Serutan
Eatibus Anythingibus
At last, someone is doing constructive about cell phones in public places...
If only we could to this here...
- Thread starter Serutan
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Serutan said:
Great idea, but I wonder how they ensure that emergency calls get through the jamming?
Scuffer
Scuffer says...
They won't, I'm fairly sure. Outgoing emergency calls would be from landlines, and incoming ones will have to manage the same way they did before mobile phones.
I guess if you are expecting there might be an emergency you wouldn't be there, and if you weren't - hard luck.
Still, I'm all for it.
I guess if you are expecting there might be an emergency you wouldn't be there, and if you weren't - hard luck.
Still, I'm all for it.
Little Raven
On Walkabout
Frankly, I'm not sold on the idea that preventing emergency calls from getting through is a valid reason to stop cell phone jamming. Just post a notice saying that cell phones will be jammed on the premises. If someone really has a job that they can't be away from for two hours...well, no movie for you, then.
Civilization survived and thrived without 24 hour access to every emergency worker in the area. I suspect it could survive again.
Civilization survived and thrived without 24 hour access to every emergency worker in the area. I suspect it could survive again.
MaisseArsouye
gentil petit nuton
I saw on TV the concept of "phone-sitters". You give you phone at the cloakroom and, if there's a call, they take the message. If it's really an emergency, they can tell you without disturbing other peoples with phones rings. I think it was in a discotheque, but I'm not sure. That would be nice for places such as theaters or restaurants.
Mescalhead
Vincebus Eruptum
Hurry up and buy 'em before they are banned. If you can, buy several to sell at a later date. I imagine them going the way of police radar detectors.
~Corsair#01~
Deity
Would there be any way to attach this technology to satellites, in order to enforce a total mobile-phone blackout worldwide?
Captain Carnage
King
They have these jammers in some libraries too
The Person
Deity +2
If people don't switch off their cell phones in cinemas when asked, let them face the consequences. There's a reason you're asked to. If you're so attached to your cell phone that you have to have it turned on 24 hours a day, you seriously need to get a life.
Stapel
FIAT 850 coupé
Switching off a cell phones takes 0.2167 seconds....
It's very easy to ask the audiance to switch it off.
Weird.
It's very easy to ask the audiance to switch it off.
Weird.
Masquerouge
Deity
I think it's a great decision. However, what worries me is the way the jamming signal works ; is it a strong magnetic field ? Or something else ? I would hate to see studies pop up in three years, saying "Mobile jamming in theaters causes testicle cancer", or that kind of thing...
Masquerouge
Deity
Stapel said:
Actually, they do, in French movie theaters. But guess what ? Some people forget, other don't bother. I go to the movies at least once a week, and mobiles ringing are not that uncommon.
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
This and emergency calls arer my concern as well.Masquerouge said:
absolute_sad
sad for you
IglooDude said:
This law is a good idea indeed, but yesterday I heard on TV News that it is almost impossible to be done. The law forbid jamming emergency calls, but equipment that can make the difference between normal and emergency calls must be military-style, which cost 30.000 (!) euros piece.
The solution would be to jam all stupid brains when entering the movie theatre, but then there won't be a lot of people (including me) ...
Masquerouge
Deity
I'm not sure emergency calls are an issue, here. How did people do before mobiles ? They had to rush to the nearest phone booth, or whatever. Well, same now.
And if you're EXPECTING emergency calls (doctors, or anyone), well, don't go to the movies, please.
And if you're EXPECTING emergency calls (doctors, or anyone), well, don't go to the movies, please.
Stapel
FIAT 850 coupé
Masquerouge said:
Isn't it easier to ban those visitors?
Masquerouge
Deity
Stapel said:
It's too late, my movie session has been spoiled. I don't want these people to be banned, I want their mobiles to remain silent !
