www.boingboing.net/2004/04/...y_ph.html
I'm not one to jump on the "Cory is Evil" bandwagon, becuase I like Cory's posts (other than W*F*) an awful lot. But he's weird on cellphones. Last year, he was insisting he had never had a movie interrupted by a cell-phone ring (and just WHAT theater was that, people wanted to know). Now, he's irritated that he had to prove his cellphone was switched off when entering a cemetery.
Well. Be glad they didn't smash it right off: www.phonebashing.com/
Hasn't anybody developed a localized cellphone-jammer?
I'm not one to jump on the "Cory is Evil" bandwagon, becuase I like Cory's posts (other than W*F*) an awful lot. But he's weird on cellphones. Last year, he was insisting he had never had a movie interrupted by a cell-phone ring (and just WHAT theater was that, people wanted to know). Now, he's irritated that he had to prove his cellphone was switched off when entering a cemetery.
Well. Be glad they didn't smash it right off: www.phonebashing.com/
Hasn't anybody developed a localized cellphone-jammer?
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Re: cell phones vs. cemeteries
Tue, April 13, 2004 - 6:11 AM"Hasn't anybody developed a localized cellphone-jammer?"
Inappropriate cell phone use is an etiquette problem. Cell phones jamming never be allowed because if I fall down the stairs or get hit by a car, I'd like someone to be able to call an ambulance.
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Re: cell phones vs. cemeteries
Tue, April 13, 2004 - 6:18 AMIn all likelihood, if I'm standing next to you with my cellphone jammer when you fall down the stairs, either I can call for help personally (without resorting to a cellphone), or I pushed you down in the first place because you were blathering to someone in Poughkeepsie. -
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Re: cell phones vs. cemeteries
Tue, April 13, 2004 - 6:26 AMCharlie Stross has some good points on the anti-cell-phone debate in the London Underground.
www.antipope.org/charlie/b...errorism-3
Please note that that he is firmly on the side of cellphones. And, likewise, neither am I on the cellphone-banning side. I just don't wnat your damn plastic going off in my ear.
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Re: cell phones vs. cemeteries
Tue, April 13, 2004 - 8:56 PMA fist to the ear covered by the phone usually works. -
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Re: A fist to the ear covered by the phone usually works.
Tue, April 13, 2004 - 10:48 PMSuch vivid, concise imagery...
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Re: cell phones vs. cemeteries
Fri, January 27, 2006 - 4:31 PMCell-phone jamming is legal in some countries. I believe Israel has jamming in effect on the floor of the Knesset. -
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A former Australian city councillor has been charged with assault for shushing a woman who wouldn't stop talking on her phone at a screening of Brokeback Mountain
Mon, February 13, 2006 - 5:39 AMwww.boingboing.net/2006/02/...harg.html
Cory Doctorow: A former Australian city councillor has been charged with assault for shushing a woman who wouldn't stop talking on her phone at a screening of Brokeback Mountain. Pauline Clayton was on holidays in Texas, catching the movie in Texas cinema, when the woman's phone rang. After she ignored a shushing gesture, Clayton touched her lightly on the shoulder. After Clayton touched her a second time, the woman went berserk, screamed obscenities, and got two cops and swore out an assault complaint.
She said the police took her to the food bar and explained that the woman had accused Ms Clayton of "invading her private space". The woman had made a complaint of assault because Ms Clayton had touched her.
"They were very apologetic," Ms Clayton said.
"They were very uncomfortable."
Ms Clayton said the officers had tried to dissuade the woman from making a complaint and had even told the woman that if she did make the complaint, police would charge the woman with disorderly conduct and using a profanity for her outburst in the cinema.
The woman refused to back down and not only was Ms Clayton charged, but the woman is now also due in court after being charged over her behaviour. -
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Improv Everywhere conducts a "cellphone symphony" at the Strand, NYC
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IF I HAD TO GET A CELL-PHONE it would be kosher
Tue, March 28, 2006 - 2:54 PMj-walkblog.com/index.php
In late 2004, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi asked Abrasha Burstyn, the chief executive of a small Israeli cellphone company, for a phone that could put the secular world on hold.
Cellphone companies, at the time, had started to load their products with entertainment features, and the rabbi wanted none of it. He was in search of a phone without Internet capabilities or text messaging. He didn't want cameras, music downloading, or anything else that could "distract" the pious. He was looking for a device that could make and receive calls. Period.
Mr. Burstyn, 58 years old, soon found that many other Jews were hunting for similar, simpler cellphones. "They are listening to the rabbis," Mr. Burstyn says. Last March his company, MIRS Communications Ltd., rolled out its first batch of "kosher" phones stripped down of all features but basic voice service.
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noise-pollution at 30,000 FT?
