Ting now works on CDMA (sprint) and GSM (tmobile). If you have a phne with all the bands,it is as simple as buying another sim ($9) and popping it in.

I use ting. My main contacts use hangouts or kik for messaging, so texting is low. I use my phone as a media player but store most of the music on the phone. 32 GB is plenty if managed correctly. Calling is low, as my main contacts use messaging more. I am at work or home mostly and wifi is automatic. When I travel on 2-3 weekends a month, hotel wifi is mostly free, and enough for phone data. Consequently, even though I browse quite a bit my data usage is typically under 1.5GB per month.
This is for me and my (gasp yes as a slashdotter, girlfriend). Our average ting bill is So with proper management and expectations (neither of which are difficult), MVNOs can be useful. Plus ting is branching out to gig fiber! And launching in my town 1st. I cannot wait!

Am I biased? Yes, but I have been extremely satisfied with my experience with ting so far, both in price and customer service.

From TFA

No.The real question is longevity. Per backblaze and my own anecdotal experience, Seagate drives already have a higher failure rate. Looking at this, any firmware bug or flaw could result in massive data loss of an entire 'band' if written incorrectly.

I understand that in any environment backups are crucial, but I live in the real world. A world where small and medium size business (for good or ill) neglect IT until it bites them. At least with regular drives recovery is often possible with block for block copies, and baring that a clean room has a good chance of recovering crucial data.

If a user has a performance need, I can suggest an SSD or SSD+HDD config with appropriate redundancy and backups. For pure space, large HDDs in an appropriate RAID or ZFS work fine. Per TFS, this is not ready for heavily drive loaded server configs yet, and i do not see a need in residential, or small biz or workstation use where other solutions are far better. To me this is currently a product looking for a solution, and one that is risky to data to boot.

I try not to engage in personal attacks, but i have to say man, you really looked like a jacktard there,

Pro-tip, when you make an erroneous and asinine statement (which we all do from time to time), and someone calls you out on it, be humble, bow your head and admit it, or remain silent.
Following the refutation with random stupidity makes you look even worse.

But with old Civ it was one AI and different rule sets fro each civilization. Isn't that the same case here?

Unless and until baseband code/chip is open, you will never fully know what the phone leaks. Ever.

The spice must flow.

Probation. And increasing paranoia that the tinfoil couldn't keep out.

I drink.. I used to smoke, and I used to smoke marijuana, but I wont bore you with anecdotal personal stories. TFA mainly looks at the ratio of LD50 compared to the effective dose. For alcohol, the LD50 is close to the dose many consume. Closer than the LD50 of THC is to the used dosage. By that measure, LSD is safer than asprin because the ration there is so far apart.

Yes alcohol has long term health effects, so does any other substance. Eating has long term health effects. The real measurements are immediate risk, long term risk, and gain from consumption.

This addresses none of those in a useful fashion.

Do not ask for the videos of how they 'injected' human DNA into mice. Rule 34 and all...

Not having used and BSD for much, I did not know the conventions. Thanks for the clarification!

Wouldn't it make more sense to patch the kernel to make the correct function calls then update to a kernel with more changes that may not be tested/stable for a given usage scenario?

Ask for that you may just get a goatse instead.

I despise patent trolls, but reading your linked article, I see where the patent issues here were really only detrimental until the start of WW1. 1906 to 1917 is not "nearly half a century."

Please, when framing arguments against patents or climate deniers, or anything else that is important to you, do not exaggerate or use such hyperbole. It lessens the impact of your argument, however true, significantly.

You sound like a typical brainwashed american. If you bail on the sex offender registry, you will be hunted down. If you 'assume' a new name, you must bail on it, if not you would have to maintain two addresses, as your main address would still be in the registry and open to a simple sex offender search in the state, not even a BG check which would catch it also.

It is not as easy as you seem to think. Besides, whose name are you going to assume? How are you going to get birth cert and SS card and other proof of residency requirements that are needed for any job? All that can be done, but it not a 'simple' thing and one misstep and yo are back in prison for multiple charges.