Tara ,'Get It Done'
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.
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.
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.
(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.
I butter the bread.
Nobody here butters the bread, right? You just put butter in the pan!
It depends on whether or not the butter is soft enough to spread. Room temperature butter directly on the bread makes a more evenly browned sandwich.
I butter the bread. When I just butter the pan, it doesn't brown as nicely and evenly.
Oh my God, I've been doing it wrong!
No, wait, you people are all crazy. Plus my butter is always frigid.
I butter the inside of the bread, but I let the butter in the pan brown the outside.
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.
2-factor authentication, y'all.
Jessica,
but that's why I said he needed to turn on 2-factor auth with gmail. Regardless, he had the perfect storm: no backup, easy access to gmail and that his amazon and apple accounts were hacked.
Others,
he has a cool twitter handle, but they did more than hack his twitter account. They tried to (did?) decimate all of his online files.