Steam on Windows will phone home with information about what kind of hardware you have, but thats it AFAIK.

That gives me an idea -- put in a more powerful vibrator and run it whenever a text field is active. I'm sure Google will pay millions for this!

I just checked on my phone with the raw data from the sensors. If i put if flat on a table, they stay still, but just holding it it can detect the small changes of me just not being able to hold it perfectly still. It will even register if I leave one side on a table and raise the other side by about 1mm. I think the rotation thing is more smoothed out in software to prevent it changing too often.

I have a slide out physical keyboard on my phone. I think thats the simplest way to defeat this.

Also this seems to only be able to get the location of taps and infer what you've typed. What if I'm using a non standard keyboard layout?

I was part of a group that tried to get a team started at my high school. We got about $150 from the school if I remember right. Current registration costs are $6500, plus the cost of spare parts, transport, tools, etc.

Raising that much money isn't really feasible for high schoolers without getting a corporate sponsor.

We wound up spending the few hundred we managed to get on a parts kit and built a bot in one of our parent's basement. It could have been fairly competitive, but we couldn't get to enter because of the huge fees. I'd love to know where all that money goes to.

The average user doesn't care. As long as it has the HD badge, it's impressive sounding.

Besides, if you only do email and facebook it doesn't make much of a difference.

tl;dr

Just as many as fall for the paypal.com.secure-authorization-system.net they use now.

The reality is that three TLDs isn't enough anymore. Just because a solution can be abused doesn't mean we should rule it out.

Those sorts of devices are actually pretty common, and vary from obvious boxes that clip on the bottom of the existing readers to an entire fake fascia for ATMs.
They come back, get the device/SD card/data wirelessly. And makes a clone of the card from a blank.

Krebs has a whole section on it. http://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/atm-skimmer/

I was under the impression it wasn't the caffeine that caused dehydration, but the sodium.

Did you forget to take your pills today?

You are aware thats a game right? Or is this just the biggest woosh moment I've ever had?

That happens everywhere. Burning and cutting the pole are the most common, but my favorite is this one http://thenewspaper.com/rlc/pix/czattack.jpg

It's not that I feel there should be no speed limits/road anarchy, etc. I just think there should be a human there to be able to judge extenuating circumstances.

Just run Win95 in a VM. Easy and simple.