Oh, I *like* this one...

[mrph]

Tired of mobile phones in cinemas and theatres?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2067000/2067672.stm

Comments

[mhw.livejournal.com]

Piezoelectric gaslighters, slightly modified, are even better for disposing of intrusive consumer electronics - permanently.

[zanne.livejournal.com]

I suppose the only thing that would concern me: What about the types that need to be on an electronic leash, Doctors, Contractors waiting for the next job, waiting for client contact etc. . . I wouldn't want to not be able to go places because others can't remember to put their phone in silent mode. . . I might be doing a lot of temp work when I get back to the U.S., and though these panels are still in dev. . . It would suck to miss out on a job becuase I was in a public place.

[mhw.livejournal.com]

That's fine. You just have to make sure you stay in places where public phonecalling is permitted. You wouldn't expect to be able to say, smoke in a no-smoking zone? fine. Don't expect to be able to phone in a no-phone zone - which already exist, of course: hospitals are an obvious example.

[paulw.livejournal.com]

That still doesn't stop hospital Consultants using their mobiles in the hospital... They do after all think they are God and are above any silly, stupid rules like that.

[mhw.livejournal.com]

Yes, but they're rich enough so that if they make your ICU equipment go on the wonk you can sue their butts off and live happily ever after on the proceeds.

[adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, but pagers still need to work in hospitals.

I think the soultion isn't to hamstring the technology, but those without the manners.

[mhw.livejournal.com]

But how? if people simply haven't the manners to follow the instructions that say "TURN OFF YOUR MOBILE PHONES" - sheesh, there's
only one word of more than one syllable in that - what else can be done? Hel's tits, I smoke. But I respect the "NO SMOKING" signs. I try hard not to smoke around people who have problems with it. I acknowledge I have an antisocial, unpleasant habit, and I try to minimise people's exposure to it. If I can do it with one of the most addicting drugs known, why the hell can't people do it with their damn technology?

[inulro.livejournal.com]

My doctor friend puts her pager on vibrate and if it goes off she takes her phone somewhere suitably private to call the hospital if it goes off. If we go to the cinema when she's on call, she has to sit in the aisle seat.

Jodi

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Phones should listen for a special radio signal that means "silence", and refuse to ring or do conversation when they get it. Cinemas and so forth could broadcast it, and that way you could still do text, which is much less intrusive, so long as your phone vibrates...

And AFAICT people really don't use their phones on the Tokyo subway. People have these *very* short conversations which I'm told mostly add up to "I'm on the train, can I call you back?"

[mhw.livejournal.com]

That's also a very good idea, except you'd get some scumbastards who'd get their oh-so-important electronica modified so that it ignored the override signal because they're So Special.

Using SMS (I abhor the term 'texting')? Perhaps, if they turn off the keybeep and the 'You have a text' jingle and they are sufficiently evolved so they don't have to vocalise while they are using SMS.

[giolla.livejournal.com]

Wonder how well such panels would work as tempest shielding.