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Apple Awarded 'Anti-Sexting' Patent
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As long as its optional....
Im good with it as long as it's optional. It's like a V-Chip for your phone. lol. BTW I don't personally know anyone who ever uses the V-Chip...doubt this would be a big deal as long as it's not forced.
Im good with it as long as it's optional. It's like a V-Chip for your phone. lol. BTW I don't personally know anyone who ever uses the V-Chip...doubt this would be a big deal as long as it's not forced.
The 1st Amendment has nothing to do with the products a business chooses to sell or not sell.
k, seriously? What's wrong with your children using the f-word casually among their friends? Also, what kind of parents spy on their children's text messages? ...
my real concern is kids having iphones.
yeesh.
Uh, why?
Anyway, I'm against Parental Control altogether. I saw a parent and her daughter at the IT office at my school, and they were configuring Parental Control on her MacBook Pro. The mom was blocking Facebook, Skype, and who knows what else. Ugh, seriously, is it her intention to create a child with absolutely no social life?
However, you can't possibly be against only SMS filtering and not Parental Control as a whole. If so, you probably haven't read the article and think that this will be a default setting.
Though, I can see Parental Control being appropriately used when a student is doing horribly at school because of Facebook and games and whatever. So, it all comes down to how parents are going to use it. Just please put some trust in your kids.
Bingo. George Orwell 1984
And how exactly is Steve going to block sexting by minors ... is Steve going to personally review all photos sent to and from minor's phones?
Your child is 5 MONTHS old playing with your iPad huh? He's an infant. Interesting.
Yes. He's brilliant.
He drew this at 16 weeks old:
Keep on buying iPhones for 10 year olds. Gotta love it when the stock keeps going up. It don't matter that the phone you just bought them will end up broken or lost. You can buy them another one. lmao
Now this should be mandatory for everyone, everywhere, ALL of the time. I am sick of hearing "Me and my friends...", "yous", "aksed", "more better" or double negatives uttered out of the mouths of the ignorant. English is my second language, yet it seems to me that I make more of an effort to use it properly than those for whom it (supposedly) is the mother tongue. And this is happening in all of the countries where English is spoken, be it New Zealand, the US the UK etc. I think climate change may be responsible for more than it is currently given credit.
English is a living language and changes frequently. It only makes it more difficult to learn. How many people do you hear say shtreet when the mean street? ~shakes my head~ I wonder, does this mean the spelling of the word will change to shtreet too? So much for phonetics.
While I agree that most people's grammar sucks (though I don't know whether or not this is a relatively new trend), I don't think trying to have people use better English in texts is the way to solve it. Try improving English courses in schools. And some people are just naturally better at language than others; you can't really fix that.
Yes he is. Why do you think it takes Apple decades to implement something as simple as BluRay? Steve was busy lately personally reviewing everything on iTunes.
I'm not sure you can make assertions about how good of a parent anyone is based on the fact that they want to talk with their kids about swearing. If THIS is the thing that makes him a terrible parent, then I hope he continues to be terrible. There's a couple who just reported their daughter missing for a week, but police thing it's actually been two months. THAT sounds like terrible parenting.
Personally, I'm not sure how I feel about parental controls in this fashion. I like the idea for kids up until a certain age, but at the same point, I doubt I'll be giving my kids below that age an iPhone (free after rebate dumbphones for them). So I dont know that this is that useful for me, but if Apple wants to offer more features in ANY fashion, I say go for it.
The wonderful thing about the difference between 1984 and Apple is you can discontinue use of Apple products if you don't like their policies. Steve is running the company in a way he thinks is most appropriate, and I'm sure his shareholders won't disagree after the $300 milestone. If you don't like it, you have the choice to go elsewhere. Buy an Android phone, and have fun sorting through their marketplace for apps that don't rip off your personal information.
For me, I'm glad Apple is doing whatever it is they are doing to make the App Store what it is today.
Personally, I'm not sure how I feel about parental controls in this fashion. I like the idea for kids up until a certain age, but at the same point, I doubt I'll be giving my kids below that age an iPhone (free after rebate dumbphones for them). So I dont know that this is that useful for me, but if Apple wants to offer more features in ANY fashion, I say go for it.
