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This is a brief opportunity to explore cloud computing and give the communists and socialists who want everyone to share a common purse on the computing front a black eye.

Wow, where did that come from?

Cloud computing is communist now? I could have sworn otherwise.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/caleatwo

The government is going to get its backdoor into cloud computing platforms one way or the other, because of child porn, the terrorists, and corruption. The segmenting idea is a dumb one because we don't physically own the space, it isn't ours. People with wearable supercomputers on programmers who are able to understand the metal on up through the software and data will be only truly free citizens (free from government fiddling with and spying on everything they do).

There will be precious few free independent citizens in the coming centuries. Most humans will become as one, where one human's consciousness will blur and blend into everyone else's. I will be one of the islands, choosing: "thanks, but I prefer you not have data injection, and fiddling rights with my own mind".

The beginning of this blended and blurred consciousness and hive minds begins here, today, with cloud computing becoming owned by the government, and having your desktops, laptops, smartphones and interfaces with your own mind as thin-clients. Where you begin to think about a crime, and the others will say: "That is a bad idea" and stop you as you are doing the crime.

> Wearable supercomputers on programmers who are able to understand the metal on up through the software and data will be only truly free citizens (free from government fiddling with and spying on everything they do).

I like the assertion that the wearable supercomputers will be the only truly free citizens. It's probably not exactly what you meant... :)

I'm pretty sure that it's more of a window into the poster's psyche rather than an observation of fact (esp. based on the next post.) I guess right-wing totalitarian dictatorships don't want to read your mail?

Your comment is a bit of a window into yours - disparaging remarks made against the left wing don't imply support of the right wing.

Read their second post - that person is either very, let's say, eccentric, or under the influence of a psychedelic.

Yeah, I made that reply before I saw that second post. It doesn't really change much though - something tells me he's not a supporter of totalitarian right-wing rule either.

I'm just saying that there's not any more of a connection between communism and a surveillance state than, for example, Turkmenistan. You're reading more into it.

> Instead of selling floor space, they could subdivide the space like the "storage building" units. The customers could pay for a rack, and they would need a key to access it.

You know thats how colocation works right now, right?

Hesitant to comment on this post, but:

"Instead of selling floor space, they could subdivide the space like the "storage building" units. The customers could pay for a rack, and they would need a key to access it."

Many DCs offer quarter racks that are under lock and key. You just bring your hardware and get your carrier neutral drop.

There is a lot of odd precedence that makes renting small storage units not the same thing as larger units. Standalone Property > Multi Unit Property > Storage Space > Rented computers.