portable cell phone jammer.
Posted on 11/02/2007 2:52:27 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
NEW YORK (AP) ― Cell phones are already banned in New York City public schools, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg would like to take it a step further and "jam" the signal for the kids who still bring them. Problem is, it's against the law to do so.
"Just put it in every school, and even if the kid carried the cell phone in, they couldn't use it during the day," Bloomberg said Friday on his weekly radio show. "And I'd love to do that ... but I'm told that technology is illegal."
Cell phone jamming is prohibited in the United States, and is considered by some to pose a safety risk because emergency calls could not be made.
Some establishments that want peace and quiet like theaters and churches are learning how to block calls by using building materials that reduce or eliminate the signals.
Cell phones and pagers have been outlawed for years in the nation's largest school system, but students carried them mostly without consequence until officials began seizing the devices in random security checks.
This sparked a fierce battle with parents and students on one side and the Bloomberg administration on the other, refusing to lift the ban.
Parents argue they have the right to always be in touch with their children, some of whom have long subway and bus commutes to school.
Bloomberg loathes cell phone interruptions in any environment, and believes they have the potential to be more than an occasional annoyance in classrooms; phones could be used to cheat, take photos, play games and even organize mischievous activity, he has said.
Of course, many of those features would still function even if the signals were blocked.
While Bloomberg believes mobile phones have no place inside a school, he also said he's willing to consider a proposal to use cell phone and free minutes to reward kids for academic achievement.
Under the proposal, students that excel could earn free minutes on donated phones. The phones, like all others, would not be allowed in school.
"We certainly have not signed on, but we'll listen to anything," Bloomberg said. "I don't think we should automatically say no and we certainly aren't there yet to do it."
“great” idea until an emergency happens and it’s the kids’ cell phones that save the day.
Bloomberg is the typical NE liberal. I’m glad he finally shed his RINO outfit.
portable cell phone jammer.
I kind of like the idea. We know that kids text each other all day during class instead of listening to the teacher. We took our 9th grade daughter’s away during school. She leaves it at home. She says everyone texts each other all day.
phones could be used to cheat, take photos, play games and even organize mischievous activity, he has said.
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Pencils and pens could be used to inflict bodily harm. Is Bloomberg planning to ban them?
Jamming technology also plays havoc with 800mhz public safety radio systems.
Talk about a target rich environment: disarm faculty and staff, render their cell phones useless, and disrupt the emergency responders communication. Like shooting fish in a barrel.
“Under the proposal, students that excel could earn free minutes on donated phones. The phones, like all others, would not be allowed in school.”
Where do they come up with these ideas?
What a numbskull, I’m glad he left the party - now who to run next time?
I researched building a jammer. Last I checked, ~5yrs ago, blocking cell service carried a $11,000 federal fine. Too bad.
But they’ll give them free laptops so they can load up with porn and update their myspace.
I remember an article posted here about the product.
The comments from the link were funny. I will see if I can find it.
I avoid theaters. I’m on 24 hour/365 day emergency response for a public utility.
Can’t take the chance of losing my job over Hollywood cr@p!
I agree that schools should not prevent students from carrying cell phones, but only under one condition: If I'm a student in a classroom and my learning process is disturbed by a ringing cell phone, the student who owns/possesses that cell phone gets it shoved up his @ss.
Sound fair?
Signal jamming because it is “inconvenient” for the authorities, is dangerously close to how the Nazis used to chase down the radios that were listening to BBC during the Second World War. Radio communications crews would sweep through a neighborhood, with detection equipment tuned to pick up the part of the AM spectrum that was used by BBC, then charge in and arrest the perps, shipping them off to some far camp for “interrogation”. How would they know? Every radio receiver, upon receiving a signal, and in the process of amplifying it, emits its own secondary radio transmission, which has a distinctive signature, which can be picked up by triangulation. Nailed, just like magic.
By the way, Germans still use this technology to pick up those radio receivers for which the owners have not paid their annual fees for authorized reception.
Bloomie would probably love to ban the BOR as well.
No luck...
My thought was, "take all means of recording leftist teachers out of the classroom".
Thanks, though.
Much better solution than banning the things.
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