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Comment Re:Unplug (Score 1) 129

by JoeSquared (#59730668) Attached to: Activate this 'Bracelet of Silence,' and Alexa Can't Eavesdrop

The aspect of "...jamming other people's devices..." is where this gets tricky.

Imagine if you will having to deactivate this every time someone near you wants to make a phone call, or You want to make a call. Yeah this can easily be resolved by removing phone from the area but lets be honest (most) people are lazy and would rather kick and scream than do something practical.

Now picture someone in their car pulled off the side of the road by the police, either intentionally or not they could now use this to block needed communication.

This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to misuse of this technology, until this technology can target specific devices it will not be commercialized, or it will and be brought down once law enforcement catches on.
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Posted by samzenpus from the don't-let-the-scurvy-get-you-down dept.
superapecommando writes "Too many hours spent playing videogames indoors is contributing to a rise in rickets, according to a new study by doctors. Professor Simon Pearce and Dr Tim Cheetham of Newcastle University have written a paper in the British Medical Journal which warns of the rickets uptake – a disease which sufferers get when deficient in Vitamin D. The study boils down to the fact that as more people play videogames indoors they don't get enough sunlight and this has meant the hospitals are now having to combat a disease that was last in the papers around the time Queen Victoria was on the throne." At least the kids are eating enough snacks with iodized salt that we don't have to worry about goiters.
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