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Titre: Never did like this "cloud" idea
Posté par: patrick013 le 13 août 2013 à 00:55:00
emails and private clouds (http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/personal-email-and-private-clouds-fall-in-war-privacy-224603?page=0,0&source=IFWNLE_nlt_notes_2013-08-12)

These news stories keep cropping up.
Titre: Re : Never did like this "cloud" idea
Posté par: melodie le 13 août 2013 à 02:05:55
Citer
Here's how bad it's become: Yesterday, two "secure" email service providers decided they'd rather close up shop than cooperate with the United Spooks of America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooks)

Very good start for this article… Not having read the rest yet, just starting.

Titre: Re : Never did like this "cloud" idea
Posté par: djohnston le 13 août 2013 à 03:51:20
I never liked it, either. Even the name sounds hokey. "Your data is in 'the cloud'." Will it get wet?

It's the ages old client-server model. Sun Microsystems created java in the hopes that all our data would "live" on their servers and we wouldn't "need" a huge cumbersome computer in our homes. (Wishful thinking with very little foresight and a blatant disregard of Moore's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law).)

There's a video somewhere of Scott McNealey demonstarting to an audience the "enormous" size PCs would have to become in order to hold all of a user's data. I think he was over influenced by the original mainframe (server) and dumb terminal (client) model that preceeded the birth of home computers.

Titre: Re : Re : Never did like this "cloud" idea
Posté par: melodie le 13 août 2013 à 09:45:04
I never liked it, either. Even the name sounds hokey. "Your data is in 'the cloud'." Will it get wet?
or will it get down from there?  :D

Titre: Re : Never did like this "cloud" idea
Posté par: mimas le 13 août 2013 à 14:39:38
> "Your data is in 'the cloud'." Will it get wet?

No, the could is electricity and hates water. It's probably the main difference between water cloud and data cloud. Data runs through pipes, it is collected by private companies, it is used for various things and is eventually recycled. Moreover, a few are making big money with it.
Titre: Re : Never did like this "cloud" idea
Posté par: patrick013 le 13 août 2013 à 20:55:02
Yeah, nothing better than online storage.          8)