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on Friday September 30 2016, @10:23PM
from the starting-the-weekend-with-a-good-drinking-related-story dept.
from the starting-the-weekend-with-a-good-drinking-related-story dept.
A cocktail bar owner has installed a Faraday cage in his walls to prevent mobile phone signals entering the building.
Steve Tyler of the Gin Tub, in Hove, East Sussex, is hoping customers will be encouraged to talk to each other rather than looking at their screens.
He has installed metal mesh in the walls and ceiling of the bar which absorbs and redistributes the electromagnetic signals from phones and wireless devices to prevents them entering the interior of the building.
Why you hating on millennials, Bro?
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Landlord Installs Faraday Cage to Block Phone Signals Because Social Media is Ruining British Pubs
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(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Sunday October 02 2016, @09:22AM
I've had friends commiting suicide when I've had my phone turned off (my voicemail could give people nightmares)...
But more than that - pretty much anyone on-call/on-jour needs to be reachable even when they are technically not working (also - there are people working with things where some modes are fail-lethal [I work in such a field where both exists])
Oh, and ~"someone should know where you are", that is why we have the cellphones ffs.. and don't give me any of that "just tell them ahead of time", since it would assume you are expecting a failure (at which point you shouldn't have left) or tell people where you are at all time (might as well wear an ankle-monitor then), especially if things normally run for decades without intervention.. and as stated - suicide in friends are kinda hard to plan for.
Oh, btw, 40 years ago my field used radio-communication (handed out walkie-talkies to people on-call), heck, I've had cellphones around me since the late 80s (so, nearing 30 years [NMT]).