I disagree. I have my Blackberry 8110 provisioned with BIS/BES and swapping the SIM to a candy-bar style phone still allows data usage. Perhaps this is something different with the MUCH newer models? And I can't vouch for BES support as I don't have another device that would use BES with a SIM card. Perhaps this just a function of my carrier instead of the home office.
Another reason I've come across is when there are multiple employees that are short term, but require access to locked doors/areas/time clocks/whatever. It isn't practical or cost effective to give lots of temp people badges, keys, or complex ID numbers easily faked or forgotten. So biometics allows for a signature that they bring with them. The application of this I ran into was an optical iris scanner, not fingerprint, but the concept can still be applied.
Actually, what came to mind was James Bond's Diamonds are Forever... Didn't the bad guy use a big space laser in that movie? I don't think that space laser was originally purposed for anything other than ruling the world, but doesn't this bring up the question of putting a rather large energy weap..umm, COLLECTOR in space where it can be pointed at whatever target on the ground? Be that the collecting dish it is meant for, someone's hot water heater, or that convoy of trucks with the SAM missiles. I thought there were treaties against putting weapons in space? At least, nuclear ones. Ah the new age of weaponry has arrived.
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I disagree. I have my Blackberry 8110 provisioned with BIS/BES and swapping the SIM to a candy-bar style phone still allows data usage. Perhaps this is something different with the MUCH newer models? And I can't vouch for BES support as I don't have another device that would use BES with a SIM card. Perhaps this just a function of my carrier instead of the home office.
Another reason I've come across is when there are multiple employees that are short term, but require access to locked doors/areas/time clocks/whatever. It isn't practical or cost effective to give lots of temp people badges, keys, or complex ID numbers easily faked or forgotten. So biometics allows for a signature that they bring with them. The application of this I ran into was an optical iris scanner, not fingerprint, but the concept can still be applied.
Actually, what came to mind was James Bond's Diamonds are Forever... Didn't the bad guy use a big space laser in that movie? I don't think that space laser was originally purposed for anything other than ruling the world, but doesn't this bring up the question of putting a rather large energy weap..umm, COLLECTOR in space where it can be pointed at whatever target on the ground? Be that the collecting dish it is meant for, someone's hot water heater, or that convoy of trucks with the SAM missiles. I thought there were treaties against putting weapons in space? At least, nuclear ones. Ah the new age of weaponry has arrived.