Government Builds Free Cloud-Based Backup for an Ungrateful Nation
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#2Medium, a better place to read things…that show up in the bathroom stalls at the Onion? And, on the HN frontpage, apparently.
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#3Cute.
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#4Medium offering up satire?
What's next? "Obama Goes 'All the Way' to Prove to Americans Just How Wrong the Bush Administration's War on Terror Is: NSA Scandal a Lesson in Absurdity".
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#5>> A few thousand Americans are currently enrolled in a beta phase version of the program that would successfully backup all of their data.
That beta program went live in 2006. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/05/mark_klein_docu/
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#6Interesting example of how not having the title in the url hurts share-ability (even though that was originally done for seo). I pasted this link to friends, but had to provide a followup paste of the title.
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#7Cute, yes. I'm honestly confused on why some others are complaining about the satirical nature of the piece. Seems just what some people might need at this point...
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#8I've been wondering why hard drive prices haven't gone down to pre-flood prices.
Apparently the NSA has been buying every platter available via unlimited taxpayer dollars.
Sounds like a joke but think about it...
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#9I've been using this service for a while now, but haven't been able to get a restore to work. My data comes back with large parts of it blacked out -- no idea why. Has anyone else been able to do a successful restore?
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#10Medium offering up satire? What's next? "Obama Goes 'All the Way' to Prove to Americans Just How Wrong the Bush Administration's War on Terror Is: NSA Scandal a Lesson in Absurdity".
True satire is very welcome, especially considering the sad state of public opinion.