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Yeah, but you have to utterly stupid to upload critical data to a cloud service and be convinced that no unauthorized person will ever gain access to it (and now I'm talking in general, not about this individual).
I see the benefits of cloud storage, but I would never surrender my data to an outsider no matter how convenient. Do you realize how long it would take to download all that pr0n again? 
As for portability and accessibility, I'm perfectly content with using USB drives and external harddrives. If I loose them, I might be screwed, but at least it's my own responsibility! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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I have gone the USB, image and incremental image, route too and the really important part is - store the usb drives in a different geographical location to the computers that they are backing up.
(Fires, floods, meteorites and thieves don't generally attack two geographically separate locations simultaneously)
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Johnny J. wrote: you have to utterly stupid to upload critical data to a cloud service
No, being gullible is enough.
Johnny J. wrote: As for portability and accessibility, I'm perfectly content with using USB drives and external harddrives. If I loose them, I might be screwed, but at least it's my own responsibility!
The cloud is also being used by larger corporations; I don't see them setting up a sneaker-net any time soon.
As for accessability; most people with broadband can access their computer using RDP, if they'd configure it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Cloud Service saves you the trouble of mailing your stuff to NSA! 
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My solution is simple: I pay $5 a month for a GoDaddy website, which comes with unlimited storage, and operate my own private secure cloud, written and administered by me. It's really not too difficult. Then again, most internet users wouldn't know how to write a "Hello, world" HTML page, so my approach is probably not for everyone.
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do you encrypt your files?
Long ago when I did web development, I had to explain to customers that if they were on a virtual server (like godaddy) I would not store customer information in the database. I had no way of knowing who the sys-admins were. I'm with 1and1 and any time I had to call for support (very rarely), I always got a Russian sounding guy....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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That is on my "to do" list. Right now, it is mainly a kind of personal Instagram that lets me upload photos from my cell phone and tablet, and share them back out. Still very much a work in progress.
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Yeah, but it's easier and cheaper to ride Paris subway Hilton!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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Yeah, but at least they have records of everybody who rode the Moscow subway...
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Well, that's easily done - in that case, we're talking about a manageable number of people!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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well we can assume that it more than 10 as we only have a total of 8 fingers and 2 thumbs (this much detail was for the internet factually correct police) and less than the population of the Earth.
This is Paris we are talking about
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Then you'd be the guy who had everything. 
Have some penicillin on the house.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Since returning from lunch, I've had four invitations to various Christmas dos as well as a house warming. I now have 14 different functions over the Advent period and not one of them will be dry.
Woe, woe and thrice woe.
{pssst! Anyone got a spare liver?]
speramus in juniperus
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For your Crimbo delectation, may I recommend this little beauty[^]? Ho yes - tastes verrrrry nice. Has a lovely bite to it.
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Mmm... Vilmos like!
speramus in juniperus
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Last saturday I got the opportunity to see the distillery of Dettling[^] and could taste some of their various Kirsch products. Some fine specimens out there 
I didn't even like Kirsch until then. Probably always got some cheap stuff... 
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10 Minutes away from my home, did you get to taste the Dettling Silber?
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I do, but unfortunately I'm cooking it for supper tonight...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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With fava beans and a nice Chianti?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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With bacon, onions, gravy, mash and petits pois. :slurp:
Oh, and a mug of coffee.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I swapped rooms to join a project team, in the new room we've Radio 6 which is much less irksome than Radio 1.
They've just played Tavener's "The Protecting Veil" (presumably because the old fella kicked it yesterday), you wouldn't get that on the plebcast.
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My knee jerk reaction was "No, I don't think so", but considering the content I'll bugger you in a totally bro/non-Camden way. John Tavener[^] was a man who took hold of life's tapestry and provided the score.
speramus in juniperus
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He was my favourite living composer. I big loss to the world of music.
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