Maybe it's me being pedantic, but people, even the Pope apparently, get confused about what "free speech" and its limits. What he's talking about isn't a limit on free speech. It's called a consequence. I can curse anyone or their mother all I want. If it offends someone and they punch me, they did not reduce my right or ability to make that curse. They just provided the consequence for me being a dick. If you're a dick, expect a consequence. It's the way things should be.

That's not latency, that's a bandwidth issue. Latency is the time one packet takes to arrive. If one packet can throw off your whole video stream then you're not caching. If you're caching, then the bandwidth would have to take a prolonged dip to burn through the cached data and find a point it hadn't downloaded yet.

Replying to my own post, yes... Forgot something. Part of Apple Pay is confirming physical presence. Better physical presence guarantee means less cost of covering fraudulent transactions, which means cheaper transaction fees for merchants. So the claim about "profit robbing transaction fees" is less potent there.

"that is independent of the credit card companies and their profit-robbing transaction fees" - Sounds a bit more like a sales pitch than an article to me. From what I've read, you can't use a credit card. I always use my rewards card, so that's out for me. The process is wonkier, having to unlock your phone, open an app, tap to put it in scan or QR display mode, get the camera to focus if it's scanning, wait for a reply from the servers, etc. vs hold your phone near the terminal and rest your finger on the touch ID sensor. If someone gets your phone and can unlock it, they can pay for things. The thing that makes Apple Pay different is that, except for a fairly involved process, touch ID guarantees I'M THE ONE WITH MY PHONE. Verifying my actual, physical presence and tokenizing my transaction are the two things I want out of a payment system. Note: I don't have an iPhone 6, nor do I particularly want one, but Apple's system looks like my ideal setup.

Really? Outrage? Worst music publicity stunts of all time? How about "minorly annoyed and then I moved on"? Can we just have that reaction for once?

But if anyone couldn't grasp the monumentally obvious reasons they did this... then maybe those people are just too creepy for their own good.

Is a customer service issue. Not a legislative one. This issue does not have any governmental or societal benefit and certainly not enough to offset the costs of passing or enforcing such legislation. Please, please, please go get a clue about who's responsible for this kind of thing (hint: The COMPANY SELLING YOU A PRODUCT OR SERVICE). Even the cost of reading that customer service fever dream wasn't worth it.

So, improving by 1% to go from a 69% to a 70 is better than having the kid, say, improve by 30%? Fail means fail. If you do that, you don't need to try a little harder, you need to try a lot harder.

Does this seem like a blatant attempt to get people to buy the more expensive versions by making the cheap ones purposefully suck? They can say Windows 7 starts at $50 or $99 or whatever, but you really end up paying $299, because that's where the price starts for any OS anyone would actually want to use. And what value you're getting for that little bit of extra money (the upgrade to the $150 version is only a little, but the upgrade to the $200 version is only a little more from there... etc).

I take it you're one of the 3% that still approve of the job the sitting VP is doing? I haven't seen a report of any kind in the last few years that still try to claim Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. It may have been an initial excuse, but there were so many other excuses once that was shot down.