Resale value.

I have been through 4 previous generations - without ever having seen a buck come in.

I give them away, or trade them up. I don't foresee a change in this pattern.

But it's too big to fit the reader...

The Gestapo office of "Civic Concern and Redress" is looking for an administrative leader.

Or install the .deb for Vidalia, which is a worthwhile console...

Yes! And lift them from your +5 Vorpal Blade!

Trivial will be running a crack on the limited number of hashes that can be generated by the phone's sampler for fingerprint images.

The problem with this is not where it has started, as a simple PIN replacement for iPhones. It is where this is headed, now that Apple has used their marketing position to deliver Biometric authentication as a security technology in the mainstream.

People who are good at technology problem-solving are often equipped with exactly wrong type of mental orientation for examining implication or cross-disciplinary context. So? You get a reasonable PIN replacement for your iPhone, that reduces auto-collisions by people unlocking their phones while driving. Nice.

You also get this as a cure-all for the password problem, as an option on every device you interact with, over the next 4 years. I don't care if it is thumbprint, retina-scan or gut-biome that is measured. This will lower security and introduce as-yet-unforseen compromises.

I'd paint the lens on this thing, with black enamel.

Right now, you don't need to be insured, and take your risks...

Known vector. Gummy-bear attack.

The core issue is that you leave copies of your authenticator EVERYWHERE. It's as if you dropped 85% accurate copies of your smartcard on every item you touched - with random 15% damage to the material - and a card reader designed for 15% error in reads.

Any such scheme is going to be subject to this kind of impersonation or gaming. This is why biometrics are always a bad ID choice. Also, the A/D conversion is low-entropy, among other problems.

There's a false assumption, that because I can uniquely identify another person with 99.999% accuracy, based on your sound, shape and appearance, that therefore this is the best way a machine should do so. It is a falsehood that is reinforced by a misleading intuitive perception. The core issue concerns the questions related to what constitutes "identity" and an "authentication factor" in systems. Neither of these correlate to actual persons or their real-world characteristics in a unique and meaningful way, that is not also subject to spoofing, injecting or revocation DoS.

Kill the bill.

Before you have to rent your health, from a megacorp, every day of your life - backed by garnishing wages or prison.

Is Welfare for Insurance Companies.

How can you support a plan that was developed by the Heritage Foundation?

Or do you love Fake Black Barry that much?

I'm very glad that you actually post these for the feedback. I don't often have a lot - other than my encouragement.

But they occur in different years.

The subject of "War." It's how you determine if you are speaking with a human being, or a dangerous, bipedal animal.

Whooosh!

I MISS having Lake Carolina. Sorry, Raleigh. Your coupla' good BBQ joints just ain't 'nuff to make up for the slow death, that is RTP.

BlackBerry can do this? Will presidential power continue to expand, so unchecked?

  I don't think that's what George Washington intended, when he wrote the Constitution.