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UK Group Wants Mandatory Flash For Phone Cams
meganthom writes "The BBC is carrying a story about some privacy groups' concerns about the new camera phones. Privacy International, a London-based group, is asking that all phones flash when they are being used to take a photograph. In Korea, the government would like phones to make a loud sound when taking a picture. Also mentioned, several companies/labs do not allow employees to have photo phones on site. Anyone remember that Dilbert?"
Sigs cause cancer.
photographic memories will be required to have a flash attachment installed with their RFID implant?
Now I'm the grandest Tiger in the Jungle!
They should make it shout, "Hey, I'm taking your picture."
Silent camera phones don't take steamy uncensored barely legal gym shower room photos, people take steamy uncensored barely legal gym shower room photos.
First, they came for our shift keys, now our electrical tape. What's next?
Think of the children!
You didn't read the fine print. Electrical tape will be outlawed also.
No one has a right to their *own* opinion. They have a right to the TRUTH.
...then outlaws will just buy cameras.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
Just appeared on Suprnova. Damm hackers...
Flash "protection"
Search for place_your_thumb_over_the_light_DEViANCE.torrent
Sound "protection"
Search for cut_a_wire_on_the_speaker_(RELOADED).torrent
for a moment I thought this had to to with Macromedia.
Tape would neutralize both "fixes" pretty easily.
Easy problem to solve there, friend. All you need to do next is make a law banning tape as a circumvention device.
After all - look at what banning felt pens did for the music industry!
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
But then what will we use the Palace Of Westminster for?
KFG
Surely there must be some way for the Slashdot crowd to twist this into an anti-Bush/Ashcroft rant.
Any takers?
World's tallest building rises in the desert
How about 5 years in jail for using one in a cinema to type a text message :)
The already did. They shipped them all out to the colonies... ;-)
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Look out, look out! It's a paediatrician!
A paedwhat?
Who cares? Burn its house!
so it's "REEZE!!!"
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
In Soviet Russia, Cameras take pictures of YOU!
Oh! Wait...!
A chikan who wants an upskirt shot probably has a better chance now than he would have a couple of years ago - partly because people are used to the cameras and partly because they are used to the sound.
In America, if you want an upskirt shot, just ask the next ten women who walk by in in skirts. At least one will say yes.
Except for member of the Official Monster Raving Looney Party (who are too nuts to be paranoid), that would be most of the population of the UK. Hmmm. Maybe we could tie this in with the Mars landings. But then you'd have to find a way to brew a decent cup of tea at such a low atmospheric pressure.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Then they came for our felt tip markers, but I did not speak up because I did not have a felt tip marker.
Then they came for the electrical tape, and I did not speak up for I did not have electrical tape.
Then they came for me and there was nothing left to crack the DRM they installed in my brain.
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People working at Verizon Store want to be around technology and cool stuff, but were turned down for a job at Best Buy.
Thanks. You've just given me my new signature. My previous one was election based.
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
There goes my sex life.
What do you mean by "things you shouldn't be?" I thought those were the reasons camera phones were invented in the first place!
They only caught the ones that weren't paranoid enough.
Why not get the real ultimate power?
Next law would require all tape to be clear...
Xaotik Designs
yes, a magical red led, eternally incapable of being taped over!
- "Hear that?! The percolations are imminent! Cease your ingress!"
The guy has his cell phone in his hand - it's pointing with the cover facing down, but so what, lots of people hang on to their cell phones. That's not real suspicious. Picture the same scene with a guy holding a camera in his hand. You can clearly see it's pointed up the woman's skirt. That's pretty obvious.
That is exactly why we need undetectable cameras dude, didn't you notice the spy sex cams quality is not what it used to be ? Free the skirts !
not plane, nor bird, nor even frog...
Remember, some normal phones have lights on them, for incoming call, charging, etc...
The best kind in the 'etc' category are those that have just been put onto the phone so that it's cool.
Yeah, gotta love design implementations without any use.
Are lawmakers really necessary anymore? At what point can you say the laws are "done"?
Why don't we just kill all the politicians and allow the courts to decide how the existing laws should be interpreted, instead of buggering around with making new laws?
That isn't actually as silly as it sounds. But why stop there? Why not kill all the lawyers as well, declare a state of anarchy, and let common-sense prevail instead of a divisive and unjust legal system. That would also put paid to such idiocies as patents offices and taxation authorities.
After all "justice" in court-speak is only there for those who can afford it. So maybe we should kill all the rich as well...
Stop laughing, dammit, I'm serious.
*grin*