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Cloud Computing
I keep hearing about and reading about this cloud computing. Now I have not read up on all the facts but if I understand things correct basically I will have a stupid terminal and all my software etc will be out on the internet someplace.
With all the mega hard drives, flash drives and laptops and other portable devices why would I use some remote service to store my stuff. For backups that works but if I have a meeting here in Orlando and a large storm takes out the net connections and I need a file to complete my sale I just lost it cause its in the "cloud".
Also how do "they" plan to keep everything secure? we all know all to well that we can't keep a simple web page secure and we want to be running programs based on cloud? This just doesn't make any sense, all my pictures and anything else I deem important is 100% safe in my hands with home and remote storage of flash or HDD. No worries that company X goes out of business or hacked and the pictures of my daughter lost forever (rest her soul and thanks for fireproof safes)
I just don't get this whole idea, maybe in some distant future when man has stopped fighting over the afterlife "religion" and destroying our home(earth) we will be able to trust such a way of using computers. I know now if I can't do something offline then its not worth doing at all cause the current state of security on the net I wouldn't trust anything I had to do cause the only sites I trust don't have much in the way of security risks.
maybe i have this all wrong, but either way security is a major issues for cloud computing and I know they are doing it with "smart phones" and I don't trust that in any shape or form. I guess I an turning into one of those people who likes the old ways or I just see major problems down the round for the cloud.
this is just a rant I had to let out. Anyone agree with me that its just way to soon for the cloud?