Alarms would sound and not be switched off for hours.
Legal challenges to DRM strike at the heart of this issue: is it us, or distant, unaccountable corporations that control not only our media, but the software in our phones, our cars, and our fire alarms?
There have been false alarms elsewhere in the country.
It could also be used to create intelligent buildings, with security tags for staff and internet-connected fire alarms.
This usually alarms them enough to see a doctor.
London Fire Brigade becomes the first service in the country to introduce a charging scheme for callouts to false alarms at buildings such as hospitals, airports and student accommodation.
After the train passed, the lights remained on and the alarms continued to sound as another train, travelling from Birmingham to Stansted airport in Essex, was going to pass through the station.
Earlwolf set off car alarms and shook portaloos with their bass-heavy, expletive-laden set, and Friday night headliner Skrillex managed to work up a predictable hubbub over at the NME/BBC Radio 1 Stage, but nothing prepared Reading goers for the mayhem that ensued at Chase and Status's Saturday night main stage show.
I'm nearly 30 now, and I can already begin to feel the pull of these generation-based alarms.
Other things that are no being banned: owning unregistered assault weapons in Connecticut; harassing celebrities and their children with long-lens cameras in California; hunting elephants in Botswana and injudicious calls to the London Fire Brigade (if you're a business you'll be fined for false alarms).
The alarm clock module is generally excellent — you can, for example, set up a pattern of alarms like 7 30 a.m. on Monday and Wednesday, 7 45 the other weekdays.
