This is a very misleading subject line, as we have no evidence or
indication that this data was stored in a cloud. Thus we also have no
evidence it was a failure of cloud storage that caused information
loss.
I just worry a couple of the luddites on the list will actually
reference this event in the future. "Remember that poor lady that lost
her entire classmates.com account to a cloud?".
The "cloud" is such a bad euphemism that you can't even define it, yet
you use it often and blame others for "misinterpreting" it [e.g., not
agreeing with you]. Maybe that's because it's so /nebulous/. Is the
cloud "online" or "remote storage" or in an unidentified location only
accessed through a web site about which you know little, or is the cloud
a euphemism for describing a remote storage system that you don't
understand?
Now, why do you think that something that's stored remotely through an
Internet site isn't in that big cloud when it's in remote servers on the
Internet, a.k.a. 'cloud'? And when that data is removed it's not "lost
in the cloud"?
Call it what it is. Don't use a bad euphemism when a perfectly good word
or description is already available--and easy to say, write and spell.
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