02-21-2005, 12:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Cell Phone Jammer Use On The Rise
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/40168.htm
"Unsuspecting cellphone users may find themselves saying that more often now that cellphone jammers � illegal gizmos that interfere with signals and cut off reception � are selling like hotcakes on the streets of New York. "I bought one online, and I love it," said one jammer owner fed up with the din of dumb conversations and rock-and-roll ringtones. "I use it on the bus all the time. I always zap the idiots who discuss what they want from the Chinese restaurant so that everyone can hear them. Why is that necessary?"
A part of me can sympathize with users of a jammer. I got behind some guy at the dry cleaners the other day and the man behind the counter was unable to conduct business with the guy because he kept saying "pardon me" and yammering away with someone at this office. Meanwhile, the line behind him was growing, and I was in it. If I had access to a jammer, I'd have flipped it on. :devilboy:
Still, it is illegal and can cause a risk to lives because they interfere with emergency equipment. It wouldn't be a problem if people were just considerate and wouldn't talk so loudly and just blather on and on about nothing in the middle of public places. :?
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02-21-2005, 12:23 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 1,051
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I know its wrong, both legally and morally, I also know people have a right to hold conversations in public places in whatever manner they please, but if I could get my hands on one of these I would buy one in a New York minute. Inconsiderate, rude people tend to drive reasonable people to act unreasonably.
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02-21-2005, 12:53 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 545
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I can see how someone would be mad, but I think that these jammers are just as likely to get someone mad as well!  Even if I had one, I would only use it in extreme situations. I find nothign wrong with people yakking on thier phone on the bus, so long as they are quite about it. I tend to not use my phone on the bus because sometimes it just is difficult to use it on the bus because of the bus. Buses are the noisiest things concerning RF and I have had many a dropped call when on the bus.
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02-21-2005, 01:03 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 761
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...and I have had many a dropped call when on the bus
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Maybe you got jammed?
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02-21-2005, 02:29 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 359
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OMG where do you buy these jammers... I wouldn't use it on others.... I would just use it on my wife to get a meal where we actually talk without her answering her cell! That and the fact that she has thought about implanting a phone earbud and mic into the side of her head!
Sign me up for any law that says its okay for one spouse to jam another spose in order to have a decient conversation! 
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02-21-2005, 02:31 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 181
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This isn't about technology, this is about people. People are generally not that sensible, nor sensitive to others around them, and will do whatever they feel is pleasing at the time. My main issue with cell phones is that people show more respect to the person on the other end of the line than they show to the people in front of their face. I don't like the idea of jammers. They are going to end up causing problems instead of really helping, but I really do understand why people would want them.
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02-21-2005, 03:20 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 16
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Jammers
While it has merits, the demerits out weights the merits. I can see a dummy accidentally activating a jammer while on a plane. Or on a live 911 nearby, somebody jams a call intended for another and jamming instead the 911 call...etc.. And so the reason why it's illegal to purchase jammers. (IMHO) 8O
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02-21-2005, 04:14 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 5
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use in movie theaters
I would love to see this kind of thing used "legally" in movie theaters!!! I don't think I've been to a movie in the past 3 years that at least one cell phone hasn't gone off.
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02-21-2005, 04:23 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 5
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Do a google search and you will find many.
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02-21-2005, 05:24 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 1,329
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Hmm now if they can invent one that also jams iPods I'd be one happy fellow. Had some idiot standing at the fast food counter at the Mall of America ordering food while they were listening to something. It took about 15 seconds for the rep to actually tell the person how much their bill was. She ended up pointing to the LCD on the reg. She and I both had A LOOK as the idiot walked off. :?
I would give such a crap about cell phones, PDAs, and, iPods if it wasn't for the fact that common courtesy seems to have gone right out the freaking window.
Seem the only way to get people to act a tad decent is to at least force their hardware to be. That shouldn't be the cause but here we are. :worried: I see rude people everywhere. They are rude. They just don�t know they are rude and don�t care.
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