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  • Mrs_T_M
    Mrs_T_M Posts: 2,039 Forumite
    GreyQueen wrote: »
    :eek: Shades of George Orwell's "tele screen", anyone?

    Big Brother is watching you. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2513592/Is-TV-spying-YOU.html

    Not me, obviously, as I'm a TV less zone and this aged pooter doesn't have a camera.

    It's a daily fail article, so I'd take it with a grain of salt, but it is food for thought. Our tv is so really old, and I feel sorry for anyone trying to glean any info from me going through the laptop camera. They'd end up getting an eyeful of my gorgeous (but really fat) self!
    Baby Dale
    26th January 2014 - Forever in our hearts
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  • BB: What an absolute beauty of a stove!!!... You must be delighted!

    Hope you enjoy many, MANY cozy nights around it. :D
  • mardatha
    mardatha Posts: 15,612 Forumite
    Well anybody who spies on my webcam will get a delightful picture of the inside of a bit of insulating tape - the first thing I do when I get a new laptop :)
  • craigywv
    craigywv Posts: 2,342 Forumite
    wheres the camera im looking but cant see 1.......................told u I rubbish at technology.
    C.R.A.P.R.O.L.L.Z #7 member N.I splinter-group co-ordinater :p I dont suffer from insanity....I enjoy every minute of it!!.:)
  • mardatha
    mardatha Posts: 15,612 Forumite
    Usually right in the centre of the laptop above the screen craigy, on the black edge round the screen. Tiny wee hole with a light that goes on when its switched on.
  • My laptop is of the ancient kind.. back when they didn't have camera's installed in them yet. I have to hook up a seperate webcam if I want to skype or something.

    ..
  • craigywv
    craigywv Posts: 2,342 Forumite
    mardatha wrote: »
    Usually right in the centre of the laptop above the screen craigy, on the black edge round the screen. Tiny wee hole with a light that goes on when its switched on.
    I see....said the blind man! oh feel good now thanks for that MAR it now has a batman sticker over it xxx
    C.R.A.P.R.O.L.L.Z #7 member N.I splinter-group co-ordinater :p I dont suffer from insanity....I enjoy every minute of it!!.:)
  • I say, if anyone is even thinking of watching us through the tele screen I feel it only humane to flag up that dying of boredom is an almost foregone result!!! I think the most exciting thing likely to happen in the course of 24 hours is the Lurcha getting his toy stuck under the TV cabinet and one of us having to do the hands and knees thing to retrieve it thus presentin to the inner viewer the sorry sight of a large posterior right in front of thier eyes!!! I hope they're made of stern stuff then!!!
  • jk0
    jk0 Posts: 3,479 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 26 November 2013 at 3:43PM
    Here's a little project for preppers on the Economy 7 tariff:

    One of the main problems with Nicad batteries I find is that they invariably seem to be flat when I need to use them.

    This was a problem with my nicad powered lopper battery. I used it so rarely, that it wouldn't charge up when I wished to use the thing. Last year I bought a new battery, and resolved to find a way to keep it charged. I am pleased to report that my scheme has worked:

    I have a redundant storage heater point that still comes on at night. I changed this for a 13 Amp socket with neon, and plugged the charger into it.

    Finding this seems to work okay, I have today dug out all my nicads & chargers, and connected them to the socket with a four-way strip.

    As the socket is only on for seven hours daily, and the electricity is about one third of the daytime price, the cost is about one eighth of the cost of having the items plugged in 24/7. I reckon it's about £1 per year for the lopper charger.

    An alternative for those who don't have a redundant storage heater point of course is to use a timeswitch. You might even get away with three or four hours of daily charging.
  • pineapple
    pineapple Posts: 6,934 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 26 November 2013 at 3:32PM
    VJsmum wrote: »
    Beautiful country, wonderful people who were so happy to see us and that we had visited their country - a criminal waste :(:( Some were especially thrilled that we went to Great Zimbabwe, when they had little hope of going to what was a kind of Mecca for them (in the sense of somewhere to be visited at least once). It was very impressive and very beautiful but obviously had no spiritual meaning for us and I felt a bit sad that I had been and they had not.
    I visited Great Zimbabwe too but it didn't resonate with me and I'm afraid my abiding memory is us being scammed by some fake self appointed 'guardian'. Plus one of our group actually died of septicemia the day after our visit and I was coming down with malaria - though I didn't know it at the time.
    Some of the locals we met said they wished the Brits would come back as nothing worked any more. :(
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