> oops, better change topic ------ > > > Brent Brown wrote: > >> > OK... I'd suggest you NOT CHARGE THEM if they're not right side up. > >> > Any pressure venting WILL spew acid from the caps. I know. > >> > > >> > Dale > >> > >> Ah-ha !! You "may" have solved a little mystery that's bugged > >> me for a few days. I was gazing around in the hardware store > >> and noticed a label on the surveillance camera that said "Do > >> not rotate more than 70 degrees from vertical". Why ? I > >> wondered. The staff didn't know. Could it be because it has > >> an SLA inside ? > > > >Well, if your security camera's not on the level, then who can you > >trust? > > > > > Speaking of which, in the recent movie "The Score", they > went to a lot of bloomin' trouble to fool the guys what > was watching the security cams in the treasure room. > > Seems to me, in today's world, it would be just too durn > easy to build a box chip it quick into the coax, 1 sec job, > snap exactly "1" frame of the treasure room, and repeatedly > send that frame up to the watchers, while the jokers play. > Which is why you digitise the signal in the camera and then encrypt it before sending it across the transmission media. Just for once the guys in the White Hats are ahead of the guys in the Black Hats 8-) Regards Chris Carr -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu