[funsec] New bill aims to force cell camera sounds, protect children

2009-01-27 Thread Juha-Matti Laurio
"The Camera Phone Predator Alert Act (H.R. 414) is the real deal. Fresh off the legislative desk of New York Representative Peter King (R), the bill--currently cosponsored by goose egg --would require an audible tone to accompany all cellular phones with an installed camera that are created in t

Re: [funsec] New bill aims to force cell camera sounds, protect children

2009-01-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:17:06 +0200, Juha-Matti Laurio said: > --would require an audible tone to accompany all cellular phones with an > installed camera that are created in the U.S. We still make cell phones? I thought they were like TVs pgp4KyxKHoPcq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [funsec] New bill aims to force cell camera sounds, protect children

2009-01-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:46:11 +0900, Peter Evans said: > How the hell does this "protect children" though? Umm... when they take naked pictures of themselves to send to their boy/girl/whateverfriends, their parents can hear the tell-tale shutter sound and investigate? I'm sure the logic is

Re: [funsec] New bill aims to force cell camera sounds, protect children

2009-01-28 Thread Juha-Matti Laurio
Mostly phones we use in Finland do this and it has been a standard many years. Juha-Matti Peter Evans [pe...@ixp.jp] kirjoitti: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:17:06PM +0200, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote: > > "The Camera Phone Predator Alert Act (H.R. 414) is the real deal. > > sounds like an ana

Re: [funsec] New bill aims to force cell camera sounds, protect children

2009-01-28 Thread Gary Warner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:17:06 +0200, Juha-Matti Laurio said: >> --would require an audible tone to accompany all cellular phones with an >> installed camera that are created in the U.S. > Great . . . all we'll hear at

Re: [funsec] New bill aims to force cell camera sounds, protect children

2009-01-28 Thread Jeff Rosowski
>> How the hell does this "protect children" though? > > Umm... when they take naked pictures of themselves to send to their > boy/girl/whateverfriends, their parents can hear the tell-tale shutter > sound and investigate? Curiously enough, my _camera_ doesn't make sounds when I take pictures

Re: [funsec] New bill aims to force cell camera sounds, protect children

2009-01-28 Thread Juha-Matti Laurio
It's very difficult to see why this discussion started in 2009, very quick Finnish-language Google search point to articles from 2003: "Camera-phones must 'click' in Korea" http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Camera-phones-must-click-in-Korea/0,130061791,120280927,00.htm etc. If I rem

Re: [funsec] New bill aims to force cell camera sounds, protect children

2009-01-28 Thread Blue Boar
They're new and scary and teenagers use them. Damn teenagers. BB Jeff Rosowski wrote: >>> How the hell does this "protect children" though? >> Umm... when they take naked pictures of themselves to send to their >> boy/girl/whateverfriends, their parents

Re: [funsec] New bill aims to force cell camera sounds, protect children

2009-01-28 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:17:06PM +0200, Juha-Matti Laurio quoted: > "The Camera Phone Predator Alert Act (H.R. 414) is the real deal. This bill has nothing to do with its putative topic. This bill has everything to do with preventing citizens from using their cell phone cameras to record what p

Re: [funsec] New bill aims to force cell camera sounds, protect children

2009-01-29 Thread Jon Kibler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Juha-Matti Laurio wrote: > "The Camera Phone Predator Alert Act (H.R. 414) is the real deal. I have been freezing my behind off working on a contract in Connecticut recently. Thus, I have been flying home to South Carolina regularly to defrost. The cl

Re: [funsec] New bill aims to force cell camera sounds, protect children

2009-02-03 Thread Jim Duncan
Jon Kibler wrote: > (On a side note, West Chester County, NY is one of the top wealthiest > counties in the country. The airport is surrounded by multi-million > dollar McMansions. IBM's global head quarters is just down the street. > Yet the airport more resembles a third-world bus station than an