"Excretion Funerals" here.

Same disease, smells worse...

Seriously? A crystal?

Right. Can they get it to gaseous form first? :-) Or do they sublimate straight from pure energy, right to solid state?

Also, point of clarification (pun intended): Does this crystalline light need to be first observed as a particle, or will a wave observation prove to be equally effective in achieving desired result?

Can we hope it ends this farcical "progress" and return the planet to steam and gaslight?

I think an Apple iWatch would be a great asshole-detector.

That is, if the detectee were not already advertising themselves by wearing Google Glass ;-)

Swedish. You know. Like the Norskies, but looser in the morals department.
 

"What type of laundry detergent is best used as a replacement for jet fuel in a 1972 Colecovision gaming console?"

FEATURES I WANT:

Cloaking device
Stealth
Wifi and GSM disruption
Lasers

Who needs Terabyte Flash
When you spin rust in gas?

iRiver

They came before - but Apple had them come at the right time.

Goodbye, Fitbit and Nike Fuel.

Chip'n'pin at scale - and not dependent on card-posession.

I appreciate your concerns about NFC. But NFC is really a transport, not a privacy control. If simple privacy controls were implemented, relying on limited NFC range for reducing attack opportunity? That's a problem itself.

I am lead to believe that intercepted transactions with the Apple payment model are nearly useless. They may ultimately reveal predictable sequences, to establish later unauthorized transactions - but this is speculation. The transaction is privacy-protected with its own cryptographic tokenization and handshaking in the application design, which include having the device for 2-factor, not the SIM or IMEI, etc. Handshakes and transactions are one-time, limiting usefulness for spoof, replay, reuse, etc.

I'd be more worried about the twisted-pair or local wifi for in-store magstripe readers, than I would Apple payments.

It's a chip'n'pin style arrangement - with your phone as the "chip" for all cards. Lose your phone? Disable it.

Home Depot and Target breaches wouldn't have been possible with this tech.

Apple doesn't middle-man the banking/merchant transaction in their model.

Unlike Google/Samsung/Amazon, they are not collecting or monetizing transaction or location info of buyers. They limit their liability and focus on where they make real money.

Hey! There wasn't any racism in that, was there Chinaman?