xkcd - why we should fear the cloud

[nudone]

xkcd, succinctly, demonstrates the problem with the cloud...

<img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_cloud.png" />

http://xkcd.com/908/

[wreckedcarzz]

A lot of caching, oh lord...

[40hz]

That line where he says "In the end they're all getting it here." is absolutely brilliant.  

(Now that I've stopped laughing, I'm left with this uneasy feeling it might not be a joke. )

[Stoic Joker]

That line where he says "In the end they're all getting it here." is absolutely brilliant. 

(Now that I've stopped laughing, I'm left with this uneasy feeling it might not be a joke. )

Yepper, same here...

[app103]

There's planned downtime every night when we turn on the Roomba and it runs over the cord.

[wreckedcarzz]

There's planned downtime every night when we turn on the Roomba and it runs over the cord.

I read that and didn't stop laughing for what felt like eternity. Thankfully I'm the only one home so no one came in to give me funny looks

[doctorfrog]

Hm, the guy running the cloud has a douchebag hat.

Appropriate.

[Stoic Joker]

Hm, the guy running the cloud has a douchebag hat.

Appropriate.

While I am reflexively inclined to agree ... I've not a clue as to the origin of that connection (/hat type). Any chance you can help me out so I don't have to Google the term at work...