Streams found through Google are rarely worth the trouble of watching. Most don't even have the decency to be any higher than 360p. It's gross.

No kidding. The boxes Time Warner gives its customers are the purest grade of crap. They can barely handle their own OSD without the damn things overheating and lagging to hell.

The father in this case IS making the decision for his kids. He just needed the law on his side because his ex-wife has terrified their kids about what being vaccinated means.

If you saw some of the atrocious security vulnerabilities in their end user computer stuff, you might seriously rethink that sentiment.

Nothing but a keyboard or mouse will product the same results of a keyboard and mouse to its fullest extent. You're not the target market. This is designed to make living room play easier for those who wish to partake in such an endeavor. If you're already sitting at your desk, you're probably better off using the keyboard and mouse.

Er, you are aware that SteamOS is essentially nothing but a custom desktop Linux distribution with some specialized drivers and applications to facilitate the Steam storefront and peripheral hardware, right? That should be all you need to know to realize how open it's going to be.

They welcome anyone to install it on their own home desktops. Of course you'll be able to sideload whatever you want onto it or pick at the guts. Just don't expect the storefront client to be open source.

Most if not all sane places do not put NFC charges on your phone bill. They're either attached to your credit or bank account. It's basically a card without the card.

Geh, I hate typos. The first sentence is supposed to say "That's not how the ideal system is supposed to work"

That's now how the ideal system is supposed to work, nor how it really does work anywhere. Most places handle pay by phone via a phone equipped with an NFC chip you just swipe over a payment spot and it charges you, no unlocking the phone, no pin, navigating to your payment app of choice, none of that crap. It effectively turns your phone into a card. If you want to consider convenience, it's more so because you don't have to pull out your wallet, then the card, then swipe it. You just pull out the phone and swipe it.

This app shit that's getting tossed around is not the system that we want. I pray for the day we get a proper pay by phone system like they have in Japan or similar.

Oh man, that brings back memories.

What makes you think this is for phones...?

I don't speak to the Troll moderation done on your post, but angry/annoyed/upset people will do things they're not supposed to when they have the power to do them. The correct moderation, should any have been applied at all, should have probably been -1, Offtopic. The article comments section is not the place to discuss Slashdot politics. I don't think you could reasonably convince anyone that "this article doesn't belong here" is in the spirit of discussion the comments section is supposed to promote.

But I digress, continuing this will get neither of us anywhere. We all get moderation we don't deserve because some egghead thinks his opinion is more valid than ours. It's just a fact of life here that is never going to change as long as users have the power to moderate.

They've taken the "News for nerds" lines out everywhere except for one place that is only seen for a fraction of a second anymore because of pedants like you who feel the need to criticize every article that deviates from your perceived expectations of the site.

You don't need to be the person doing it in every article, but there is always someone. You just happened to draw the card today. We're sorry Slashdot doesn't base all its article decisions on what your personal beliefs are regarding the nature of this website. You're welcome to go to the firehose section and condemn any articles you disagree with appearing on the site. Otherwise you're just going to have to get over it or find a new website that caters to your specific needs.

Wish I had mod points for you.

So I can then safely assume your initial post was just karma whoring, seeing as how the issue you initially discussed really didn't matter at all when considering its worthiness to you?