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Most of you haven't had experience with a modern fingerprint scanner. Yes, I imagine some people with palsy or other physical impediments wouldn't be able to use them. But mine required a reswipe of my finger only twice in over a year now! There is always a password work-around. Besides, how abut a retinal image scanner instead. That probably allows more people, excluding the blind.
I think Steve is correct. History proves your objections are not going to stop this train. I swore many years ago I'd never use an ATM card for normal retail transactions like groceries. C'mon, why not carry enough cash? Well, I'm a convert and my ATM card gets a work-out, just like the vast majority of people I know.
Personally I'd much prefer my DRM keys be based on myself than my devices. Seems like it'd make things more portable. Biometric hardware continues to get cheaper, smaller, and more reliable so it could be built into more things. My fingerprint reader happened to fail recently, under warranty, and HP sent a tech to replace it at my desk (I was using password workarounds during the failure). Their construction required the whole top-plate of the laptop to be replaced but the swipe-reader's PCB itself was amazingly small, maybe 2" x 1", and thin.
We'll see. Maybe our Babylonian situation will continue longer than I think it will. Just seems unnecessarily wasteful and frustrating.
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