The moment you buy into the cloud ideology, you're giving away the freedom that makes internet useful.

I hope you're happy with your iPad and other cloud-based devices now, because that's your ticket to selling your right to control content.

Paul Muaddib, being merely a book character, said many profound things, but "Dune" series is all about profound things.

Among them, he said that one is in control of a thing when they can destroy it.

Anything that is 'in the cloud' is under the control of whoever runs the cloud.

It wouldn't be a problem - if the cloud owners wouldn't present such an easy target for various pressure groups.

No matter how benevolent are they, once it's on a central server, they will have to bend to the pressure.

Back when I was younger, everything of value was mirrored to infinity, just in case it goes away.

Now, everyone is moving to the Soviet model of computing, with huge datacenters and thin terminals.

Mark my words. It *will* be too late to save your data one day.

...then again, who am I talking to, you are all in Second Life already.

Which is a perfect example of a cloud system that's just *broken*, not even consciously hostile or very pressured.

I hope you backed this plurk up

There is no value in this plurk... but all my gmail is backed up.

It's easy enough to do if you use IMAP.

(P) to the Riksdag 2010!