Foiled by the nanny state! I feel like making a libertarian public service announcement!
On Jun 2, 9:59 am, Keith Wiley <[email protected]> wrote: > I have absolutely no idea if I'm right about this, so this is pure > speculation...but Google may have "hard-coded" a shutter sound to the > camera due to security concerns about people taking surreptitious > photos. In other words, we're all stuck listening to stupid shutters > sounds now because a few criminals and perverts behave badly and the > powers-that-be think the best solution is assume that the entire > population consists of criminals and must therefore be treated as > such... > > ...but I ***readily admit*** that I could be completely wrong about > that. I have only looked at the camera UI a tiny bit so far, and that > was before 1.5 anyway, so I'm really not up to speed on the current > camera UI at all. > > I only mention it because I have heard of similar measures in other > cases:http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h414/showhttp://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200905/2860/Camera-phone-pre...http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/congress-gets-bill-to... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
