This is my usual Friday as well. Sunday is my Monday.
Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Aug 09, 2012 8:05:22 am PDT #17567 of 30001
brillig
tommyrot - Aug 09, 2012 8:06:03 am PDT #17568 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
is that right?
I heard it on public radio this morning.
did he find out why he was targeted?
I don't know.
Jessica - Aug 09, 2012 8:06:17 am PDT #17569 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I also admit ignorance here. Isn't The Cloud online storage? And how is it different from iCloud?
"The Cloud" means anything stored anywhere online. iCloud is Apple's proprietary online backup system.
"The cloud" didn't get hacked. Apple and Amazon got hacked.
Nora Deirdre - Aug 09, 2012 8:06:36 am PDT #17570 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
is that right? did he find out why he was targeted?
I think because he had a cool twitter handle.
tommyrot - Aug 09, 2012 8:07:26 am PDT #17571 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think because he had a cool twitter handle.
Oh yeah, I heard that a few days ago.
§ ita § - Aug 09, 2012 8:07:55 am PDT #17572 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The "cloud" is the concept of servers out there on the internet, you don't care particularly where. iCloud is Apple's slice of that pie. Carbonite has theirs, Google has a cloud implementation, Amazon was some of the first to go to market with cloud services for corporations.
Jesse - Aug 09, 2012 8:09:36 am PDT #17573 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And it was short?
There was a great thing on Fresh Air recently about how The Cloud just means your stuff is stored on someone else's physical hard drive, probably in Virginia or somewhere.
flea - Aug 09, 2012 8:10:33 am PDT #17574 of 30001
information libertarian
My mother just asked me how to make a grilled cheese sandwich. Nobody here butters the bread, right? You just put butter in the pan!
My mother is always calling me up to ask me how to make really basic stuff that I learned how to make from her. It's very disconcerting.
tommyrot - Aug 09, 2012 8:11:14 am PDT #17575 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
One of the advantages of the Cloud is you can have multiple devices use it for a source of data, so you don't need to sync your devices anymore for that data, as each device will just pull it from the Cloud.
Jessica - Aug 09, 2012 8:11:15 am PDT #17576 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
(Though actually I take that back - I forgot his Gmail was hacked too. If someone got into my Gmail account they'd basically have everything because I store all the "Welcome to Extremely Secure Internet Thingy That Will Never Be Hacked! Here is your username!" emails there. So backing up to a 3rd party wouldn't have helped him here.)
I still maintain that there's nothing inherently unsafe about online backups. I back up to an external hard drive at home, but all that means is that I'm more protected from hacking and less protected from fires.