Unless they are in a city with no chance of flooding, either natural or from infrastructure failure, a basement is dumb place to put that equipment.

Last I heard, Brazil was mostly wet and the infrastructure reliability left something to be desired.

The folly of thin servers has already been mentioned by others.

Once ATT gets the system worked out, they can use it to push ads to your phone

Nope, digital.

Right, instead of just disappearing after being tortured, now he will just die in some random traffic accident. Not a pleasant ending, but not the worst either.

Considering that it's light weight and could be thrown a considerable distance, you would trust it a lot more than I would.

Users may fork code, but the vast majority can't and don't have an interest in learning how.

As a USian, I'm more concerned about US corporations and US government agencies being after me, they are the ones that can do and are most likely to do me some harm. And, I'm not even concerned enough about them to wear a tinfoil hat.

That would only be fair if the majority of the fuel burned by the aircraft wasn't burned to overcome the aircraft's air resistance and weight. As an example, in rough numbers a 737 weighs about 75,000 lbs without passengers or fuel and carries about 130 passengers. That is 576 lbs of aircraft per passenger. Add in maintenance and other operating costs that would still be there is they were flying with no passengers and it becomes obvious that passenger weight is a relatively small percentage of their operating cost. And, there are also costs due to carrying passengers that have nothing to do with weight. Even if a planeload of passengers weighed 0 lbs, it would still take labor hours, passenger terminal expenses etc to process the weightless passengers onto an off the aircraft.

A more realistic version of that old saw is "You rarely get more than you paid for."

Anyone who has been around a while realizes that you frequently get less than you paid for.

Google is doing us a service by reminding us that online services, data storage, etc come and go. Don't rely on any one company if a service or your data is important to you.

Reality bites and it's good to have an occasional nip like this latest one from Google to remind us of that.

"Features" that you don't have can't fail or cause other failures

Everyone got enough exercise jumping to conclusions, flying off the handle, running down the boss, knifing friends in the back, dodging responsibility and pushing their luck.

As an English speaker, I have observed the same thing here.

Or I could encourage the government I elected to force them to play by my rules. Its not THEIR device, its MINE.

Business owns the Congress critters and you are no longer the customer, you are the product.

Outside the ISS is the next to the last place I would like to try it. Inside the ISS is the last place I would try it