page (which is why most theatres have re-transmitters that make your cell read \'emergencies only\').  You don\'t know that you aren\'t cutting off a call for someone who is talking to someone very important or about something very important or time critical.

Title: Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?
Post by: Coredweller on April 23, 2004, 01:57:16 PM

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Originally posted by FatalXception
(which is why most theatres have re-transmitters that make your cell read \'emergencies only\').

I\'ve never heard of that.  Of course I don\'t have a cell phone so I can\'t be certain, but I strongly suspect (judging from the number of phones I hear ringing during films) that does not exist in Los Angeles.  Maybe in Canada, but not here?

Title: Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?
Post by: SwifDi on April 23, 2004, 03:36:10 PM

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Title: Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?
Post by: THX on April 23, 2004, 05:21:42 PM

^^^:)

Most modern US theaters block cell phone signals through the walls.

I like the idea of the jammer but they need to make it expensive so kids won\'t abuse it.

Title: Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?
Post by: Phil on April 23, 2004, 06:14:10 PM

The two theaters I go to don\'t block signals, and they are both relatively new theaters.

Title: Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?
Post by: videoholic on April 23, 2004, 06:21:09 PM

I would think it would be illegal to block cell phones by jamming them.  Especially for a business.

I would certainly hate for a doctor to miss a page if he is on call.  Or are you going to tell me that they should sit at home if they are on call?

Title: Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?
Post by: Coredweller on April 23, 2004, 06:34:47 PM

Jammers are illegal.  Bulding materials that might happen to have the side effect of blocking signal are not.  

How did doctors get along before cell phones and pagers?  :)

Title: Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?
Post by: QuDDus on April 23, 2004, 07:26:26 PM

I\'ve yet to see a theater that blocks cell phones and I have been to many of theaters in MI.

Title: Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?
Post by: Avatarr on April 23, 2004, 08:21:12 PM

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Originally posted by Coredweller
Jammers are illegal.  Bulding materials that might happen to have the side effect of blocking signal are not.  

How did doctors get along before cell phones and pagers?  :)

I\'ll tell you how they got along, THEY LET PEOPLE DIE! That\'s how.

Title: Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?
Post by: Coredweller on April 23, 2004, 10:31:37 PM

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Originally posted by Avatarr
I\'ll tell you how they got along, THEY LET PEOPLE DIE! That\'s how.

You\'ve got it wrong mate.  The days before pagers, cellphones and all other manner of instant communications were also the days before corporate consolidation of hospitals and the expansion of HMOs.  Hospitals planned to have sufficient trained staff on hand to handle emergencies, rather than calling in doctors on a moment\'s notice.  When shareholder value became more important than lifesaving to healthcare organizations, that was when costcutting measures like these began to look very pleasant indeed.

Honestly, hypothetical scenarios like doctors watching movies bore me to tears.  I\'m supposed to put up with 2-3 dimwits answering their cellphones to relate the plot of the movie, just on the rare chance that a doctor might be called to an emergency?  You can shove that argument.  :surprised

Title: Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?
Post by: Bozco on April 24, 2004, 01:00:57 AM

All this over missing two lines a movie?  Cellphones are here, stop being stuck in the past.  Emergencies happen, who is one person to say oh that call isn\'t important or big deal it\'s one time out of many.

Title: Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?
Post by: Lord Nicon on April 24, 2004, 11:26:51 AM

I dont mind Cellphones, just some of the people that use them. That jammer would be great to mess with people driving and talking at the same time. THAT is one thing i cant stand.