Hm. I can't imagine that this is the right place to ask!

I wonder how long before they ban camera phones in general and all phones from driving?

My friends and I are trying to decide who to vote for congress in the 2006 elections. We live in the 10th congressional district of California (Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, and Sacramento Counties). There isn't much offline info available about the candidates. Their names are Darcy Linn http://www.darcylinn.com , Jeff Ketelson http://www.k4a.net , and Ellen Tauscher http://www.ellentauscher.com . Any advice would be helpful. thanks.

You may enjoy this.

Tom Burka at Opinions you should have www.tomburka.com wrote this:

Soldier On Leave Takes Picture Of Bush Falling Off Bike

Proves Digital Cameras "Terrible Threat" To Nation, Says Rumsfeld

On Saturday, a soldier on leave, using his cellphone camera, took a picture of President Bush riding his bicycle into a huge ditch . The photograph showed that the President had been riding with his eyes closed, while Donald Rumsfeld, Condeleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, and Dick Cheney directed Bush to ride off the edge of a precipice and into the dangerous ravine.

The President denied that he needed to ride with his eyes open in the future. "Ya see, that's just what these ravines want, they want us to get away from these sheer drop-offs. But we will not be strayed from our mission," he said.

Donald Rumsfeld, who has banned digital cameras , camcorders, cellphones with cameras, and the gift of sight from all military compounds in Iraq, immediately extended the ban to all U.S. military personnel everywhere.

Pvt. Northrup O'Hallohan, who took the picture, was immediately placed under house arrest. His cellphone camera has been shipped to Guantanamo Bay for questioning.

"I don't know what I did wrong," said O'Hallohan. "I thought I still had 200 free minutes."

http://tomburka.com/archives/2004_05.php#000530

Hi Guy,
 
I, too, posted an article in my Camera Phone Report about Rumsfeld banning camera phones -- http://www.wirelessmoment.com/2004/05/defense_secreta.html -- and like some other writers suggested that skepticism was prudent until the story could be confirmed.
 
However, there might be some truth to the matter, based upon a Defense Dept. Directive issued in April. Check out another posting on my Camera Phone Report -- http://www.wirelessmoment.com/2004/05/rumsfeld_bannin.html. It seems that Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing posted some additional information and also will discuss it on National Public Radio this week.

I don't real The Daily Farce. Perhaps I should. That was where Peter Rojas originally spotted a satirical story saying that Donald Rumsfeld was proposing taking action "to protect Iraqi prisoners"

The action he was taking was to ban photography.

Very funny! - except the same reports are now appearing in serious media.

Well, he may try. Can he succeed?