The wonderful thing about the difference between 1984 and Apple is you can discontinue use of Apple products if you don't like their policies. Steve is running the company in a way he thinks is most appropriate, and I'm sure his shareholders won't disagree after the $300 milestone. If you don't like it, you have the choice to go elsewhere. Buy an Android phone, and have fun sorting through their marketplace for apps that don't rip off your personal information.
For me, I'm glad Apple is doing whatever it is they are doing to make the App Store what it is today.
Everyone has their opinion on what constitutes a "good" parent. In my opinion, one who attempts to unrealistically control their child's language (considering that basically everyone, teens and adults alike, swears) or invade their privacy by sneakily reading IMs, texts, emails, diaries, etc. is a bad parent.
Of course, a parent who doesn't report their daughter missing for months is also an awful parent. I'm not disagreeing with you. But if that's the line you draw for a bad parent, then, well... your definition is far too lenient.
Of course, a parent who doesn't report their daughter missing for months is also an awful parent. I'm not disagreeing with you. But if that's the line you draw for a bad parent, then, well... your definition is far too lenient.
Will spunk be a banned word?
Will ***** be a banned word?
As they both have fully legitimate note rude meanings in the correct sentence.
The young lad really showed some spunk there.
Ahhh, look how sweet that little purring ***** is.
lol, I can't even use the cat word on these forums, that shows you how idiotic an auto censor is.
Will ***** be a banned word?
As they both have fully legitimate note rude meanings in the correct sentence.
The young lad really showed some spunk there.
Ahhh, look how sweet that little purring ***** is.
lol, I can't even use the cat word on these forums, that shows you how idiotic an auto censor is.
ROFL
And all those applauding this patent: Please, pretty please, let your children grow up with a little more freedom. If you want to protect them from a dirty world you have to go Amish. Otherwise even if you try your hardest they will be spoilt in schoolyards during breaks.
So forget it. Don prohibit them, talk with them.
ROFL
And all those applauding this patent: Please, pretty please, let your children grow up with a little more freedom. If you want to protect them from a dirty world you have to go Amish. Otherwise even if you try your hardest they will be spoilt in schoolyards during breaks.
So forget it. Don prohibit them, talk with them.
Yeah; unfortunately, Parental Control already exists on iPhones, iPods, and Macs and does far more damage than censoring sexts.
ROFL
And all those applauding this patent: Please, pretty please, let your children grow up with a little more freedom. If you want to protect them from a dirty world you have to go Amish. Otherwise even if you try your hardest they will be spoilt in schoolyards during breaks.
So forget it. Don prohibit them, talk with them.
There's a big difference between knowing about the dirty world and being part of the dirty world. At least if you grow up without having a potty mouth, you might stand a chance of not being a total anus for the rest of your life.
No, it is not. It's the parent's responsibility to teach their children not a ****ing corporation's.
Besides, parental controls are just as useless as copy protection // DRM.
It tells the rest of the world that America is extraordinarily childish and immature when it comes to sexuality and that your nation really needs to grow up.
Let's put it in a nutshell: The United States are a country where nobody seems to have a problem with electrocution and throwing nuclear bombs on other countries, where religious insanity is as widespread as in any Muslim country that's run by extremists and where extreme violence is tolerated by the society while nudity on TV is condemned, but yet this country has the biggest porn industry on the planet and just doesn't get it that the rest of the world does not want to wear baseball hats and live under the same Disneyfied code of double-morale.
Apple filing for such a patent now only shows whose brainchild they are and that it's time to stop using their software.
Another reason to love America.
Guns and crime are better than flirting? If you want to send someone a dirty message, then what's the harm in it? If parents bring their children up to respect each other and not hurt each other then why on earth to tech companies need to take such measures?
THINK FOR YOURSELF, QUESTION AUTHORITY.
GO BACK TO BED AMERICA, YOUR GOVERNMENT IS IN CONTROL.
Quoting this because it's awesome.
It's not a standard *yet*... oh, and we'll just add this anti-terrorism plugin that forwards offending texts straight to the NSA - it's in Patriot Act IV.
You cannot "regulate" behaviour, you can teach it, you can teach kids, but you cannot regulate them...
In the morning.
Please explain. I don't get it.
Can someone please explain why there's all this fuss about teenagers *gasp* swearing? Do you think that your kids are going to start using the f word in their English essays or something?...