No more OOo in UNR 10.04

Amedee Van Gasse (ub) amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be
Mon Feb 8 14:30:51 UTC 2010


On Mon, February 8, 2010 14:37, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
>> I understand your position, but I approach it from the opposite side.
>> A lot of my data resides in the cloud, but *I* control what goes online
>> and what not. That way *I* am in control over what a Google search can
>> find on me, not what others write about me.
>
> Yes, but you are then a part of the grid. Also I don't use the cloud
> because I'm very good with backing up. I don't like having my files in
> the grubby hands of any company, even the hallowed Google.
>
> About control, you only control what you put up. I'm relatively sure
> that you can't completely remove any file in the cloud due to the
> consistency of their backups.

Of course.
You can't take down unwanted data, you can only make it easier to find
data that you *want* to be found, and thereby make the unwanted data
relatively harder to find. It's not a perfect solution, but it works for
me. YMMV.





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