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I'm actually surprised that you even went there...but hey, too fucking lazy to go Google it for yourself.

Here, let me Google that for you...

One of the first Links is THIS.

Next time I strongly suggest going and fucking yourself, using 20-grit and lye, before bowing up like that without good cause. You DIDN'T have it, dumbass.

SnoopWall from what I hear.
http://www.citeworld.com/artic...

Anyone use SnoopWall? It allows fine-grained permission setting after installation of an app
http://www.citeworld.com/artic...

I'm wanting a review :)

Anyone use SnoopWall? It allows fine-grained permission setting after installation of an app
http://www.citeworld.com/artic...

Right. A good example is that in the Android "ice cream sandwich" release, Google deliberately broke on-phone voice dialing. Now, to get hands-free dialing, you have to use Google's voice search service, which logs everything you do for ad purposes. It also won't work if you have poor data connectivity but good voice connectivity, which is common when driving. Google's voice search service assumes the user is looking at the screen, which defeats the whole point of Bluetooth headsets.

So there's Google, pulling an LG.

http://www.citeworld.com/artic...

Microsoft hasn't gone ape over mono because mono simply hasn't gained enough traction to care. But you keep on selling mono and see how it turns out when the 'real world' comes to depend on it.

It turned out like this. So, your point was?..

I'm still using mine from 2008. An upgrade isn't even on my radar.

This may come as a surprise to you, but your single anecdote only matters to you, and is quite irrelevant to the real world.

In Another Bad Sign For Microsoft, HP Aims Its New Android PC At The Enterprise

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/hp-has-a-new-android-pc-for-businesses-2014-1

The enterprise case for Android desktops

http://www.citeworld.com/development/22850/android-desktops-enterprise

Six reasons why Android PCs can be disruptive

http://www.zdnet.com/six-reasons-why-android-pcs-can-be-disruptive-7000024845/

And most importantly, Preston Gralla's opinion:

Why Android PCs are doomed to fail

http://blogs.computerworld.com/pcs/23379/why-android-pcs-are-doomed-fail

Of course, Dice's Slashdot refuses to discuss stories about Android PCs because their sponsors don't want them to.

A few reasons I will not use pay-by-phone in its current state.

http://www.citeworld.com/security/22535/mobile-payments-apps-outrageous-permissions

* Google Wallet
* Camera -- Allows the app to take pictures and videos with this camera. This permission allows the app to use the camera at any time without your confirmation.
* Read your contacts -- Allows the app to read data about your contacts stored on your phone, including the frequency with which you've called, emailed, or communicated in other ways with specific individuals. This permission allows apps to save your contact data, and malicious apps may share contact data without your knowledge.

* Paypal
* Retrieve running apps -- Allows the app to retrieve information about currently and recently running tasks. This may allow the app to discover information about which applications are used on the device.

* Starbucks
* Phone calls -- Allows the app to call phone numbers without your intervention. This may result in unexpected charges or calls. Note that this doesn't allow the app to call emergency numbers.

Replying to myself, but just to prove the theory .... even huge companies are going this route.

http://www.citeworld.com/social/21940/salesforce-chatter-communities-hp
http://allthingsd.com/20130319/seven-questions-for-the-man-shaking-up-hps-operations-john-hinshaw/

I believe mythbusters showed how trivial it was to bypass fingerprint protections by making your own "finger" from said prints?

It is not an image scanner, it is an RF scanner.

With the new sensors you don't have to move your finger, just press it against the reader. And like the sensor in the iPhone 5S, the sensors that will be in laptops and keyboards and other phones can detect the ridge and valley pattern of your fingerprint not from the layer of dead skin on the outside of your finger (which a fake finger can easily replicate), but from the living layer of skin under the surface of your finger, using an RF signal. That only works on a live finger; not one that's been severed from your body.

This will protect you from thieves trying to chop off your finger when they mug you for your phone (assuming they're tech-literate thieves, of course), as well as from people with fake fingers using the fingerprint they lifted from your phone screen.

Why the iPhone's fingerprint sensor is better than the ones on older laptops

Gelatin won't work—the technology in the Touch ID sensor requires a live finger.

They capture metrics based on your fingerprints

These are not cameras, that take an optical image; or collect data that can be used to reproduce your fingerprints.

The readers provide only enough data to authenticate the ridge pattern, by taking some simplified metrics that represent your pattern with a relatively high fraction of uniqueness.

See the citeworld article for more information about the iPhone's reader; apparently, this reader will be harder to trick than most laptop readers from Authentec have been in the past.

If they were worthwhile; then this seems worthwhile.

It's certainly a better idea to have fingerprint + 4-digit passphrase than a 4-digit passphrase.

Long passphrases are inconvenient; more convenient security means the bar is raised: people's risk will go down.

Also, since the reader requires live skin, it cannot be faked easily ---- it may reduce thefts of these devices by pickpockets and the like.