Canadian MP should have followed my Zoom advice

[Northern_Piper]

Some of you expressed scepticism when I started this thread:

Do you restart your computer après-Zoom?

As a techno-peasant who has trouble with mute/unmute, figuring out how to « raise hand » before the speaker has moved on to other topics, and still can’t send a chat message no matter how many times it’s explained to me, I’ve got in the habit of restarting my computer after a Zoom or Teams session to make sure my mike is off. Anyone else do that?

Right now, there is a Canadian MP who would have benefitted from reading my thread:

Liberal MP causes consternation in House of Commons after appearing naked on...

He apparently was changing in his office after going for a jog.

Unfortunately, he had left his Zoom link on.

Which fed his image to the MPs who were participating in Question Period in the virtual House of Commons.

Bloc Québécois Whip Claude DeBellefeuille raised it as a point of privilege with the Speaker:

“Since the beginning of the pandemic, you have repeated many times the importance of respecting decorum and dress code. And I think that we have broken a record today, because we saw an MP, during question period, in the simplest of attires. In other words, naked,” DeBellefeuille told the speaker after seeing her undressed colleague.

“So if you could remind our colleagues, particularly the men, that a tie and a jacket are obligatory, but also a shirt, underwear and pants. We were able to see that the MP was in great physical form, but I think it’s important to remind him to control his camera.”

His “camera”. Right. That’s what they’re calling it now.

[LSLGuy]

If he’d controlled his camera we wouldn’t be hearing now about his “camera”.

Given that “camera” is from Latin for “little room”, the same root as English chamber, bicameral, unicameral, and the legal term in camera I find a certain irony in a female MP complaining about exposed male cameras.

[Muffin]

Kinksters will be pleased to know that he’s the Bloc party whip. Vive la Fetlife libre!

[Si_Amigo]

“Whip Claude DeBellefeuille first laid bare the incident”

He noticed that he had it whipped out? At least someone is doing their job!

And what the hell is he doing to that cell phone?

[Northern_Piper]

She. The Bloc Québécois whip is a woman: Claude DeBellefeuille..

[GreenWyvern]

This gives a whole new meaning to “The Honourable Member of Parliament”.     

[Dr_Paprika]

Would the members please rise to vote yay or nay on the proposed government package?

[Czarcasm]

Lesson learned-Don’t jog.

[cochrane]

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[Hari_Seldon]

Yes she is, but “Claude” is a unisex name so the error is understandable.

[Sam_Stone]

If you have a camera on your laptop and you don’t keep it physically covered when you aren’t using it, what the hell are you thinking?

[LSLGuy]

I have such a camera that’s never covered. But it does have a bright idiot light when it’s on.

So I might add one more proviso to your suggestion:

If you have a camera on your laptop and you don’t keep it physically covered when you are undressed and aren’t using it, what the hell are you thinking?

[Sam_Stone]

There is software out there that will turn on your camera and record you without you knowing about it. We had a thread a coiple of years ago about a school district that was using it to spy on kids in their homes.

I wouldn’t trust an employer to not install such software when people are working from home. Many are worried that people are slacking at home during the day, so I wouldn’t at all be surprised if some are turning to spyware.

[LSLGuy]

Could well be. I was working from the perhaps silly assumption that people controlled their own computers. Net of malware of course; nobody can reliably say they’re fully malware free. And are guaranteed to stay that way.

[running_coach]

@Sam_Stone

We had a thread a coiple of years ago about a school district that was using it to spy on kids in their homes.

How time flies when you’re having fun the ever-luvin’ crap sued out of you.
(both threads from 2010)

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[SciFiSam]

I don’t really understand this. Usually, when a zoom meeting ends, it ends. Even if you, yourself, forgot to click leave, the host would automatically end the session for everyone when they left. All cameras would be turned off.

So it looks like this is some sort of weird permanent zoom, even when the meeting is paused for long enough for someone to go for a job? Huh?

Anyway, simply making sure the camera was turned off in the zoom session would be the issue there. It’s not necessary to restart the computer to do that.

[Sam_Stone]

@running_coach

How time flies when you’re having fun the ever-luvin’ crap sued out of you.
(both threads from 2010)

Egad. Time flies when you’re getting old. A couple years, a decade… It all flows by like tears in rain.

[Sam_Stone]

@SciFiSam

I don’t really understand this. Usually, when a zoom meeting ends, it ends. Even if you, yourself, forgot to click leave, the host would automatically end the session for everyone when they left. All cameras would be turned off.

Yeah, I’m not sure I buy that guy’s excuse. The one pixellated picture of him I saw looked more like he was having himself a ‘good time’ rather than getting dressed. It reminded me of the Tobin missile crisis.

[Northern_Piper]

@SciFiSam

I don’t really understand this. Usually, when a zoom meeting ends, it ends.

This is the House of Commons, sitting virtually, but the meetings last several hours, maybe all day. It may be that the feed is running from morning until evening, with individual members logging in as their business requires.

[Princhester]

@GreenWyvern

This gives a whole new meaning to “The Honourable Member of Parliament”

Are you referring perhaps to the Honourable Member of the Honorouble Member of Parliament?

@Northern_Piper I can as easily forgot to reboot as I can forget and leave my camera running. Your particular practice only helps if you aren’t confident you know how to turn off your camera. It doesn’t help with what is IMHO probably the more common problem which is simply forgetting.