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Bluetooth got Religion
September 18, 2007
Eh, ok.
So it turns out that Bluetooth has been used for sending messages "of a sexual nature" in various places in Riyadh over the last while. A local study in the Al-Qasim region (northeast of Riyadh) intercepted 500 Bluetooth messages, of which 90 percent were sexual in nature.
The fantastically-named Riyadh Branch of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, who once were perceived as being anti-Bluetooth, have now embraced the technology as a potential force for good.
To that end, they're trialling a new service called the "Awareness Messaging System via Bluetooth" to spread, well, "awareness messages" to young people visiting on of Riyadh's largest shopping centers. Presumably the messages will say things like: "Think pure thoughts" and so forth.
As someone reared in Ireland (ninety-x percent Catholic, historically), I can respectfully suggest that this is a total waste of everyone's time. That sniggering sound you hear is the sound of local youths gleefully deleting "awareness messages".
Cool though. Report here.
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