The PRC must not want citizens spreading the word that their cities are sinking.

Maybe not hundreds, but at least dozens. For most people their phone is their digital assistant in all sorts of ways... not only for communication for for calendaring, looking up random things, reading the news or books, listening to music, getting directions, checking their bank account/brokerage, doing calculations, fitness tracking, managing shopping and to-do lists... the list goes on and on.

How many accounts will be in the name of Mr. Fook Yoo and Mrs. Nona Yobiz.

Yes. Teaching your children the truth, i.e. "the stove is hot," is far more compassionate than letting them get burned. In the United States, the public schools in the past taught racism against black people, now teach racism against white people; both of which are an anathema to anyone belonging to a worldwide church of multiple ethnicities and cultures.

>"Disables biometric authentication on an iPhone."

And on Android starts an emergency services call.

So on Android, simply turn off the phone. Any reboot always requires the non-biometric unlock.

Or go into settings and choose "show lockdown option" which puts a button on your lockscreen (and power button menu) that instantly disables all biometrics and lockscreen notifications.

>"Biometrics: Credentials that can be stolen off your body"

If DNA or fingerprints, they are "credentials" that can be stolen off anything you have touched or been around, and for a loooong time. They are pretty bad overall methods for confirming who you are if you care about abuse or security. And in the case of DNA, it *really* invades privacy, by its nature.

If you must use biometrics, the only reasonable one I have seen so far is deep vein palm scan. You are not leaving that data all over the place, is difficult to illicitly obtain, and it has live-sensing built-in. Plus it is fast, simple, accurate, easy and cheap.

Must be quite entertaining to watch you unlock your phone hundreds of times a day.

Yeah, by the way, in what semester is that mandatory lobotomy in that MBA course?

It's actually the other way around. It was volunteer duty. Very few had to do it, there always were enough who volunteered.

Personally, I think that's worse.

Ordered and eagerly awaiting it.

Thanks for the info.

I tend to disagree.

Or maybe we just have different circle of friends. The people I generally concern myself with value peer esteem far above bling-bling.

You said nothing I'd disagree with. The unfortunate fact is that the law does not agree with you.

You have to keep in mind that there are sects of Islam that hate one another far more than they hate infidels like us.

The area I live in now (SW Virginia) had some insane floods in the 1920s-1930s. Old pictures showing rivers 40-50 feet above their normal level, and a quarter mile wide, that washed away railroad trestles leaving just the massive stone piles which are there to this day. Looking at them, and how tall they are above the water, it's unbelievable that the water could have ever been that high (and in order to be that high it had to flood an extremely wide area as well).

Right now they're more the flood people.