On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote:
Guidance on Webcam - better list to keep the piece here
Dear Listers,
I am very sorry that you all decided to blast my earnest request
for assistance on webcams and then proceeded to hijack the subject
to the point that it apparently has no moderation to morphing into
an entirely different subject.
IIRC, you were asking about security and the referenced security hole
was software knowingly installed on a computer by an administrator
who had physical access. There is no protection from that short of
reformatting the disk, or destroying it. Hence, the morphing of the
thread to disk destruction.
BTW: Thanks for confirming that it is indeed ON TOPIC for this G List!
I do not intend to leave the list, but now I ask the collective for
a good place to discuss webcam issues in fairness and on a leveler
playing field.
As long as you are using it on a G Mac, ask away here
This is the coming future of communications: WEBCAMS AND VOICE
COMMANDS and we are on the brink of the precipice of it, but
others want to drag us backward. So be it, please help me find a
better place.
Webcams-fine. The promise of videophones from when I was a kid has
finally started arriving. I used one in 1967 at the Expo '67 Worlds
Fair in Montreal to speak with some other kids in Disneyland in
California. Impressive stuff to a 8 yo kid.
As to voice commands, with the exception of differently abled people
who need it, please, Lord, NOOOO!!!!. It is one thing if you live
alone and have no one else around, but voice commands in an open
office environment? Or any office environment where doors are open?
At night at home when the kids are asleep? I'll stick with my KB and
mouse, thank you very much.
Now, if they ever get the alpha wave (or whatever works) scanners
working at a reasonable price and accuracy, then we can talk.
Len
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