Early portable prototype
One afternoon in early September, an architect boarded his commuter train and became a cellphone vigilante. He sat down next to a 20-something woman who he said was “blabbing away” into her phone. “She was using the word ‘like’ all the time,” said the architect, Andrew, who declined to give his last name because what he did next was illegal.
Andrew reached into his shirt pocket and pushed a button on a black device the size of a cigarette pack. It sent out a powerful radio signal that cut off the chatterer’s cellphone transmission – and any others in a 30-foot, or 9-meter, radius.
“She kept talking into her phone for about 30 seconds before she realized there was no one listening on the other end,” he said. His reaction when he first discovered he could wield such power? “Oh, holy moley! Deliverance.”
In evidence of the intensifying debate over the devices, CTIA, the main cellular phone industry association, asked the FCC on Friday to maintain the illegality of jamming and to continue to pursue violators.
Screw the CTIA. Regardless.
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=554
i seem to remember another post here about a jammer you could make at home aswell
To Mr.Mustard.Fucktards? I love it.
#30. Presumably if there was an emergency, whoever is operating the jammer could
[drum roll, please]
turn it off.
probably with precisely the same ease that everyone else could dial 911 on their cell phones.
a jammer presents the same menace to ’emergency’ calls as being in the subway sans reception does. and yet somehow we survive.
I would also like to know precisely what ‘equipment’ on a bus or train that a jammer would interfere with that a dozen cell phones going at once would NOT.
bobbo, João, Omar – you guys have your heads on straight with this one… and also ArianeB, always sensible…
I’m offended by lots of things – so fucking what? I’m in public and there can be no doubt that something about ME offends someone else. Nothing can be done about it. We have laws for those things that give universal offense, but talking to someone else, whether they’re present or on the other end of a phone connection, is something you and I both have the right to do, and is not on a par with urinating or expectorating. Exactly as with the fucking idiot Islamists who think that they have a right to suppress others’ speech when it offends them, I tell you vigilante wannabes the same thing: tough shit. Feel as offended as you like, but you’re gonna have to live with the fact that you don’t have any right to suppress the otherwise lawful actions of others simply because you don’t like it. I’ll draw cartoons depicting the Prophet while talking on my cellphone in public, and if you don’t like it you can go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.
The mics on cellphone are quite sensitive and it’s rare that you should ever have to raise your voice on a call – it’s just that many people automatically, reflexively talk much louder on the phone when they don’t have to, if they’d take two seconds to think about it. I personally prefer to conduct my conversations in private, but when I must take a call while in a store or such, it’s trivial to keep one’s voice low enough to be unintelligible to anyone 4 or 5 feet away, and I do so. But even though others are self-centered, exhibitionistic, bellowing dipshits for not doing as I do, I (and you) still don’t have the right to interfere with them, just as we wouldn’t want their interference in our lives…
IOW, you don’t jam my telephone, and in turn, I’ll not snatch that idiotic backwards cap off your skull nor set fire to it, thankyouverymuch. 🙂
I don’t like the fact that you’re talking to the person you’re walking with in such a nasal voice, so I should have the right to silence you.
I cant wait until they come up with little devices that interfere with conversations that are taking place at close proximities. I cant stand it when Im out in public and some people have the NERVE to speak to each other. All I ask for is a little peace and quiet. Our society is in such a state of…….hold on, Im getting a call.
Microwaves… yummm!
Cell phones put out Microwaves. Ever since this radio frequency was discovered we’ve known they cause cancers. How over is this society? Oh yeah, Jammers put out Microwaves too. I object to tobacco and microwaves in public places. Doesn’t make any difference, but I object.
But don’t get me totally wrong, I’ve loved 2-way radio since I was a teenager in the 70’s, and I’m a amateur radio operator. But I don’t really like anything over say 30MHz for health reasons.
I would love cellphones if they weren’t such low-bandwidth pieces of crap, and didn’t radiate pulses of microwaves. And if they we’re healthy and of such quality that people could talk quietly on them, etc, then I’d be all for them.
Freedom? WTF is that? Where you been?
#34 LTG – “IOW, you don’t jam my telephone, and in turn, I’ll not snatch that idiotic backwards cap off your skull nor set fire to it, thankyouverymuch.”
I hope you were going to leave the cap on and set fire to it….
With my luck, I’d turn on my jammer moments before I had that heart attack, and no one could call 911. I often find people using cell phones in public distracting, because being an old fart, my first reaction is that either they are talking to me, or are deranged in some fashion, not that they are talking about their latest bout with an STD in a public place on a cell phone. Still most of the time, it’s a minor annoyance. The real problem is people arguing with their spouse/whatever while driving. And yes, most of the conversations you overhear tend to be about the banal subjects imaginable. As for the driving and phoning problem, just equip cell phones with GPS, and if it determines that you are moving faster than 25 MPH, all you can call IS 911.
Theaters, libraries, and restaurants – jam ’em and post it on the door so people know and can avoid the place. Anywhere else, if someone pulls a TV Be Gone or private jammer, gang up and kick the piss out them.
If you don’t like hearing vapid conversations, get out the the piece of shit city. An idiot on a cell phone is no different than two idiots talking to each other.
>>An idiot on a cell phone is no different than two idiots talking to
>>each other.
Sure it is. First of all, virtually no one would have the kind of useless, vapid, senseless conversation with someone in real life that seem to predominate in the world of cell phone conversations.
Second, I VERY seldom overhear conversations that other people are having with each other; most people with double-digit IQs can modulate the volume of their voice when speaking with someone in real life so that the conversation is confined to their own personal space. I overhear unwanted cell phone conversations about 100 times a day. And with the advent of Trailer*Trash Technology (Blue tooth headsets), people seem compelled to speak at a very high volume, including everyone in the checkout line in their conversation about how they are going to “whup [yo’] ass” when they get home from Wal*Mart and the likker store.
Start talking to them like you are the one being addressed.
Really messes with their minds.
>>they don’t have to, if they’d take two seconds to think about it.
That’s a defining characteristic of Blue Tooth Nation, La Trucha. People who routinely use their cell phones in confined public places don’t have the synaptic horsepower to “think about it”.
Hence the need for jammers. Maybe after a year or two of having every cell phone conversation that takes place within hearing distance of somebody else cut off, even these Pavlov’s dogs will realize that if they’re talking WHERE NOBODY ELSE CAN HEAR THEM, their calls won’t be jammed.
I’m not too optimistic though, looking at the number of knuckle-draggers wearing blue tooth headsets.
Lets see…
Block ALl signals OR, broadcast them…
With BT you could pick up at least 1/2 the conversation, and broadcast it…
OR maybe, with remote access, and BT, you could have it dial 911…
Has anyone seen the video on BT hijacking??
Once a person has heard their OWN voice, they Generally, SHUT UP.
There might even be a contention for that….ITS PUBLIC SPACE… it ISNT your house… There is NO expectation of privacy, Esp. if you are Yelling into a CELL phone.
Dont think you should broadcast the OTHER side of the conversation tho…
this would ALSO show them HOW vulnerable Cellphones ARE..
Anyone who would use a private jammer is a bigger asshole than cellphone abusers. If you don’t want to be bothered by people, go where there are no people. period.
I would have no problem with Libraries, Restaurants, or Theaters jamming cell signals. All have land lines and in an emergency could easily call 911 for help. On trains or buses however, that is different, they have as much right to jabber away as I do to peace and quiet.
It would be cool if some engineer somewhere could come up with a device that could cause jammers to explode…
Very interesting conversation.
Wonderful! Fantastic!