A portable electronic device displays, on a touch screen display, a user interface for a phone application during a phone call. In response to detecting activation of a menu icon or menu button, the UI for the phone application is replaced with a menu of application icons, while maintaining the phone call. In response to detecting a finger gesture on a non-telephone service application icon, displaying a user interface for the non-telephone service application while continuing to maintain the phone call, the UI for the non-telephone service application including a switch application icon that is not displayed in the UI when there is no ongoing phone call. In response to detecting a finger gesture on the switch application icon, replacing display of the UI for the non-telephone service application with a respective UI for the phone application while continuing to maintain the phone call.
That sounds almost identical to how it was done on the Treo: During a call you hit the home button (or another app launch button, but we'll stick to the home button example since it's closer) where you could click on another app. The only difference is that Apple's patent mentions an on-screen icon (I'm guessing some kind of overlay) to let you switch back to the phone call, whereas on the Treo you'd just hit the Phone button (since the Treo had buttons like there was nothing wrong with them).
I don't know why sites threatened by this legislation don't already have a darknet presence, what are they waiting for? They should have.i2p and.onion sites online by now.
Also from what I've heard, anyone who might have the education and resources to create such a virus can already get enough information from the little hints that have been dropped early on, so attempting to cover up the information at this point is just whipping up the Streisand Effect.
Remote wipe isn't my biggest issue, it's just an aspect of my biggest issue, which is removal of the user's control over the devices they've purchased.
I'm against all remote-wipe capability in general as with all aspects of curated computing.
You should put this in a journal entry and link it in your sig. I'm assuming you really mean this because you're trashing the karma on a 6-digit UID account to post this.
17: Change opinions. What is posted is posted forever.
You can still change opinions, it's just that there will be a concrete record of your old opinion. It would be better to change this to "do something really embarassing without becoming an international laughing stock"
Also worth checking out the graphical worker/CEO pay comparison in the top-left area.
1965 or 2007 hourly worker pay looks like a small house (only 10c improvement over that time, inflation adjusted), 1965 CEO hourly pay looks like an apartment complex, 2007 CEO hourly pay towers over them all like the freaking Empire State building.
Yes, good little sheep. You still have control. You can freely make calls and freely use the Apple-approved apps you've paid for (unless we decide to remote-wipe them, but we'll never do that!). Give us more power and we'll just make it better for you, never abuse it.
That's nowhere near as bad as making curated computing commercially successful IMO. Geeks always knew it was possible but didn't try, not only due to the risk of epic failure but because they knew it was both bad for the customer and bad for geeks' hobbies and careers. It was a genie that should have been kept in the bottle for as long as possible, and Jobs the artist let it out.
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The professionals are smart enough to realize that IP addresses from China are readily noticed.
...and just as readily written off as "dirty Chinese hackers!" instead of being investigated.
Also, to be fair, anything given a public IP address will be communicating with an Internet address in China before long.
It isn't impossible to build KM3NeT under the sea. It's impossible to build it anywhere else.
I think ASCAP or a similar organization would be the one to collect royalties "on behalf of" the whales.
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A portable electronic device displays, on a touch screen display, a user interface for a phone application during a phone call. In response to detecting activation of a menu icon or menu button, the UI for the phone application is replaced with a menu of application icons, while maintaining the phone call. In response to detecting a finger gesture on a non-telephone service application icon, displaying a user interface for the non-telephone service application while continuing to maintain the phone call, the UI for the non-telephone service application including a switch application icon that is not displayed in the UI when there is no ongoing phone call. In response to detecting a finger gesture on the switch application icon, replacing display of the UI for the non-telephone service application with a respective UI for the phone application while continuing to maintain the phone call.
That sounds almost identical to how it was done on the Treo: During a call you hit the home button (or another app launch button, but we'll stick to the home button example since it's closer) where you could click on another app. The only difference is that Apple's patent mentions an on-screen icon (I'm guessing some kind of overlay) to let you switch back to the phone call, whereas on the Treo you'd just hit the Phone button (since the Treo had buttons like there was nothing wrong with them).
Well as cpghost explained here there's no reason the plugin couldn't take care of this as well.
Or because he managed to fool the USSR into bankrupting itself.
I prefer to call it a game of economic chicken. First one to brake or crash loses!
Cue rush for IPv6 deadbeef and variants...
I know, and I apologize in advance...
I don't know why sites threatened by this legislation don't already have a darknet presence, what are they waiting for? They should have .i2p and .onion sites online by now.
I order you to delete this dangerous terrorist-aiding information from the Internets RIGHT NOW, citizen!
So it's like MafiaaFire/FireIce for SOPA, just like a little custom HOSTS file in the form of a browser addon.
Technically not brilliant but a good political move, to demonstrate the futility of this legislation.
Damn, and I thought it was early prior art when I did this exact thing on my Treo 180 in the early 2000s...
Also from what I've heard, anyone who might have the education and resources to create such a virus can already get enough information from the little hints that have been dropped early on, so attempting to cover up the information at this point is just whipping up the Streisand Effect.
A story-driven MMO...this could be a "neverending story" that actually lives up to it's name!
Well let's assume 9/10 went to marketing and executive bonuses and go from there :-P
Remote wipe isn't my biggest issue, it's just an aspect of my biggest issue, which is removal of the user's control over the devices they've purchased.
I'm against all remote-wipe capability in general as with all aspects of curated computing.
You should put this in a journal entry and link it in your sig. I'm assuming you really mean this because you're trashing the karma on a 6-digit UID account to post this.
If you don't trust Tor because the US military worked on it at one point, then do the same with I2P.
Bingo.
17: Change opinions. What is posted is posted forever.
You can still change opinions, it's just that there will be a concrete record of your old opinion. It would be better to change this to "do something really embarassing without becoming an international laughing stock"
Also worth checking out the graphical worker/CEO pay comparison in the top-left area.
1965 or 2007 hourly worker pay looks like a small house (only 10c improvement over that time, inflation adjusted), 1965 CEO hourly pay looks like an apartment complex, 2007 CEO hourly pay towers over them all like the freaking Empire State building.
Heh, good point...Apple's will probably have a curated set of potential destinations and police what you can do inside the car.
Yes, good little sheep. You still have control. You can freely make calls and freely use the Apple-approved apps you've paid for (unless we decide to remote-wipe them, but we'll never do that!). Give us more power and we'll just make it better for you, never abuse it.
That's nowhere near as bad as making curated computing commercially successful IMO. Geeks always knew it was possible but didn't try, not only due to the risk of epic failure but because they knew it was both bad for the customer and bad for geeks' hobbies and careers. It was a genie that should have been kept in the bottle for as long as possible, and Jobs the artist let it out.