This post is about the cloud, how Jesus Diaz is an idiot, and how Aquaman could destroy the Internet.
OK, maybe I should beat around the bush a little first.
"The cloud" is a term for the Internet, or more specifically, for using the Internet as a means of storage. Storing something "in the cloud" is basically saving a file of some kind on the Internet. Now that we all know what I'm talking about, here's the part that pissed me off enough to write this.
I recently came across this article written by Dave Winer but re-posted on Gizmodo by Jesus Diaz. This article pisses me off.
Well, OK, not the original article written by Dave Winer. I have problems with that article, but I'll get into that later and I generally see his point and more or less agree. I'm really just pissed off at Jesus.
Man, I wish his parents named him something different. Out of context, a lot of this article is going to sound pretty awful.
I've been following Gizmodo for years and Jesus has always been my least favorite writer on the site. He often gives his articles hit-baiting titles that can sometimes be misleading. I like that he's a huge proponent for NASA, but he never leaves his subjectivity at the door. I mean, even in this article where he's just posting what someone else said, he can't help but put in his own two cents at the very beginning.
Jesus is a very opinionated man, is what I'm saying. And a lot of the time, Jesus comes off as a reactionary nutcase wearing a tin-foil hat.
What I'm getting at is that I find it very depressing that Gizmodo, a news site dedicated to TECHNOLOGY, has no problems putting up an article saying:
"And yet, we're all flying to the cloud because it's so convenient. This has to change, because things can get a lot worse..."
OK, seriously, Jesus? Are you fucking kidding me?
"And yet, we're all flying to the cloud because it's so convenient. This has to change, because things can get a lot worse..."
OK, seriously, Jesus? Are you fucking kidding me?
