If only the police was that determined to also find and punish the irresponsible drivers.
Driver caught using cell phone jamming device
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You can buy and install a cellphone extender for your house.
Yes, it's a true fact that you can pay money for the privilege of extending the cell phone provider's network, while also paying the backhaul the cell phone company's traffic over your internet link, while also paying the cell phone for their "service" that you have to personally install and operate. I have no idea why people think this is an acceptable scenario.
Three (in the UK) quite frequently give out these femtocell things for free, at least for those on their more expensive plans
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A friend of mine used to rant about cellphones in theaters, and thought theaters should install jammers (as in, he was actually surprised that none had done this yet). The fact is, they're a primary communication device for many people. Who knows when you might receive a call that you have to take (for certain jobs or with situations concerning family or friends), or when you need to make a phone call (see the Aurora…
Back in the day (I haven't been in a while, unfortunately, so I don't know the current status), at nicer theatres and at the opera, they had a service available for emergency personnel (doctors, et cetera) where they'd take your pager, put a tag with your seat number on it (and also typically you'd be seated on an aisle), and they come fetch you if your pager went off. Worked great with minimal disruption to patrons.…
It would work fine if this was a paid service. People could decide what "emergency" was worth being notified about. That would also give the theater some incentive to enforce a no-device policy.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can buy and install a cellphone extender for your house.
Yes, it's a true fact that you can pay money for the privilege of extending the cell phone provider's network, while also paying the backhaul the cell phone company's traffic over your internet link, while also paying the cell phone for their "service" that you have to personally install and operate. I have no idea why people think this is an acceptable scenario.
I got one of these for my apartment, worked great for 2 years but I could never add other people's numbers to it like advertised. It just paired with my phone and only used my internet connection for SMS/calls as long as I had wifi on (it would use my internet connection for 3g data but that would kill my battery and be silly to use with a phone that has wifi, it would also count against your quota if you had a limited plan).
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But some theaters DO block cellphones -- by encasing the venue in a faraday cage. It's possible to buy paint with metallic bits to block radio. Broadcasting to jam is illegal. It is not illegal to build a room in which cellphones do not work, nor should it be.
I'll make the claim that I've not noticed reception issues in theaters in at least the last 5 years. My use-case is typically texting (usually with the other members of my group, things like "Hey, I'm on the 5th row up") though, but even then I usually see 2+ bars, sufficient for voice calls. My apartment has worse reception than that (I can make calls from my sunroom, nowhere else).
I think you may have misunderstood. "Some" is certainly not "all" or even "most." We are discussing legality, not whether the practice is common.
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The 'we got along fine without instant connectivity' argument is a counter to the overwrought life-and-death-situation arguments in general. It's not about being a luddite, it's about keeping perspective. Have another read of my comment, and you'll see in the middle of it that I'm saying that it's an argument of conveniences. It's convenient for a parent to have instant connectivity in case the babysitter calls, just…
> It's not about being a luddite, it's about keeping perspective. You clearly have no perspective. I'd prefer my next trauma surgeon can relax and take in half a movie before he is called in on his pager to try and save my life, of which I have one that will be entirely in his hands . I don't give a fuck if you miss a couple of minutes of a movie that cost you $15 or even if it meant myself never being able to go int…
Since we're doing ridiculous hypotheticals here, I'd rather the entire movie theatre having a relaxing, fun time with no interruptions or rude phone users, meaning that they leave the movie happy rather than irritated, less likely to have an accident on the way home and hence need a trauma surgeon in the first place. Ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure and all that.
As for perspective, you are right that life-and-death on-call people should be using pagers rather than phones, but you completely miss the point that you can get pagers that work on a higher frequency than the phone system. Your precious trauma surgeon can still have a pager that works in a theatre while disallowing phone use, since Faraday cages can be tuned to work on different frequencies. Pagers should be used because a pager service comes with a guaranteed SLA, and SMS services do not.
And frankly, I don't give a fuck about your ignorance, just don't use it to angrily insult me when I've done nothing to you.