I would not be adverse to a law being passed banning this use of encryption to lock down what software can be run on a platform, mainly because of the fear that other companies might follow Motorola and we might end up unable to modify the firmware on most Android phones.

Also, it seems to me that voting with ones feet no longer has any appreciable effect on large companies.

More like the worst years of your life, little wonder that the suicide rates amongst that age group are so high.

Asking slashdot is better than asking on 4chan, I can just see the advice on /b/ now, it largely consists of "stick it in her pooper"

It is a useful tool, it shouldn't be too hard to strip out all the dodgy code and host it on another site.

I have to agree there on using ZoneMinder too, and as for high resolution images, oddly you will get better resolution with some USB web cameras than with analog cameras, just make sure the sensor really does run at the resolution on the box.