They should ban words like "homeless", "hunger", and "abuse" while they're at it to fix those problems as well...

Me!

Funny, by saying 'I'd respond', you actually responded.

Literally laughed out loud at this one!

And a VERY funny one at that!!

I wasn't making a judgement about whether or not you should or shouldn't, just saying that you can.

haven't flown, not gave you flown...

Guess you gave you flown in a while. Most of the major airlines allow you to keep tablets and cellphones out and on (in airplane mode) for takeoff and landing now.

I love all beers from Lagunitas!

My food coma from yesterday may have temporarily inhibited my ability to detect sarcasm. My apologies.

You've determined that this movie sucks from a brief teaser? Looks like you've just saved yourself about $10. Congratulations!

ha! Very cool.

The photo from this story is from the world's first Kentucky Fried Chicken which is just down the street from where I live. I've always found it interesting that the first "Kentucky" Fried Chicken was in Salt Lake City, Utah...

You are right. Google employs cloud based tokenization where your tokens are stored on Googles servers. Apple's tokens reside on the device.

Exactly. A bank can block the token rather than the card number when sites/stores get hacked and simply issue a new token associated with the original card number.

Yeah, but without tokenization (i.e- the more secure aspect of ApplePay). Apple did it first.

you failed to mention that, in addition to the retailers listed above, ApplePay works with existing NFC terminals that aren't branded as ApplePay compatible terminals (I.e.- GoogleWallet branded terminals). This makes availability that much greater.

they've signed up 500 banks since it was announced but it will take some time to get them all set up in their system. I work in payments for a credit union and we are now signed up but are just waiting to hear when our go-live date will be.

Google wallet doesn't use tokenization so, while it may appear to be the same to the end-user, the security isn't anywhere near the same.

I went to a local grocery store chain and tried to use my iPhone with a Google wallet branded terminal and it worked just fine. The chain is not listed as an Applepay participant. I also noticed that the vending machines at my work have the PayPass symbol on them so I tried there aS well. Same result! It appears that…