Posts by MBaldelli

Personally I'm not too keen on "Cloud"

Frankly I've never been took keen on this whole of "Cloud Computing". While it might be a good thing for those that are constantly on the go -- one of the biggest problems that I've experienced both as a business traveler as well as technical support -- is just how spotty connectivity can be. There are still places in the world that simply refuse to join the information age for Instant connectivity. Not to mention the countries that are still running on dial up connections as well as those that meter out to the KB/MB/GB how much throughput you can use on their networks.

Given the costs of laptops with more hard drive and process space than the average desktop, perhaps spending a little extra money on licensing for an offline mode would be cheaper (and perhaps even saner) than trying to clamor onto the whole "cloud computing" world.

gods below!

They have enough of a hard time keeping track of their documents when a Senate Congressional Hearing is demanding to oversight them. This would make it easy for them to one-button delete everything and claim it to be a server error and that it's going to take weeks/months to restore.

And can you imagine how they'll freak out when their memos and what not that are stored un-redacted on these servers suddenly gets leaked to the outside world? They'll think the debacle with Wikileaks and Bradley Manning a romp in the park.

I don't know whether I should be feeling amused or dread.... Probably both.

Give it time...

Someone within the ISPs that finds out and ends up getting shit-canned in a way they don't like will whistleblow which ISPs are allowing for warrantless tapping. That's how it was found out about AT&T and Verizon after all.