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cellphones & cemetaries. no, seriously and literally.
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Re: cell phones vs. cemeteries
Tue, April 13, 2004 - 10:47 AMI will be among the first to preorder a localized jammer, legal or otherwise (better ditch your Valentine-1 before you berate me). I would think such a device would sell well to restauranteers, theater owners, churches, etc. (ignoring private sales altogether).
Don't get me wrong. I carry a cell, and it is quite useful for the relatively low cost. But mine is *always* on vibrate, and if it wasn't, my owning it wouldn't give me the right to disrupt others.
Louisville, my beautiful and progressive city, will vote this year whether to prohibit cigarette smoking in public places. How long will it be before we have to put a similar cell issue to vote? Economists agree, negative externalities are a bitch.
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Re: Sorry Cory and crew, I'm with el otro on this one.
Tue, April 13, 2004 - 11:15 PMIt didn't seem like he was being pissed that the phone had to be off, but that the request was not particularly polite or respectful. Having dealt with the US's post-9/11 security checks at airports, I'll admit that a little politeness goes a long way toward ameliorating another's imposition.
For the record, I never fail to be astonished at the brazen, stunning, and gauche ringtones of people on the otherwise silent Japanese trains. My phone is set to manner/vibe mode except for its morning alarm, and I don't know why everyone doesn't do it that way. However, I've never once heard a ring go off in a Japanese movie theater. -
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Re: Sorry Cory and crew, I'm with el otro on this one.
Wed, April 14, 2004 - 6:53 PMHrm. that could be. It could also very likely be that I'm so used to cellphonaholics over-reacting to polite requests that I interpreted this as the same.
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Re: cell phones vs. cemeteries
Tue, April 13, 2004 - 12:05 PM"Hasn't anybody developed a localized cellphone-jammer?"
I believe so, yes. It doesn't "jam" in the traditional radio signal jamming, it just pretends to be the closest cell and lures the local phones to connect with it instead, but then doesn't provide any service. -
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Re: cell phones vs. pepper spray
Thu, July 29, 2004 - 8:20 AMwww.engadget.com/entry/1016892813512113/
"Not really sure if this counts as cellphone rage, cellphone justice, or just police brutality (or all three), but Warronnica Harris, a college student in Florida, definitely made a mistake when she answered a phone call from her mom while watching the opening credits to Catwoman at a local theater (though going to see that movie in the first place was probably her first mistake). An irritated police officer in the theater noticed her on the phone, shined a flashlight in her eyes, then pushed Harris and her boyfriend into the lobby where he doused them with pepper spray and arrested them for disorderly conduct, thus fulfilling the secret revenge fantasies of irate moviegoers everywhere. We smell a lawsuit, especially since there is some dispute over exactly what really happened."
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Re: he doused them with pepper spray and arrested them for disorderly conduct
Thu, July 29, 2004 - 8:46 AMAccording to the consensus at RottenTomatoes.com, the pepper spray fate is preferable to the movie.
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Re: cell phones vs. cemeteries
Thu, January 19, 2006 - 1:13 AM"Hasn't anybody developed a localized cellphone-jammer?"
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Mobile phone use does not lead to a greater risk of brain tumour, the largest study on the issue has said
Fri, January 20, 2006 - 7:51 AM
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Fri, July 30, 2004 - 11:03 AMIn all seriousness, laws regarding on-call doctors and other emergency situations make theater celljamming legally impossible.
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Fri, July 30, 2004 - 12:07 PMI need a bluetooth hack that'll allow me to change a persons ringtone remotely. With the hack, I'd send an audio file that changes the offenders ringtone to say, "I'm an asshole" every time they get another phone call.
C'mon, bluetooth exploits! [evil laugh] -
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Re: cell phones vs. cemeteries
Sat, July 31, 2004 - 7:22 AMha, that should be called the "black-n-bluetooth." -
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cell phones blocking paint
Fri, August 13, 2004 - 6:19 AMwww.engadget.com/entry/1131461946171236/
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Re: cell phones blocking paint
Fri, August 13, 2004 - 10:01 AMwww.engadget.com/entry/8301854641807275/
"Caught in the hellish strife that is modern living, we’re not sure anymore what we’re more scared of: gas attacks or cellphone brain cancer. And naturally, as Americans, we consider baseball caps our first line of defense. CR Clean Air took care of the former, so thank god someone stepped up to the plate to still our raging Treo-induced-tumor fears: Handy-Fashions.com has the Mobile Cap, a hat designed with an RF-insulating earpiece lined with material “used by the military to shield missiles in extreme microwave exposed environments” which claims 99.999% signal blockage for only $39.99. The moral of the story? You’re already going to look completely stupid wearing one or the other, so you might as well be extra safe and wear both at the same time."
