Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 12, 2022

Sounds like a hacker after your banking info

I’m with the bartender…

You’re going to need prime.

I KNEW Musk and Bezos were up to something.

All right you pixies, that’s it, get out of here (with apologies to Sheldon Leonard)

Welcome to “terms and conditions/privacy” rabbit-holes 2.0. Though, I’d personally vote the FB rabbit hole to be the toughest, well neigh impossible, to navigate.

It’s called the cloud because when the server crashes all your data goes up like vapor.

How many people think their data is safe in the cloud?

CLOUD – Customer Loses Own Use of Data

I tried to send a Target gift card to a friend. I could not do it with my credit card unless I opened a Target account. Well, I guess Target doesn’t want my online business.

I try to maintain as small a footprint on the internet as possible. The more accounts you have, the more likely you are to be hacked or targeted (pun NOT intended) for phishing.

Lots of us don’t need and wouldn’t fall for this gimmick so there should be plenty of room up there for anyone who wants it.

Where’s mom?

Sometimes your Guardian Angle hits you instead of the enemy just to teach you a lesson.

Makes about as much sense as anything.

All you have to do is choose the space flight and pay the $55 million.

Its in a cloud because its closer to alphabet heaven.

There are sites/programs I don’t have – nor have I stored anything in a cloud – because I said no to onerous T&C. And yet life is still good.

Aha… the long con!

Cloud = Someone else’s server.

I see cemetery’s in space as a new business for those with money and no heirs

You know it’s messing with you, right?

I know people who thought it is an real cloud…it’s not a laughing matter trying to teach people about servers, and they reply that “those things are heavy and take up space, and I was thinking that I was being ecologically minded when I opted for the cloud”….

You are several drinks too late!

It all goes ’round and ’round. “The Cloud” seems more like the old server-client architecture we used back in the old DEC Vax/IBM AS400/Unix days.

Are VT-100s on their way back?

Whenever I hear “the cloud” I mentally replace it with the term “someone else’s computer” eg is it a good idea to store my private data “in the cloud” → is it a good idea to store my private data “on someone else’s computer”.

What, I’m just watching how crazy he is getting. Why would you cut me off?

Clouds in space are known by their Latin name — nebulae — and are very very big, very very far away, and very very uncaring about your data.

Outlook cloudy.

I curse the day that someone decided that a cloud should represent a remote node on a network on network diagrams.

The " cloud " is sponsored by NSA. They review ALL your data

Losing data is not your largest concern. Your largest concern is that you are trusting them (and every employee that can gain access to it) not to share, sell, or use it as they see fit.

His Alexa has been hacked by the Mad Clowns Brigade.

I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now. From up and down, and still somehow, it’s cloud illusions I recall…

As usual, the bartender knows what’s right and proper …

If Alexa actually replies or performs the action programmed it has to be a comic.