I am a fan of the cloud........in the sky.
To put my docs on? No thanks.
Orwell would have been all over “the cloud.” It’s a perfect tool for controlling information and finding out who (in political terms) has been naughty or nice.
Ah.... back to the days of having a DUMB TERMINAL sitting in front of me. At least it will boot up faster.
You’ve stumbled on one of the many reasons the cloud is a painfully stupid idea. The Egyptians stumbled on another. A couple years ago when a guy fleeing the police crashed into the cable company’s repeater nearest my house and took me entirely off the grid I stumbled on another.
The cloud is really cool, all the way until ain’t.
So.... basically if you lose connection with the internet, you have a large paper weight in front of you.
Cloud software is wonderful for some things and unacceptable for others, for various reasons. Best uses I know of for it are Yahoo mail and SalesForce.
And online storage has been all the rage before...like from the mid to late 90s up until a lot of true believers found their data vanishing into the ether as the hosting sites went belly up.
There is one born every minute - and two to take him
You are VERY Correct.
Cloud computing is danger to freedoms. It’s intentional.
It’s a plan. It is being done in cooperation with the government and leftist companies like Google in order to harm us.
No computers except what they allow us access to is the end goal. No storage. No programming power. All controlled and turned off with the flip of a switch.
Those promoting it. Well.... check my tag line.
Put them next on the list.
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this is, I think, a great but not quite the ultimate example of what McLuhan called an "implosion."
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this is, I think, a great but not quite the ultimate example of what McLuhan called an "implosion."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110421/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_amazon_outages