Faraday cages in movie theaters.

[imported_Tick]

I hate it when peoples cell phones ring in movies, and the FCC says it's illegal to jam them, so I got to thinking. What if you made a movie theater a giant Faraday cage. This would block cell signals, so people's cell phones would be able to function normally, they just wouldn't get any signal. And Fermi cages aren't illegal, because there passive blocking, so no legal issues.

 

[SaltBoy]

I prefer a roundhouse kick to the head for offenders...

 

[Heisenberg]

I think you mean Faraday cage, not Fermi.

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
I prefer a roundhouse kick to the head for offenders...

But beating people up makes it hard to watch the movie, and it's so expensive to hire Chuck Norris out for a day.....

 

[PottedMeat]

Originally posted by: Tick
I hate it when peoples cell phones ring in movies, and the FCC says it's illegal to jam them, so I got to thinking. What if you made a movie theater a giant Fermi cage. This would block cell signals, so people's cell phones would be able to function normally, they just wouldn't get any signal. And Fermi cages aren't illegal, because there passive blocking, so no legal issues.

you mean a faraday cage?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
I think you mean Faraday cage, not Fermi.

Ack, good call.

 

[imported_Tick]

Oops, double post.

 

[imported_Pablo]

Furby?

 

[0roo0roo]

they already have wallpaper that does this

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Faraday +1

Oh, and anyone who has a justifiable reason for having an always-on cellphone/pager would be rightly pissed.

- M4H

 

[Syrch]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
I prefer a roundhouse kick to the head for offenders...

 

[Analog]

Sure, lets spend $100K for each movie theater to do a Faraday cage....

 

[destrekor]

umm.. what about emergencies, and someone desperately needs to inform someone in the movietheater?

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Faraday +1

Oh, and anyone who has a justifiable reason for having an always-on cellphone/pager would be rightly pissed.

- M4H

If they need to have a cell phone always on, they shouldn't be seeing movies. It's unfair to the rest of the people watching. TFB if they don't like it.

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: destrekor
umm.. what about emergencies, and someone desperately needs to inform someone in the movietheater?

Then they can physically get that person, or call the movie theator.

 

[xanis]

Originally posted by: destrekor
umm.. what about emergencies, and someone desperately needs to inform someone in the movietheater?

They could walk 3 feet to the exit, then place the call?

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: yellowfiero
Sure, lets spend $100K for each movie theater to do a Faraday cage....

Not nearly that cost. You can block cell phones with medium weight copper mesh, and steel doors, and movie theators don't need windows.

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: Xanis

Originally posted by: destrekor
umm.. what about emergencies, and someone desperately needs to inform someone in the movietheater?

They could walk 3 feet to the exit, then place the call?

Exactly.

 

[xanis]

Originally posted by: Tick

Originally posted by: Xanis

Originally posted by: destrekor
umm.. what about emergencies, and someone desperately needs to inform someone in the movietheater?

They could walk 3 feet to the exit, then place the call?

Exactly.

Thank you. See, now if people could only walk that same 3 feet in a non-emergency so everyone else wouldn't get pissed.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Xanis

Originally posted by: Tick

Originally posted by: Xanis

Originally posted by: destrekor
umm.. what about emergencies, and someone desperately needs to inform someone in the movietheater?

They could walk 3 feet to the exit, then place the call?

Exactly.

Thank you. See, now if people could only walk that same 3 feet in a non-emergency so everyone else wouldn't get pissed.

Yes, because when someone's trying to call in to the person inside the theater, that person instinctively knows to move outside the room. :roll:

- M4H

 

[Rubycon]

We let them use them but at $5.99 per minute (routed through Cingular Bahamas) most opt to leave them OFF.

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Xanis

Originally posted by: Tick

Originally posted by: Xanis

Originally posted by: destrekor
umm.. what about emergencies, and someone desperately needs to inform someone in the movietheater?

They could walk 3 feet to the exit, then place the call?

Exactly.

Thank you. See, now if people could only walk that same 3 feet in a non-emergency so everyone else wouldn't get pissed.

Yes, because when someone's trying to call in to the person inside the theater, that person instinctively knows to move outside the room. :roll:

- M4H

Name an emergency where it matters if you get someone ELSE in a two hour timeframe that is likely to occur. Further, people in the past got allong just fine without cell phones, so we can stand to be without them for 2 hours. And lastly, they could go and get the person, or they could call the theater.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Xanis

Originally posted by: Tick

Originally posted by: Xanis

Originally posted by: destrekor
umm.. what about emergencies, and someone desperately needs to inform someone in the movietheater?

They could walk 3 feet to the exit, then place the call?

Exactly.

Thank you. See, now if people could only walk that same 3 feet in a non-emergency so everyone else wouldn't get pissed.

Yes, because when someone's trying to call in to the person inside the theater, that person instinctively knows to move outside the room. :roll:

- M4H

owned!!
thank you m4h, people gotta read

 

[elektrolokomotive]

Originally posted by: Tick

Originally posted by: destrekor
umm.. what about emergencies, and someone desperately needs to inform someone in the movietheater?

Then they can physically get that person, or call the movie theator.

What do you think they did before freekin' cell phones? Anyone who was on call (e.g. Doctors, etc) would advise the theatre office that they were on call, and roughly where they were sitting.

Of course, I'm kinda old, and that was back in the days when most people weren't such self-absorbed, discourteous a-holes.

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
We let them use them but at $5.99 per minute (routed through Cingular Bahamas) most opt to leave them OFF.

Sweet. Except that still lets the rich jerks through the net.