Online Os!! .... Do everything online!!

Looks neat!

Ya get 30,000 Megs of space....

www.glidedigital.com


The mobile version is good too

www.glidemobile.com



Here is another one: www.andrewmin.com/webx

 

For someone as paranoid about somebody having access to your stuff as you are, how is an online OS going to work out for you, Dude111? Just wondering... Because if it's all online you have no control over that.

 

30GBs FREE?!! holy shit dude thanks, thats the most ive ever seen, I really needed something like this.
id assume you can use it to send large files to other people, which you cant do over email...

 

Ya it looks good...

According to thier PRIVACY POLICY they will NOT give your info to anyone requesting it..... (I dont know how they can do this (If feds ask,etc))

 

feds could get a warrant easy... whatever though...

 

Right?

Even from the aspect of losing control, even if they're not bad guys..... Why the fuck would you give up that control over your data?

Who cares what the feds see, I want to control my own drives, my own OS, my own hardware, I want free as in freedom, not free as in free beer.

 

and with glide digital I have the freedom to share data easily, im not sure what youre getting at roor, you dont have control over anything.

 

How so? Not everything I own goes online, I have multiple systems. Unless somebody physically removes those systems from my home I have control over them.

 

you have no control over if someone can peep into your computer and see all your files... ESPECIALLY if using microsoft.. the only way you have control is if you dont have your computer connected to the internet... and even then how do you control your OS? Id understand that statement somewhat if you were using linux

 

I have a network that off the internet. Needed upgrades, updates and software changes are done manually to that network without going online... Nobody gets to it.

 

If you're using M$ anything, you're a complete sucker..... It's easier than it's ever been, and literally much easier than windows, with the state of ubuntu and other idiot-friendly distros.


And yes, I feel that I have absolute control over my data. I can pick my drive up, and carry it, and use it elsewhere. I can do anything I want to my data, without depending on my internet connection.

In the sense that everything is an illusion, and even within that illusion I'm just a monkey on a rock speeding through space, you're right, I have no control. But outside that fact, I am in control of my data, partly because I'm the type who gets pissed if someone forgets to put my toothpaste where they found it and I don't like depending on others, and partly because clouds are really inconveniant, unless you like depending on a scheme where you must pay to get at your data, and it still depends on everything from the weather to someone ELSE'S drive crashing.

So..... Of course I'm running linux, what the hell would you think I'm running? Are YOU in windows? WHY are you in windows?

 

nope linux mint here, OP posted GREAT, FREE cloud services .. awesome.
i dont know what kind of "data" people have that theyre worried about people seeing anyways

 

As I just explained, my concern is not for privacy, but for my own loss, inability to access, or slow access of, my data.

Incidentally, my privacy is also protected at the same time.

Even if you cared so much about privacy, there are tools that are so good at encryption you can ALMOST deny that data exists at all, and you could stick it on their server and not sweat about it..... Thus the guys with real bad shit would never have to worry, but your ex wife can get all the dirt on your affair for divorce court, or what-have-you.

It's just generally a waste of time, I don't want to depend on my ISP, have speed problems, and depend on the guys with my data, when I could just carry a hard copy.

And by the way, your "what have you got to hide" approach to privacy is VERY dangerous, contemptible in fact. What have you got to poke through, would be a better question.

Also, it's an issue on the loss of control. Maybe right now there's no harm to what anyone looking at your data is looking for, but we don't know if that will always be the case. What's wrong with retaining the ability to function on your own without infrastructure?

It shouldn't be about why I mind them looking, but why they want to look.

 

Not necessarily, only IF you kept all your data on your portable hardrive or USB, never connected to the internet because nothing is completely secure

 

No, nothing is, but if it's on my own machine it takes an assload more work to find my shit, than if it's all on someone elses server.

Anyway, as I said, moot point, because I have no reason to put shit on the cloud in the first place, it's full of drawbacks, and has very few benefits, security being just one of them.

And if you don't see the importance of SOME security, you must drag your wallet through the gutter on a string......

 

should of stopped there, nice edit

 

Yes, I write by editing.

Also a moot point.

 

no it was a completely different opinion about how you dont care about privacy
then switched to flaws about OP

 

I probably care more about privacy THAN ANYONE HERE!!

 

reading this thread made me think "what's it like to have 'secret, private data'?"

Hackers and kiddie porn collectors would be my first suspects for having secret data, then inventors and spies... I dunn0 I have like *almost* no secrets at all. I'm like the opposite of a "private person."

I bet RooR's secret files are pretty wicked whatever they are