True, but there were many touchscreen phones before iPhones and none had the "obvious" slide to unlock feature. I had palm and windows mobile smartphones, both had touchscreens and neither unlocked like that. I love how no one does it until Apple but once Apple started doing that it's now "obvious" and shouldn't be patentable? That's BS, apple deserves the patent and to charge for it, if they don't like it then they can continue doing things the way palm and windows mobile did, which is press the power button to wake up the screen which seems pretty obvious to me.

No, not like that at all.

/. likes Tesla so they don't have to play by the rules but /. hates Apple so they must play by the rules.

Make sense?

You are right. Google glass is like walking around with a camcorder pointing at people all the time. Even if it appeared to not be recording I do not think I would trust the user and besides who wants to answer the "are you recording me??" question you're going to hear constantly? Don't even get me started if you try to wear them in a bathroom. Google is not perfect they have had many projects fail and glass is just one of many.

I'm sure someone figured it out long ago and I'm sure fishing line has probably already been used for this purpose. This is just the first time someone was willing to swallow their pride and publish it in a scientific journal. I'm sure there are scientists and engineers out there saying "no duh" and "thanks captian obvious" to this article.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Is this a chinese only app? Because 450 million is more than everyone in the US, hard to believe savvy /. users would not have heard of it

actually that doesn't sound unreasonable, you have to figure they got at least $100,000 of use from the photos and the rest is essentially free, putting him down as a sponsor, putting his name on the photos he took.... all sounds like reasonable requests. And that $100,000 provides royal free usage of all photos he has provided the color run from now until eternity, I would think that's a great deal for the color run.

I thought the same, disappointed to read story is no different from someone losing their phone. Faith in slashdot diminishing

Actually nevermind UK isn't any better than the US since UK does not respect free speech

I wish I could mod this troll but unfortunately the last few years sure makes this seem +1 Informative. How the mighty has fallen, I hope the next administration stops all this spying

Exactly. Brick builder is probably a contractor hired to build that wall and nothing else, so he (or his boss) is paid a set amount to build wall. Programmer that is hired hourly is paid for any work he does while working hourly, so just like any other hourly employee that makes a mistake at work the programmer is paid the same hourly whether a project takes 10 hours or 100 hours. Think McDonald's employee that drops soda, aren't they paid to clean up that soda?

Same. Usually every week or two I'd get mod points but it's been many months. Thought maybe it had to do with getting +5 comments but I've had comments get +5 recently and still no mod points

Exactly. Apple doesn't need android anymore then apple has needed windows for the past 25+ years. Apple will survive just fine for many years without Android.
Android is the one in trouble. With Samsung making their own smartphone OS and China moving away from Android we might see Android quickly fall to 3rd or 4th in the most popular new smartphones OS's sold.

I don't know about you but a lot of young women I've met like open "source" (said no one on /. ever)

But..... isn't this extortion? "Oh the thing we sold you has exploits? We can fix that right up.... for more money HAHAHA!!" That would be like buying a new car and finding out the air bags don't work and I have to pay manufacture to fix it, doesn't seem right.

Exactly. Problem is news has become a commodity, they're trying to sell us the news, and unfortunately most people only want to buy things that are interesting and fascinating or agrees with our political view. Therefore you get tons of articles about Justin bieber and very little about science.