In article
S3DQmpBqD, Diesel
wrote:



users have full control over what's stored on the cloud, no
matter who runs the servers.

ROFL, No, they don't.

yes they absolutely do.

Tell that to the users of the former megaupload site. I'm sure that
would give them a chuckle or two, in between crying about the data
loss.

they have only themselves to blame for losing data because they had
only one copy of their data (no backups) and on a service mainly used
for pirated content. it's no surprise to anyone (other than the naive)
that it was ultimately shut down. call it karma.

and that has nothing whatsoever to do with control, which is always up
to the user.

you might not, but that's due to your lack of knowledge about the
cloud and what can be done.

You do realize there's more than one cloud, right?

of course, and i use several.

apparently you do not, since you think megaupload is somehow
representative of all cloud services and that all will have the same
fate.

If something happens to the servers that
provide that particular cloud, you can be essentially, locked out
of your data if you only trusted your backups to that 'cloud'

nobody said anything about backups.

I did. It's a great example. Especially with the radio/tv advertising
concerning it. You don't live under a rock, right?

it's not a great example, because the cloud is *much* more than just
backups.

only someone who lives under a rock would think that backup is all
there is to the cloud.

only someone who lives under a rock would think that megaupload is
representative of all cloud services.

even something as trivial as bluetooth headset pairing can benefit from
the cloud.

however, a cloud backup is infinitely more reliable than a backup
drive sitting *next* to the computer its backing up.

Who said anything about such a limited backup? What good would that
really do you if something happened to your house?

exactly why cloud backups are useful.

and 'such a limited backup' is what people usually have, that is if
they have a backup at all, which most do not.

You really don't
think things thru before you run off at the mouth.

that would be you.