Comment on Gillian Keegan pledges crackdown on mobiles in schools

13esq@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah totally. These things will definitely not interfere with everyone else as well…

  Idiot.

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  • 13esq@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everyone else in the school?

    You know you can get a signal blocker with a set range right?

    Idiot.

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    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ladies/Gents/People, could we take the insults out? Otherwise I’ll need to prune the comments. @13esq@lemmy.world @CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works

      Jammers are not a feasible option, but lets use this as a friendly place to educate, not just yell at each other.

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    • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because a signal jammer doesn’t work just in a range, these things jam by creating noise in a certain radius, but more often than not this noise acts like a wall and blocks signals outside the actual radius, and if you have the thing near a tower it blocks every connection to the tower. Jammers are illegal in almost every country because of that, imagine the things blocking emergency calls, among other very nasty problems.

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    • shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I hope that range is the same shape as the classroom, and doesn’t leak out of doors and windows.

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    • FatLegTed@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You know you can get a signal blocker with a set range right?

      Can you point me to one of these? We could do with something like this for work and I’d like to give examples to the seniors - they’ll tell me to sod off but at least I can say I tried ;-)

      They won’t cough up to turn the office into a Faraday cage :-(

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• ThePyroPython@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So here’s your two options for doing this:

  1. Phone signal jammer - illegal because you are purposefully interfering over a licensed radio band.

  2. Retrofit all classrooms into a Faraday cage - impractical because ludicrously expensive.

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