Monday, March 5, 2012
Why the interest in illegal cell-phone jammers?
Andrew M Posting 2
Tech
Why the interest in illegal cell-phone jammers?
CNN, Doug Gross, Mar 05, 2012
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At this day and age its become incredibly easy to buy anything when you want it on the internet. Now it happens to be that one of those things is a cell phone jammer. It's incredibly when one is riding the bus, in a store, or relatively any small public area, and someone is yelling into his or her cell phone. Now, in response to these constant loud mouths, people are buying cell phone jammers, to use at their will. They are even sold at a relatively small price starting at around $40. One man in Philadelphia even admitted to using his jammer in his bus to shut up his surrounding people yacking on his or her phone. However, not only will his annoy the people on his or her phone, but it also happens to be illegal. Using a jammer illegally can lead up to $16,000 in fines and even jail time. Many others think that using a jammer is completely ludicrous. One women states, "Who is he to play god with our cellphones?"
In conclusion, people are using their privileges on the internet for some of the wrong reasons. It's simply breaking the law, and completely violating other peoples' rights and privacy. This is also becoming more and more popular which is a startling fact. Who is to say who gets to decide when and when not you can call someone. It would be nice if every one was silent during your morning commute to work, but imagine if you were in the middle of an important phone call and all the sudden it went blank.
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Currently cell phones are becoming a more and more prolific part of our everyday lives. Without thinking about it we make calls, text our friends even stream email on our phones. This however can intrude onto other peoples lives, for example often when teachers are intent on teaching, a phones buzzer goes off in response to a message. The class will break out into laughter and the class's momentum will be greatly disrupted. If teachers had access to cell phone jammers their classes could be streamlined. However in other situations such as in a train as stated above, this can cause people to miss out on important conversations for their job. And anyone who is caught using one is subject to 16,000 dollars fine. Cell phone jammers are a mixed bag of usefulness and anyone should think twice before buying one.
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