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Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Could we just use EMP's near inmate rears to solve the problem without having to "dig deeper"?

Will it work if phone is wrapped in aluminum foil?

If done correctly, the aluminum foil would prevent damage. But...I think it would get quite warm probably serving as a detector of sorts.

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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The article is about sneaking phones (and chargers) into prisons and all the things around that. Obviously it's possible to get reasonably large items up your bottom, otherwise fisting wouldn't be such a popular hobby, but for the purposes of easy storage and retrieval, you're going to want to go as small as possible. Look, I've had plenty of "How did I get here?" moments on the internet, but this is the first time i…

>Look, I've had plenty of "How did I get here?" moments

You must have some interesting hobbies

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of prisoners are not mafia bosses who order hits from prison. I'd consider it totally okay to isolate these people. But most prisons are filled with dumb kids busted for drugs or stealing, and I see no reason why we should make them even more miserable... I'd rather have them keep their connections in the outside world, so they have more of a chance to get back on their feet onc…

Prisoners already have communication mediums that guards can monitor and if they want to talk to someone with no prying ears or eyes, they can talk to a lawyer. Prisoners should have no need for cell phones or access to unrestricted communications. Yes, there are some young people in prison that really shouldn't be but there are plenty of dangerous gang members in there that should be totally removed from their "busi…

> Prisoners already have communication mediums that guards can monitor

Those are often exploitatively priced, a situation Ajit Pai has sought to preserve:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/republican-led-f...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/technology/fcc-prison-pho...

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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The article is about sneaking phones (and chargers) into prisons and all the things around that. Obviously it's possible to get reasonably large items up your bottom, otherwise fisting wouldn't be such a popular hobby, but for the purposes of easy storage and retrieval, you're going to want to go as small as possible. Look, I've had plenty of "How did I get here?" moments on the internet, but this is the first time i…

Fisting is not such a weird thing in the Berlin gay culture, but seeing it mentioned in a HN link is definitely kind of weird.

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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I have the "cloud to butt" extension[1] installed, which led me to initially assume the article was about running phones as part of a cloud service, either for compute or testing. It was therefore quite a surprise for me when I actually clicked through to the article... [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus...

Oh thank goodness it wasn't just me.

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The article is about sneaking phones (and chargers) into prisons and all the things around that. Obviously it's possible to get reasonably large items up your bottom, otherwise fisting wouldn't be such a popular hobby, but for the purposes of easy storage and retrieval, you're going to want to go as small as possible. Look, I've had plenty of "How did I get here?" moments on the internet, but this is the first time i…

Thanks for the tl;dr! Saw the click-baity title and didn't expect any good content but this sounds interesting.

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apologies for side-tracking the OP discussion, but how's the performance on this thing? Have been looking for a tiny phone for a while.

I just bought an iPhone SE. It's not as small as the Jelly, but way more usable. It runs latest ios 11 pretty well, has a decent camera, and > 1 day battery life for my usage. I am figuring it will last at least 2 years, considering it has the same internals as an iPhone 6S. If you're looking for a small phone, the SE nails it IMO.

It’s weird that the SE is now considered a small phone, because it’s the size of the 5s which used to be the big screen flagship.

I went with the SE myself because it’s the only normal sized phone that’s actually good. It seems these days all you can buy in the high end range are phablets.

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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I ordered a jelly which I believe currently holds the title of the worlds smallest smartphone, it arrived today and damn that thing is tiny! I don’t have any intention of putting it in my bum but if that was your aim - it’d certainly get you tweeting from jail in no time. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/jelly-the-sm...

This reeks of Alibaba drop-shipping, I'd be very surprised if this didn't already exist on Alibaba for a third of the price.
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