Cloud Computing

Hold on to your tinfoil hats people! Cloud computing is stealing your identity! And your house! And your tinfoil hat!

Mr.Biscuits

skinny90 wrote: »

Have you used much cloud based services and what do think of them?

And give yet even more control of my life over to the Illuminati - are you insane??

Capt'n Midnight

Sacramento wrote: »

Hold on to your tinfoil hats people! Cloud computing is stealing your identity! And your house! And your tinfoil hat!

http://berkeley.intel-research.net/arahimi/helmet/

The government want you to wear tinfoil hats :eek:

Conclusion
The helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the US government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz. According to the FCC, These bands are supposedly reserved for ''radio location'' (ie, GPS), and other communications with satellites (see, for example, [3]). The 2.6 Ghz band coincides with mobile phone technology. Though not affiliated by government, these bands are at the hands of multinational corporations.

It requires no stretch of the imagination to conclude that the current helmet craze is likely to have been propagated by the Government, possibly with the involvement of the FCC. We hope this report will encourage the paranoid community to develop improved helmet designs to avoid falling prey to these shortcomings.

funk-you

Fook all new about 'the cloud'. Just available to the masses now.

-Funk

ntlbell

funk-you wrote: »

Fook all new about 'the cloud'. Just available to the masses now.

-Funk

I have it running on my C64

Nulty

Nulty wrote: »

The move to the cloud is supposed to signify the shift of local programs being retailed in shops to being subscribed to as a service on the net. Microsoft Word for example would no longer be installed on your hard disk but accessed over the internet.

Microsoft love this. Cloud services finally allow them to introduce rental software. Stop paying and you can't use it.

I don't like this proposed future of everyone carrying around dumb tablets with all their information stored remotely. No internet connection = no data.

Firefox11

Mr.Biscuits wrote: »

And give yet even more control of my life over to the Illuminati - are you insane??

Well most people use Facebook is it's kind of a given. All you personal details and pictures of drunken idiots and cats and dogs all squirrelled away on some far off server in a land far far away. I find even using Google maps a bit creepy.

Capt'n Midnight

Firefox11 wrote: »

I find even using Google maps a bit creepy.

www.openstreetmap.org via tor and never start or end a journey at the points you are travelling between


moot if you own a smart phone since they get it anyway , apple, google and microsoft have all said so (haven't heard Blackberry confirm but they let Middle East governments access the server so probably)

--LOS--

dropbox is awesome for keeping college stuff organised, the college notes site can be pretty dodgy and is often offline at times when you most need it so I transfer everything to dropbox, nothing to worry about

Carter P Fly

I don't buy into the whole cloud computing thing. You're essentially taking some random companies word that the hundreds of other random companies they use to form their cloud all have fully secured and fault tolerant , regularly backed up servers and that all these companies are in absolutely no danger of going bankrupt, shut down or blowing up.

skinny90

Carter P Fly wrote: »

I don't buy into the whole cloud computing thing. You're essentially taking some random companies word that the hundreds of other random companies they use to form their cloud all have fully secured and fault tolerant , regularly backed up servers and that all these companies are in absolutely no danger of going bankrupt, shut down or blowing up.

I think you underestimate the " value " of cloud computing and what it offers business wise....and e government (although the government made a hash of things beforehand with info systems vs trad systems)most business that offer cloud serives for home use have been around for ages they have just renamed their platform " cloud " to those who think tablets are away of the future. what's the issue regarding laptop having 3G technology built Iv to them....it will take a long long time for tablets to become as quick and has powerful as laptop

phill106

smash wrote: »

windows ME

No one must EVER mention windows ME

ROFLcopter

The problem with cloud computing is the bloody logistics of trying to fly up there with your laptop

phill106

And what happens on sunny day!






*typed from my computer in a cloud computing data centre*

Capt'n Midnight

Carter P Fly wrote: »

I don't buy into the whole cloud computing thing. You're essentially taking some random companies word that the hundreds of other random companies they use to form their cloud all have fully secured and fault tolerant , regularly backed up servers and that all these companies are in absolutely no danger of going bankrupt, shut down or blowing up.

http://www.megaupload.com/ is costing $9,000 per day, to host one image http://www.megaupload.com/




and 25 Pentabytes of backedup data that no one is allowed access.

Coriolanus

Steam, a bit of google docs and that's it.

bnt

Not everyone is happy with cloud computing. An example is podcaster and former MTV VJ Adam Curry, who's particularly irked about URL redirection: if everyone uses one, and that service goes, all those links are broken. This has already happened (vb.ly was shut down). So, for that and more general reasons, he's gone to the lengths of creating his own "cloud" at home.

jonnny68

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZmYIEo90gs

philologos

smash wrote: »

That's not really cloud computing is it? I'd consider cloud computing as being storing your files in a central location and accessing them from anywhere / sharing them across all your devices simultaneously. Remote desktop was available as part of windows ME if I remember correctly. Possible before that...

It's technically about more than that as well. It also includes the possibility of deploying and executing applications without considering or caring about the physical constraints of the machine. Indeed, virtualisation of many machines over a server farm or a cluster is also what is happening in terms of hosting now.

Application as a service for example is a term that is becoming more and more used as people can deploy an application without renting out a server machine by using services such as Amazon's EC2 and Windows Azure.

entropi

The only real way that I've seen interaction with me and this type of networking, is through email, and through files stored on Steam for playing some games.

I wont claim to know loads about it, but it's there, and can be helpful.

Potatoeman

skinny90 wrote: »

this is my point,the people iv been talking to are in IT but when it comes to this kind of stuff they're completly against it...

It will cost local IT jobs if businesses keep their data in outsourced sites and Ireland is an unlikely hub for foreign countries to store data.

El_Dangeroso

Err, pretty much no-one on this thread actually knows what cloud computing actually is.

*Sits smugly while refusing to explain what it actually is*

philologos

El Dangeroso: When in doubt Wikipedia comes to hand:

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network (typically the Internet).

El_Dangeroso

philologos wrote: »

El Dangeroso: When in doubt Wikipedia comes to hand:

And yet still people don't understand what it is.

Sergeant

You can go to an Amazon dashboard and spin up a new server in seconds based on a template. You then use the server for as long as needed before shutting it down. Amazon charge you a ridiculously low sum of money for this convenience. Not having to deal with some condescending nerd in a Megadeath t-shirt nattering on about how much better the version of linux he uses is almost priceless.

Gummy Panda

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

philologos wrote: »

El Dangeroso: When in doubt Wikipedia comes to hand:

And yet still people don't understand what it is.

It's like Tron

Adyx

Potatoeman wrote: »

It will cost local IT jobs if businesses keep their data in outsourced sites and Ireland is an unlikely hub for foreign countries to store data.

Not necessarily true. Microsoft have a very large datacentre in Dublin which they announced they would be expanding to 415,000 sq ft only a couple of months ago.

westendgirlie

Wtf are you lot talking about?

Seachmall

westendgirlie wrote: »

Wtf are you lot talking about?

Best way to store porn, I think.

skinny90

Hp galway have Also invested massively in cloud,regarding Ireland you'll be very surprised what's in store for us,infact a lot of infrastructure is going to be developed in the west part of the country because wait til u get this...The weather is ideal