Convienience:
Your phone will break or have a dead battery way more easily than your card. Most people also only carry one phone. If the implementation requires a data connection, it's even more useless. It is trivially easy to have more than one credit card so you have a backup. They won't get dead batteries nor will then break when you drop them. Winner - Credit Cards, by an extremely high margin.

Security:
Chip and Pin with contact on a plastic card, or some who-knows always-constantly getting hacked over-the-air NFC through a phone which is probably already compromised by malware. (good luck installing malware on a credit card). No, you can "steal credit cards by looking at them". That's just being desperate for an argument. Winner - Credit Cards, by an extremely high margin.

Corporations possessing your information:
If you use mobile payments, chances are you still have a bank account of some sort. The banks have your information either way. Why willingly give it to another party in addition to the bank? Winner - Credit Cards, by an extremely high margin.

I really don't want to continue this. Stop being so naive in thinking that all new technology must be embraced.

LOLOOOOLLLOLLL! You really don't understand anything about Apple do you. Consumers don't own Apple products - they use them with permission from Apple.

We have a winner! If you discover security flaws, no matter how trivial, you are a criminal and a hacker. The only sane thing to do is cover up all evidence and tell no one.

If any of this was true, you'd be arrested for hacking by now. The whole thing is probably made up.

Um... JTAG is pretty darn ubiquitous. You just don't know what you're talking about. Virtually every device in the universe ships with a JTAG interface, and sometimes it's just a matter of soldering to the right points.

It was cracked because it use a shitty algorithm and sloppy crypto handshakes. There is nothing inherently wrong with "NFC on cell phones". It's just a way to send bits. That's it. Smart software can make it secure, as long as there is software on both sides. This is not even close to the same case as RFIDs, which can always easily be cloned because it's impossible to do proper crypto on an RFID.

Just because that specific early implementation was broken, it does not by any means mean that "NFC" is broken forever.

If it's as simple as cloning what goes over the air, then yes, it is utterly flawed and insecure. That is how RFIDs work with current technology. NFC between processors does NOT have this same problem. Everything over the air can be random-number challenges and cryprographic responses, and when done properly with sufficiently strong crypto, it can be damn near impossible to break.

Canada too. Every time I travel to the US, I cringe at the antiquated horribly-insecure feeling banking system.

I mean... gas pumps which don't need a pin? Really?

The easiest thing in the universe "buy" with a stolen credit card is expensive gasoline. This no longer works in Canada, but it sure as hell works in most of the USA. Zip codes are not secure like pins either for the pumps with offer "security" through zip codes.

Apple can get away with securing NFC payments because there is a processor on both ends. The reason you can't secure an NFC card, is that you can't generate enough power using an antenna to power up a chip which can do crypto. The most you can do is read/write a ROM, so it's not much better than an magnetic stripe. With metal contact chips, a tiny chip powers up which can do proper challenge-response crypto.

To RMS, BSD-licensing is more evil than proprietary licensing. The reason is, proprietary licenses don't claim to be open source, but BSD-license stuff is open source with an evil deceptive license which allows corporations to still everyone's work.

That will happen when it's the year of the Linux desktop.

Stay at home and play WoW and watch Fox news and masturbate then. You don't have to go to interesting things.

Nobody cares about pissy Labatts outside of the Nation of Quebec.

Works for me just fine in the Soviet Republic of Canuckistan.

100 TB is an incredible amount of porn! All slashdotters will want this!

If you want paid open sores development, why not just go to your mother?