320x106 is SUPER widescreen. 3:1! This thing will be AWESOME for movies.

No gold, less space than an Apple Watch. Lame.

Because "cams" are so great, the only thing better would be one that included EVERY SINGLE MOVEMENT OF THE WEARER'S HEAD. Fucking A.

All those flame wars => page views => ad revenue => helps keep Slashdot open.

Try something new, play well with others, start small... I'm liking this. Go, Satya! Take that lumbering hulk of a company and do something with it besides coast.

Smartwatches are hardly the first gaudy watch. Parent meant you can discreetly glance at your wrist, rather than non-discreetly pulling your phone out of your pocket. And smart or not, a basic black and/or silver watch with a basic black or silver band is pretty discreet.

And "look good" is in the eye of the beholder.

> *well, no-one worth listening to, probably

Right. But there are many, and they vote and hold office and make policy.

"It's like SQL injectiooooooon, on a module that's designed specifically to help prevent SQL injection attaaaaaaaaaaacks"

It practically writes itself!

>> and develop a system that meets merchant needs [emphasis mine] while protecting the consumer

> I don't believe those two things can be reconciled.

The difference is between "wants" and "needs". Merchants WANT data, but what they NEED is money. They only reason they want data is to (hopefully) get more money. If Apple Pay lets people spend money easily, and the merchant ends up with more money because of that, they'll be fine with that.* And if people reject CurrentC -- and they will, not because they give a shit about security, but because the whole picture-of-a-code thing is retarded -- then the merchant will have no say in the matter.

* Well, until greed kicks in. I mean, they'll always want more, but if there's no way to get data without pissing off customers, they'll have to accept that they can't have it. The choice between going with Apple Pay or trying to force CurrentC is going to come down to a simple equation: do you want a small portion of something, or a large portion of nothing?

Regardless of the result, the ensuing brouhaha would be called "Gategate".

Dear Slashdot,

I fail to see how the 13-year-old story about game design, "A 'Vow of Chastity' For Game Designers", is a related story, as indicated in the panel below the story between the "previous story" and "next story" links. Seriously, WTF? Less than worthless.

http://www.t-mobile.com/cell-p...

$50 = 1 GB data, unlimited talk and text. NO OVERAGE CHARGES -- they just throttle you after you hit your limit. Isn't that nicer than being throttled at some mystery point by another carrier?

$60 = 3 GB. $70 = 5 GB. $80 = unlimited, and since they're honest about the other stuff, I'm *almost* inclined to believe them. Feel like experimenting? Sign up and post the results in a couple months.

Do the math: if she goes through 1 GB in 2-3 days, she needs 10-15 GB per month. Either pay for a lot of cellular data, or pay for Internet access in her room. I don't know why you're expecting to get 10 GB of data at a price no one offers. Are they all dicks for putting limits on what they call "unlimited" service? OF COURSE. Take your argument to the FCC, the FTC, and the supreme court if you want, it's not gonna do you any good. At best, you'll get them to stop calling it "unlimited" but they'll still charge THE EXACT SAME THING THEY'RE CURRENTLY CHARGING.

The best thing to do, of course, would be to pay for internet access to her room, then give her an AP and charge a discounted rate to a couple neighboring rooms. :D

> I'm not sure how much it was an over reaction.
> Seemed reasonable to me.

No, this was an overreaction. Raise your hands if you *really* think Al-Quida would NAME THEIR ACCESS POINT "Al-Quida". I'm not a member, but I'm PRETTY SURE they're into secrecy, and wouldn't do something so obvious. I'd bet my next paycheck that you could walk by their headquarters with a laptop and not see that SSID.

... and I hope Apple makes a 5S-sized phone next year with new internals, even if they go with lower-end guts than the flagships. ("Only" an A8 and 240fps video? I could live with that.) If they say "it's all 4.7 and 5.5 inches from here on out", I'll be quite sad. If they don't update the 4-inch model, I'll buy the last 5S they make and get the extended warranty, and maybe in 2018 I'll accept a bigger phone.

... it spelled "Antares", as in the title, not "Anatares", as in the summary.