I'm going to try to explain something to you in a very simplified manner in hopes that you will be able to understand the concept. AI forums is a community. The long time members enjoy learning and sharing with the other posters with whom they have developed a camaraderie. There are some very knowledgable people who frequent these boards and many are well known for their expertise in certain subjects.
You, on the other hand, are new around here and also a very prolific poster. You are highly critical of even sound logic, intelligent, researched comments. You don't know these people who you try to offend. For most members, an effort to fit in and be well respected and appreciated is something they strive to do. Your posting style has made you almost universally disliked. You are stubborn, lacking in knowledge and insulting. This is not how you win friends or support from the community. It would be much appreciated by all if you would tone down the arrogance and insults. You don't have the knowledge or wit to pull it off. You just come off as pathetically insecure.
You should strive for more thumbs up and less backlash from the other members.
+1 - for this great adult, well-reasoned and stated post! FOR EVERYONE to heed!
It doesn't surprise me that 'Hey butthead' is the kind of greeting you would prefer; gratuitously insulting strangers is clearly something you have much experience in, to judge from your posts on AI.
Coming from someone who threatens a poster with smashing his head repeatedly with a cricket bat, that's rich.
Your idea of society appears to be one of anarchy, in which thugs run riot. Perhaps you should move to Ferguson; you'd like it there. ????
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Personalized, unnecessary provocation! Hasn't this been going on long enough here?
No I do NOT want, nor should find the need to "ignore-button" someone, especially when quoted responses are also there to see.,, AND it is against the forum rules. Just because BF wraps his disdain, disregard and disrespect for the rules here in Oxford English... does not mean that he's not at the same time being vicious with his assaults on various readers and contributors to these forums. Besides derailing of thread's topics.
The only positive thing I can say is that over the last few weeks, I've gotten to know through they're posts, a number of contributors better and where they're coming from. Although I think we can all agree it would better in a more civilized exchange... without the literary provocation.
I couldn't care less about the wellbeing of the apps I mentioned; I don't use them. Google deserves everything coming to them, so the more crime that spews forth on their heads, the worse their reputation becomes, which is a good thing. There is no need for anyone to use those apps, so I don't know why you get your panties in such a twist-perhaps you own Google shares?
I think people might think you are very self centered and only think of yourself with these comments of yours. I hope Apple and the app developers sort this out, and then the world might be a better place.
Apple's documentation on the tel scheme is really short and easy to read. While reading the first paragraph something caught my attention:
When a user taps a telephone link in a webpage, iOS displays an alert asking if the user really wants to dial the phone number and initiates dialing if the user accepts. When a user opens a URL with the tel scheme in a native app, iOS does not display an alert and initiates dialing without further prompting the user.
And that is a horrible design that does not protect your user base.
Sounds like a [S]great[/S] devious way to harvest smartphone numbers for later marketing or political purposes via txt or prerecorded msg. Hard to believe that Apple let this happen. Hope it gets blocked in the next iOS update!
Edit: redacted "great" so as not to be misunderstood as an advocate.
There are plenty of health, welfare, safety related apps on Android that help users to raise an alert/alerm by auto dial out to a number saved as their contact in an emergency.
Unfortunately until now Apple have never wanted auto dial out without the need to confirm, so these apps don't work as well as they do on Android.
So I also welcome this, they should make a proper solution rather than fix this flaw.
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+1 - for this great adult, well-reasoned and stated post! FOR EVERYONE to heed!
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Personalized, unnecessary provocation! Hasn't this been going on long enough here?
No I do NOT want, nor should find the need to "ignore-button" someone, especially when quoted responses are also there to see.,, AND it is against the forum rules. Just because BF wraps his disdain, disregard and disrespect for the rules here in Oxford English... does not mean that he's not at the same time being vicious with his assaults on various readers and contributors to these forums. Besides derailing of thread's topics.
The only positive thing I can say is that over the last few weeks, I've gotten to know through they're posts, a number of contributors better and where they're coming from. Although I think we can all agree it would better in a more civilized exchange... without the literary provocation.
Your logic is flawed.
I couldn't care less about the wellbeing of the apps I mentioned; I don't use them. Google deserves everything coming to them, so the more crime that spews forth on their heads, the worse their reputation becomes, which is a good thing. There is no need for anyone to use those apps, so I don't know why you get your panties in such a twist-perhaps you own Google shares?
I think people might think you are very self centered and only think of yourself with these comments of yours. I hope Apple and the app developers sort this out, and then the world might be a better place.
Yes - read the original article. It's the way Apple wrote the code:
http://algorithm.dk/posts/rtfm-0day-in-ios-apps-g-gmail-fb-messenger-etc
Apple's documentation on the tel scheme is really short and easy to read. While reading the first paragraph something caught my attention:
When a user taps a telephone link in a webpage, iOS displays an alert asking if the user really wants to dial the phone number and initiates dialing if the user accepts. When a user opens a URL with the tel scheme in a native app, iOS does not display an alert and initiates dialing without further prompting the user.
And that is a horrible design that does not protect your user base.
Edit: redacted "great" so as not to be misunderstood as an advocate.
There are plenty of health, welfare, safety related apps on Android that help users to raise an alert/alerm by auto dial out to a number saved as their contact in an emergency.
Unfortunately until now Apple have never wanted auto dial out without the need to confirm, so these apps don't work as well as they do on Android.
So I also welcome this, they should make a proper solution rather than fix this flaw.