Re: OT -- New Nikon may be succeptable to computer virus.

2012-08-23 Thread David Mann
On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: As an option, it would ignore the GPS and randomly download a sunset, baby, HDR'ed landscape or swimsuit shot. And upload it to Flickr where you'd get 5,000 views in hours. I'd have to wait for the next model when they

Re: OT -- New Nikon may be succeptable to computer virus

2012-08-23 Thread Tom C
From: David Parsons parsons.da...@gmail.com On the fly panoramas are a useful app. I know people like to be curmudgeons on this list (and other places), but there are things that I'd love to be able to do with photography that isn't really possible or practical with dSLRs. Not everything

Re: OT -- New Nikon may be succeptable to computer virus.

2012-08-23 Thread steve harley
on 2012-08-22 23:40 David Parsons wrote And, contrary to what some people think, not everyone that uses a smartphone is using instagram and cheesy digital filters. right; like i said (and as Godfrey perhaps unwittingly confirmed) we can't imagine some of the uses these can be put to; offhand

RE: OT -- New Nikon may be succeptable to computer virus.

2012-08-23 Thread Bob W
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of steve harley on 2012-08-22 23:40 David Parsons wrote And, contrary to what some people think, not everyone that uses a smartphone is using instagram and cheesy digital filters. right; like i said (and as Godfrey

Re: OT -- New Nikon may be succeptable to computer virus.

2012-08-23 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 23/8/12, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: Everything has already been invented. Except a way of outsmarting Bob ;-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

RE: OT -- New Nikon may be succeptable to computer virus.

2012-08-23 Thread Bob W
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Steve Cottrell On 23/8/12, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: Everything has already been invented. Except a way of outsmarting Bob ;-) oh, that's easy - just be a woman... B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: OT -- New Nikon may be succeptable to computer virus.

2012-08-22 Thread Bruce Walker
Worse still, you may be interrupted by phone calls pushing duct cleaning services just when you were about to get that once-in-a-lifetime snoozing cat shot. And I wonder how much crapware you'll have to clean off of it to make it useable? On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:22 PM, P. J. Alling

RE: OT -- New Nikon may be succeptable to computer virus.

2012-08-22 Thread Bob W
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Bruce Walker Worse still, you may be interrupted by phone calls pushing duct cleaning services just when you were about to get that once-in-a- lifetime snoozing cat shot. And I wonder how much crapware you'll have to

Re: OT -- New Nikon may be succeptable to computer virus.

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Roberts
Bob W wrote: From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Bruce Walker Worse still, you may be interrupted by phone calls pushing duct cleaning services just when you were about to get that once-in-a- lifetime snoozing cat shot. And I wonder how much crapware

Re: OT -- New Nikon may be succeptable to computer virus.

2012-08-22 Thread steve harley
on 2012-08-22 12:22 P. J. Alling wrote My conclusion anyway, it's powered by the Android OS... just like every Android device (and many others of course), but yet smartphones are hugely popular ... the flip side is that such a camera should be extremely hackable; i think we're going to see

RE: OT -- New Nikon may be succeptable to computer virus.

2012-08-22 Thread Bob W
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts Bob W wrote: From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Bruce Walker Worse still, you may be interrupted by phone calls pushing duct cleaning services just when you

Re: OT -- New Nikon may be succeptable to computer virus.

2012-08-22 Thread Tom Cakalic
the flip side is that such a camera should be extremely hackable; i think we're going to see more of these, and we're going to see people doing things with them we can't even imagine yet Like taking pictures? Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT -- New Nikon may be succeptable to computer virus.

2012-08-22 Thread Bruce Walker
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Tom Cakalic caka...@gmail.com wrote: the flip side is that such a camera should be extremely hackable; i think we're going to see more of these, and we're going to see people doing things with them we can't even imagine yet Like taking pictures? Literally

Re: OT -- New Nikon may be succeptable to computer virus.

2012-08-22 Thread David J Brooks
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Tom Cakalic caka...@gmail.com wrote: the flip side is that such a camera should be extremely hackable; i think we're going to see more of these, and we're going to see people doing

Re: OT -- New Nikon may be succeptable to computer virus.

2012-08-22 Thread P. J. Alling
On 8/22/2012 4:34 PM, steve harley wrote: on 2012-08-22 12:22 P. J. Alling wrote My conclusion anyway, it's powered by the Android OS... just like every Android device (and many others of course), but yet smartphones are hugely popular ... the flip side is that such a camera should be

Re: OT -- New Nikon may be succeptable to computer virus.

2012-08-22 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I can't imagine why I'd want a camera operated by Android OS. I don't even want a camera powered by iOS ... I bought my iPhone because it's a great little communications device, the fact that it also includes a decent camera is secondary. The solution to getting hacked is to turn off network

Re: OT -- New Nikon may be succeptable to computer virus.

2012-08-22 Thread Boris Liberman
If you really resist the temptation of playing around with this camera, the interface may surprise you by its ease of operation. That's of course, provided the programmers at Nikon did their job rightly. Given that most of the cell phones today are smart phones or even super phones and given

Re: OT -- New Nikon may be succeptable to computer virus.

2012-08-22 Thread David Parsons
On the fly panoramas are a useful app. I know people like to be curmudgeons on this list (and other places), but there are things that I'd love to be able to do with photography that isn't really possible or practical with dSLRs. Not everything photographic needs to be ultra-serious and