Cell phone jammer - What would U do with one of these babies?

[KurtNYC]

http://www.globalgadgetuk.com/Personal.htm

This cell phone jammer looks just like a cell phone and is ideal for use when commuting on the bus and train or when eating in restaurants etc, anywhere where you need effective control at close quarters!

Make sure you have this phone jammer with you whenever you are out and about as you never know when you are going to need to use it. With this cell phone jammer switched on in your pocket you will be able to silence those anti-social types who insist on using their mobile phones in the most indiscrete way, the beauty is that they will not know it is you that has switched them off!, all they will see is that their signal has dropped on their phone. When you have had your meal or enjoyed your coffee in peace and quiet, you can then switch off your phone jammer and continue on your way completely stress free.

Wanna take a guess whether these are legal in the corporate U.S.? Imagine letting someone get a connection, then you jam, then stop, they dial again, you jam, etc.

[RivetJoint]

1. 100% sure they are illegal

but I still want one!

[tcfrogs]

2. I'd love one of those

I can't stand people who are constantly on the cell phone in public...

[northzax]

3. uh, yeah, highly illegal

what gives you the right to steal from me the right ot use the service I pay for? You don't like phones in restaurants? go to a place that discourages them, they exist. You don't like them in coffee shops? ditto. Personally, I don't use my phone is public, but you have no right to stop me from doing so. A business ownder can forbid them, if he or she wants, just like they can forbid smoking, dancing, loud talking or eating meat. But you can't stop me, sorry.

[trotsky]

5. Not to mention interfering with first responders.

Pagers, cell phones, etc. are lifelines - literally - for some people.

Yeah, annoying phone users suck. So do a lot of things, it's unfortunately part of the price we pay for living in society.

[northzax]

8. oh, who cares about other people?

my convenience comes first, dammnit!

or at least that seems to be the idea.

[Wat_Tyler]

13. Sorry, were you talking about people who use phones, or the jammers?

Pretty unclear to me.

[northzax]

16. in this case, jammers

but people who use phones impolitely have serious issues as well.

[Wat_Tyler]

18. Fair enough.

[KurtNYC]

11. True and not true

No one has been busted for using them here and there are hundreds if not thousands in use. Things are generally legal or illegal; and things for which no one has been prosecuted are seldom called "highly illegal."

Rumours are that many hotels are using them to help their in-room phone use.

[northzax]

14. in acse you're wondering, here is the law

http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/cellular/operations/blockingjamming.html

The operation of transmitters designed to jam or block wireless communications is a violation of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended ("Act"). See 47 U.S.C. Sections 301, 302a, 333. The Act prohibits any person from willfully or maliciously interfering with the radio communications of any station licensed or authorized under the Act or operated by the U.S. government. 47 U.S.C. Section 333. The manufacture, importation, sale or offer for sale, including advertising, of devices designed to block or jam wireless transmissions is prohibited. 47 U.S.C. Section 302a(b). Parties in violation of these provisions may be subject to the penalties set out in 47 U.S.C. Sections 501-510. Fines for a first offense can range as high as $11,000 for each violation or imprisonment for up to one year, and the device used may also be seized and forfeited to the U.S. government.



It may never have been enforced, in fact, you can make a reasonable arguement that a hotel, or a restaurant, could employ such a device to restrict calls on their private property (in fact many hotels are now built ot obstruct cellular transmissions, perfectly legal)

[KurtNYC]

19. Good luck calling the FCC

cause I'm jamming you brother.....

(just kidding, of course)

[northzax]

20. luckily for me

and unluckily for you, in preparation for such an event, I always carry and FCC approved Carrier Pigeon in my pocket to report violators. Ha, take that!

[KurtNYC]

25. and I have a perfectly legal Peregrine Falcon

for just such emergencies.

[northzax]

38. touche

unfortunately for you, my pigeon carries a fully automatic anti-aircraft device, purely for defensive purposes, you understand.

And since the Republicans are in charge, I'd probably get a medal for taking down an endangered species...

[Demit]

15. Apparently we can. Now you'll have to buy a jammer jammer.

[Skittles]

21. I threw some food at the last asshole talking on his cell loudly

it stopped him

[northzax]

39. so you dealt with someone acting like a jerk

by escalating to downright childish assholeness? And here I thought your age was in double digits. I don't care what I'm doing, if your first response is to throw food at me, you need to see an attitude adjuster.

[Skittles]

40. he was disrupting an entire movie theater

assholes like that have to learn the hard way

[demosincebirth]

4. oooohhh, would I love one!

[Phillycat]

6. This might be a bad idea if there is a cardiologist

trying to respond to a page to save the life of a patient.

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[Phillycat]

10. Heh.

I know what you mean, believe me! :)

But you know, it DOES happen.

[gpandas]

42. pregnant black woman, eh?

get outta' here with your racial stereotypes.

[miss_kitty]

7. I would love one!

for those a-holes that pace up and down in front of my ground floor apartment chatting loudly-it would save me having to go out there and hanging out with them :evilgrin: and when driving...I'd like all those morans who selfishly insist upon putting everyone in danger around them to be slightly inconvenienced.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. I Want One!

I would have the power increased and turn it on EVERY TIME i go to the airport. I would just love to screw with the "business can't go 10 seconds without my valuable input" guys. I would also love to have the defibrulator handy when they realize they have been cut off from their obsessive cellphone use. Then i can the cause of and savior from their malady.

