Farcical Recognition
My IdeaPad U160 came with such software as a poor man's equivalent for the sexy fingerprinter reader that makes you feel as important as an ICBM launch officer or Mossad operative, if only for no longer than it takes a little golfball of plutonium to go critical.
First, it needed several scans of my face but to do that I had to take off my glasses. The built-in webcam also expected me to take off my glasses whenever I wanted into my system. At first, I thought it would be fun to have because I teach in China where you have very nosy students and the laptop threatens to photograph for you if you try to break into it with the wrong face or password but then you also have to have your face at the right tilt and the lighting should never be too much or too little.
Fortunately CCleaner disappeared something in the facial recognition software so now when I power up, I am welcomed by this little bllue box with a xxhite X inside a red circle and I have to hit ESC before I can type in my little password like I used to do on my 80286 Toshiba decades ago.
You can't stop progress, but if you don't watch out, progress can stop you.
