They Are Scrubbing the Internet Right Now [More]
That reminds me: I’m due for my annual donation.
I’ve told you why before, lots of times.
Thing is, it looks like they’re only taking PayPal, and I don’t do Paypal. I just sent them an inquiry if there’s any other way.
[Via WiscoDave]
UPDATE
A check it will be:
Censorship…both official and unofficial are why it’s necessary for us to download and store offline ALL the evidence of the lefts ongoing crime spree . You can NEVER trust the cloud.
The cloud isn’t magical.
In computer science school, the instructor would draw a process on the board. A defined input would point to a big fluffy thing. Out of the big fluffy thing would come an output. That particular course would cover the protocols governing the content and format of the input and the output. If you asked what went on inside that big fluffy thing in the middle, the instructor would usually smile and say it was covered in another course.
In computer sciences, this is known as a “black box algorithm.” The “user” in in charge of creating the inputs and shoving them into the “black box” represented by the big fluffy thing. The user is not privy to what goes on inside the “black box” and needs to know only that if the inputs are as specified, the outputs will be valid. In this way, the maintainer of the “black box” can change how the inputs are processed into the outputs without risk of breaking any of the user’s code used to create the inputs or interpret the outputs.
Over time, the instructor’s shortcut, the big fluffy indeterminate thing on the board, became known as “the cloud.” But in the real world, “the cloud” is simply someone else’s computers that run processes you know nothing about to provide a service that you use. There are advantages and disadvantages to using a service provided by someone else, but you should keep in mind what those advantages and disadvantages are.
One disadvantage is that users who have no idea what goes on inside “the cloud” can’t really provide much detail on why the results they’re getting are not as expected. Think of the wife on “Green Acres” telling her husband that “My PRNDL is broken.” Next time you go out for a drive, keep your eyes open for the PRNDL.
“And there ain’t any ghosts in that engine!” — USN Machinists Mate Jake Holman in “The Sand Pebbles.”