Apple Patents New "Anti-Sexting" Technology

[Asuka Soryu]

"Why don't you come over to Myspace, so I can Twitter your Yahoo, 'till you Google all over my Facebook."

 

[Funkysandwich]

Wow. Like I needed another reason to never buy anything made by Apple.

Well, the advantage is I'm always prepared for those "Why haven't you got an iPod/Phone?" conversations.

You guys do realise this only affects people who have iPhones?

 

[instantbenz]

wow alright so welcome to a v-for-vendetta situation ... this is approaching censorship I've only experienced in books, movies and games ... now i get the full experience

it just seems a little too right-sided to me ... scarily so

 

[instantbenz]

Fucking hell, it's only a few dirty messages; does that really require forking out for a patent?

Bunch of fun-sponges.

welcome to america the land of suburban housewives with idyllic lives and no real world experience weilding the ultimate power of complaint
maby i'm just bitter though

no you're right ... that's not bitter ... it's comprehension

 

[Canid117]

Well this is fucking stupid.

The Spanish thing especially. Who wants to text in Spanish when they are taking a shitty high school course?

 

[NotAPie]

Annnnd now I'm not getting an apple phone.
God man, I'm reaching 18 and so are the girls I'm dating this is some bullshit.
I'm damn sure I should be able to sext my girlfriend at this age.

 

[Vohn_exel]

This is gonna lead to the same thing where people are talking and are having a normal conversation and have to find workarounds to normal words. Like when I was trying to get into Maplestory since my friends played it, and I said "than all" in a sentence. It edited out "th** **l."

Now, I would never have even noticed that the word anal is hidden in there. But thanks censor, that certainly helped alert me to it! It also screwed up a perfectly good message!

 

[ESCAPIST DELETE THIS ACCOUNT]

Fuck. That.

Too far.

The resistance starts here, WHO'S WITH ME?

IM WITH YOU!

 

[Enigmers]

Now what if I sent four texts really fast with one letter a piece? like
"F
U
C
K"
*snip*

So what you're saying is, this is really a ploy to get kids to use up all their texts more quickly and thus have to buy a more expensive plan! Ingenious!

 

[Chris Jensen]

dammit how do parent expect their children to ever form adult relationships without a few praticse runs first

hope they don't want grandkids

ZOMG how did we ever manage to make babies before txt msgs?!

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

Am I the only one bothered by the Language part?

Though, should be funny to see inccoherent messages in foreighn languages.

"Kawaii desu ne mada mada kogeku ja nai dero"

"Cest le que par le voui francais"

If you mean the part about a required amount of Spanish words per text, yeah, me too. Absolute power corrupts absolute foreign language nazis. So it looks like those who suffer under their texting influence must fight back by butchering that foreign language's grammar.

You guys do realise this only affects people who have iPhones?

Unless Microsoft attempts to copy it and somehow makes it worse.
Or Google attempts to copy it and instead shows the number of similar sext messages.

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

So can it bypass putting periods after every letter like this? F.U.C.K.?

That's how most people get past the Combat Arms censor at least

 

[McNinja]

Well damn. Now I won't be able to tell people that I want to fluff their garfield over texts anymore.

 

[Endocrom]

retlif drow nwolbrevo siht dnuora teg reve sdik lliw woh? ym ho!

It's not lkie tehy can raed wrdos eevn wehn tehy are jubmeled up tnakhs to smoe wried pnohemonen.

Or anslate tray ig pay atin lay.

-- .- -.-- -... . / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . .-.-.- / .--. . -. .. ...

 

[KungFuCthulhu]

Will it be able to detect clever metaphors?

 

[Endocrom]

The picture on this article summed up my first thought u[pon reading the headline.

Why sext when you have Face-time?

-m

Another thing about that picture, Derrick Hardy Hmmmm...

 

[Godhead]

Hey, I cant wait to marklar your marklar with my marklar all marklar long, then get onto all four marklars and marklar the marklar with my marklar marklar...


something like that I'd imagine?

I see what you did there, and I like it.

OT: /facepalm

 

[Comrade Azza]

Okay, Apple went down a notch in my book. The are now at notch 7. Out of a thousand.

Seriously though, this is borderline Fascist. Sheesh.

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

To be honest, if I had a kid, teenage sexting would scare the shit out of me. I mean I remember being a young teenage boy. If I'd had an accessible outlet like text messaging when hormones were absolutely demolishing my impulse control... ugh. I really do feel for parents these days.

Much like the Chinese, I refuse to have a daughter. It simply cannot happen. I can deal with the idea of a perv son soliciting naughty texts and pics from the girls at school, but I some other kid doing that with my daughter? Fuck, I'd end up in prison.

 

[OakTaooper]

Erm...am I the only one who thinks that kids don't need Phones in the first place? I didn't get a phone at all until I was headed off to University. Why does a 10 year old need an iPhone? Really, who are they going to call that they can't use their parents' phone? And once they ARE old enough to have a phone, they should be responsible enough to not need their parents (or Apple's for that matter) bogus Parental Settings.

I agree with you 98%, because I got my first cell when I was 16, so I can't sympathize with the college thing.