If you were to put these touchscreens as the primary UI on vending machines, ticket machines, ATMs and the like, you could harvest hundreds of thousands of fingerprints without anybody realizing it. I bet that we'll see more and more companies trying to con people into "use your fingerprint to make calls, pay for your shopping, access your ATM" type of deals. I also bet that these screens will wind up in cellphones as a "standard" feature. You'll be told that you can switch scanning off and use it only as a touchscreen if you like, but who knows whether the scanning function is on or off and whether the phone is sending your biometric data places without your consent or not.
This tech is a definite threat to privacy.
People's Fascist Party leader Lek Bolokov won Estonia's national elections on Monday with an unexpected %451 percent of the total vote. When the leader of the 4 member fringe party was asked if he was surprised to have won the national election Bolokov replied with a cryptic "In Soviet Russia government brick YOU".
- I'm an i-phone
- And I'm a cellular phone
- I cost a lot and run on only one cellular network
- I'm cheap and work with pretty much any service
- I run lots of cool i-apps and have a big touchscreen. Steve jobs likes to present me on big projection screens.
- I do what a cellular phone is supposed to do. i fit in a pocket and let people make and receive calls.
- I turn into a brick when people hack me and unbrick when I'm unhacked.
- You should audition for the next Transformers movie. Now excuse me, I have some important calls to make.
This is an inexpensive learning computer for children in developing countries, not a bargain-of-the-month consumer electronics product designed to be flung around wealthy consumer markets like the U.S. or the Eurozone. If the only thing you are concerned about is "why can't I buy this laptop for myself fo $199?" you probably don't understand the purpose of the project to begin with.
>> I'm currently working on a piece of commercial software that will be available through a download and will use a license key to activate it.
The last thing anybody needs during a busy project is a scheduler that can't be reinstalled because the email with the license key has been lost or the activation part of the software craps up.
>> The software is aimed at helping people schedule projects and will be targeted mostly to corporate users.
Don't make assumptions about who might use your software in what setting. Your customer may be a project engineer or construction manager who uses your software in the field on a laptop and can't get to a useable internet connection or call IT support staff when the license activation craps up.
>> With the recent Windows Vista black screen of death, it got me thinking about what sort of measures I should go through to prevent unauthorized users from using the software.
Microsoft is the last company you should emulate if you want good long-term relations with the end-user. Their reputation as a company has gone down the toilet with the "activate me", "gotta check if I'm genuine" nonsense they are piling into their software.
>> How much copy protection is appropriate? Is it acceptable for the software to phone home? If so, what data is appropriate to report on?
Would you use a project management software that transmits unknown quantities of data over the web on a serious project? A lot of people wouldn't.
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This company http://www.fryrender.com/ sold a beta version of their rendering software for months while requiring anyone who BOUGHT the beta to sign strict NDA terms (no posting screenshots of the software, no talking about the software et cetera). So you couldn't get any information on a software that's already available to buy.
NDAs are mentioned quite frequently on 3D software forums. It seems that all beta testers have to sign them.
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If you were to put these touchscreens as the primary UI on vending machines, ticket machines, ATMs and the like, you could harvest hundreds of thousands of fingerprints without anybody realizing it. I bet that we'll see more and more companies trying to con people into "use your fingerprint to make calls, pay for your shopping, access your ATM" type of deals. I also bet that these screens will wind up in cellphones as a "standard" feature. You'll be told that you can switch scanning off and use it only as a touchscreen if you like, but who knows whether the scanning function is on or off and whether the phone is sending your biometric data places without your consent or not. This tech is a definite threat to privacy.
when Balmer and Gates came up with the idea for Longhorn.
People's Fascist Party leader Lek Bolokov won Estonia's national elections on Monday with an unexpected %451 percent of the total vote. When the leader of the 4 member fringe party was asked if he was surprised to have won the national election Bolokov replied with a cryptic "In Soviet Russia government brick YOU".
- I'm an i-phone - And I'm a cellular phone - I cost a lot and run on only one cellular network - I'm cheap and work with pretty much any service - I run lots of cool i-apps and have a big touchscreen. Steve jobs likes to present me on big projection screens. - I do what a cellular phone is supposed to do. i fit in a pocket and let people make and receive calls. - I turn into a brick when people hack me and unbrick when I'm unhacked. - You should audition for the next Transformers movie. Now excuse me, I have some important calls to make.
This is an inexpensive learning computer for children in developing countries, not a bargain-of-the-month consumer electronics product designed to be flung around wealthy consumer markets like the U.S. or the Eurozone. If the only thing you are concerned about is "why can't I buy this laptop for myself fo $199?" you probably don't understand the purpose of the project to begin with.
>> I'm currently working on a piece of commercial software that will be available through a download and will use a license key to activate it. The last thing anybody needs during a busy project is a scheduler that can't be reinstalled because the email with the license key has been lost or the activation part of the software craps up. >> The software is aimed at helping people schedule projects and will be targeted mostly to corporate users. Don't make assumptions about who might use your software in what setting. Your customer may be a project engineer or construction manager who uses your software in the field on a laptop and can't get to a useable internet connection or call IT support staff when the license activation craps up. >> With the recent Windows Vista black screen of death, it got me thinking about what sort of measures I should go through to prevent unauthorized users from using the software. Microsoft is the last company you should emulate if you want good long-term relations with the end-user. Their reputation as a company has gone down the toilet with the "activate me", "gotta check if I'm genuine" nonsense they are piling into their software. >> How much copy protection is appropriate? Is it acceptable for the software to phone home? If so, what data is appropriate to report on? Would you use a project management software that transmits unknown quantities of data over the web on a serious project? A lot of people wouldn't.
This company http://www.fryrender.com/ sold a beta version of their rendering software for months while requiring anyone who BOUGHT the beta to sign strict NDA terms (no posting screenshots of the software, no talking about the software et cetera). So you couldn't get any information on a software that's already available to buy. NDAs are mentioned quite frequently on 3D software forums. It seems that all beta testers have to sign them.