Each of my computers has a dedicated external hard drive where I push backups on a regular basis. I have one external hard drive stashed away at my parents where I make an backup of my laptop every time I visit them. My laptop pretty much has all of my important data so it serves its purpose. All the hard drives involved in this are encrypted of course.

On top of that my most important text documents(not necessarily important in the way of having personal information, but a lot of work put into) are backed up to Ubuntu One as well as Wuala.

Given how infrequently a lot of my data changes, I find the backups adequate.

The funny thing is that it's only TeliaSonera contemplating on doing this, all the others are more than fine with the situation as it is, and are even actively promoting unrestricted mobile broadbands.

Some years ago TeliaSonera was also the only ISP in Finland to talk about adding transfer limits to their non-mobile broadband service. They quickly stopped talking about that because they lost customers and the other service providers weren't going to jump aboard. So in a sense they're a front runner in Finland with stupid ideas and restriction.

I doubt their plan will go through in Finland. They'll just lose too many customers.

Given the security problems DropBox has had, no sane person let alone corporation would use it for anything remotely important.

Switch to a better service. Like Wuala. It actually encrypts your files on your device before sending them off to their storage. Wuala does not have access to your password so you're likely as safe as you can be with a service like that.

Simply put, yes.

My HTC Desire Z plays the 720p videos it records beautifully on a big TV. No reason why similar things can't be achieved with 1080p.

Oh please. All they have to do is sign up for an e-commerce website, put in the SSN number and they can order stuff with a bill and not have to pay for any of it.

Signing up for a mobile number with that information is very easy and once you have one of those, you can take out small loans from some of the shadier companies. Sure, it's not world ending stuff, but it'll be a pain in the ass for anyone to deal with.

You can, but when the feature was introduced it was enabled by default without asking the user for permission. The Germans think it should have been an opt-in feature, not an opt-out one.

I view my bookshelf and the books in it as an decorative element that also happens to serve a useful function. The room just wouldn't be the same without it. Also, I just like reading books in the paper form. Amazon can't come in and erase them if they find something displeasing.

Just remember HTC is already paying Microsoft a few dollars for every Android device they sell. So sad the market is heading to a direction where you can't buy a smart phone without money going to an company you don't want to support.

As long as you know the pass phrase used for the encryption you can stick a LiveCD in and mount the encrypted partitions. The way it's done depends on what was used for the encryption. Google is your friend for finding a relevant HOWTO ;)

That's quite rich considering your government just shut down 84,000 websites "by mistake": http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-shuts-down-84000-websites-by-mistake-110216/

The filter isn't mandatory and as such not all ISPs use it(not that it makes it much better). For example my ISP(Saunalahti) doesn't use it. Though they often operate in Elisas network which does use the list so if your connection makes use of Elisas name servers you'll be on an filtered connection. To the credit of Saunalahti, all it took was one e-mail to them and I had instructions to use their name servers to avoid the filtering.