Posted on 09/02/2013 12:13:08 PM PDT by LibWhacker
The return of the dumb terminal....everything old is new again.
This cloud will be hosted at the NSA.
Absolutely.
All your personal documents in the cloud, what could possibly go wrong?
Microsoft wouldn't be dumb enough to cede that territory.
Would they?
Sure about that?
cloud os?
fail
It doesn’t say anything about getting hold of your data. They are talking about Windows specifically.
Furthermore Bill Gates hasn’t been at the helm of Microsoft for several years now.
Which one of the druggies came up with this “cloud” BS anyway? Cloud my @$$.
Yup.
Sounds like it may be time to get up to speed on Linux.
Exactly. Especially in light of all the recent revelations about the lack of privacy and security in the world. That cloud would be one big fat juicy target and I’m not going anywhere near it!
Don’t forget FreeVMS. I always loved VMS.
> Absolutely.
Gee, isn't that nice of them. That big new NSA data storage facility out in Utah must be for this.
How terribly uncharitable of us to assume it was for secret surveillance of US citizens.
Instead, they're going to have us all upload all our data for them!
BRILLIANT!!!
Yeah, but this time it's different! And Better! :-) /sarc
It's all cyclical.
I work with VMware. Explained what it was in rough sketches to my Dad, who replied, "Hmm. I did that 30 years ago on an old System 34".
4-5 years ago I was at a cloud computing afternoon seminar, and one of the guys started his talk with the statement (paraphrasing) “I used to be an Application Service Provider, then I did Software As A Service, and now I do Cloud Computing.”
Most of the room had been around for a while, so there was quite a bit of laughter.
Software does things to data, whether it’s your tax data, your Word documents, etc. In the world of cloudheads, you own a dumb terminal and the OS, software, and your data reside in the cloud (or are easily accessible from it). No thanks!
Nope. Win7 was the last version of Windows as we know it.
It isn't obvious to anyone living in a wired-all-the-time city, but we rural dwellers know the hazards of overdependence on infrastructure. First your data, then your apps, and now your OS all depend on infrastructure. And infrastructure is vulnerable.
When my workplace decided to outsource email to The Cloud there was one individual who pointed out that while we were hosting it ourselves, we could communicate perfectly well locally if the Internet feed went down. If it goes down now the email goes dark. The guy pointing it out was our former networking team leader.
The big gainer from all this? Linux.
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