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How the Camera Phone Changed the World
theodp writes "Ten years after the amazing Philippe Kahn married a cell phone and a digital camera to capture the birth of daughter Sophie, Slate takes a look at the impact of the camera phone, the gadget that perverts, vigilantes, and celebrity stalkers can all agree on. 'With this kind of device,' Kahn told Wired, 'you're going to see the best and the worst of things.'"
And people say gay marriage is unnatural!
And, I didn't know that Kahn is a minister.
Camera phones have such poor quality. Why don't you just buy a disposable one for a few bucks and save yourself some pain.
If only they'd put a crappy phone on a high-quality camera, I'd be set.
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Tell us more of these "girls" you speak of.
2003 called. It wants its criticisms of cameraphones back.
Where can we find pictures of this hampster stuck in one's ass?
This could be the new "goatse"...
Dilbert on banning camera phones
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
That's cool, but your place is a mess.
The advise of G.Gordon Liddy on his radio show echoes in my ear. 'All these traffic cameras are just another violation of your privacy and more governmental control.Take a bb gun and aim for the lens.Fight the power'"
In other news today, policeman Adam Jones was suspended with pay yesterday pending the investigation of the shooting death of talk show host and third-rate Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy at the corner of 5th and Broad yesterday. "I thought he was brandishing a rifle at other motorists, Officer Jones said to reporters. "How was I supposed to know it was a Daisy rifle and he was just aiming at the traffic camera?"
Screw megapixels, I can't wait for the first Video/Camera/Handgun/Phone...
This would be a great combination, in theory. But do you really want to put a gun into a device that you frequently hold against your head? *Oops, wrong button!*
Trying to use sarcasm in text-based forums does not work.
"My phone also has enough resolution that, if I miss a day of class and need to get notes, I can just take a picture of someone else's (with their permission, of course) and transcribe it later"
Or maybe a buddy can squirt his notes to you. Unless he idly scribbled the lyrics of some Sony-owned pop song in the margin. Then the OCR kicks in and disables the wi-fi feature.
Perhaps life really is full of possibilities.
There was the story of the guy who got robbed several times and thus kept a gun on his night table next to his phone. All was well until the phone rang late at night and he "answered" the wrong object.
-b.
i dont need the added weight making my pants fall down.
Back in the day we solved this problem by buying pants that fit; although I admit it is amusing to watch the chavs trying to play basketball with one hand tied up in the problem of holding their pants up.
And extra amusing when one of them manages to trip over their own pants.
KFG
It will give a new meaning to "point and shoot camera"
While this is true, what we REALLY need is further integration. The GUN-cameraphone would solve a ton of problems. We'd probably even have direct democracy, finally.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
That would make "firing off an email" a lot more interesting....