Investors flee Carbonite after Limbaugh announcement

The Daily Caller ^ | 4/6/12 | Jeff Poor

[Impala64ssa]

On Saturday, Carbonite CEO David Friend released a statement on his company’s website declaring that Carbonite had decided to “withdraw” advertising from Rush Limbaugh’s radio show in the wake of his controversial remarks involving Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke because it will “ultimately contribute to a more civilized public discourse”:

Even though Mr. Limbaugh has now issued an apology, we have nonetheless decided to withdraw our advertising from his show. We hope that our action, along with the other advertisers who have already withdrawn their ads, will ultimately contribute to a more civilized public discourse.

However, it hasn’t done much to contribute to his company’s stock price. Since the market opened on Monday through its close today, Carbonite stock (NASDAQ:CARB) has plummeted nearly 12 percent, outpacing the drop of the NASDAQ index in that same time period by nine-and-a-half points. It was also one of the biggest decliners on the NASDAQ on Tuesday.

[JaguarXKE]

This is what I did:

2TB ioSafe

[JaguarXKE]

There are fireproof and waterproof external hard drives available for home use. They’re pricey but you can’t put a price on 0bamabots in possession of your files.

I only paid $239 for a Fireproof, water-proof 2TB ioSafe.

[marlon]

I uninstalled mine as well and was happy to answer the survey at the end telling them why.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I have two portable USB disk drives I use for home backup, but I was worried about theft and fire, so I began looking for an affordable offsite solution. I recently read about using Amazon S3 with Arq, a Macintosh front-end to S3. After pricing Mozy, Carbonite, etc I found that S3 is a real steal. I'm spending about $7/month to store about 65 GB of photos and music. The other services wanted up to 10X that amount. Setting up an account on Amazon was extremely easy (especially because we are already a "Prime" customer) and linking Arq to the account was a piece of cake. It quietly runs in the background doing incremental backups. The UI on the Arq agent and Arq application are brilliantly simple.

My initial backup was terribly slow due to my DSL line getting something like 350 kbps upload. But the Arq agent software is on the menubar and I can pause it any time I like. It is also activity-aware and gets out of the way if you use the web for other services.

There must be other front-end apps to S3 for PCs available as well.

I just received an email from Amazon yesterday informing me of price reductions up to 37% on their elastic computing ("EC") cloud services. It didn't sound like any immediate price reductions in S3.

Arq

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

[AlexW]

“The Internet is a weak link in the Carbonite backup approach”
_________________________________________________

I agree that online backup is a lazy man’s way to protect his data.
I joined Carbonite, thank to Rush, as a stop gap until I
could devise an in house backup system that could be kept off site.
I am evaluating other ways to do a backup.
I am amazed at the amount of data that can be loaded on to
a simple USB key...I have several of them.
It would, however, be important to store them off site.

As I look at my situation, there is not much more then photos and a few legal and medical documents that I need to save.
My point, however, and very important is that any backup data must be in a secure location other then on site.

I once had a fire that destroyed EVERYTHING, but it was just prior to the internet and online revolution.
I was just getting my feet wet on a 8080 computer and mono monitor.

[zipper]

Good!

It’s KNOWINGLY.

I think I’ll buy some of that tea from Rush — I’m already a 24/7 subscriber.

[JSteff]

wish I could figure out where to go now.
Drop Carbonite and get the best on line backups from Mozy Online.
Totally unobtrusive service that does not take many resources at all. Works EXACTLY at the time you tell it to. Had Carbonite but switched years ago and love it. Up to 2gb is free.

[Rummyfan]

Investors flee Carbonite after Limbaugh announcement

GOOD!!!!

[6SJ7]

So, after a concerted effort by Media Matters, the Whitehouse, and the MSM to take out Limbaugh over Fluke, the result has been to damage the quisling sponsors. Sweet.

[mazda77]

Just buy external backup drives and keep on a routine to update them. I run a desktop, a laptop (that stays with me) and three externals.

Microsoft has a really easy to use program called SyncToy that does a wonderful job of synchronizing my selected data files between computers and the externals, and it is free.

[OneHun]

Alternatives:

 

SOS Online Backup Home Edition 5.0

CrashPlan 3.0

MozyHome review

BackBlaze review

Norton Online Backup review

 

[OneHun]

Spread the word why Carbonite is sucks:

http://nobleackerson.com/carbonite-sucks

7 months ago (Tweet)

http://starpointe.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/that-explains-a-lot-about-carbonite/

That explains a lot about Carbonite

(lots of comments)

http://carbonite-madcustomer.blogspot.com/2010/12/carbonite-sucks.htmlCarbonite Sucks

 

 

 

[catfish1957]

I wish FR would create a huge highlighted link at the web portal page to inform Freepers of companies that support liberal causes and liberal media. There are a lot more conservatives in this country than idiot liberals... let’s boycott them into oblivion.

[ShadowAce]

I wrote them and said we will not renew again, wish I could figure out where to go now.

Buy an external hard drive and back up your own data.

[bossmechanic]

I agree.
It would be handy to have a list of companies and their political bent.
Guess I’m a bigot that way. I prefer to do business with people and companies that have the sense to support conservative principles and shun commie dictats. Same reason I won’t consider movies with Cruise, Sheen etc.

Kinda like Citco. With all the choices available, why buy Chavez fuel? I feel the same about GE, Berkshire, and GM.

The media got a big chuckle out of Romney when he said corporations are people. We all know that legally they are indeed viewed that way. But a corporation/company is very much a reflection of the people running the joint. Rotten leadership taints the whole.

[sit-rep]

i thought about that the very first time I heard one of their commercials...

[AlexW]

Just buy external backup drives and keep on a routine to update them.
____________________________________

As I have posted many times...That is all fine as long as you do not suffer an act of God such as a fire, which I did, or theft.
You have NO backup unless it is off site.

[marygam]

“That’s it!” I now know that this disease that I have suffered for years is heredity, Opinionated Italian disease! LOL! Thanks svcw for my diagnosis, it is truly appreciated. Good news is no meds necessary cause there ain’t no cure.

[catfish1957]

Fond this at another web site....

MSNBC and Chris Matthews Advertisers on Sunday Feb. 12, 2012

Advair

American Petroleum Institute (Ad was pushing for more oil and gas in the USA)

Aqua Velva

Audi

Audi Ft. Myers 239 454 444

Caption telephones, as seen on CapTelOffer.com

Charles Schwabb

Chevron

Comcast

Febreze

Fitzgeralds, Bonita Springs, FL

GE

ING ING.Com/US

Kushner and Kushner (lawyers)

Lexus

Liberty Mutual 888 853-3144

Nature Valley Granola Bars

NBC

New York Times

Northern Trust

Phillips (Colon Health)

Porsche (in Naples and Ft. Myers FL)

Raymond James financial advertiser

Recreational Warehouse (in Naples and Ft. Myers FL)

Sleep Number (beds) 1-800 Sleep Number

The Stage in Bonita Beach

[mc5cents]

Yes, if only Rush had used the word “strumpet” instead. Oh, well.