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Author Topic: Cell phone jammer Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-23-2002 11:58 AM                        I think Jonathan just hit on a great idea: set up one of those "phone detector" thingies in the theatre and connect it to a relay which will turn on a slide projector to show a "turn off your phone" slide on the screen (superimposed with the movie). To be really evil, one could also have a CD player or cart machine wired into non-sync to play some nasty message.  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-23-2002 06:07 PM                        Yah but if you did that everyone would have to suffer, looking at that message on the screen. I say a megawatt laser with cell phone homing device. Key up on your cell phone....zap! Or maybe just a big spot light with homing device.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Worthing Master Film Handler Posts: 384 From: Hereford, UK Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-24-2002 03:31 AM                     Link it to a spray can of fowl smelling spray,you could sniff them out in the dark.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 12-24-2002 04:27 PM                        quote: ...from Greg Mueller: I say a megawatt laser with cell phone homing device. Key up on your cell phone....zap! Ironic that you should mention the use of lasers in a cell-phone deterrent. Seeding a prospective market, maybe??? Oh... try not to destroy the seats when incinerating the offending phone user, please!!  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-26-2002 10:57 AM                        This really boils down to a social issue as distinct from a technological issue. I know I've mentioned this before, but I'm still struck by the so-called 'quiet coaches' on British trains. This is one carriage on all long-distance trains in which you are not supposed to use a mobile 'phone at all. The notices are almost universally ignored. On occasions when I've asked people to switch their 'phones off in these carriages, their response has ranged from 'Oh, I'm just making a quick call', to something unprintable. Yet no-one lights up in the 'no smoking' carriages. No-one, so far, has managed to explain to me why one rule is respected and the other is ignored. I'll say now that I hate mobile 'phones - specifically, the idea that you're 'on duty' 24/7 because you carry one - and would cheerfully throw mine off the Tyne Bridge tomorrow if it weren't for the fact that work requires me to have it. But I'm obviously in a small minority. 'No smoking' rules in public places work because 9 out of 10 people agree with the idea. It seems to me that the reverse applies to mobile 'phones, and that if you're going to aim to satisfy the 10% like me who don't like the sound of them ringing and of people screaming into them in public, you'll only be able to do so by enforcing an unpopular rule. The question is, is it worth it?  |  IP: Logged Gracia L. Babbidge Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 709 From: Bowdoin, Maine Registered: Aug 2000 posted 12-26-2002 11:13 AM                        If more people that used cellular phones showed more courtesy to the poeple around themselves when they use those annoying little gizmos, it wouldn't be nearly so bad. And I really wish more people would pull over and STOP driving to talk on their phones - it would make driving a lot safer! <- does not have or want a cellular phone!  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-26-2002 11:59 AM                        Gracia The other day I had actually pulled over on the freeway, and was talking on my cell phone, when a Washington State Patrol trouper walked up to the passenger side of the car. I rolled down the passenger window and said "Thanks for stopping but I'm just making a cell call and didn't want to crash" You should have seen the look on his face. He finally stammered something like "Ok just checking" and walked off. I thought he was going to faint.  |  IP: Logged

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