Student's who cannot keep track of a single card deserve to miss a meal or two as punishment for not being responsible enough for a simple little card. It's literally your MEAL TICKET.... Don't lose it!

OK, here is the privacy concern: The company sponsoring this now has thumbprints of all the students in the program on record. With the thumbprints, the student can then be impersonated at other establishments that use fingerprints for authentication. Get it? If not, see slashdot articles about fingerprint readers at Disneyland.

A simple magstripe card would have provided the same information, and it's unlikely that it would be used anywhere else.

A better solution would be to stop building planes that have a CYLINDRICAL fuselage when all our baggage is RECTANGULAR!

I guarantee that call will go dead and they won't ever call you again.

Is that a money-back guarantee?

This is South Africa. Feel free to hire an army to take the money back.

Before the iPhone, there really weren't any consumer devices that use the TRRS jack. Nowadays, almost every smartphone supports that. It's only *STANDARD* because Apple pretty much made the adoption of it standard.

What really SHOULD be evil is Gorf! Those Gorfians want to kill us all!

Are you pretending to have Tourette's Syndrome?

This is the HAL-9000 approach.

"I would recommend that we put the unit back in operation and let it fail. It should then be a simple matter to track down the cause."

Something's not right here....

"Daddy! Daddy! Help!" isn't the response that you would expect from a Goth child. It would be more like "Whatever. We're all doomed anyway...."

I worked at an office that handled medical insurance claims, and we had fax machines. We would routinely exchange information with customers via fax. We upgraded to a fax server from our physical fax machines, and at the same time, to a voip solution. The fax trail went something like this:

Paper (analog) to PDF (digital) via a scanner sent to user's workstation. PDF (digital) to fax server which places a FAX phone call using an analog audio modem signal (PSK). VOIP inherently converts the analog signal to Digital, until it reaches the POTS, where it is converted back to analog. Analog signal reaches the destination fax machine, where it is printed digitally.

With so many D/A and A/D conversions, we regularly had failed fax attempts due to line noise, quantization noise, etc.... It's amazing even a single fax ever got through. Many times, the customers just gave up.

What is the new attack like, in terms of Muppets?

According to the previous posts, it already has made a lot of people sick....

No, more like Face/Off.

That might explain SMTP email being blocked as spam, but how do you account for the fact that the URL is not able to be posted on Facebook? SMTP has nothing to do with HTTP.