Just popped into my mind: which phone was that, the Nokia 6233 isn't it that has 3G but the camera is in the other side than the LCD so you can't make video conference - even though the software on it supports that? Tamas On 1/13/07, Herbert Graf wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 05:30 -0700, Bob Axtell wrote: > > > Oh well, still, only thing I use my phone for, despite it having a > > > camera, video, games, etc. is phone calls, and texts. I guess I'm > still > > > in the stone age. > > > > > > > I'm in the stone age, too Herbert. And I consider the video phone a > > legal liability, because people > > are being photographed without their knowledge or permission. > > Hmm, I always found this position on video phones interesting. > > Why did the creation of a video phone change anything? There have been > VERY small video cameras available for a long time, the only thing the > video phone has done is made them mainstream. > > Does this mean more people will be tempted to do illegal things? That's > perhaps true, but I'll say that people with these sorts of urges find > the urges build up until they search out a way to perform the criminal > act. > > OTOH, I believe video phones are VERY good for society. Thanks to video > phones everyone in public interested in doing something naughty has to > deal with the fact that someone may be recording. A good example was a > recent incident in a library in a university where a student was being > asked to leave by the university cops and was completely mistreated. > Thanks to a video phone the university cops had no room to lie. I like > that. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lARW9r5V29s > > I do agree it's a slippery slop though, do the benefits outweigh the > risks? I personally think so. > > That said, probably 99.99999% of video phones are used by teenagers > filming each other singing REALLY badly.... > > TTYL > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- unPIC -- The PIC Disassembler http://unpic.sourceforge.net -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist