Cloud storage, remote storage, backups, remote backups - all encrypted. You'll pry the key out of my cold dead brain, if you can find a way to.

In South Africa you have to go to the bank branch, with bank card and ID document, to set a monthly limit to transfers outside your portfolio. You can also go in and request a temporary increase (if you've just borrowed money and want to pay a few debts off) - startting immediately and ending on a date you specify. There is two-factor validation via SIM though for every beneficiary you add, or once-off beneficiary payments.

I walked into a new job, fairly decent salary at the time, and ran into the old guy leaving. He told me "sorry, I couldn't tell you at the interview, but start looking for a new job. This place is going down". The job lasted less than 6 months. Then the company went belly-up. I spent 9 months unemployed after that. With newborn twins to feed.

Agreed. Got root access here on our mail servers and others, and I've never been tempted to read other people's mails, snoop for information, or anything like that. I guess it would be interesting to know what our other staff members earn, or other things like that, but it's not my position to know.

I have Acer iconia A501, 16GB. The 32GB wasn't available here so I bought the small one. Did pop in a 32GB SD card so it's got loads of space, enough for me. If I watch movies, it's from an external USB stick. I get the "oh, so it's better than iPad" response too, usually. I do tend to tell people who think it's an iPad that it's better than an iPad, really. I then list the features (external USB, etc) that the iPad doesn't have and they usually say "hey, that's cool". I've had the iconia for about a month now, and it's only crashed once. Battery life is sufficient for me. I'm trying to find what they call a "Data SIM", no calls, no SMS, 3GB for R399 (about 50 USD) - yes, bandwidth is expensive here. They never have stock though. I use the tablet mostly on Wifi but I want the 3G if I go somewhere. It's valid for 365 days. A pre-paid card is valid for 3 months since the last call before the number gets recycled, and I obviously forget to take the SIM out of the tablet, but prepaid, and call myself.

In my country (South Africa) my mobile provider (Vodacom SA) allows for blacklisting the SIM card and then the IMEI (no calls) once you have a police case number for the stolen phone, and they can block the IMEI on 2 of the 4 networks (the biggest networks, Vodacom and MTN). So the phone would be useable on the other 2 networks. Not very good, really. All 4 networks have roughly the same contract/specials rate, so it won't really be an issue of the thief to use/sell the phone for use on the other networks. Or even pawn it with a prepaid SIM card that works to prove it works. I wonder how you get a lost phone blacklisted, they don't say anything about that. Perhaps just go to the police and log it as a stolen phone. I have insurance on both my and the wife's cellphones (Blackberry 9300, Motorola Droid 1). It's not that expensive, really worth it. Although I've never lost a phone, and never had one stolen.

I can just see a sales-drone wired to a chair, getting peeved off and shouting at the consumer on the other side (has happened to me) and getting electrocuted for his efforts. That's now - if they use this system to monitor their sales-drones.