Churches Installing Cell Phone Jammers

[General Zod]

I like the idea of having a mobile phone on me so that I can call someone in an emergency. Or someone can call me in one. But erecting some sort of tower to block or jam the signal? What the fuck for? Empower the fucking Cinema workers to throw the jerkoffs out the fucking theatre if their goddamn phone goes off; put up signs, or ads to tell people to observe the courtesy of switching their phone off for a few hours. By erecting some kind of tower to block it for EVERYONE strikes me as excessive in it's reaction. I certainly don't deserve this restriction, because I use my phone responsibly.

(emphasis mine). Theaters already do this. They have signs projected onto the movie screen during the ads before the movie starts. and there's already signs floating about the lobby asking such things. clearly they aren't working well enough.

[salm]

I wonder if the reason churches want to block the signals isn't because of phone calls but because of all the other quiet stuff someone can do with their phone now.

Instead of paying attention to the sermon someone could be text messaging or playing games on their phone all nice and quiet.

Maybe even following a sports event going on during church.

i guess the jammers would only keep incomming signals unrecognizable for the phones. you don´t need the signal to play games.

[Coalition]

I'd prefer if the jammers could be aimed like a cone. Just see someone in the theater, yakknig on the phone during the movie, point the jammer at them, flip it on for a few seconds, and back off again.

Needs less power than a sphere, and the on/off means that you only use it when you want (with a guard for the on button, so it doesn't turn on in your pocket).

Whenenver someone talks on the phone loud, you zap them. They lsoe the signal, and either they shut up, or they go outside. Or the battery on the jammer dies from overuse.

Another option is to sit next to them, and take notes.