On Apr 25, 2008, at 8:41 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > On 25.04.2008 06:25, Ivan Krstić wrote: >> On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:39 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: >> >>> Opportunistic use of the on-board camera and the time-of-day clock >>> could yield such heuristics. >>> >> >> >> The camera lights up an LED when enabled, alerting the laptop >> operator >> to its use. This privacy-preserving feature would be rendered >> ineffective if kids got used to seeing the LED flash on and off every >> so often as the system autonomously attempts to adjust the backlight. >> > > > Is there a "warning time" period from activating the LED to activating > the camera? Just that when someone works in front of the laptop, > can he > simply close it fast enough when the camera light goes on > unexpectedly?
No. There is some integrating of the "camera on" signal, so that turning it on for a single frame should ensure a visible flash, but this has the opposite effect... wad _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