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Re: material “used by the military to shield missiles in extreme microwave exposed environments
Sat, August 14, 2004 - 9:30 AMMy tin-foil-beanie is so much cheaper. -
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Re: material “used by the military to shield missiles in extreme microwave exposed environments
Sat, August 14, 2004 - 7:56 PMplus, it keeps out the Post Office's Orbital Mind-Control Lasers! two-fer-one! -
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Cell phone fines for rudeness...
Thu, September 2, 2004 - 6:01 AM
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Re: cell phones vs. cemeteries
Fri, September 3, 2004 - 2:31 AMI love those british cemetaries..
I rollerbladed through them at dusk
while I lived therer in 2002
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Nagoya Cutting Signal at Subway Platform
Sat, September 4, 2004 - 8:14 PMwww.futurismic.com/2004/08/...gnal.html
(disclosure: this article is from me at a blog at which I frequently post)
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Re: Nagoya Cutting Signal at Subway Platform
Sun, September 5, 2004 - 2:36 PMYou know what's gonna happen? They're all gonna die. Just like those poor benighted people in the Age Before Cellphones, when the average life-expectancy was 13.5 and nobody travelled out of earshot of one another.
I propose a new "law": One cannot discuss banning or eliminating cellphones or cellphone signals without someone mentioning how people will then die.
Okay, to make it a law, there probably has to be ... the longer a thread is discussing banning or eliminating cellphones or cellphone signals, the greater the likelihood somebody will claim that without cellphones people will die.
Somehow, I suspect, more people die talking on cellphones that have their lives saved by cellphones.
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Re: Nagoya Cutting Signal at Subway Platform
Sun, September 5, 2004 - 7:39 PMHitler didn't have a cell phone, and look what happened to him.
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Re: Nagoya Cutting Signal at Subway Platform
Tue, September 7, 2004 - 4:42 PMI think the hysteric tone is uncalled for, but your underlying point is good. Yes, it's likely that the 20 added seconds for a platform attendant to rush to a landline will not significantly effect a person's chance of survival.
Instead then, how about the #2 most popular argument that is trotted out in these cases: That "the many" who are operating their cell phones with restraint, and NOT within 2cm of a pacemaker (one assumes that means everyone who has not stabbed a pacemaker-equipped bystander in the chest), are being punished for the users who are using their cell rudely, or have stabbed someone with their cellphone, bringing it within 2cm of the victim's pacemaker (arguably VERY rude). -
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Re: Nagoya Cutting Signal at Subway Platform
Wed, September 8, 2004 - 12:15 PMWell, perhaps we can agree to disagree*
*on the condition that you throw away your cell phone and return to using the tested-and-true telegram service -
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Re: *on the condition that you throw away your cell phone and return to using the tested-and-true telegram service
Wed, September 8, 2004 - 5:00 PMOh, but I DO! Whenever I feel threatened, I shout insults in Morse at whatever offends. -
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Cameraphone Jammer
Sun, September 12, 2004 - 7:30 PM(from Gizmodo)
www.blueserker.com/html/modules.php
"Singapore's Asia One is reporting how 3 students from Temasek Polytechnic school have developed a software that uses Bluetooth to shutdown the camera functionality of select cameraphones. The phones this is possible with include the Nokia 6600 and the Nokia 7210. They failed to succeed when testing the Nokia 7650.
This could have a very real application in secure areas where cameraphones are typically not allowed (military installations, health clubs, some schools, etc.) since it is difficult to re-enable the camera functionality according to the article. That is assuming of course that it is used with the knowledge and consent of the phone's owner (kind of like informed consent for mobile phone surgery)." -
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Mexican churches using cellphone jammers
Wed, September 22, 2004 - 9:56 AMwww.engadget.com/entry/0534309229707397/
'Four churches in Mexico have resorted to illegally jamming cellphone signals smuggled in from Israel to stop parishoners’ phones from ringing during services. The Mexican Federal Telecommunications Commission is looking the other way, but before you complain the US Federal Communications Commisson is pretty lax about this, too, and has pretty much never charged anyone with the crime of cellphone signal jamming (which might be the reason for all of those conspiracy theories that hotels are deliberately blocking cellphone signals to get guests to use the phone lines in their rooms).'
you know, I can already hear "but what about when somebody chokes to death on a wafer?!!"
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Re: french theatres using cellphone jammers
Wed, October 13, 2004 - 12:13 PMMobile phone signals will be jammed in French cinemas and theatres to prevent the devices disturbing the audience.
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Re: french theatres using cellphone jammers
Wed, October 13, 2004 - 12:17 PMsee--Atom beat me to it.
Somebody else hates cellphones, too.
I mean, besides me and the French.
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