Back to the articleRe: Odor fun #
Posted Sunday 29th March 2009 01:56 GMT
Theoretically, if you forget to put on your deodorant, your iPhone will know you're you with even more conviction, for your personal odor will be stronger, no?
-dZ.
Apple sizes iPhone for dog's nose
Sheesh... #
Posted Saturday 28th March 2009 00:04 GMT
if it wasn't bad enough the gov. wanting to have our DNA on record, now Apple wants it! Whats next? Google deciding to match adverts to our DNA? *shudder*
Odor fun #
Posted Saturday 28th March 2009 02:14 GMT
'...sensing "features of a user's ear canal, an odor associated with the user,'
Oh great. So now if one morning you forget to put on your deodorant, not only will you not have any *real* people to talk with, but you also won't be able to use your iPhone either ;)
So what happens when the "Owner" suddenly dies then?? #
Posted Sunday 29th March 2009 01:56 GMT
So what happens when someone like say the Head of Household suddenly dies, and has the all the "Important Documents" stored on one of these things, I guess you could make Latex fingerprint impressions, but who'd have the thought ahead of time?
Surely a simple PW carefully stored up somewhere (where it could be found by your spouse), like a Lockbox would be enough...
Headstone, cause you can't take your Lappy w/you when you go...
knuckle print #
Posted Sunday 29th March 2009 01:56 GMT
"...the knuckle-print"... I like that. Gives a new meaning to the phrase "Punch in your password".
Or perhaps it's designed for the famed knuckle-greeting that rappers engage in—"Word".
For all these ideas on Security out there #
Posted Sunday 29th March 2009 01:56 GMT
What I want to see is the <Insert genital here> scanner. So when im not aroused I log in as myself and when I am I log in as someone else :)
/ok ok I know trying to make a joke when hung over is bad
Show the other images #
Posted Sunday 29th March 2009 14:27 GMT
...and you can see that a jailbroken iphone was used to take the illustrations from:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/28/apple-uses-a-jailbroken-iphone-in-patent-application/
Tut tut
Isn't this ... #
Posted Sunday 29th March 2009 14:31 GMT
... a good demonstration of what is wrong with the patent system and the way it is abused?
This isn't a registration to protect an invention, it's just using financial and legal muscle to try to suppress competition.
Still, it's an application to the USPTO, so I'm surprised they bothered to go into such detail, surely just a patent application for "Electronic Authentication Systems", claiming "To identify a user of a device" would have been sufficient for that bunch of muppets.
Killing the second hand market? #
Posted Monday 30th March 2009 09:22 GMT
They have started on this path by marketing it as a fashion accessory. Nobody wants the old model, it shows you just aren't cool.
Now they want to tie the unit to one single person.
What's the word I'm looking for? Evil genius comes close, but more evil, less genius...
Of course, it still doesn't solve... #
Posted Monday 30th March 2009 09:22 GMT
...the most basic problems with biometric security: Everyone knows what your password is, and you can't change it.
Oh, my... #
Posted Monday 30th March 2009 20:53 GMT
As I started reading, a joke about "iPod reading your DNA" started forming into my mind...
...only to horribly die as I read the rest.
