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PIEBALDconsult wrote: he describes such activities as using a computer to order groceries for home delivery. And E-mail, news reports, etc.
Definitely a visionary! I recall my first use of online services for personal purposes. In ca 1985 the Bank of America offered online banking services via a 300 baud modem ( a story in itself ) on a computer with a break-thru 256k of RAM. It took about 30 minutes to check my balance, more to make a transfer between savings and checking. Prior to that I used an ASR33 with an acoustic-coupled modem to contact the computer (a building-sized thing) at school for a technology demonstration at the County Fair in 1978. That was state of the art then, and the "technology" we were demonstrating was a program to print the daily horoscope of a Fair visitor. But that doesn't count as personal services...
Will Rogers never met me.
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It's too hot. I've got an article baked up (in my head) but I can't write it until I test what I built - a little GPS based speedometer, locator, and trip counter for a bicycle.
It's too hot to think about getting the gadget together to strap it to the bike.
It's too hot to ride a bike.
I'd really like something to do right now though.
That terrible orb in the sky! *shakes fist*
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Hire a neighborhood kid?
(The day-star, it burns.)
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Hey, now there's an idea. =)
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Just don't get charged with tracking a minor.
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Haha good point. I think I'll just wait until it cools down, or until my Aussie friend gets around to testing my code. He's got the same gear i do.
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But maybe it's too cold there.
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We've got loads of cool rain if you want it - buyer collects.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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There's a hole in my bucket.
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honey the codewitch wrote: That terrible orb in the sky!
Hey, that's our only guarantee of energy now.
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Got a pickup truck you could borrow? You could test the GPS part at least.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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honey the codewitch wrote: It's too hot.
Really? We're having a cold snap this week - only 115° or so. Send me your brain, I'll let it work in coolness for a while and send it back.
Will Rogers never met me.
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"
About Google
Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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That is exactly what we don't want you to do.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
FTFY...
Our mission is to organize the world’s information and only show you what we think you should see.
Jeremy Falcon
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please bring back altavista (old fart here).
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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duckduckgo here.
(I do remember AltaVista)
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Precisely. They (and others) routinely censor search information or push results onto page 100.
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In view of the catastrophic global IT mess: Do you still trust the cloud? I never have and never will.
Yes, I do save some non critical data there, but is is fully backed up in local storage. I will never get in a position where cloud failures can harm me.
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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I save non-critical data to cloud storage for a few reasons. It's usually photos and stuff, and I can back those up on SD, and if they leak on the Internet, well primarily what will happen is my cats will just get more Internet famous. 
Part of the reason is lack of space, part of it is transferability between my computers and my phone, and part of the reason is that while I don't trust the cloud I also don't trust my local storage options, so I diversify.
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Nope, that's why we use TeamCity for building packages in a local network, mostly C# and C++ development.
There is a snag though, when I'm going to retire in a few years time it will be very difficult for my employer to find someone who can manage the builders and all the builder scripting I wrote.
That's what you get when you deviate from the Azure path (curse of the Azure Bonds) 
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Cp-Coder wrote: In view of the catastrophic global IT mess: Do you still trust the cloud?
I trust the technology, but I don't trust Google, Apple, etc. to not be politically biased or sneaky. So, yes and no. For instance, there have been reports that Apple keeps your photos even after you delete them. Google does the same with Gmail, btw. Tech companies have shown their true colors and it's pretty disgusting if you ask me.
As far as the tech side, there's nothing wrong with it. Outages suck, but as long as they don't lose your data it's no big deal. If it's sensitive then encrypt it so a data breach won't matter. People act like an outage is a huge deal, but a house fire could wipe you out too. So, do both if you're really that worried.
Jeremy Falcon
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I agree. The technology is mostly sound and reliable; people not so much.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: a house fire could wipe you out
This is why I have two large external SSD's at home. One contains an image backup plus differentials, while the other is a robocopy mirror of my working data. Once a week these get swapped with an identical pair at work.
... and yes, I do take a look at the backups to make sure they're working properly.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Absolutely not.
Going back to pre cloud days (more on that in a second) say early 90s, the wife started a web site development business. At the time, none of our customers could afford their own server, and someone figured out how to create one server and sell multiple virtual servers hosted on it. Now, my wife was the html monkey while I handled the Perl and server errors, sql stuff.
The more I learned about virtual servers, the more I as adamant in that we were not going to save customer information for any customer. If a website wanted to handle CC transactions, we offboarded it to some other site that I cannot remember the name. Why?
1) Sure the info goes over https. Then it goes into a mysql database on a virtual server that I have no control over. If the server owner has a bad actor, all of the sites we support were wide open. Customers did not understand this.
2) Vulnerability. If someone takes the base server down, you're down. If they hack the base server, our customers are screwed. We actually had this happen. A hacker got into the hosting company, contaminated the OS and just waited. The hosting company never detected it and after 90 days, all of the backups were corrupt. Their only option was to format the hard drives. Keep a separate backup rule learned the hard way.
3) Although Microsoft (this post, I am not picking on them specifically) gushes about how protected the Azure servers are, they run on common hardware for multiple customers, and they have been caught more than once with improper security settings allowing one customer to see other customers' data. I have no idea about the Amazon and HP environments, but if I were paranoid....
What amazes me about corporations and governments doing this is that they think they are being responsible from having a legal service agreement. We promise, they promise, etc. This is what happens when management hides behind these legal agreements. You never, ever want to have to refer to the contract except for trivial things.
Cloudstrike and likely Microsoft are going to be writing a lot of checks over the next few months - if they survive. I just hope no one died.
YOU DO NOT DESIGN IN A SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE FOR MISSION CRITICAL SYSTEMS.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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