Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
I’ve written before about my dislike of “the cloud.” The term implies that there aren’t specific actors doing specific things with data, which will tend to weaken people’s impression that they have rights and obligations when using or providing cloud services. We’re talking privacy problems. When “cloud” services fail, the results can be widespread and [...]
I hate the term “cloud computing” because it denies the duties and responsibilities of network operators and software and database managers. It’s like a George Carlin bit: “I didn’t breach the data. The cloud did it! It was out in the cloud! How did the government get my private data? It got it from the [...]
I just finished reading through The Economist’s new 14-page special report on cloud computing, “Let It Rise” in which Ludwig Siegele provides an outstanding overview of cloud computing and why it is so important: The rise of the cloud is more than just another platform shift that gets geeks excited. It will undoubtedly transform the [...]
February 14, 2012
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