How cool would that be?
The Professor

[Skittles]

22. it is some sort of obsession, no?

it kills me how people cannot do without something that didn't exist just a few years ago. I am so sick of hearing private conversations in public, I have started loudly pointing out to them just how disgusting their behavior is. Someone has to do it.

[ProfessorGAC]

24. Me, Too!

I've done the same thing. There was a guy in the Philly airport at 8:45pm shouting instructions into his cellphone. He had the hands free thing going, (earpiece and collar mike) and he was giving some admin aide instructions about who should do what tomorrow and what calls so & so should make, and blah, blah, blah.

Well, it turns out that he's flying to Chicago, and then finishing his trip to Minneapolis and that he was GOING TO BE IN THE OFFICE THE NEXT DAY!

So, i finally had enough, and i turned to him and said "Could you shut up? I'm trying to read! Everyone else here couldn't care less how important you think you are!" He got all huffy, but could see that i had the support of the other 100 people there. So, he stalked down the concourse to find somewhere to be less annoying to us, but equally annoying to his subordinate.
The Professor

[Skittles]

26. LOL

in line at the grocery store, the lady behind me was talking about her FERTILITY WOES. I turned around and said SO WHY CAN'T YOU HAVE KIDS? IS IT YOU OR IS IT YOUR HUSBAND? She started saying I DON'T THINK THAT'S ANY OF YOUR......and I cut her off and yelled THEN STOP TALKING IN MY F***ING EAR. A couple of young guys behind her laughed their asses off when she left in a huff.

[Nay]

27. God, Skittles, that's great.

[miss_kitty]

31. yeah good going-i've started that up

commenting on people's conversation loudly and openly, or addressing them directly, or just adding my $.02. see my reply #7...that's why I go outside when my neighbours come downstairs either for privacy or so they won't disturb their partner...so i can help them rediscover (or discover) manners. They can fuck off...

[Skittles]

36. I can't take it anymore

if they were on a payphone they would consider it unacceptable for me to stand one foot behind them listening, yet all freaking common sense goes out the window with these assholes and their cell phones

[LastKnight]

17. i would enjoy a freakin movie. nt

[DelawareValleyDem]

23. Probably won't work on all

cell phones. It specifically mentions 800 & 1900 mhz in US. I'm pretty sure Nextel, at least, uses different frequency.

[sundog]

28. cell phones suck!

that's all

[Kellanved]

29. illegal, not very effective and possibly unhealthy

Usually they hinder nearby phones of logging into the network. As a result those cellphones broadcast at maximum strength ...


Also, those devices are usually used by car thiefs to disable GSM/GPS based tracking systems - I'd not want to get caught with one.

I'm not 100% sure, but they won't work instantly (more like a minute) and they probably won't cut an existing connection.

[Endangered Specie]

30. As a college student...

I can attest to the need for products like these... Id say 90% of the kids have them, and 1 in 10 will be talking on it at any given time on campus. They go off in classrooms constantly, and the girls... they are the worst with them, especially their "romantic" or, relationship discussions.

If I were a professor, and a cell phone goes off, I will throw them outghta the class, if its an exam, instant 0.

Many times Ive just wanted to grab it from them and SMASH IT TO FUCKING PIECES!

Jesus H. Christ, do you really need to talk that damn much every day when you should be doing other things, like driving or walking, yes, sometimes they dont notice that they get in my way, poor them!

I do not, and dont intend to have one, although my line of work might require it. If I ever do get one, its liable to remain off alot or on silent.

[kitkatrose]

32. A-fricken-men!!!!

Hear, hear!!!! :toast:

[Exultant Democracy]

33. Well you can toss poop at me if you want,

but I am on my cell phone for 3-5 hours a day (total talk time.) The upshot is that I only have to go into my office twice a week.

Yes it is true that many people did just fine without cell phones for years but for my work it is an absolute necessity. The fact is that I don't enjoy being on call for 14 hours of every day, in fact it would be nice to be able to go on a date without getting interrupted ever 15 minutes because someone has a question.

In my defense I keep the thing on vibrate and if I am at a restaurant I excuse myself from the table and go outside to talk, but when I am at the mall, supermarket, airport, etc... you will probably see me walking around talking into my ear piece just like all the rest of the guys that bug you so much.

[Pithlet]

35. My husband had a job

Where he was on call and had to have a cell phone with him. It was required by his work. He didn't spend any time on the cell phone if it wasn't job related. Now that he no longer has that job, he doesn't even carry one. Not everyone on a cell phone is an asshole, although many are, and are annoying. But, people are annoying. They were before cell phones were invented. Loud mouthed and obnoxious knows no technical boundaries.

I know this isn't popular, but anyone that would actually carry and use (much different than venting on a message board about it, which I understand) a jammer is in a much higher category of assholery than someone chatting on a cell phone. Unless that chatter is in a movie theater, in which case, there is no higher category.

[Skittles]

37. I average 80 pages a week on-call

and never once have I resorted to walking around in public talking on a cell phone like an asshole. I AWAYS EXCUSE MYSELF.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

34. I'm getting one

Torturing cell phone dipshits people in the airport will be well worth $250. My only concern would be getting it past security screening - the dual antennas look a little strange and they might not think it is a cell phone.

[GiovanniC]

41. Can Kerry Bring One of These Into the Debates?

What will George do without Karl and Karen talking in his ear telling him what to say?