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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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Post by jakobegger »

justabystander wrote: post #14
panzer_wyrm wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All of those are crimes and easily trackable. If you want to make it life sentence be my guest.

If crimes were easily trackable and prosecutable , we probably wouldn't have such a hard time keeping criminals in jail. We still have crimes committed in jail that don't get properly solved, much less sentenced. Also, this isn't necessarily about dumb kids being busted for drugs or stealing, but organized crime members. The possibility of them ordering hits from inside prison walls or tracking down people in witness…

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 once they are released.

(Also, I'm pretty sure an prisoner browsing Facebook all day makes a lot less trouble than one who has nothing to do all day...)

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Post by agumonkey »

ourmandave wrote: post #4

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…

I wonder if prison libraries have electronics books.. imagine if they had access to esp microcontrollers.

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Post by turk184 »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #17
Aaargh20318 wrote: post #13

Apple should jump into this market and call it the iPhone XXX

Apple is likely to go beyond and make ocular implants at some point. The apple watch is also getting more and more capable, if they can slim that one down a bit more it would also become viable. If pricey - this one's just $40.

Pretty sure heat dissipation is going to make ocular implants difficult to make happen.

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Post by Boothroid »

This kind of thing makes me think we are in the dark ages when it comes to dealing with offenders. One day perhaps humanity will reach the stage where we have the know-how to prevent criminality, and effectively rehabilitate offenders in case it does happen, and without having to go to ridiculous technological lengths.

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Post by gotrecruit »

mrmondo wrote: post #2

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...

before i realized jelly was the name of the phone, i had this visual in my head that there was a tiny phone embedded inside a gel, which obviously would make it super smooth to slide inside your prison wallet.
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