On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 4:20:13 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 9:31:12 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 3:26:45 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 2:21:19 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
> > > > Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Monday, September 19, 2016 at 11:20:10 PM UTC-4, sf wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:14:12 -0500, Sqwertz >
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Pinterest is Evil and very unfriendly It's best just not to visit
> > > > > > > thew site at all. It's mostly stuff lifted from elsewhere on the Web.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > That's exactly what it is intended to be. It's an online bulletin
> > > > > > board. See a link you want to remember, save it to a focused board on
> > > > > > Pinterest. If you have no interests that you want to save links to,
> > > > > > then Pinterest isn't for you.
> > > > >
> > > > > Um, that's why my browser has a "bookmark" feature.
> > > >
> > > > heh That's exactly what I thought when I read her post this morning.
> > > > People need to focus on saving valuable info on their OWN COMPUTERS and
> > > > backups, not on internet places that eventually disappear. Same thing
> > > > with saving pictures online.
> > >
> > > The need to store files on a local computer is certainly a quaint, old-fashioned notion. I suppose that it might make some sense in this modern world - but only if you have dial-up.
> >
> > It's about privacy and control. I don't want to relinquish either.
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
>
> That's an attitude born of the technical limitations of an era.

I've at least twice had to have my credit card re-issued due to a data
breach somewhere. These weren't even places that I shop online.
The cloud is insecure. Really, it is.

> Back in the old days, important files were backed up on tapes and stored in a remote location. This still holds true today except that the files are not put on tapes, placed in a vehicle, and driven away.

Yes, they are. That's exactly how my employer handles backups. Ok, not
on tape, but to removable hard drives. Then they've moved offsite.

> As far as your files that you want to control, it's going to end up in the same place as my father-in-law's backup tapes are - stored in our bedroom or some other dusty, forgotten, place. Eventually, it's going to the dump. Perhaps it'll be dug up a hundred years or more and archaeologists will try to read the data and business of people long dead.

Oh, I think I'll write a will instructing my executor to shred my hard
drive (and my backups) once he's done with it. I have no children or
siblings, and I've never even met my one and only first cousin.

Cindy Hamilton