Example: once you loose your phone, you've now immediately also lost your CC

That's more risk instead of less

But in facilitating this, two new points of access to your CC account have been created: the backend of Visa apparently allows Apple to connect and your phone becomes a second card next to the physical one. A hacker now sees more opportunities for access.

> Apple's security is added

Hmmmm, that's not exactly a selling point I'm afraid.
Scanning my Visa card into Apple's cloud just creates another possible point of security breach imho.

...always a penal colony.

Yeah totally, imagine: having to fire up a 10 year old VirtualPC to run the outdated OS that runs the outdated browser that uses the outdated Javascript engine to configure your switch. What an improvement over Java that will be :-)

> What he's doing now sort of reminds me of holding a bake sale to build a bomber

OP speaks as if he witnessed this before

hmmm, you know that companies also break rules, right?

Java is pretty platform independent actually

I pay for extended GDrive storage space

FTA:
> this is the part in the story where we'd link to a clip of the atom's audio, but it's so soft that it's not even audible

Apparently the meaning of the word "capture" has a different meaning Sweden

hunter7

The quality of your memory is not the subject of this discussion.

He looks older than my 70 year old dad

Yeah, because "HTML5" is such a great success

Very creative indeed :-) There is an funny movie that kind of utilizes part of the process you described as a plot device. It's a bit of a stretch but your comment reminded me of it. I liked it very much but the IMDB score is (imho undeservedly) low: Duplicity with Paul Giamatti and Julia Roberts www.imdb.com/title/tt1135487/ Maybe you'll enjoy it too.