disappointing... i thought it jammed them down their throats

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"Can you hear me now?"  Unsuspecting cellphone users may find themselves saying that more often now that cellphone jammers — illegal gizmos that interfere with signals and cut off reception — are selling like hotcakes on the streets of New York.

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Why do people find it so socially acceptable to prevent other people from communicating? Who the hell are you to decide whether or not my cell phone call is important or not? Maybe somebody is discussing restaurant choices, but can you tell just by looking that there is nobody else within range of your jammer who is waiting to find out if his mother-in-law has cancer or not? (Just to pull out a not very random example.)

I had some guy on a newsgroup the other day say that if he saw somebody with a cell phone on a cruise ship that he'd throw the phone over the side. I told him that if he did that to me, his teeth would be joining it pretty smartly, and he'd better be ready to pay my costs to have a replacement cell phone helicoptered out to the ship within a few hours. If I wasn't reachable by work, I wouldn't be allowed to take any vacation at all.