The slowness is in the procedure more than system response.

With the old system I would swipe my card at any point while my purchases were being scanned, type in my PIN a second or two after and put away my card. When the total was ready I would confirm it.

Now I insert my card and have to wait until the bill is totalled before confirming the amount and typing my PIN. It does seem slower to respond, too, but it's mostly annoying because my card is sat in the machine for longer. This results in a much longer time that I'm holding my wallet in one hand, or have to put it away and get it out again.

Also it's never clear whether the card reader will accept it (some are still swipe-only, some claim to read the chip but fail, sometimes I'm asked if it is debit or credit before being told what to do).

I wouldn't mind if it was more secure but I've heard that the chip simply sends a confirmation that the PIN was correct, no unforgeable challenge/response design.

When I tried using Android Pay earlier this year, I had similar problems of terminals that claimed to support it but didn't, although recently it's been more reliable and I've used it as a fallback when chip+PIN fails to work correctly.

Chip+PIN should be more secure and should be as effortless as swipe+PIN, but right now it doesn't seem to live up to that.

Some website services require you to provide your password to some other site to work. For example, email filtering or some finance sites.

I know that when done correctly the site provides an authentication token, but the old-style approach was to just require you to provide your mail or bank's password.

Aside from backups, did he systematically delete everything from his own machine?

I'm hoping that advances in genetic engineering will allow us to finally realize Ford's dream of building a better horse.

And wouldn't this mean that Apple would vigorously prevent Android phones from having this 'feature'?

I have the opposite problem - I'd have to decide whether to give them my Google+ or Diaspora account.

The UK also had 'dial a disc' for music, a weather service and dial-a-bedtime-story service.

I only looked at the comments to check that someone had mentioned them.

I used iTunes itself to convert my purchases to MP3 years ago.

and succeeded.

So it's some sort of flashlight app, is it?

Gnu Social, Diaspora?

At least the backers who paid for the development headsets are getting a free consumer version.

I switched to fx about a year ago after some reading about suspicious behavior in ES. At the time, it was just surreptitiously reporting usage or some other analytics to servers, but it was enough to make me wary.

"But every night all the men would come around and lay their money down"