On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 04:03:48PM -0700, Chad R Mayfield wrote: > On Feb 19, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Charles Curley wrote: >
>> Right. Having read "The Forbin Project", I like the idea of being able >> to pull the plug on the dang things. > > Indeed. > > The Forbin Project (the movie not the book) is being remade by Universal > [1], I imagine it will include scenes from one of the amazon EC2 data > centers surrounded by all sorts of countermeasures and a placard with > their TOS on the door on it saying, "all data stored here is ours even > though you created it!" Instead of being built in the center of a > mountain. :) Sorry amazon lovers, I don't intend to flame. > > [1] http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=19966 Murphy help us if The Cloud ever gets nuclear weapons. Assuming it hasn't already. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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