ootommy, this find is interesting in that the point of trusted computing is to make it TRANSPARENT to the end user.
The devices, which are hand-held and small enough to attach to a keychain, are expected to cost customers roughly $10. They display a six-digit number that changes once a minute; people seeking access to their accounts would type in that number as well as a user name and password. The devices are freestanding; they do not plug into a computer.
Another stupid device, number, username and password I have to carry around and remember!
I want my Trusted PC so I can have my health, driver info, credit, bank, internet website(s) logins, grocery store "preffered card", freq flyer card, GameWorks token, work pass card, etc etc etc all on ONE smartcard! I have enough stupid crap in my wallet!!!! I am developing a spinal problem like George Costanza and I "can't stand-a" nother minute of it... and to think I gotta pay for this thing! Multiply $10 by as many times as stores or places you go to and you will pay a fortune for a keyring the size of maintenance man's keys. Men will have to buy purses. Women will need to upgrade to luggage. Wealthy individuals will segregate themselves from the masses by hiring "dongle donkeys". New industries will be given birth to design, build and install troffs for said donkeys to eat from. It will be the wild west all over. Horse re-shoers will IPO their horse farms for $10/share and define a new genre of billionaires. Cobblestones will be worth 3 times their price in gold. You will have to have a dongle with a username and password for your tablet PC that holds all your usernames and passwords for your other dongles. Flea markets will be replaced with dongle-swaps. Dongle jewelry and dongle clothes will gain popularity as a way to conseal your identity. Marshall Fields will target Christmas in 2010 with their new ad campaign "Wear Yourself" and be catapulted into the who's who of department stores. Dongle skins will be paired with cell phone skins so kids will have matching accessories. The first dongle will be sent into space in 2015 aboard the "Identium 4" space leaper rocket, carried by the world famous monkey, Dinkles, who starred opposite newly retired McKaulay Culkin in "Tron Revisited" where the citizens of Earth were freed of their dongle-duties once and for all (its a love story). Box office smash in 2012, McKaulay offered up his entire dongle collection for auction at Macy's landing a net total of $3 billion dollars. Once in space, Dinkles will re-configure the "D" corporation's 50 square area neon "Dongle's For All" orbiting billboard visible from 95% of the Earth's population to alter its orbit to eventually re-enter the Earth's atmosphere in 3 weeks for the globally planned celebration "Uno Dos Tres No-Dongle" with music by U2 who still tour together, unstoppable. Hosted by Steve Sprague's WaveSystems still funded by iHub's rabid collection of Wave investors who have tirelessly dealt with company failures and unable to forsee the Etrade dongle day which started it all, the four investors (who shall remain unnamed) will finally be revealed on national TV as "getting it". They will be wheeled out in their wheelchairs at the strike of midnight. If you can't stay up for this ground-breaking "end of the dongle" event, you can catch the four individuals the next morning on Good Morning America's "getting it....finally" as the four talk about how awesome its going to finally be. With only 400 billion shares outstanding and a PE of 30, the revenue figures calculated out 5 years to be "hurricane wind force" will extrapolate and reiterate and calculate out to about $3.37 per share, give or take a few cents depending on take up rate by Tostito's employees who handle the chip production line who assumed manufacturing of Embassy 2700.1.34 after Samsung sold the mfg. rights to a hedge fund out of Texas for $1 to cover a degrating long position. Samsung has since went bankrupt, blaming the "YES Men" who thought they "got it" but in essence didn't and paid themselves too many pre-bonuses for money unearned....yet. Consequently, as the four investors where wheeled out for the grand finale, a global blackout ensued, generating thousands of hours of news reel footage of millions walking home from the party, degrated and upset thinking to themselves, is this a sign? The next day, during Good Morning America's unified broadcast in 50 languages including Afrikaans, several airborne drones crashed into the main broadcast towers preventing billions from receiving the signal.
Okay, time to do the holiday dishes...I've stalled long enough....!!!
AI
