Well, one advantage of self-driving cars is that they can be fitted with curtains...

Well I was replying to a comment advising "keep local backups" and describing the situation where the provider or at least your account disappears.

For the scenario you describe, Dropbox, at least, allows restoring of deleted files for a while after, so you'd have to both delete your files and then lose your Dropbox account to lose everything.

I don't rely on anything like this myself, BTW, incremental encrypted DAR files stored in Amazon Glacier is my current offline storage (as well as encrypted local backups).

And that's actually one big strength of services like Dropbox and Box. To have automatically synced local backups, all you need to do is install the client on more than one computer!

So even if their servers vanish, you're left with multiple local up-to-date copies.

Presumably intended to handle hurricanes and flooding instead of tornadoes, the kettle house in Galveston TX is an inverted metal dome, (although I don't know why it has a door at ground level).

Have you seen the copyright warning in Revelations 22:19?

It would become a fairy-tale-like urban legend. "But when he went to find the yogurt shop, there was just a brick wall."

I find it useful because I can just place a UK SIM in my phone when I visit there, giving me a UK number and rates.

I have a pay-as-you-go SIM in the US (T-Mobile) and I've had the same UK SIM for several years (Orange, now named EE, I think), topping it up with about 25 pounds each visit.

And I was originally with AT&T. When I wanted to switch to T-Mobile I just bought a new SIM.

So this isn't a perfect solution, but it's better than having a SIM-locked phone.

It's finally the year of WAP.

Is there some big advantage to viewing youtube via an app? I just use the browser on IOS. I used to use the app before it was removed in an upgrade, but I don't remember the experience being any better.

It was second from the top on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ this morning:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23627656

Do any of the alternatives that people know of work on a wifi-only tablet?

"Find My iPhone" is really useful for tracking down the children's iPods if they're just lost in the house (or garden).

Sometimes a tablet goes missing and it would be helpful to be able to make it ping in a similar way.

But I work in video games, we're expected to!

The clock display on my C6 moves around, screen-saver fashion, and it is pretty dim.

My Nokia C6-01 does this. It has an oled display, so presumably it only uses power for the illuminated pixes, with little power drain (as opposed to backlighting an entire LCD screen). So it always has a clock and other notifications on-screen all the time, without needing to press anything.