<div dir="ltr">There's an ambient light detector directly next to the camera on most mac book pros. You may be covering that along with the camera.<div><br></div><div style>-Johnny</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>I'm wiping a nearly new mac book pro turned in by a departing developer.<br><br></div>The built in camera is ALWAYS ON. It's used to determine the ambient light levels to automagically adjust the screen brightness. No indicator light is on. If I cover the camera with a tiny bit of foil, the screen dims. If I turn on photobooth, the indicator lights up that the camera is on.<br><br></div>So it appears to have software-only controls over the "don't be naked here" light. <br><br></div>Yep. Wiping this thing off completely and slamming on Fedora 21 beta. Can't see using it just out of the shower when I need to look up something real quick otherwise.<br><br></div>Unless google really wants more data than they can republish :-)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><i><i><i><br></i></i></i></i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br>
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