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Great. Those wanting to break the law simply need to break their phone's speaker while the rest of us have to live with annoying phones that beep uncontrollabl
by enomar 18y ago
Great. Those wanting to break the law simply need to break their phone's speaker while the rest of us have to live with annoying phones that beep uncontrollably when we want to take pictures.
- iigs 18y agoYeah. Prior to discovering the configuration option buried deep in my phone's menus I was looking for a place to embed a compact slider switch. I have a feeling if something like this were to ever pass that we'd see hacked firmware for common phones ASAP.
- tlrobinson 18y agoWhich brings up an interesting point: would open source firmware/software on camera phones be illegal, since you can trivially modify it to disable the noise?
- cabalamat 18y agoI'm sure there are people who would want to ban open source if they understood the idea. Fortunately, they are mostly too stupid to get it. Just as there are vested interests who would love to go back in time and kill the Internet (e.g. the music industry), but fortunately 15 years ago when the Internet was small enough to kill these vested interests didn't understand its importance.