In comp.os.linux.advocacy, SomeBloke
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on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:06:46 +0100
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> Ezekiel wrote:
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>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> HD surveillance camera design runs homespun Linux
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>>> | The Linux-based CamHD hardware/software reference design is equipped
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>>> | Altera Cyclone III FPGA (field-programmable gate array), and boasts a
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>>> | 1080P HD resolution.
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>> The UK government can use these linux based cameras so spy on its citizens
>> and take away their individual rights to privacy. Once again... linux is
>> "freedom's worst foe."
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>> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
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> Didn't mention anything about the UK.
>
> From the web page,
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> <quote>
> Marseilles, France-based Nexvision has announced a network IP (Internet
> protocol) video camera design that incorporates the Texas Instruments (TI)
> DaVinci TMS320DM6467 processor. The Linux-based CamHD hardware/software
> reference design is equipped with an Altera Cyclone III FPGA
> (field-programmable gate array), and boasts a claimed 1080P HD resolution.
> </quote>
>
> I suspect that if you look around the USA you will discover plenty of
> surveillance cameras. It seems to be another weapon in the "War on Terror"
> that Mad King George is promoting!
They are also used for far more routine tasks such as
monitoring precious jewelry stores and other such.
In any event, Ezekiel's point is hardly subtle; obviously
Linux is some sort of subversive communistic software
and should be avoided at all costs, according to him.
(It might be communistic; I'll go that far. In software
contexts that's not nearly as evil as the USSR was,
especially since one can take what he wants source code
wise from FOSS. This may change as we are deluged with
source code versions, revisions, changes, and such, and
the problem becomes more of a bandwidth utilization issue.)
In any event, Linux is a logical solution for a general
control system that doesn't have special requirements, such
as realtime. (It probably could be adapted for realtime,
as well; I suspect there's a patch out there somewhere to
modify the scheduler or interrupt handling.)
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