Survey Reveals a Majority Believe "the Cloud" Is Affected by Weather 261
SmartAboutThings writes "In a recent survey performed by Wakefield Research, it has been discovered that the majority of the surveyed Americans are quite confused about the notion of Cloud, when it relates to Cloud Storage/Computing. The most interesting fact is that 51% of the surveyed persons thought that stormy weather interferes with cloud computing!"
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Obligatory Onion story... (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.theonion.com/video/hp-on-that-cloud-thing-that-everyone-else-is-talki,28789/ [theonion.com]
Re:Satellite rain fade (Score:5, Funny)
Or when the rain provides enough interference that you can no longer poorly piggy-back on your neighbor's WiFi.
Re:It isn't? (Score:4, Funny)
Don't trust the clowd clowns with your data!
Re:I weep for my country (Score:5, Funny)
In a saner world, we'd just ship all hipsters to Seattle, and be done with them.
Re:It isn't? (Score:4, Funny)
Don't trust the clowd clowns with your data!
I certainly won't. Thanks for the tip. One other thing, how do I distinguish clowd clowns from regular clowns?
Re:or when rain / rain water get's in the phone / (Score:4, Funny)
I was told once by the cable crew who came to fix my cable, that because of squirrels eating at the cable, water had leaked in. As it was a 3 pole run,, some stupid amount of *gallons* of water poured out of the cable.
Re:I weep for my country (Score:5, Funny)
No, we'd nuke it from the cloud.
Re:or when rain / rain water get's in the phone / (Score:5, Funny)
I was told once by the cable crew who came to fix my cable, that because of squirrels eating at the cable, water had leaked in. As it was a 3 pole run,, some stupid amount of *gallons* of water poured out of the cable.
I had a cable guy try to tell me that the plasma in a plasma TV was the same as the plasma in human blood. I gave up trying to explain it to him as he was pretty adamant about it. I can only imagine how he thought the manufacturers got it.
Re:It isn't? (Score:5, Funny)
Can you really think of a situation that would require you to trust any kind of clown?
Eating at McDonalds?
Re:It isn't? (Score:5, Funny)
Elections?
Re:It isn't? (Score:5, Funny)
*headdesk* Dammit both are evil. Let me think.
Ah
Clown: promises you candy and sunshine and dishes out horror and pain.
Clowd clown: promises you a magic sky bag where you can keep all your important stuff but it fails when it gets ....
wet
'too full'
a warrant is issued
they're having a bad hair day
snorted to much meth
spend the money you paid them on too many hookers
forget to pay their electric bill
can't pay their electric bill
piss off the employees who didn't get any hookers or meth
just don't like you anymore.
Re:I am more worried about the 49%... (Score:4, Funny)
Fuck the cloud. All my data is in Heaven administered by God! Nothing can go wrong. Everything is where it should be. Simply perfect.
Rationalizing disk failure won't bring your data back.
Just wait three days.
Re:or when rain / rain water get's in the phone / (Score:4, Funny)
I worked in a Fortune 115 company where the VOIP went down, and along with it all incoming calls. Root cause was Squirrel. Yes, the cute furry toothy bitches.
Official explanation was: squirrels had gnawed off the insulation. One particularly unlucky squirrel had successfully penetrated the insulation, fried itself, and everything around it.
Traditional squirrel fry was held, a good time was had by all. Also, 2/3 of this post is true.
Re:I weep for my country (Score:5, Funny)
"How the fuck should I know? I'm a biological engineer, not a goddamn weatherman!"
Is his last name "McCoy" by any chance?