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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 19, 2014, 08:04 PM »OK...Not entirely "Animal Friends" but it is nice nevertheless.
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As an addition to the above...how hard would it be to do the following example?:
(Current Permission): Take pictures and videos: This permission allows you to take photos and videos within the Messenger app to easily send to your friends and other contacts.
(Proposed Revision or Additional Permission): Take pictures and videos: This permission allows you to take photos and videos within the Messenger app to easily send to your friends and other contacts when explicitly requested by the end-user ONLY.
So basically...in your applications manifest, instead of havingCode: Text [Select]you would have something like
My guess is that this might be tough to implement if a user action can be spoofed, which is pretty normal stuff to do.
I can only think of hardware buttons working here, which would muck up the UX.-Renegade (August 19, 2014, 05:25 PM)
The real solution would be to allow users to deny permissions on a permission-by-permission basis (per app), so that if I didn't want Facebook to have access to my GPS, I could simply deny the location permission and anytime it tried to access the GPS, it would simply get an OS-level error/denial and be unable to get info from the GPS.
Then they could request all the permissions they wanted, and all I'd grant them is the ability to talk to the internets to deliver me my LOLcats and family photos.-Deozaan (August 19, 2014, 05:17 PM)
The problem is that if I'm going to use the Facebook messaging system, the only thing I want to use it for is essentially as an IM client. I don't want it accessing my contacts or my camera or my microphone or my location or anything else.
The very act of granting it permission to do those things means that it can at any time access those functionalities of your device. And if you trust the app to only do it when you explicitly give it permission to (e.g., only access the camera/gallery when you're taking/attaching a photo to your IM) then great! Use it. But IMO, Facebook has already demonstrated time and again that they cannot be trusted. They will abuse these permissions, they will take every advantage they can to collect as much information about you as possible.-Deozaan (August 18, 2014, 08:30 AM)
The power of the people far outweighs that of companies.My guess is that if you knew more about what is happening with Big Data you would be scared shitless and on the opposite side of the fence.-Renegade (August 17, 2014, 08:14 PM)
When was you in my cellar? 
my old dog Tia [...] her and her brother got stolen from my front garden about 8 years ago-Stephen66515 (August 17, 2014, 10:57 AM)
jeez, that's the pits
-tomos (August 17, 2014, 01:39 PM)
Spent ages looking for them. We had an idea who took them but no proof. I had also been offered a fair amount of money for the dogs within earshot of that person we suspected, so that somewhat made me even more suspicious of them. Like I said though, never any proof so nothing I could do.In the city of Phetchaburi in Thailand, a dog discovered the fish out of the water and unconscious on the pavement. It will try not to let them die by spraying water with its snout. Besides the fish are few puddles. The dog will then sprinkle the fish, as if he wished they would not die. Touching!-Youtube Video
Still More Reasons Why All HDML Cables are the Same-Deozaan (August 14, 2014, 12:10 PM)
Great Obit by Russell Brand
http://www.theguardi...madness-broken-worldIs it melancholy to think that a world that Robin Williams can’t live in must be broken? To tie this sad event to the overarching misery of our times? No academic would co-sign a theory in which the tumult of our fractured and unhappy planet is causing the inherently hilarious to end their lives, though I did read that suicide among the middle-aged increased inexplicably in 1999 and has been rising ever since. Is it a condition of our era?-wraith808 (August 14, 2014, 04:42 PM)
My GF (much to my surprise-40hz (August 10, 2014, 11:54 AM)
