Gizmodo: bans

Student Catches Principal Fighting With Student on Cellphone Camera, School Responds By Banning Cellphones

Jason Chen — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:32:36 EST

Way to go, Caddo School Board. You've won yourself the Gizmodo luddite of the week award. See, when a student films the principal of your Huntington High School fighting another student, the correct response isn't to ban cellphones, it's to make sure principals don't fight with students. It was only after the student showed the clip to local media that you actually did something about the situation, putting the principal on paid administrative leave. As a side note, we would also have accepted "resigning and putting people not completely retarded onto the school board" as a correct response. [Shreveport Times via Techdirt - Image courtesy Chicspeare]

Kansas Town Proposes Complete Ban of Cellphones While Driving

Travis Hudson — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:44:06 EDT

Kansas may seem like the pit stain of the country, but one town is proposing a complete ban on cellphones while driving. This ordinance is more hardcore than any of the other conversational driving laws throughout the states. Most of the conversational driving laws require the use of hands-free devices while driving and using a cellphone but the proposed Kansas ordinance would ban both hand-held cell phones and hands-free cellphone devices by motorists completely.

Good? Bad? Do you think your town could use a complete ban? Lawrence is a college town that has well over 20,000 young and inexperienced drivers for nine months out of the year. So they could definitely use a ban like this, especially with the new age of young cell phone users that have to be in contact with each other at all hours of the day. – Travis Hudson

Lawrence cell phone ban would be strictest [LJWorld]

XM Halts Sale of Certain Receivers

Travis Hudson — Sat, 27 May 2006 18:36:58 EDT

In our monthly episode of "the FCC sucks at life sometimes," XM has pulled certain units from the shelves and stopped selling the units from their online store. The only radios pulled were ones that included an FM transmitting modulator. The Inno was excluded because it can be firmware updated.

Reasoning? The FCC sucks, easy enough. They are currently investigating the emission levels of the FM transmitters and XM is going to halt the sales of units with FM transmitters until a ruling is made. Come on guys, didn't you see that Ofcom over in UK-land is reconsidering their ban of iTrips. Stop the FM transmitting hate, yo. – Travis Hudson

XM Pulls FM-Enabled Radios from Kiosks & Online Store [Orbitcast]