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Comment Re:Laws of reality (Score 1) 116

by yesiree on Sunday December 19, 2010 @06:18AM (#34606078) Attached to: Privacy Concerns With Android and iPhone Apps

The article stated:

"One iPhone app, Pumpkin Maker (a pumpkin-carving game), transmits location to an ad network without asking permission."

That is flat out impossible. I am an iPhone developer; there is no way for an application to obtain user location without the user being prompted if that is OK.

It makes the rest of the conclusions very suspect to me. Just how would an app get age and gender? Again I cannot think of a way that is even possible on an iPhone without being asked; no-where on my iPhone is my birthday or age stored.

On my Android for example you can cross link contacts from different sources. Facebook for example. On Facebook you could store your birthday and gender. I am not a developer, but I see some possibilities here perhaps... Any comments?

Comment Re:Why is it so difficult to understand infinity? (Score 1) 295

by yesiree on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @06:01AM (#34386374) Attached to: Was There Only One Big Bang?

Tell me what is deeper than the center of the Earth. Or what is to the north of geographic North Pole.

They are all just concepts. Every concept has a boundary. But that boundary is synthetic. It is us humans that have created that boundary. Life itself doesn't care about it...

Comment Why is it so difficult to understand infinity? (Score 1) 295

by yesiree on Thursday November 25, 2010 @08:28AM (#34341714) Attached to: Was There Only One Big Bang?

There has never been a beginning and there will never be an end of "time" or the universe itself. What is the problem about that? It seems logical. If you HAVE a beginning, what was before that? And so on, and so on.....

Comment Re:I've been using Filemaker for the past 15 years (Score 1) 366

by yesiree on Monday October 25, 2010 @02:28AM (#34009250) Attached to: How Do You Manage the Information In Your Life?

You are kidding right? For me that would be a tremendous work overhead and limit my creativity, not to mention that I would have to have access to my computer and the application EVERY TIME I do some of those stuff. Well, if it works for you, you have found your thing!

Comment Re:I don't think it matters to 99.999% of people (Score 1) 664

by yesiree on Friday April 16, 2010 @03:01AM (#31868558) Attached to: Apple Blocks Cartoonist From App Store

If many people use the iPhone you can control lots of users. In this way the company sets the standard of what kind of opinions you are allowed to have. Example: If you owned a TV, and the supplier restricted the possible content so that you couldn't watch some political shows, or perhaps porn, do you think that there would be an outrage? I think so, EVEN if people could go ahead and buy from another supplier. A producer of a technical gadget should NEVER restrict the content, as long as the content don't destroy the system/gadget. We are so totally crazy about controlling everything and making people "safe" (for Petes sake, lock everybody up in a bunker - that will keep them safe from the world). It will misfire big some time. This is only the beginning.

Comment Sounds like sports commentators - Is this normal? (Score 1) 459

by yesiree on Monday September 07, 2009 @08:03AM (#29338873) Attached to: Thieves Clear Out Apple Store In 31 Seconds

I am so intrigued by why news reporters have to sound like a sports commentator when showing burglary clips. Does it really need to get more "exciting"? It feels really wierd to me... Am I the only one?

Comment Re:Sounds more like (Score 1) 370

by yesiree on Thursday September 03, 2009 @09:38AM (#29298767) Attached to: How To Hire a Hacker

About 90% of people in the world *are* stupid.

How do you define stupid? In my opinion there are millions of VERY intelligent people out there, exceeding in mathematics, physics, biochemistry and all other sciences... ...but yet seems to doesn't grasp the fact that following the primitive ego instincts such as aggression, fear, violence, hatred and so on... is not very intelligent... The mind is a powerful ally, but a destructive master. Using the heart as the master evens up the balance. But that's only my humble opinion.

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