True story.

I taught my small, 20lb dog to not crap in the house, too. We always walk up a hill so he can crap in the field behind the house. He doesn't like to crap on short grass, either.

One day, on vacation in Kansas City, KS, we walked out of the hotel for a morning walk. We walked across the street (near a highway). We walked and walked and he wouldn't do his business. Finally, he semi-squated in front of a small, manucured bush and promptly deposited a turd on top of it.

Triumphantly, I left it there. Hey. At least no one would *step* on it!

Father: See that, son! That's a picture of Renault.
Son: Renault? Who were they?
Father: Who? Renault?
Son: Yeah.
Father: It was a car company. They went out of business screwing their customers over.

Well...your post was over an hour old when I read it.

Ah, cool. Good to know! Thanks for the update. I hadn't considered the immediacy of the locking mechanism.

As far as I can tell, this "bug" is bullshit. The worst that happens is that someone sees what apps you were running, the screens are greyed out if you "exploit" this successfully.

Try again, Apple haters.

Agreed! I thought about this while driving. Haters gotta hate. :P

KABOOM! I read some of the other posts. You DO have to double-tap the home button in really fast succession.

So, scratch my previous post.

I was able to replicate this WITHOUT having the 'Passcode Lock' enabled with a single home button tap.

I was also ABLE to replicate this WITH 'Passcode Lock' enabled with a double-tap of the home button. However, I was unable to access any of the open applications from the multi-tasking screen.

I was able to replicate this with caveats.

I was able to replicate this WITHOUT having the 'Passcode Lock' enabled.

I was UNABLE to replicate this WITH 'Passcode Lock' enabled.

I've now restarted an iPad Mini and am STILL UNABLE to replicate with the 'Passcode Lock' enabled.

I'm not sure what the problem with this feature is. Sure, they've 'bypassed' the swipe to unlock screen; but, the user has specifically poked and prodded this iPad Mini in what, I assume, is an extremely unlikely situation. By itself I'm not so sure this is such a major problem. If it had gotten around the 'Passcode Lock' then yeah; but, it doesn't seem to.

LiveScribe

I have one. It's an ink pen with a camera in the tip. The camera reads dots on special paper and digitally records whatever you are writing / scriblling / drawing. It also records audio.

It plays back the audio, too. On each sheet of paper there is a timeline. Touch the timeline with the pen and it plays back from 0% marker to the 100% marker. If you touch the paper to a section that the pen wrote/drew it will start playing the audio from *that* point, too. It's totally awesome.

www.livescribe.com

Oh, and no. I dont work (or know anyone who does) there.

So...let me see if I got this straight. Two kids lost a yellow plastic shovel at Myrtle Beach, SC?

You're adding more conjecture to his conjucture? Interesting.

Well, obviously "In the cloud."

So, besides, "On a computer", "on the internet", "on a stick", and "in the cloud", ...what has Google *ever* done for us!?

Recent news reports suggest that you - probably - already are.

{sigh}

Ha! Know the feeling well. I like to think that I hacked and R/E'd my way to computer programming by reading the source to hundreds of thousands if not millions of line of code. I was 9 (1978) when I located this rabbit hole and knew then this is what I'd do for the rest of my life. There was no Google so I largely would trade pirated games or find cassettes that contained programs written in easily translatable BASIC commands which I quickly picked up. Every 'RUN' magazine was read from cover to cover. Learned to type while reading code from it. Began writing my own programs to do whatever because guess what, young-bucks - It hadn't been done much yet and the 'teh interwebs' was another 20 years away - so searching the web for a program to do 'X' didn't exist.

One day sticks out particularly well with me, too. One day I had a mathematical homework assignment. Math is tedious. Being lazy, I wrote programs to do all my homework assignments for me. My father caught me doing this one day and began to - as he was often want to do - scold me. He said, "Son, if you let the computer do your homework for you you'll learn nothing." I turned and quickly responded, "Wrong, Dad. I have to program the computer to do the homework AND validate that the computer is doing my homework correctly. So, I'm learning twice as much." His eyebrows raised and he turned and walked away.

That was the first time I knew this US Marine to not pound me into the ground for talking back to him. I knew I was on to something amazing.

Computer system progression: Commodore PET/CPM VIC20 C64 C64c (VIC20/C64/C128 combined) 8086 (it was a sad beast) 486 $WHO_CARES_AFTER_THE_486 ...

But, I never said it would only take one letter. A little bit of persistence is required, but either way you'll waste a lot less time mailing it than phoning.

At 46 cents(USD) (source: https://www.usps.com/business/prices.htm) per stamp just how many letters (stamps) we talking to reverse a $14.64 (61 cent * 24 months) charge? Looks like the crossover is at 32 stamps (.46*32=$14.74)(USD).

Basically, if you make minimum wage (or somewhat over minimum wage) its worth your time to fight it. If you make substantially more, just what are you willing to volunteer to 'free the world' from their tyranny.

Is what they are doing right and proper? Probably not.
Is there much you can do about it? Again, probably not.

What's the solution then? Inundate your state's Attorney General's office with complaints. One .46 cent letter (per person) * 10000 complaints will get his attention. Contact your Congress critter, too. Then the local news stations.

OCCUPY ATT!

(Sorry, that was silly of me.)

And I'm sorry I have MOD points; but, wont give them to you today. I felt saying, "Thank you," directly to you was more important to me today. You brought a smile, a tear, and some humanity to /. today.

Thank you.

or,

50 states? 1 GW each? Stupid summary. Now I'll never know!