Good job. Way to show everyone here you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

If you'd read the study, or even the linked articles, you wouldn't have even made that comment.

Don't fall for Sky_Visitor's nonsense. He's trolling and trying to bait people into an argument. He always does, everyone just tried to ignore him. He can't stand seeing good advice about him in print. ;)

Agreed. If he's "scrambled" drives like he says he has, then the drives were either really really shitty or the magnets were crazy powerful. Odds are it's the former and not the latter. If hard drives were so pitiful that this would be a problem, heaven forbid anyone have speakers on their desk or a subwoofer under…

Pay no mind to GFYGoogsheep. He's a pretty well known troll.

Congratulations, you're not just a jackass, you're an ignorant jackass!

1: This is Lifehacker, not Giz.

You notice that four of the five above are keyboard cases, right? :)

Agreed on all counts.

Sure, you don't care if the tablet you buy is functional.

Because flexibility is a good thing. You can have one device that can become multiple things instead of one device that's always one thing. Multitasker versus unitasker.

Wow. People slip and fall and hurt themselves on ice every year even in places that get lots of snow. Don't be a jackass, if something silly like this helps people from hurting themselves then it's a good tip. Don't be an ass.

You're right, I'm sure they'll make sure that every single article is relevant to you specifically going forward. In fact, they'll rename the site from LifeHacker to Swagacorn's Life Hacker just to make sure you never read anything that could be useful to anyone but you again.

Someone forcing you to live your life a way you don't want? I get (and agree!) with what you're saying, but come on - you have more control than you think! :)

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Because you're not thinking about how honest people can use it too. Come on, you don't seem like the shortsighted type, they even give you examples in the article and on their web site.

The article points out it's $1.99 per disposable number. They probably have buy-ins for more minutes/messages or something after it expires.