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WillS

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I am sure we all have stories about inconsiderate cell phone users???

I just found out that they make a portable cell phone jammer with a ~30 foot raidus, but they are illegal in the US.

Just when i thought I could go to the movies and see a movie and not hear some jerk on their phone or for that matter at church too.

Dang
 
Just googled cell phone jammers and they sure can be purchased. They have a warning on the site that using one is illegal in the US and you accept all responsibility when you order and use one.
Know a guy locally that has one and he said it works as advertized.
 
Every movie theater should have one.
Every car should have one that is least something that is low powered and only works inside. You can turn it on when the kids use the car or you just want some peace.
 
Cell phones are part of the social fabric now. The people that are annoyed are the generation that wasn't "born with" a cell phone. I don't carry one, which is incomprehensible to my co-workers.
Frankly the only ones that annoy me now are the headset type where the guy/gal has to use normal conversational tone (or louder) to talk...and you think he is talking to you momentarily...
I'm glad jammers are illegal...as much as it would enforce our ideal of "politeness", I can see many, many uses for the bad guys.
 
Jammers are illegal, but the FCC places no restrictions on a business either building or modifying their structure to block the signal. The only reason they make jammers illegal is because it would be dificult to police these jammers when the signal overlapped an area that it was not supposed to be in.
I expect someday jammers will be legal in the U.S. in limited use. You would probably be suprised how many churches are already using them illegally.
 
I know of one church and a wedding planner that use one ;)

I've worked in shielded electronics manufacturing plants for years - they don't work in there :noway:
 
Certain areas in our local Hospital use them or something as I know the signal is dead until you walk outside.
 
You would probably be suprised how many churches are already using them illegally.
Hmmm. My wife has a cell phone, and she complains it doesn't work at the church...A jammer would have never occurred to me, but it could be...

Edit: Before anyone jumps me for having a wife that chats on the phone during a Sunday sermon, she organizes the youth group and we have our cub scout meetings there, which is where the cell phone 'discovery' was made.:p
 
I am in the minority and refuse to own a cell phone. I loath them. In my personal opinion, they have become a public nuisance.
I bought one of those jammers (expensive) last year and it works OK if you are close to the offender. I think every restaurant, movie theater, auto, etc. should be cell phone free zones. You cannot go anywhere without them ringing (mostly some obnoxious tone) and people carrying on loud conversations.
Did I say that I HATE cell phones.
 
Cell phones are part of the social fabric now.
Yeah..but not a neccasry part...I run my business and private stuff quite well without one
Well better than having one...
When working i dont get interputions, loose the flow of the job...make less mistakes...and do jobs faster...and hence make more money.
Dont believe the phone companies propaganda logic about loosing calls

And lets face it 99% of cell calls/txt are BS anyway.
 
Just hope the guy who cuts your phone line just before he breaks in your house in the middle of the night doesn't have one.
Lots of possibilities here for the bad guys. Think about the benifit to a terroist operation.
 
As far as annoyance....whats the difference if a RUDE person is talking to the guy next to him....or talking to a buddy on his cell phone.....RUDE people are everywhere and there are plenty of phoneless people who still annoy me in a movie theater....

Now the ring...thats a whole nother story!...Have you heard some of those God aweful rings they have!

Dan
 
Being a member of society means you have a responsibility to be a good neighbor. This cuts both ways. On a cell phone you have a responsibility to not be rude to those around you...using a jammer is the same thing IMO. You also have a responsibility to have a modicum of tolerance. When behavior is outside the norms, you have a responsibility to address that behavior with the person directly.

I am bothered by people who think that their rights/needs/feelings are more important than others...using a jammer to cut off conversations is just as bad as talking loud on a cell phone. Have a little tolerance. I'm not talking about movie theaters or concerts necessarily, but the use by individual citizens to "enforce" their own no cell phone rule in a 40' radius around themselves. I read some discussion pages on the FYI link several post up...unbelievable how intolerant people are.

I very rarely call my wife on her cell phone and she rarely uses it, it chaps my rear to think that people are walking around with these jammers in their pocket because when they hear her calling to tell me that the car won't start and I need to pick up my son at school it is sooooo annoying that they need to secretly squelch her. Guess what, you can't find a payphone anymore, cellphones are becoming a "requirement"...

People have become such mice...the concept of resolving issues by talking to each other has been completely removed from our social toolkits...
 
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